We have entered our thirty sixth year restoring classic cars for collectors and enthusiasts everywhere. How did it all start? It was a long, hard haul, beginning with an innocent request as to where to restore an old Rolls Royce.  That was back in October 1988.  Many people were doing up old cars, but no one took it seriously, so the business grew to 10 staff and 40+ projects in the factory.

It took us years to find the best way, to find the best tradesmen, to source parts and information, and forum processes.  It was 1992 when we were offered an opportunity to restore a car for a Japanese collector with ambitions to enter his car at the famous Pebble Beach Concours in California.  His 1936 SS1 (Jaguar) was completed in record time and to a standard that earned it an award at this world-famous contest. The new goal was a Pebble Beach podium finish with our own car, which we achieved in August 2005 with that incredible 1934 Mercedes-Benz supercharged 380 Cabriolet A. Since then this car went back to Pebble Beach in 2017 with a new owner and ended up on the podium again, with a restoration we had done 13 years earlier.

The team at Sleeping Beauties has successfully completed over 600 projects, more than 400 of them complete restorations.  We have been able to restore beautiful cars for collectors world wide, Japan, UK, Hong Kong, the USA and Germany, even the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stutgart. People ask what cars do we restore?  Well, if a collector considers his car worth doing and he can justify the money to do it properly, then we will restore almost any car pre 1975. Having completed work on more than a dozen Mercedes-Benz 300SL's, they are perhaps our specialty. We have learned that proper restoration is expensive, so it’s best done to a valuable, rare and beautiful car.  To do a superficial patch up or half a job is a waste of your money and our time.

Every restoration is only as good as the people who are doing it. We are most fortunate to have our key people dedicated to perfection since we started this venture. Not every restoration project is destined to become an award winning show car. Some of our customers merely ask for a nice car to pick up the papers on Sunday morning. But every job is done to satisfy our own high standards. We will be constantly updating this site as new projects pass through the workshop. If you have any questions related to the kind of work we do, just send us an email. But please remember we are rather busy.

We trust you enjoy this new website!