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1960 Bugeye Sprite project for sale! Excellent mechanicals! Inexpensive project!

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NEW PRICE $5,595!

Rescue this very repairable Bugeye, with 8578 indicated miles!

This Bugeye “Barrie” was totaled when our client was hit by a car pulling out into him on one side which pushed him into a pole on the other (he’s OK, just shaken up). The nose was damaged beyond repair… we fit a good used one to make the car complete.

The car has bent front frame rails as you can see in the pictures of the underside, but for the right person or a collision shop, this damage is quite fixable. This car is unique in that we did a major mechanical restoration on this car previously, so once the new owner addresses the crash damage, they can enjoy a nice driving Bugeye. 

There is some work to be done with the inner fenders (we have the parts if you want to cut the right inner fender off and weld on a new one). Work needs to be done at the collision shop to straighten the frame rails and realign the two front wheels.

Both front wheels moved their control arm mounts slightly upon impact, so that will need to be straightened. For a collision expert or a good collision shop, this is not a particularly difficult thing to fix. Bodywork will also be needed to re-align the doors and the nose.

I would argue that this project is infinitely easier than to buy a basket case full of rusty parts. There’s really no rust to address with this project- (that’s probably why the car fared so well in the crash)! It’s solid! 

This is not a project for everyone yet we do feel quite confident the car will be back on the road soon. The 948 engine, completely rebuilt carbs, electronic ignition, aluminum radiator, high output starter, spin on oil filter and strong smooth case transmission were in excellent shape before the accident. This was a very nice car to drive and will be once again! Also included with the sale will be a used black carpet kit that came with the car. No interior panels or seat parts are included. The floors are quite solid as you can see from the underside. There is some surface rust shown in the footwells. The carpets got wet after the crash but we have removed them. It should be quite easy to clean those footwells up once again.

Click “read more” below for more photos, and give us a call if you’re interested in taking this car home! Sold with a bill of sale only and we”ll help the new owner with re-registration and restoration as well! 

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Video tour of 1958 Gold Medal Concours Bugeye for sale

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Car 552 (one of the first) is for sale! Check out our new video tour in the video below!

“Concours” is an often used term in the classic car world, used to define a very high-level car, which may or may not have been judged at a concours event.

Here’s 501 getting judged at the 2023 Audrain Concours. Audrain is a high level national event with about 15 minutes of judging time per car. Compare that to 2 hours per car at a national club event.

There are varying levels of judged events… some regional concours include judging for roughly 15 minutes and a car with a great story can sometimes surpass a car with exceptional accuracy.

552 got fully scrutinized when we brought it to the National Austin Healey club Concours event in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 2015. Every nut, bolt, and screw gets attention at this type of event. 501 got this treatment in Stroudsburg PA in 2022, as well.

And then there is club judging, which, at the national level, is among the most difficult to master. Here, the car is judged objectively for both accuracy (was it originally built that way?) and quality (does the component look the way it did when it left the factory?) You have to excel in both ways… your car has to be accurate, but also really, really nice. That includes every nut, bolt and washer.

552 was judged for two hours by four Austin Healey Club judges and awarded gold level certification. This is the highest honor any Austin Healey can ever attain. It is a certification that the car held up to the highest level of scrutiny, microscopically inspected and scored on every detail possible.

If you want a car that looks like the day it came off the showroom floor in terms of condition and accuracy, a gold car is about as close as you can get. Call if you would like to be the next steward of this fine vehicle!

“Goldie,” a 1959 Super Bugeye Sprite for sale, superb performance and upgrades! Signature model!

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Nearly $100,000 was spent to build out this car. We built it right, and given our experience with hundreds of Sprites, we know how to make a great product. For example, with a supercharged Sprite you need to make sure that the clutch pressure plate is upgraded or you will have a slipping clutch from the extra boost. Goldie has this modification, along with a long list of other upgrades.

This $100k project is available at a deep discount and is on offer for $54,995. Read the post below and give us a call if Goldie would look good in your garage!

If you like upgraded classic cars, this one is worth a serious look. We built Goldie in the Spring of 2021 for a client who wanted the best of everything (he’s now got too many cars and asked us to find Goldie a new home). This five-speed 1275 engine car has a big boost (up to 8 pounds) supercharger kit (and an upgraded clutch kit to handle the extra power) as well as a new ring gear, rear disk brakes and a complete new valve job with hardened valve seats for unleaded pump gas. Just about every part of this car is restored or upgraded within the past four years.

The transmission is a Datsun 5-speed, in excellent condition. In Spring of 2021, we changed the radius arms and changed the rear wheel bearings and axle shafts. Previously, we had put in a new wiring harness, all new copper nickel brake lines and installed new powder coated black rims with powder coated lug nuts. We also put in four new lever shocks and LED lights.

We upgraded the interior hardura mats and custom stitched them with matching gold thread. We then built custom seats with all new foam, also with matching gold thread. And we made a matching custom tonneau too. We also removed and polished the cockpit trim, replaced the windshield and glazing rubber.

The car has a 1275 engine and supercharger, alternator upgrade, new carburetor, spin-on oil filter, electronic ignition, seat belts are upgraded, speedometer is upgraded to a GPS unit, exhaust is better, header, supercharger, high performance clutch for the power upgrade, aluminum radiator, rear disk brakes, etc, etc.

If you want a really zoomy Bugeye, take a close look. This super Sprite is worthy of my signature that lives on the fender, and she was built by our dedicated team of pros, just 387 miles ago. The prior owner has a large collection of cars and only used the car sporadically since we delivered it in May of 2021 so the new owner will get to enjoy a long list of upgrades, which totals more than $40k! Someone will be very lucky to take Goldie to a new home!

Click “read more” below for a full compliment of photos and give us a call if you’re interested!

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Caramel topping

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Behind every stunning sculpture we build is a healthy dose of color angst. We sweat the details here, and the colors on Sage, for example, we are so far off the traditional color map that we worked particularly hard to make this car look hot. The tonneau color was the final choice, and one that I do not make lightly, because the tonneau adds a giant splash of color to the center of the car.

It has to be right.

Here’s the unveiling of our final choice… we looked at multiple espressos and an infinite variety of chocolates (from milk to dark) but we ultimately settled on a rich caramel stayfast topping. This color perfectly matches the highlights in Sage’s leather dashboard covering and perfectly complements our color theme, serving as a rich accent to the car’s Sage green exterior. We sewed this custom tonneau here in our shop with contrasting khaki thread and then we custom fit the new tonneau to the car.

Magnifique!

Sage is still available, and if you are looking for the ultimate head turning cars and coffee king, this car is a stunning, one-of-a-kind signed edition. Sage is the best Bugeye we can build (and you can own).

The tonneau material underneath a swatch of the dash vinyl shows the delightful contrast between browns.

Sage is now complete. If you are serious about owning a stunning reinterpretation of the iconic Bugeye Sprite, click the photo below for more information and give us a call!

Super Sprite delight

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Now that we’ve sold 425 Bugeyes (and restored roughly another hundred of them for clients around the country), we’ve had a lot of time to think about what constitutes the ultimate British sports car. I’ve owned Big Healeys, MGBs, MGAs, MG-T series cars, as well as TR3‘s, Spitfire‘s, Minis, Morris Minors and some Lotuses; I always come back to the Bugeye as the most capable, stout, and fun car to drive and own. If only they had a little more style and luxury to them, then we’d be all set!

This is Angus, a Super Sprite we have built for a customer in California. Lots of fun touches on this one, including new minilite knock-off wheels, Blockley tires, and a chopped windscreen!

That’s what we’ve set out to do with each Super Sprite. We build each Super Sprite as its own unique interpretation of itself; we give each of them a little more style, a little more horsepower, a little bit better performance, and capitalize on the wonderful foundation that we were given when the cars were built roughly 65 years ago.

Check out the video here, you get to see some of our favorite Super Sprites, what I consider to be among the best Frogeyes in the world. Sage, Goldie, and Jesse are for sale (click their photos below to learn more), and if you’d like us to build your own custom Sprite, please don’t hesitate to call! We will be bringing Sprites to our shop in Connecticut all winter long to transform them, and if you’d like us to look at your car, please do get in touch!

“Sage”
“Jesse”
“Goldie”

A contemporary interpretation of a very basic car

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Back in 1958, $1795 didn’t buy you many color choices. That was then. Now, we want it all. And thus we have built a Bugeye, reinterpreted.

If you like modernized classics, we think you’ll like “Sage,” our newest stunner. We will have this car done in about a week. Check out the video below to see how we are doing, and check out the photo gallery at the end of this post for some up-close photos of some of Sage’s best features!

Of course, if you prefer original stuff, we have offerings more suited to you, as well. Check out AN5L 552, a Gold medal-winning Concours Bugeye, and a rare opportunity to own a preproduction Bugeye!

Give us a call if any of our inventory tickles your Bugeye fancy!

Contact us at customercare@bugeyeguys.com or call (203)-208-0980 Monday - Friday | 8 am - 5 p.m. EST