Twas a cold week at Bugeye headquarters, and yet we are quite busy building and restoring everything in sight. Our new roof saw it’s first snow, I test drove another five speed Bugeye conversion and Martin soldiered-on building our super Bugeye, Morgan. We built a template for a custom tonneau to accommodate the roll bar on Thomas the racer (which has now left for Louisiana). Here are some photos from this week at the Bugeye hut…

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In today’s driving environment, visibility is crucial, and we now have a  complete kit to transform your lightning, and maximize the visibility of your fine car. Our LED kit is tested on more than 100 Bugeyes we have sent out into the world, and now you can buy the kit we use on most of the cars that leave our building.

You’ll get four small bulbs for your turn signals and park lights (which fit properly under the glass behives) and two tail light/ brake light assemblies, to optimize the brilliance of your little sprite. LEDs draw very little power, so you can use them as daytime running lights, and improve your visibility during daylight hours too. Just make sure all your grounds are in great shape, and the lighting sockets are clean and properly connected (we have new front and rear sockets for sale too, recommended). You will also need a solid state flasher to make the turn signals work, included.

We also provide new chrome tail/brake light bases with the kit. The LEDs come pre-mounted to this new base and ready for install and hook up.

To install your park lights, you will need to remove the glass behive lenses front and rear. Remove the chrome rings and then the glass lifts off easily. If your rubber sockets are cracked, you will have trouble replacing the lense so it won’t fall out. New rubber bases solve this problem, and you can add them to your cart below (click read more to see):

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As many of you know, we purchased a 1951 Quonset hut last July so we could build the ultimate Bugeye home. We started with a funky old building and are working to create a great blend of old and new to house all of our operations.

An eleven foot car restoration is one thing but a 100 foot long building restoration is proving a bit more challenging. Yet each day we are making more progress, particularly since this winter has been relatively mild and precipitation-free. The roofers are skinning the exterior of the structure with rigid insulation so we can remove all the internal insulation and expose the original corrugated metal. Then they cap the new exterior insulation with three long pieces of standing seam tin, to weatherproof what has for many years been a leaking structure. While our cars usually leak, our hope is that our restored building will not. New windows are also now in place.

This week, we will complete our new mezzanine, so we can finally have some offices and additional storage space. And I am most excited about the new front entrance, which brings our Bugeye-esque curve right out to the street (our current building face is square concrete block).

As all this work progresses, we continue to build great cars inside, and also develop some more great new products. Thank you for visiting our website and for your support. We have many great Bugeye innovations in store for the coming year, and our new HQ will facilitate our continued growth.