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Gorgeous Green 1960 Austin-Healey 3000 For Sale! Driving Video! $55,995

November 25, 2022 by bugeyeguy

Now SOLD to Alan of Tennessee. Congratulations on taking home this gorgeous BT7!

Market report, December 2022:

We’ve been growing our business and spending our days immersed in the classic car market long enough to survive the great recession, the pandemic and other economic up and down turns.The classic car market remains very strong. For example, we sold our Lotus Elan last week in less than an hour. So if anyone thinks that the market has cooled, there are plenty of buyers out there and many people who still see classic vehicles as an asset class that provides a lot of fun and great value.

Bugeye prices have been trending upward and big Healey prices seem to be trending slightly down. That means that for your money, a big Healey right now is one of the best deals going. These cars are stunningly beautiful with an ageless shape and a timeless design that will delight for generations. And they have overdrive, which makes highway cruising more available!

It’s hard to imagine that Big Healeys will go down in value much more than they have already. Over the years, it has been common to find these cars for $70K, $80K and even $100,000 in well restored shape and this week we’re reducing the price of our beautiful green 1960 BT7 to $55,995.

Quite frankly, that’s a steal!

This car has a recent valve job and hardened valve seats (for unleaded gas) and she’s (ready to be used and driven to shows (or wherever you like). This is a good one and I encourage you to give it a serious look!

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Hanging By A Thread

November 25, 2022 by bugeyeguy

Bugeye windscreen stanchions are fastened to the body by four large machine screws. The front screws on each stanchion (towards the bonnet) are held in place by captive nuts welded into the area where the A-pillar and cowl meet. Unfortunately, these captive nuts often corrode, or strip, which makes it impossible to attach the front mount for the windshield frame to the car.

After decades of water and salty air, the threads inside the forward windscreen stanchion mounts (pictured here) may be damaged or missing.

We occasionally get calls from customers who wonder what to do when those front captive threads are stripped. Once you’ve exhausted efforts to rescue the threads in the car, which we always strive to preserve, this is the next best solution that we’ve used to make these fixtures tight!

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For Sale, BRG ’69 Lotus Elan That Roars!

November 18, 2022 by bugeyeguy

Now SOLD to Roger in North Carolina! This will be Roger’s second car from us! Congratulations on a BEAUTIFUL addition to your collection!

This is a special opportunity to own a very special car! I’ve always been passionate about Lotus Elans, and I found this one about seven years ago and have loved it ever since. However, it’s time for it to move on to a new home. I really only got to drive it a few times in past year, and it’s a shame to see it spending more time sitting in storage than out on the road.

So today we have for you my personal Lotus Elan, which has been very well prepared by our staff over the years for a delightful driving experience.

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Dust Busting

November 18, 2022 by bugeyeguy

This week, we received the photo below of a Bugeye car getting some bodywork done, and much to our dismay, the entire dashboard and beautiful recent wooden steering wheel are still in the car as shown, coated with a special breed of bodyshop dust. Body filter, once sanded and airborne, tends to permeate everything, especially electrical equipment and mechanical Smiths gauges.

Everything can be cleaned, but I worry about the guts of the already finicky horn push, the pull cables that already have more friction than we might like, basically anything that has to move… all this stuff was engineered more than 60 years ago and we’d like to give it all the highest probability of great longevity. Evil permeating dust is not reccomended.

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Can You Drive A Concours Gold Certified Car? (NEW VIDEO)

November 18, 2022 by bugeyeguy

Of course you can! Not only can you drive a concours Bugeye, but you can have quite a bit of fun with one, too! In the short video below, taken down the street from the shop at our local train station, you can see Betty, our Concours gold 1960 Bugeye, going through her paces. This is what it would have looked like to corner with a 100% stock Bugeye on bias ply ply tires in 1960 if you threw her into the turns with gusto; it’s good fun, analog, basic, simple, and very entertaining!

Good Fun With Betty!

Betty is still for sale as of this writing, you can see the full listing by clicking below on her photo!

Fun 1275 1960 Bugeye Driver For Sale!

November 17, 2022 by bugeyeguy

Now SOLD to Laura in Florida! Congratulations on taking home our 373rd Bugeye!

This is a Bugeye we call “Curly” (AN5L 32514). This is a great option for anyone looking for a great driver, as we have already sorted out a number of issues and upgraded a number of systems. A great color, with a lot of recent service, makes Curly a great choice for anyone looking for a Bugeye for under $25,000!

Curly came to us after a stay in Wisconsin, and after some mechanical refreshments to help bring it back to life, this great car is now ready for its next home!

In the past few weeks, we have updated many items on Curly in an effort to make it run and drive well. This included installing an aluminum radiator, replacing all the brake and clutch hydraulics, new shocks, new dog bones, and more! Curly now drives well and will be a wonderful cruiser for its next owner!

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