Price reduced! Now $20,995!

This is Sprite AN5L 13275, built in March of 1959. This car has a great package of options and weather gear and is ready for a fun drive home!

Meet a Bugeye we call “Boyd.” We owned and sold Boyd in 2015 to the current owner in North Carolina, who has now asked us to sell the car for him. He has put 1600 miles on the car in the three years he has owned it.

It’s a great car, recipient of much sorting when we last had it in 2015. This summer, we’ve taken care of any outstanding issues. It’s equipped with a mostly stock 948 engine and four speed transmission, with the popular front disk brake upgrade. Boyd is also loaded with a number of great upgrades that would cost thousands if you were to put them in yourself.

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Here’s another Bugeye for sale that we fully sorted for its most recent owners and now we have it for sale once again. In fact, we did about $10,000 worth of work to the car back in 2015. The car was upgraded to make it into a good useable car for a family in Texas and the new owner will enjoy the benefit of all that work.

A list of what was done includes: new front disc brake kit with new king pins and A arms, (drums and old A arms are shown in the photos, but were replaced after the photos were taken), LED lights all around, three-point retractible seat belts, new top, new tires, new electronic ignition, new electric fuel pump, new sidecurtains and a new sidecurtain pouch, front anti-roll bar, upgraded halogen headlights, rubber floor mats, new heater valve, new radius arm bushings and a new pinion seal. We also put in a new carpet kit and door seals. The car is fully sorted and ready to enjoy! It has spent most of its life in dry climate and the underside is nice and solid. The next owner gets the benefit of a lot of hours spent in our shop (and a lot of money spent by the prior owner) to make this car great.

This car is available now for $16,995 and the car is located in our Branford Quonset Hut.

We call this car “Bliss,” because it wears an original 1962 Fort Bliss base sticker on the front bumper. Indicated mileage is 46,629. The prior owners put less than 500 miles on the car.

I’ve heard lots of Army base Bugeye stories over the years, and here’s car that clearly lived on the Army’s second largest base in the dry Texas/New Mexico climate.

Bliss is mostly stock, with a 948 powerplant. Carbs are upgraded to larger 1.25 inch HS2 twin SUs. Luggage rack and wood steering wheel are nice extras, as is the BMC period AM radio, common on Bugeyes.

The car has a one-of-a-kind Jaguar XKE rear bumper guard. You love it or hate it. If you are in the former category, you appreciate a little more chrome protection, and smile at the fact that this car wears a piece of an XKE’s nose on it’s behind. If you hate it, well, we simply remove the whole assembly and put on two new original bumperettes. The new owner gets to decide.

I like this car a lot, it feels like it just drove off the White Sands Missile Range, because it has a used feel without feeling worn out. It has had one repaint, some time ago, and the paint still shines quite well. Not a tournament paint job by any means (with some imperfections showing), but just perfect for bombing around home base. The short tonneau shown on the car is old and the new owner will probably want us to fit a new one to the car.

If you are looking for a nice car you can drive without worry because it has been fully sorted out, Bliss is worth a closer look!

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BARN FIND!

It’s getting harder and harder to find complete unmolested Bugeyes so we are pretty excited to find this one!

I first met AN5L 37802 in June of 2015 when the owner (“Skip”) was taking down his barn in the Catskills (in New York) where the car had been stored since 1974. In the picture above from 2015, you can see Skip extracting the car as the barn is removed. He had purchased it in about 1967 from the second owner.

You can still see the original Crandall-Hicks plaque on the back of the car. This was the New England British Motor Corporation distributor at the time, so this is a wonderful plaque to still see in place. You might enjoy reading a bit about Crandall-Hicks at the link here… they sold Indian motorcycles in the 30s and later helped bring the BMC line to our shores. I was amazed to read that in 1955, they built a Quonset hut (just slightly larger than ours) on their property, to house their shop and British car inventory! (That structure was destroyed in a snowstorm but was replaced with another Quonset hut!!! They are still in business, and it looks like they now sell power equipment, albeit not from a Quonset hut.)

Anyway, Skip ended-up trading the car for a Ford tractor and brush hog in 2015, but I was lucky last week to buy it from the latest owner (who merely stored the car inside since 2015). It still looks the same today as it did when it came out of Skip’s barn.

I enjoyed finding the 1973 Major League baseball rule book under the passenger floor mat. I called Skip this week and asked about this (he’s happy to meet the new owner) and it turns out he drove the car everywhere in the early 70s as an umpire for little league games.

The car is well-preserved. She needs a complete restoration and there are some small holes in the floor pans. But this is a great candidate, with minimal rust-through and a good underside. It’s somewhat crusty underneath, but thankfully, it looks like the car was sitting on wood planks instead of a dirt floor. Floor patches will be needed, but the underside is much more solid than most. Take a look at the underside pictures in the photo album for more details.

Skip parked the car in 1974 because it had low oil pressure, so you’ll need to rebuild the stock 948 engine in the car, which would likely need a rebuild from sitting all this time anyway. The original hardtop is a nice detail that comes with the car. But most importantly, everything is in place just as it was in 1974. The car is a bit of a time capsule. Original jack and jack handle is included as is original (torn) tonneau.

Indicated mileage is 74,114. It’s always amazing to think back to a time where it was common for people to routinely use these cars as daily drivers. This one was parked after just 14 years on the road. We’ll never know if it went 74k or 174k miles in those 14 years. But it’s nice to see a car that hasn’t been modified or disassembled, which makes the restoration more attractive and a lot easier to organize and complete.

The period luggage rack shown in the photos is also included, just not on the car at the moment. Tires are also filled and holding air, but will of course need to be replaced after sitting for so long. The car rolls freely and we can ship it anywhere in the world. The car is currently in our shop and comes with complete paperwork for the new owner to register the car, anywhere in the world.

Call 203 561 6929 if you are interested!

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Price reduced! Now $27,995. That’s a great price for one of the nicest Bugeyes you can find! New photos below! Call or email if you are interested in owning an immaculate original-spec Bugeye Sprite.

This is “Tanner,” a rotisserie restored all stock 1960 Bugeye Sprite, done to a very high standard and ready for a new home. The car is finished in Olde English white with a red interior, exactly matching the factory color scheme. With fully restored chrome and interior, the car is a real head-turner.

We purchased this car in 2012 when it was a fresh rotisserie restoration with everything brand new. We then sold it to Nick in British Columbia, Canada, where it has lived garaged inside a special “CarCoon” garage storage air capsule pretty much ever since (that’s the red oxygen tent shown below). He has only put a few hundred miles on the car, driving it only on nice days, and it is pretty much exactly as it was in 2012 when it was fully restored.

The underside is immaculate. The car comes with new side curtains and top, as shown in the photo album.

The car is still in BC and we are selling it for Nick on this site, to make it easier for clients in that region who might be interested. Of course, we can ship it from there to your house, anywhere in the world. Nick can also deliver the car to Blaine, Washington, where the new owner can pick it up.

This is a fully-sorted and great Bugeye. Check out the photo album below of the car as it now sits in Canada, with a clear rear windscreen installed to reduce cockpit wind noise. The Photobucket album linked below was shot when we last had the car in 2012.
Give a call if you want to make this stunning Bugeye your own!

You can see 50 pictures of this car by clicking here. This album was shot in 2012, and because the care has been so exceptional and the mileage has been so minimal, the car still looks this good.

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