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Shed-fresh ’59 Bugeye project for sale!

May 8, 2023 by bugeyeguy

Now SOLD to John in Massachusetts! Bugeye #385 is headed to Cape Cod!

If you’re looking for a complete project bugeye, take a look at “Poochie” (AN5L 5716), an early ’59 Bugeye Sprite that was originally Iris blue. This is a project car that has been sitting forever and was most recently in storage in Connecticut for the last 25 years, awaiting restoration. The prior owner sold his property this month, so he needed to move this to a new home and we were delighted to retrieve this car and help the Pooch find a new home.

While it will need a complete restoration, Poochie’s in better condition than many of the project cars that we’ve found of late. This is also a relatively early car with the original tunnel mat still in place, and period seat belts similar to the belts we have in Sea Biscuit. There is also a wonderful 8-track player inconveniently mounted behind the driver seat, well worth keeping just as a reminder of how far we have come!

It’s becoming more difficult than ever to find a perfect project car, so we just have to deal with the inventory that shows up, and we’re delighted to help facilitate bringing another one of these great cars back onto the road.

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10,000 supercharger miles and counting! VIDEO

May 5, 2023 by bugeyeguy

This Bugeye gathers no moss. The owner uses it. A lot.

He got this Sprite in the 70s from his dad, and the car is still in the family all these years later. We fit our Spridget supercharger kit about 10k miles ago, and the car was back this week for a front disk brake conversion, new leaf springs and adjustable control arms, so that we could better align the two front wheels.

Almost every Bugeye has had some form of front end hit or another given the 65 years on the road, so the control arm mounts are often tweaked and no longer true. This car had quite a camber asymmetry, which the adjustable control arms allowed us to iron out.

If you would like your car sorted, or your camber equalized, or your car supercharged, please give a call or send an email. We’ll pick up your car and fix it. You’ll be hitting the 10,000 mile mark in your car in no time!

Check out the video tour above… we prepared the car for its drive back to Boston today. We expect the car will enjoy another 10,000 miles before its next series of upgrades!

If you’d like to install some of the products you’ve seen in this video today, click on the photos below or visit our parts catalog by clicking here!

Camer Adjusting Control Arm (Sold Individually)

Wake- up, sleeping Bugeye!

May 5, 2023 by bugeyeguy

Not every Bugeye needs to be perfect! This is a well-used Sprite and under the same ownership for many years. Multiple mechanical upgrades were needed, but in this video, I’ll show you how we’re transforming the interior to make the car more comfortable to use (and to make it smell better)!

If you’d like to order any of the parts we used to transform this Bugeye, click on the photos below or check out our entire parts catalog here!

This week in Bugeyes!

May 5, 2023 by bugeyeguy

Come for a video shop tour below, where you’ll see our third electric Frog E coming to life (with Tesla power), as well as our new Super Sprite called “Sage,” (below) which is available! Let us custom-build for you the Bugeye of your dreams. We have 1380CC custom engines and electric kits in stock!

Give us a call if you’re interested!

Handsome and restored round wheel arch 1974 MG Midget for sale!

May 4, 2023 by bugeyeguy

NOW SOLD to Bill! Congrats on taking this great Spridget and giving it a new life!

Elsa’s a wonderfully restored and well-sorted 1974 MG Midget that came to us shortly after her restoration was completed in Florida, and she is ready for her new home! Elsa can be yours for $16,995. This is one of the best values in the world of classic English car world… a fully restored Spridget for less than half the build costs! Give us a call if you think Elsa is right for you!

Today we are pleased to offer “Elsa,” a 1974 MG Midget that came to us from its latest caretaker in Florida. This last owner treated Elsa to a top-to-bottom restoration that has transformed this car into one of the nicest 70s Midgets we have seen!

We were lucky to get this car from one of our clients who spent a massive amount of time and energy on this nice restoration. The paint is new. The sheet metal is good and restored as needed. The underside is strong and there are numerous new parts everywhere you look.

It’s a 1275 car with a four-speed rib case transmission and front disc brakes, just like when new. The interior alone was a very expensive undertaking and looks great! And the top is quite sharp too. Wire wheels and spinners are also new, as are the fuel tank, fuel pump and stainless steel exhaust system.

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Screaming, supercharged, 1275, five-speed Bugeye Sprite for sale! Driving video!

April 28, 2023 by bugeyeguy

Now SOLD to Rich in Pennsylvania! Bugeye #387 is on its way to the Keystone State, where it will live in the same neighborhood as Bic!

If this car looks familiar it’s for a good reason! We’ve owned “Shelby” (AN5L 33967) three times before, and the car has never been better. With this car, we have come to know three different great clients, all of whom have become friends of Bugeyeguys, and before her latest visit to Oklahoma for the past year, Shelby enjoyed another round of improvements, including a new Ford five-speed transmission and a new wiring harness.

You’ll see Shelby below on the cover of the September 2013 issue of Hemmings Sports & Exotics magazine, right after we prepared the car for Scott, our first Shelby owner. Notice the white wheels… we have just mounted new black and stainless rims on the car, for a new look that we all like best.

“Shelby” featured in Sports & Exotic Cars in 2013. Since then the wheels have been changed multiple times to improve the look and several upgrades have been undertaken for performance.

Since that story was printed, Shelby has been upgraded with leather seats, and a supercharger. We’ve just trimmed the dash bar in matching blue, added new black wheels and 175 tires for a more aggressive look, and now Shelby is pretty much in what we believe is her final form.

If you’ve liked our high-end cars like Gumby and Gray, Shelby is an excellent alternative, with tons of premium features. The 1275 engine and Ford five speed transmission are a wonderful combination especially, when boosted with the Eaton supercharger and new single SU carburetor as shown. You’ll enjoy the driving tour video you see below, taken shortly before the car departed for its last home in the summer of 2022, as well as a sizzle reel of driving highlights above taken just this week!

Currently, Shelby is fit with front disk brakes, a new fuel tank fitted in 2021, and a strong twin-tipped exhaust with a sweet note (as heard in the driving videos).

There is no other Bugeye quite like it, with a custom license plate mount, fender-top seams removed, turn signal housings removed (they’re now integrated into the brake lights and in the grill) and custom chrome roll bar. Shelby is custom car show ready, and a creative interpretation of the original car. She’s cleaner and smoother in every way.

There is a strong market for custom Bugeyes (and stock ones, too). Mild and wild Bugeyes co-exist nicely, and the buyer for this car is someone who wants a performance Bugeye that is extreme eye-candy, with a hot-rodder vibe.

The car was completely restored and painted in Florida in about 2010. We then completed the car for our client Scott in April of 2013. It was an impressive build with new tires, new wheels, an entire new interior with new navy carpet, side panels, door pockets, custom blue leather (not vinyl) seats with white piping, new leather dashboard and my favorite, original Smiths gauges re-screen printed with white bezels to match the car. Scott could have gone with white VDO or other brand gauges, but he chose to keep things British to better complement the car.

Custom one-of-a-kind white gauges compliment the rest of the car very well!

We fully serviced the car at that time, and Scott put 364 miles on this beauty (he has a large collection, so none get driven too much). In November of 2015, we sold this car to Bill who stored the car in the Hamptons, and he too only put a few hundred miles on the car. We got the car back for a third time in 2021, and it was sold to another client, Vernon, in the summer of 2022. He opted to install the Ford five-speed for his needs, which we think was the final missing piece, along with the black wheels, to set this car apart!

If you like show-stopping custom classic cars, this is a great and rare find! Call or email if you’re interested in taking Shelby home!

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