The Workshop Blog
Lola T490 – 1978 Sports 2000 Series
Digging back into our archives unearthed a photo of Chris Alford in a Lola T490 during the 1978 Sports 2000 series up against the likes of John Brindley, Syd Fox, John Trevelyan, Wayne Wainwright, Nick Adams, etc. The car can be seen here in both guises: one shot...
1903 London – Brighton Darracq
1903 Darracq 24hp Model JJ Rear-Entrance Tonneau Brings £550,640 (Image courtesy of Bonhams) A 1903 Darracq 24hp Model JJ Rear-Entrance Tonneau took pole position at Bonham’s annual London to Brighton Run Sale. The annual sale coincided with the extremely popular...
The Futuristic Tatra T87
We were very fortunate to be able to work on a Tatra T87 on behalf of a client. This vehicle runs an air-cooled V8 engine mounted in the back as can be seen. A very futuristic looking car that gets noticed wherever it goes. Not often we see one coming up for auction,...
Superb New Parts Catalogues!
Just received these superb Jaguar XK Parts Catalogues from SNG Barratt.
Salon Auto-Moto Classic Toulouse
Visit the new Salon Auto Moto Toulouse Classic Car Show and Auction
Morgan MWP 60T in the 1980 Monte Carlo Rally
Another photo from our archive. The year 1980, the car was MWP 60T which if my memory serves me correctly was Peter Morgan’s daily driver, here I had just returned from final road test with a very sore back due to the stiff suspension set up! We had just finished...
Garage Archive – Pistons in Milan!
This is an interesting photo, a father and son business in a little back street of Milan - manufacturing car parts! Can you guess from the racking behind what sort of parts? Pistons. Yes, hundreds and hundreds of pistons, they even had their own foundry on right the...
Garage Andreas Photo Archive
Here at Garage Andreas, over the coming months we will be running an album of archive photos spanning some 40 years, to give an insight into what we’ve been doing, some of the people we've met and places we've been. We hope you’ll enjoy the photos and maybe they will...
Tacot’s Club Gascon ‘British Sunday 2018’ Classic Car Rally
Garage Andreas was pleased to sponsor and attend the 17th Tacot's Club Gascon “British Sunday” classic car rally yesterday. The weather was rather cold in the morning when I set off in the AC Cobra for our rendezvous in Auch, by the time I had reached Vic Fezensac the...
AutoRetro Barcelona
A date for your diary in October. Visit beautiful Barcelona, in Spain for AutoRetro International Classic Motor Show 2018. Click on this link for tickets. (Available soon!)
Morgan 4/4 Rebuild – Wings
Working back on the Morgan this week which I am enjoying, stripping the Gemmer steering box for inspection. The internals for the steering box all looked really good apart from the bronze bush at the bottom which is very worn. Having spoken to Terry Foxen at G.E.E....
Morgan 4/4 Rebuild – Braking System
This picture is of a Morgan 4/4 which we have upgraded the brake calipers to 4pot units vastly improving the braking system. The calipers are also running EBC green pads which give the braking a better feel and far superior stopping power.