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Tonneaus matter

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This piece of flat fabric may be the most important part of any Bugeye. It protects your cockpit in multiple ways. A tonneau also allows a bold color statement as you can see on “Flip,” our 401st Bugeye sold! The Cream tan Tonneau that we ultimately fit on the car looks delicious and coordinates nicely with the white wall tires.

On Bart, our 402nd Bugeye sold, we custom fit a tonneau around his roll bar and also modified the pouch for his smaller than stock steering wheel. You can see the before picture here, and then after, the pocket fits the wheel nicely. Check out the video to see more about this particular custom tonneau.

Before fitment of a custom steering wheel pouch, the stock piece looked baggy.
After a custom fitting, Bart’s tonneau is looking sharp!

This cover is essential for every Bugeye and we sell lots of options. Click the photos below to browse and choose your own, as well as the accessories needed to install your own tonneau! You can also click here for our complete parts catalog.

Bugeye Sprite short tonneau
Bugeye Sprite long tonneau, premium vinyl
Bugeye Sprite Long tonneau, economy vinyl
Top and tonneau rear deck fitting template (Bugeye only)
Long tonneau fitting kit, male
Lift-the-dot punch

License to Bugeye

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There were no factory license plate holes on Bugeye Sprites, so people mess them up all the time. Thus, you should check the positioning of your license plate holes while restoring (and before painting) your car. We sell a template to help you determine what goes where, which you can purchase by clicking here.

Here, Kenny is using our license plate and emblem template to line up where to drill the holes needed to mount everything on the rear of this Bugeye. Click the photo to order your own template and take the guesswork out of hole placement!

But if it’s too late and the car is already painted, here’s a video on how we addressed off-center holes on our 400th Bugeye Lulu and how we fixed this issue for the new owner. If you want our license plate mounting kit, you can buy that by clicking here.

1960 five speed 1275 Bugeye driver for sale!

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This is a very thoroughly worked-over Bugeye and a great opportunity to own a very well-sorted classic car that has enjoyed generous spending from prior owners! 

This is “Bucky” (AN5L 18013). We first met Bucky in September 2018, when we picked it up for a client in Wisconsin and brought it to our shop for a five speed upgrade along with multiple other improvements totaling about $19,000, including:

  • Rebuilding the entire front end
  • New disc brake kit
  • New swivel axles
  • New rack boots
  • Repaired parking brake
  • Replaced pinion seal
  • New steering column bushings
  • New hanging gas pedal
  • New header with our twin-tip muffler
  • Aluminum Radiator
  • Six-blade fan
  • K&N Lifetime air filters
  • New leaf springs
  • New flywheel ring gear
  • Upgraded rear view mirror 
  • (there are lots of other items we addressed, ask if you would like to see that build sheet)

We shipped it back to him with about 20 miles indicated on the new GPS speedo in 2018. He put about 1500 miles on the car, then his priorities changed, and he sold us the car in late 2021. In March of 2022, we sold the car to Roy in Oklahoma, and before it departed for Oklahoma, we added another extensive list of roughly $15,000 worth of upgrades. 

That round of improvements included:

  • New master cylinder
  • New hard brake and clutch lines
  • Upgraded later Sprite rear drum brakes with new wheel cylinders and shoes
  • New front shocks and shock bushings
  • New radius arms
  • New fuel tank and fuel pickup line
  • New solid state fuel pump and end-to-end hard fuel line
  • New wiring harness
  • New dummy regulator
  • LED light conversion including LED headlight bulbs
  • New electronic distributor and coil
  • New spark plugs
  • New battery and battery cables
  • New oil pressure line kit
  • New radiator hoses
  • GPS speedometer
  • Electronic tach
  • Full dashboard restoration including welding up extra holes, smoothing and recovering with new vinyl
  • Recovered dash bar
  • New dash grab handle
  • All-new dash knobs
  • New choke cable
  • Rebuilt fuel gauge
  • New door liners
  • New black bikini top
  • And more!

Roy has decided to get something different, so we have the car for sale again, and now we are able to offer an extremely well-sorted Bugeye that’s been impressively upgraded and maintained with about 2300 miles showing on the clock. It’s too bad it never got a repaint, but it remains an awesome experience to have an ultimate driver with a five-speed transmission and all the other correct improvements and make these cars so special.

If you are not cosmetically picky and love the idea of a five-speed overdrive-equipped car with a fully synchronized gearbox, Bucky could be the perfect Bugeye for you! Click “read more” below for a full compliment of photos, check out the driving video above for a taste of what Bucky is like to drive, and give us a call if you’d like to make Bucky your own! Click “read more” below to see the extensive photo album.

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Who doesn’t love a handwritten note?

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We received this note from Andy, the proud new owner of Fritz! It’s been roughly a year or so that Fritz has been with Andy and it has gotten a complete transformation. We’re happy that we could offer our expertise to another enthusiast in the Bug-o-sphere! One more Bugeye back on the road!

What used to turn us on, and define us

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This is Steve and his old Bugeye (Bugeye on the right with bumper) and his “sports car gang” in 1967 in Winston Sale, NC.

As change in the world continues to accelerate, I appreciate this photo that much more. I bet many of you feel the same way, and so I thought I would share this great image with you!

Thanks Steve for sharing it with us!

Road to 400: the customers that got us to our latest milestone!

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We have recently sold our 400th Bugeye (we’re already up to 401). That means there are (more than) 400 unique Bugeye ownership stories that have helped us get to this tremendous milestone! Here are two of those stories about our great customers, the heros who got us to 400 Bugeyes sold!

Sue from Colorado wrote us recently to share her recent experiences with “Blinkie”. She writes: “My husband bought a beautiful 1959 Bugeye (Primrose) from you in 2016 for my 30th anniversary gift. ‘Blinkie’ has been my joy as part of the British Motoring Club of Northern Colorado. Runs GREAT and is always a big hit wherever we go! Earlier this year, Blinkie won “Best Euro” at the 13th Annual Aims Car Show in Greeley, Colorado. Thanks for all you do keeping Bugeyes on the road!”

Thank you for sharing this awesome news with us, Sue! Thank you for being a part of the Bugeyeguys family!

Chris has Bugeye #393 (“Sawyer”) that he has adopted with gusto! His famous quote: “I had a Porsche 911 for 12 years, and I have had more fun in the first 12 days with my Bugeye then I did in all 12 of those years of 911 ownership!” Bravo, Chris, and thanks for being one of our 400!

Celebrate 400 Bugeyes sold with us! Our “400 strong” t-shirt commemorates the 400th Bugeye sold, “Lulu”, and features a map with just a few of the 400 loving homes we have sent Bugeyes to on the back. We are currently accepting pre-orders for this shirt, so order yours today by clicking here or on the photos above!

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