Classic Car Restoration & Maintenance

Austin-Healey 3000 MKI BT7 1959 Restoration now completed

This long term project has been a collaboration between BRCC and the owner, Richard.

Richard started the restoration and completed a lot of structural work himself to a very good standard. It reached a point where the project wasn’t progressing due to lack of time, so Richard called us and we picked up the project from Cornwall and have seen it through to completion.

The car was just a bare chassis when we collected it and working with the owner, we have built a car that is still true to the marque but has some subtle differences.

Finished in Jaguar Gun Metal Grey with custom stretched wings to accept the 6” rims. The car has a full steel engine running on triple Webbers, running through a straight cut gear set and LSD final drive. The bespoke trim and hood beautifully finish off the restoration.

It really is a great, fast road Healey that is capable of both road tours and spirited driving.

Collected and driven back to Cornwall ready to be enjoyed over the Easter break. Happy Easter. 🐣🐥🐰

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Goodwood 82nd Members Meet 2025

The Goodwood motor season got underway with the 82nd Members’ Meeting presented by Audrain Motorsport on 12/13 April 2025.

When the phone rang, a few weeks ahead of the event, @jackrawles46 didn’t know that it would culminate with having a drive @goodwoodmotorcircuit #82MM

The Dutch car is owned by Mike Van Thiel @machineswithamission and Jochem Kentgens who invited Jack to drive at the upcoming event.

The Austin-Healey had an entry in the Moss Trophy but no driver…!

The Moss Trophy is for closed cockpit GT cars that raced prior to 1963. The grid was made up of Jaguar E-Type, Ferrari 250 SWB, Aston Martin DB4GT, Austin-Healey, AC and Shelby Cobra and a Lotus 11 ‘Breadvan’.

Quali took place, for the 29 cars, on Saturday. The four big Healeys driven by Rawles, Wilmott, Jennings and Russell entertained the crowd with their close, competitive lap times, Wilmott lead the Healeys.

Sunday’s race would start with Wilmott 8th, Rawles 11th, Russell 13th and Jennings 24th.

During post-qualifying inspection, a problem was found, a broken half shaft. This required replacement of both the half shafts and differential. Unfortunately, we only had a 4.1:1 ratio available, a slower diff than the 4.3:1 currently fitted. Not helped by the relatively mild engine performance compared to the usual BRCC machinery.

A good start saw Jack jump up to 8th overall just behind Wilmott, but it was clear by the end of the first lap that the car was not performing as required and over time was unable to keep up with the other Healeys.

Jack finished the race 13th, the third Healey over the line and was later promoted to 11th after 1st and 2nd place Aston Martin DB4GTs were disqualified when during post-race scrutineering the cars were found to have items that didn’t match up with their Historical Technical Passport.

A great way to start the race season and we look forward to seeing what 2025 has in store #keephealeysracing

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Natters & Nibbles No1
Saturday 12th April 2025

Our first Natters & Nibbles date of 2025 kicked off with beautiful weather and an incredible turn out of over 60 classic Cars filling our car parking space.

We had a good variety of makes and models and it was good to be back.

Charlie Rawles headed up our bbq and kept everyone happy supplying the bacon rolls.

Team bakers, made up of Rose Rawles, Harriet Rhodes Judy Plumridge and Sally Stewart cooked up an incredible array of cakes, which disappeared at an alarming rate.

We were also honoured to have our youngest Bill Rawles Classic Car team member, 15 month old Freddie Rawles. Freddie spent most of the morning studying the cars, pointing and making car noises #brumbrum

A huge thank you to our car park attendees Andrew Waghorn, Steve Barber and Simon Fox. At hand to keep order and trying to park the cars in the most efficient style. After the event they said “it was like herding ants” 😂

Thank you to everyone who came and made the morning a huge success. Thank you for your positive feedback and we look forward to welcoming you to Natters & Nibbles No2 on Saturday 10th May 2025 - 10 til 1

Don’t forget that this is a free charity event, collecting for charities close to our hearts. We rely on your generous contributions to our charity pots - please remember to bring all your lose change and notes! We know that our charities appreciate your donations and every penny goes towards helping somebody’s life.

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Also thank you to Simon Fox who always captures some great shots with his “menacing” camera ❤️

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Palletised project for sale, ready to be delivered anywhere or we can pick the project up and see it through to completion here at BRCC.

More details are available on the website.

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WE ARE BACK!

It is the 1st April 2025 and this means we are only a few days away from the first Natters & Nibbles event of the year!

In 2025, we will be holding the events on the 2nd Saturday of each month as this had the least conflicts with our racing events and other classic car events in the calendar and provides a consistent date.

We cannot wait to see you all after what has felt like a very long winter.

As always, the event is free, we raise money for local charities and provide all tea, coffee, and bacon rolls as well as our family members and staff giving up their time for these events so we love to see a big turn out, and a wide range of cars... thank you. Please keep in mind, there are charity pots where you can make a cash donation.

As always, there is ample parking for classic cars, limited parking for modern classics and restricted parking for modern cars. This is on a first come, first served basis but please don`t arrive before 10am as this is when gates will open and ask you to respect our neighbours when arriving and leaving our event.

We look forward to seeing you soon! ...