Bridge Classic Cars Avis 

Really impressed, won a car for £8, they called the same night to confirm and again the next day to arrange delivery, by 10am on the day after the live draw I had notification from DVLA the car was registered in my name, BCC arrange a lovely hand over and the car is amazing, best £8 I ever spent

What a refreshingly brilliant business model this is in 2023 and carried out so well. I've told many people about it! I've entered a few competitions and the way they are handled and the build-up to the draw is so cool. Got my fingers and toes crossed for a lucky number :) - Joe C

Have entered a couple of the comps, good experience and wonderful prizes. Fingers crossed. 😁

After attending an open day for like-minded enthusiasts, I was very impressed with the workshops and the quality of the work on display

Bridge Classics New Year Rally was a most enjoyable event. As always their staff were friendly and accommodating, a good selection of cars attended and we all seemed to have a pleasant day out. Here's to the next one.

Bridge Classic cars hosted an incredible event just before Christmas 2022. The staff are friendly, experienced and incredibly knowledgeable! If anyone's looking to get into classic cars, or need some assistance with an existing motor, this is the go to team. They regularly run car raffles, so there really is no excuse not to get involved.

Kindness like no other, golden customer service and experts of their trade!!! I was on my way to perform for Bridge Classic Cars and my radiator fluid was dangerously high with a red warning light, (thankfully not too long to go). Thank GOODNESS, I was driving to Bridge Classic Cars as when I arrived and mentioned the tricky journey over to Craig, he immediately offered Bridges services (whilst preparing for a busy live auction night) and reassured me. The wonderful Gordon very kindly looked at my car and topped it up with water and said that he would take a look at it after our performance to see if the water would stay. After the performance, he checked my car again and unfortunately all of the water had spilled out onto the floor meaning it would need a further look at. This was Christmas Eve Eve and Bridge was closing the next day. Gordon mentioned that they may be able to sort the next day but that it may be the New Year until they could get the parts they need to fix it. I said that this was absolutely fine and was just so thankful that they were so kind to look after my little fiat 500 and keep it safe with all of their (absolutely gorgeous) cars. The next day arrives and I receive a call from Craig in the morning to say that they had already looked at my car, identified the problem and ordered in the part for same day delivery for them to fix and me to pick up in the afternoon by 3, just so that I could have my car over the Christmas period!!!!!!!! I was and am absolutely bowled over by their infinite kindness, goodwill and expertise. If you are looking for expertise, kindness (and a car so beautiful you would never want another) I recommend Bridge Classic Cars. Thank you so much Craig, Gordon and all of the team at Bridge Classic Cars!!!

Wow. My 4th attempt to win a car was 4th time lucky! As the draw was on Dec 22nd, it was a fantastic Christmas present. The car is coming down to Cornwall on a covered transporter in early Jan. I’ve had a couple of conversations with the guys at Bridge Classic Cars and they are so lovely and helpful. Can’t wait for the Aston Martin DB9 to be delivered. Thank you so much and I will continue to buy draw tickets as it’s important to support a family business such as theirs.

The postal entry route does not detail any address. I have emailed them twice asking for the address, but no reply. I have now passed this to the ASA and Gamling Commission, as the advert for postal entries is compliant with legislation.

ASA guidelines stipulate that address MUST be clear. I have a screenshot of your terms and postal entry route, no address is there.

Why delete a comment on your facebook page highlighting the mileage on a car you are raffling?

If you don't post it on your website or any of the posts advertising are you trying to hide it? Especially on a 14 year old performance car.
If any car has 116k miles (let alone a 6.3 V8 AMG) on it you should be detailing exactly what work has been done and what services have been completed over it's lifetime.

Would avoid buying a raffle ticket for the SL63 as they deleted a post on their FB page highlighting the mileage from the MOT history.

Having entered a few competitions with no luck as of yet but it is a bit if fun and they really do have some of the best classic cars up for grabs,was going to be 4 stars but having read all the 1 star reviews made me laugh so had to upgrade to 5 keep up the good work BCC

This is my first time entering with these guys,the quality of the cars and bikes are superb I've bought 2 tickets for the Dodge viper which is one of my favourite car's fingers crossed .. liking what I see so far 👍

I love these competitions. If I can't afford a ticket sometimes for a car I'd really love, I simply use the free entry route - but it's only fair to actually buy tickets too, or the competitions couldn't run! - so far I've not been lucky, but I enjoy the chat and information about cars in the workshop and cars which will come up in the future.

Since there's no other way that I could ever get my paws on a classic car (which in fact I want to win for my son, who's my Hero) I stopped playing the lottery with its infinitesimal chance of winning, and now I save a little bit to try the super odds here.

It's not even the Porsches and other classy cars I necessarily go for - I love thought of being able to give my son a car which was running around before he was even born, and let him imagine all the history its seen!

Well done Bridge Classic Cars, and thank you for your competitions - hopefully one day - I might even win :-)

Firstly, I haven't won anything, but the competition Terms & Conditions are clear and straightforward. The negative reviewers (generally) seem to be slagging-off Bridge Classic Cars for no good reason.
It is a competition with a chance of winning something pretty unique and special. The odds of winning are clearly stated. The price is clearly stated. I don't have a problem with this and this is the only form of gambling that I undertake.
Having read all the (very few) negative reviews, and more importantly, the replies from the organisers - it seems to me that this is fair and square - take a punt for a chance of winning - simple!
No one is forcing anyone to participate - and for me - this is just a bit of fun with the chance of winning. What is the problem?
Keep up the good work and thanks for helping keep a bit of vehicle history going.

Like most of these prize draws that have been adopted as a business model the company is in line to make huge profits if a few considerations are made.
To run these prize draws you need to abide by the Gambling Commission rules for running ‘free prize draw with paid entry route’
Note that these are FREE PRIZE DRAW with paid entry route. To make the huge profits these companies make, they need the punter to decide to use the paid entry route. If everyone took the free route there would be no business model. They would not do it for ‘fun’.

They do this in several ways:-
The websites always have the postal / free entry route in much smaller font and hidden away on the page. Never the most prominent position. This is reserved for the glitz and glamour of the prize and prize description.

They set up hoops for you to jump through to enter via post, with regards to the information you need to provide, whether the entry has to be sent 1st class, signed for etc. some of these hoops are real and required for the GCs rules but most are to make this entry route more costly and more difficult for the punter and much easier for the company running the free prize draw to dismiss the entry as not matching the requirements.

Even if you do manage to get your entry post card filled in correctly they can still say they never received it. Even if you manage to get your post card filled in correctly and Royal Mail signed for at the business they can still say “Appreciate you say they have been signed for but I'm afraid it was not signed for by us. The signature looks to be a random cross shape which is not us. All of our staff sign the deliveries with their name and then all post gets processed by our buyer. I have checked all of our current car entries as well as recent cars in case they were entered against another car but no record of any of your entries. Please note we do not work Saturdays so any that were signed for by someone on a Saturday we certainly not us as our gates are locked and no entry can be gained. We share our site with 4 other businesses but we all talk and exchange posts if any are delivered in error so they may still pop up. It might be worth speaking to Royal Mail to see if they can give you any guidance as to where they might have been left”. Even when the other cards delivered on the Monday were signed for with the same signature and their answer was it might be the Royal Mail employee signing them.

All these things are not only to discourage the use of the free entry route in these ‘Free Prize Draws’ but also to run down the time while your entries may turn up later (in the mean time tickets are being sold out and therefore when/if your free entries ‘turn up’ all tickets have been sold).

The result is the same they’re only interested in paid for entries, they will do whatever they need to to avoid allowing free entries to these ‘FREE PRIZE DRAWS with paid for entry route’
In doing so they are:-
A) flouting the Gambling Commission’s rules to run these prize draws
B) Acting as the house in a gamble where only the house (and minimal punters) win.
C) Make huge profits. If they’ve given away £2.45m worth of prizes you can guarantee they’ve earned in profit around double that!

But it’s all supposed to be a bit of fun! (I was told recently by the owner of Bridge Classic Car Competitions).
It’s supposed to be fun for the punter and profit for the company….
As long as it’s a paying punter and the GC don’t find out the company is disregarding postal entries.

Not much fun for those punters who spend time, money and effort to enter via post and whose entries then go ‘missing’!

The house always wins, no more so when the house also cheats!

Just to confirm. I gave you my email address which clearly shows my real name and I messaged you under Alan Metcalfe, not Talbot so it shows how much attention to take.
My entries were generated in my own computer that no one else has access to and sent through the post. If GDPR security was a REAL issue rather than another excuse to flout the GC rules you’d insist on the entries being hand written and sent in an enclosed envelope, but strangely you didn’t when I sent these entries, but now you do, Very strange! I’m guessing this rule appeared after my entries were received.
You mention protecting myself regarding GDPR. That has nothing to do with you. What I do with my personal data is my business. As I mentioned right at the start of this review. These are all unnecessary hoops so you can dismiss legitimate postal entries.

I have left lots of negative reviews for these types of free draw pages. As 99.9% of you do the same dodgey GC rule flouting but look carefully and you’ll see a very positive review for 7 Days Performance who have always dealt with my and many others postal entries perfectly within the GC rules. You should all take a leaf out of their book!

There's always a first time !!!! Have entered a few times with Bridge Classic Cars and my luck was in with the Morris Minor. Arrived a few weeks back, thought it would be in decent nick but it's truly fantastic, well impressed. Hopefully I'll stop crunching the gears soon !!!

I've entered this competition several times recently and when i viewed an email today inviting me to enter a new competition to win a Ford Capr, I thought I'd give it a chance and enter it. Like most authentic sites, the ability to checkout as a return user or guest, is usually one of two options. The process is usually straightforward and quickly navigated. This time however, was anything but. Even armed with the usual home/bill address and debit card details, the site couldn't seem to distinguish between a return user or accommodate a new user (register your details and proceed from there). Why any site would basically complicate a fiscal transaction, to their benefit, is beyond me. Either you have an easily navigational smooth transaction or don't bother emailing awareness of your competition and wasting my time and yours.

Firstly I would like to apologise,for a review I made earlier about this company,
Everything has now been promptly dealt with in a very professional and satisfactory way.
I must add this is a very reputable company,and recommend them.
Thank you bridge classic cars

We had great service from all at Bridge Classic. We had decided to sell our family Type 2 VW and had it in on our drive, we attracted a number of people browsing but nothing serious. Then BC contacted us and told us what they do. Having been to visit them , we loved the showroom & garage ( so clean you could perform operations there) the team are knowledgeable and passionate about the vehicles we love . We agreed on the price , they did a great job getting her all beautiful for the show and sale. Watching live was great, so professional.
Can’t fault them