Here’s one Bugeyeguy’s uniform today, now that the temps here have finally moderated!

If you want to celebrate all things Sprite (in the spirit of the post above), check out this shirt and hat in our shoppe!

It was fun this year to finish two projects in time for Holiday delivery, and to then load them onto the same truck.

Above you can see the white Bugeye “Gavin” loaded in a tandem enclosed trailer and heading-off to a secret destination for a Christmas surprise. Behind is “London,” which we prepared and sent to a new home in Arkansas. Tony, who has now received London, said he wanted to sleep in the garage because he is so excited. He last had his Bugeye 40 years ago. On London, you can see new anthracite wheels above, which look stunning.

We have all kinds of great gift items in our catalog… there’s still time if you want to make a Bugeye Christmas for someone in your family too!

Bob wanted to take the Bugeye, but the wife wanted to bring the Jeep, so they compromised, and capped their SUV with a Bugeye hardtop, so that everybody got what they needed.

(Actually, this was an attempted hardtop pick-up after purchase, but the buyer ultimately opted for a crate and shipment instead, lest this lid fly off on the highway!)

Looking for your own Bugeye hardtop? We always have a few for sale, and you can see one by clicking here!

Here’s an add-on voltmeter and bracket you might like. We put one in a customers car so he can watch his new generator/alternator at work. In the short video below, you can see battery voltage at rest with the engine off, and you can watch the voltage increase as the generator/alternator starts to spin. The gauge verifies that our new alternator disguised as a Bugeye generator delivers a healthy output at lower RPMs than the standard generator. The product is also lighter with better bearings.

As far as supplemental gauges, the dashboard shown here is non-stock but also somewhat typical. This is a later Sprite/Midget dashboard installed in a Bugeye. You can tell because it has a smaller center-mounted ignition key.

In this dash, we have fit our new GPS driven speedometer, a new electronic tachometer, and now a voltmeter. This particular new gauge is made by VDO, but we have new Smiths gauges on the way, if you would like to add a voltmeter to your car too while retaining a more British appearance.

We have mounted this VDO gauge under the dash to avoid drilling through the vinyl dash cover and dashboard. The under-dash bracketing also suggests that the gauge can be easily removed should someone in the future want to return their Sprite to a more stock appearance. But it’s a nice supplement to any Spridget, and I doubt anyone would ever regret supplementing their dashboard this useful information about the charging system. It’s easy to wire up and easy to mount.

We have located the gauge off-center so that it is out of the way of your knuckles while shifting. I should also be out of the way for most knees. We have set it back behind the dash a bit so it takes a back seat to the factory metal dashboard.

Thanks to Len M for lending his 5-speed Bugeye “Hinkley” for these upgrade and for the photos!

You can purchase a Smiths voltmeter for your Bugeye by clicking here.
Get your gauge bracket by clicking here.
And generator/alternators can be purchased by clicking here.

Here’s a Bugeye with the perfect mascot…