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Iris in bloom

October 30, 2026 by bugeyeguy

*…and After! Tons of inprovements made to Iris and her engine bay!*

Iris is a great car that we sold that we made even better with dozens of improvements and enhancements. Our goal was to build an incredibly reliable car that also looks great. We took out the engine, resealed it (to try to reduce the oil leaks) and we upgraded every system to make a reliable and easy-to-use machine. See if you agree! The video below highlights this process, and if you want to buy one of our cars and have it converted to this level of reliability, please get in touch!

We’re also happy to pick up your own car, bring it here, transform it and send it back to you. We ship cars weekly. Call anytime!

Nose piercing

October 30, 2026 by bugeyeguy

The video below gives me a chance to highlight the beautiful workmanship that went into Angus’s Flip nose conversion (and all of the build). In contrast, take a look at “Bee,” the yellow Bugeye, and you can see that the reinforcements were not added by the flip nose converter, and now we have cracks to fix. We will transform it and it will look much more like Angus when we’re done, but it gives us an opportunity to showcase what can happen if you don’t add the appropriate reinforcements when you convert your car to a flip nose configuration.

If you’d like to have this work done, we’re happy to pick up your car and do it here. Call if you are interested! If you instead want to do it yourself, make sure to watch the video so that you can see a common pitfall when converting from conventional to flip, and you can order the parts you will need from the photos below!

Free the nipple!

October 30, 2026 by bugeyeguy

These hydraulic line nipples crack. Lines have to be tight enough to not leak but not so tight that they crack. Sometimes, folks just plain make them too tight, so they crack. That’s what happened here. Watch the video below if you want to see more!

So get yourself some extra nipples! We have ‘em. We also have special wrenches to help you reach those difficult master cylinder fittings. Click the photos below to learn more and to order today!

Superb 1960 Super Sprite for sale-deluxe!

October 29, 2026 by bugeyeguy

Angus is worth a serious look… this is a premium machine. Call if you want the best!

This is perhaps one of the best Bugeyes we have ever built and thus worthy of another post. The paint is stunning, with amazing silver highlights. The car has only gone about 110 miles since a ground up restoration. You get the best of everything at a very depreciated price!

This is Angus (AN5L 31994), a wonderful, fully restored Bugeye Sprite on which no expense was spared. We took a year to strip this car down to bare metal, weld-up any imperfections and then paint the car in a glowing pearlescent Lotus Elise blue color. This is one of the best of the best and thus worthy of our Super Sprite label.

We finished this car roughly 16 months ago. The American owner was living in Europe when we built the car and planned to spend time with it on regular USA visits, but life changes and circumstances have changed for him so he won’t be commuting to the US anymore and thus asked us to find the car a new home. He drove it very little after completion so the restoration is still quite fresh and like new. The car has primarily lived in a climate controlled classic car storage club since its completion.

In the video above, you can see a tour of multiple super Sprites at our shop, and this car at the 5:30 mark. It’s a stunner.

Power comes from a newly rebuilt 1380 CC uprated engine mated to a Ford five-speed fully synchronized transmission. The car is a blast to drive.

We built the car with a flip forward nose and Custom driving lights for a Sebring effect on the front. The car also is equipped with a chopped windshield for a more aggressive look. If you need or prefer more weather gear, we could fit a conventional windshield instead. You’d need the taller stock windshield (which we have) if you wanted to fit a top… the prior owner had no plan to ever take the car out into wet weather so only a tonneau was fit-no top currently but we could add a blue one. We fit a custom matching navy tonneau that looks great on the car.

There are no wiper arms, but we can make all of that work for the new owner if desired.

This is truly a breathtaking Sprite that will turn heads anywhere! Click “read more” below for the full suite of photos, including some taken during the build process!

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Modified 1960 Bugeye Sprite for sale, mini Cobra!

October 29, 2026 by bugeyeguy

Shelby has a new nose gap! We’ve adjusted the nose fit and welded the mounts so it cant move. Now, the body lines look better than ever. Check out the video below for more info! This car is for sale, call for more info!

Shelby (AN5L 33967) is a one of a kind special Bugeye built in 1960. We first found this car about 15 years ago in Florida, where a hot rod restorer had some fun grinding off the beading and removing the park lights and custom building a Cobra-like rear license plate recess in the back of the car. This all made the car very smooth and sleek, a great look! He also added the roll bar. Check out the walk-around video below where we cover some of these custom touches, and more!

When we first found Shelby, it still needed more mechanical work, but it had a beautiful paint job that you still see today. The car was built at that time with a 1275 engine and four speed transmission, as well as front disc brakes.

Since then, we have upgraded various parts of the car for three different owners. For the first owner, we installed custom white gauges. These are original Smiths gauges re-done with white faces- a stunning and quite unique. We’ve never seen another with these faces. We were lucky to have had them screen printed this way. That owner also had us recover the seats with new leather blue covers with matching white piping. We also added a Ford Five speed transmission.

Subsequent owners had additional mods done. Shelby got a supercharger in November of 2015. (The odometer is not working currently but we estimate only about 1000 miles have been added since the supercharger upgrade). At the time the supercharger was installed, we also put in an upgraded (stronger) clutch kit to handle the extra power, as well as an upgraded roller throwout bearing and aluminum radiator with a new water pump. We put a new fuel tank in too at that time. In March of 2022, we installed a new wiring harness and changed the rear brake wheel cylinders and battery. In July of 2023, we added adjustable control arms in front, tapered front wheel bearings, a new master cylinder, and new radius arms.

The result is an impressively modified trick Bugeye, certain to impress. Performance is great as shown below in the driving video!

Click “read more” below for more photos, and call if you are ready to take Shelby home!

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Tub time

October 23, 2026 by bugeyeguy

Now available for $1,499!

If you’re looking for the ultimate winter project, here’s a nice starting point for you!

This is a rebuildable Bugeye tub with a quite nice nose ready for someone looking for a fun hands-on project. It’ll need a lot of fabrication and patching and bodywork to make it beautiful again, but it’s a great starting point, and we’re happy to help you whip it into shape with parts and technical support!

This is a tub that belonged to one of our customers for many years, but he has decided to have us move in a different direction, so this car is now available at a very reasonable price. You can check out the video below for more details and feel free to call if you need more information!

Here’s a chance to get into the Bugeye world from a very low upfront cost and get started on a mission to bring another Sprite back onto the road! Click “read more” for the complete photo gallery! NOTE: cart not included.

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