Fancy Getting a ‘Classy’ Classic Car Like These?

I've spent the last 2 evenings searching through Ebay's classic cars category and it's been a real eye opener... they're absolutely gorgeous - and highly sort after!

I found Rolls-Royce, Maseratti, Bugatti, Bentley, Alfa Romeo,  Austin MG, Iso Grifo ... plus the Mini, Beatle etc.

One that particularly got my attention was an ex WO Bentley Gurney Nutting 1930s - 2 door body - pictured on the left here.   It's situated only 15 miles from where I live and the owner/seller was asking £5000 for it - although there's not a lot there for 5k!  It'll be a job to know where to start restoring.

The owner said he's also interested in having someone with the skills to help him restore it.   I've opted in and offered my help.. for fabrication and welding.

You can read about Ettore Bugatti on wikipedia - the founder of Bugatti automobili in 1909.  He designed and built some of the worlds most prestigious cars, airplane parts and  railcars - quite a guy!

If you follow this link you can see one that was found in a old garage in Northeast England earlier this year and fetched £3m (!!) at auction in France: 1938-bugatti-type-57c-atalante-coupe

Visit Ebay motors and browse through the classic cars category.  Type in 'restoration' or 'project' ...and get yourself a Roller!!!

Feast your eyes on the Bugatti Royale below...   Click here for the Bugatti Royale wiki page

Good Way To Source Spare Car & Motorbike Parts Online

For some years now, ebay's been my main port of call when sourcing spare car parts and tools on the internet.   But I've come across another great source for finding spare parts on-line which I'm going to pass onto you - the reason being that in the past there have been a number of items I've needed which I couldn't find on ebay.

Although I know these items are sold on-line, finding the suppliers is a lengthy and frustrating business, as you'll know if you've tried it.  The bulk of suppliers don't show up on search engines – unless you're willing to search through 200 pages of search results.  The sort of things I'm talking about are items like suspension components, shock absorbers and springs , brake discs, exhaust manifolds and mufflers etc..

As these are specialist high performance items, up till now when I needed to source them, I called up companies I'd seen in magazines or asked around like-minded enthusiasts but at the end of the day it was a bit hit-and-miss as to whether I found a good supplier. So I was chuffed when I recently discovered an all-in-one place for sourcing just about all the tools for the job when building your own project - it's a shopping search engine called Twenga ...and it's got a wicked inventory of items listed.

The cool thing is that when you make a search on their site you get listings of spare second-hand parts (from Ebay, Amazon, etc.) side by side with new items directly from all suppliers on the web (some of them with decent discounts) - so you're getting the complete market-place served up in one place.   This make it a lot easier to compare prices, specifications, etc.

It's a well-built site with a fresh feel and easy, user-friendly navigation. You can open a free account if you want to keep your eye on particular products, and you can be alerted of any price-drops, which could be useful.

I notice that they've got sites for quite a few countries: UK, USA,, France, Germany, Spain, Italy Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Brazil, Russia and last but not least, Australia.   I've exchanged a couple of emails with them and like their style. Note, though, that they're not involved with any customer support for items bought – you have to go to the individual seller for any questions regarding a purchase you've made ...but nothing new about that.