These add all kinds of fun to your Sprite of Midget drive. Inside wheel spin is quite common on these cars and this diff upgrade all but eliminates this challenge, which allows you to put more rubber on the road and gain better performance and control. Watch the video below to learn more!
This is an easy upgrade that makes a big difference!
We’ve sold this front disc brake conversion kit for years, but now you can buy the complete assemblies, ready to install! Check out the video below to learn more!
Upgrade your brakes with this great conversion, to give your front brakes much better longevity. Calipers last much longer than drum brake wheel cylinders, and your car will stop consistently every time! Better braking every stop! Click the photo below to order!
Thanks to our customers Kevin and Tommy in Virginia for the suggestion!
Every flip nose conversion is different. We’ve done dozens, and know how best to accomplish each flip nose project. Here’s a video about our most recent endeavors.
You can order the parts to flip your Bugeye’s nose by clicking the links below, or give us a call if you’d like us to flip it for you!
This Bugeye is a one of a kind British roadster! “Ashley” (AN5L 9195) is a 1959 Austin Healey Sprite with a very cool (and rare) Ashley fiberglass nose, added by the previous owner in 1968 (with import reciepts to prove it!). The current owner, who lives in the Kansas City area (which is also where the car currently resides) has documentation dating back to the 1965 sale of Ashley from its original owner to its second owner, who owned the car and dutifully maintained it (and raced it) until 1998, when he parked it while it waited its turn for restoration.
That restoration was started around 2007 and took about 4 years to complete. The current owner purchased the car in 2020 and sent it to us later that year, and we performed an extensive list of repairs and upgrades to make it even more special. The current owner has driven the car just over 1500 miles since it left our shop in early 2021.
These upgrades include a complete suspension rebuild with new front disc brakes and tapered wheel bearings, new shocks on all 4 corners, fresh clutch, upgraded rib case transmission, high-torque starter and ring gear, spin-on oil filter adapter, new brake and clutch hydraulics, a complete re-wire including a full dashboard restoration, new GPS speedometer, electronic tach, alternator conversion with dummy regulator, electronic distributor, new fuel system including brand new fuel tank, sender, and lines, new minilite wheels with 165 tires, and countless other upgrades to make this into the special car you see today!
Ashley has a flip nose kit which we installed and recessed nose latches on the front wings. The tonneau was fit in 2021, nearly new. The original 948 engine is mated to a rebuilt rib case gearbox with only about 2000 miles of use. A good original Olde English white hardtop with the correct glass rear window is available for an additional $1500. We can also provide a new soft top if the new owner so desires, for an extra fee.
Check out the 2021 build sheet below, you’ll see the extensive work we did to this car. This one is currently in Kansas City, you can see the car there, or we can ship it anywhere in the world from its current location. Call if you’re interested in owning this unique Frogeye!
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Briggs is a great driver. Prior owners have invested in upgrades so you don’t have to! We’ve dropped the price to make this car more attractive than ever, and just this week repaired the failed zipper on the tonneau and upgraded to a heavy-duty one! Better than ever!
Call if interested…
We also removed the green worn out seats on this car and installed some beautiful new black ones with new good foam and new covers. This is an exceptional upgrade on an already nice interior that was loaded with a lot of other nice new black parts so the color change of the seats blends with the rest of the car quite nicely!
This 1960 Bugeye (titled as a 1961) called “Briggs” was built late in the production run, near the end of Frogeye production. AN5L 45243 had a completely rebuilt 1098 engine and rebuilt rib case transmission installed in 2020, with few miles added since. The car runs and drives nicely, as you can see in the driving video posted below.
About $10,000 in upgrades were done in our shop for the owner in 2020 to make the car an excellent driver. Now, you can purchase this great driver and know you are buying a well-sorted car.
Among the upgrades in 2020 were three point seat belts, new door seals, a completely restored and recovered dash board and cockpit trim bar, new windshield glass, all-new brake and clutch hydraulics, aluminum radiator, new generator, new rear lever shocks, K&N lifetime air filters, and more!
In 2019, “Briggs” was at the shop for a laundry list of repairs and upgrades – read the spreadsheet below to see:
Click “read more” below to see the photo gallery and give us a call if Briggs is the right Bugeye for you!
[Read more…] about Well-sorted BRG 1960 Bugeye Sprite for sale!We had a 1275 “A” series engine come to the shop attached to a Bugeye this week that was making an unfamiliar grinding noise that got a little bit worse when you stepped on the clutch. We determined that it was coming from the bell housing and figured there was a clutch issue.
We were also having irregular difficulty starting the car, and we were suspicious that something in the engine was binding. Much to our surprise, when we removed the bell housing we found the flywheel ring gear displaced on the flywheel. The ring gear had become a saw that was grinding into the oil pump cover.
We’ve never seen this sort of problem before. A new flywheel and oil pump cover fixed the problem and the engine is going back together next week.
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