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(if a car is not pictured here, it has been sold)

The absolutely best configuration for an Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite-For Sale!

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NOW SOLD to Patrick In California! Congratulations!

After driving hundreds of Bugeyes, my personal favorite package of mods is shown on this car, and this one can be yours! We feel strongly there is no better configuration for a Spridget than a supercharged 1275 mated to a Ford 5-Speed with front disk brakes. For most people, wire wheels and front driving lights just sweeten the deal.

This ultimate Bugeye Sprite is for sale! Come for a drive below!

This is “Pal,”(AN5L 22827) a 1959 Bugeye we built in June of 2018 for a client in California. He spared no expense, and added the car to his impressive collection, that includes a wide array of interesting vehicles. Now thinning the herd, we jumped on the chance to buy-back one of our premium, fully sorted cars. This is a good one, and if you have the budget for an ultimate Bugeye, please give this car a serious look!

We started with a fully restored Bugeye and added just about every performance feature to make this a delightful sportscar capable of keeping up with modern traffic. The prior owner put just 300 miles on the rebuilt speedo that left with the car, so it is still quite fresh. We have repaired the horn and adjusted the E brake (that’s all it needed after its 300 mile shake-down drive), and now the car is ready for a new home!

This car has thousands of dollars worth of upgrades, that would cost a whole bunch more than the asking price, including:

  • Supercharger and brand new single 1.75″ SU carb
  • Rebuilt 1275 engine
  • New Ford 5 speed conversion kit
  • New clutch with roller throw out bearing upgrade
  • K and N lifetime air filter
  • Alternator conversion
  • Electronic tach conversion (more reliable)
  • Aluminum radiator
  • Air horn
  • Flip-up locking fuel cap
  • Roller front wheel bearing upgrade
  • Better cooling fan
  • New tires in 2018
  • LED lights all around
  • Three point retractible seat belts
  • Cigarette lighter hidden for charging your phone
  • New tonneau
  • Front anti-roll bar
  • New electronic distributor (to eliminate points)
  • New rubber floor mats
  • Sebring driving lights
  • Spin-on oil filter conversion
  • Tri-bar headlights
  • Uprated front shocks
  • New right rear drive spline hub
  • Rebuilt wiper motor
  • New wooden shift knob.
  • New Moto-lita wood wheel with billet hub
  • New slotted and drilled front brake rotors
  • New plush black carpet
  • New fuel tank

Underside is also fully restored. No top as the car was never used in any weather (but we can add a navy blue or black one for you). Call or email if you would like to take this car home! We can make you one like this, but it will cost a lot more than the ask on this one…

Bugeye Rescue

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Now sold to Dr Steve in Kansas City! Bravo! Our 262nd Bugeye sold!!!

If you like barn-find cars and want something you can drive right now, you might give this car serious consideration. This is CC, our “Company Car.” Our new mechanic Terry gave the car this name because he wants it (after refreshing this car, he became attached)! But his 64 VW bus gets the one garage space in the family, and thus CC is for sale.

We started with a hibernating barn find car that has not run in years. Terry spent several days bringing it back to life, first replacing the fuel tank (not shown) and fuel sender with an upgraded metal float (fuel gauge now works), and then replacing all the hydraulics to revive the clutch and brake system. The fuel lines and carbs were cleaned and flushed and the car now runs and drives quite nicely. Check out the video below!

Tires and battery were replaced last year by the prior owner, who had hoped to bring back the car, but never got to it. Company Car won our hearts because it is a car with great potential that was fun to bring back to life, and now it shows great promise to find a good new home and be seen out on the roads once again.

[Read more…] about Bugeye Rescue

Bugeye celebration

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Bugeyeguy workshop addition, December 2019

I can’t get enough of the images of our shop in it’s present form, such as the photo above. I am so grateful for the work we have lined-up in our building and just as grateful for the support we have from all of you who visit our site and patronize our parts catalog. We now have three quite talented technicians working on Bugeyes all day, every day, and I don’t get tired seeing them hard at work in their quest to build the ultimate sportscar. Above you can see the guys working on cars that hail from Arizona, Tennessee and Ohio.

It took a lot to get to this moment. And our incredible team of builders and fabricators don’t just build great cars… they built our addition too.

Bugeyeguy addition, Summer 2017 (note South side overhead door frame, completed in picture above)
Same view as above two pictures, note overhead door frame at left, fall of 2017

Back in 2015, the overgrown image below shows the site now occupied each day by our three talented technicians, as seen in the top photo. It’s hard for me to imagine we transformed this ragged space into a world class workshop, full of cars from all over America (and with a heated floor).

In the photo below, I am standing near what would ultimately be the location of the South side overhead door that you can see framed and then completed in the photos above

Barn find.

Below is the view in the main building in the summer of 2015, looking toward the addition, just before we moved in.

Gumby leads the way, December 2019. Addition in background, through glass wall.

Thank you for this incredible ride. Now that the building and addition are complete, watch what we build next.

Don’t do this to your Bugeye Sprite either!

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Sprite Squall

It was perfectly dry when we pushed this car outside for a quick test drive this week, honest! A fast moving “snow-squall” changed everything, and turned my drive into a high speed parking lot 180 degree turn and right back into the building.

On my drive, I was able to verify that the hand brake is now properly adjusted. Mission Accomplished.

Life with Bugeye

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2019 Christmas parade, somewhere in Maryland

What you drive matters.

A curvy vintage car is special. But a car that resembles a puppy that will wear a costume on every major holiday and still greet you in the morning with a smile… well that’s something very special indeed.

We are Bugeyepeople, and we like waking people up to the possibility that our highways and byways can be populated by something more imaginative than a small SUV with a high belt line. And if we have to don an elf costume once in a while, that’s a small price to pay.

Thank you Tom and Pam Rhodes (Bugeye owners, our car #251) for personifying the Bugeye lifestyle.

And from all of us to all of you, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Contact us at David@bugeyeguy.com or call (203)-208-0980 during business hours