West Midlands classic car firm behind 200mph Aston Martin goes into liquidation
A Shropshire classic car business that two years ago made headlines after renovating a 45-year-old Aston Martin which went on to break the 200mph speed barrier has been wound up.
Classic Motor Cars (CMC) in Bridgnorth spent more than 7,000 hours and more than four years restoring a one-off Aston Martin supercar before breaking the speed record in speed test in Campbeltown, Scotland in June, 2023.
The car never achieved its top speed when it rolled off the production line in 1979, and the Bridgnorth team’s achievement made headlines around the world in the motoring press.
However, this week, the company appointed administrators and was voluntarily wound up.
A statement in the Gazette - the UK's official public record - by director Timothy Matthew Harris, said the firm, which traded from Stanmore Business Park in Bridgnorth, was wound up on Wednesday, March 11 and has called in the liquidators.
The statement read: “At at a General Meeting of the above-named Company, duly convened and held at 79 Caroline Street, Birmingham, B3 1UP on 11 March 2026 at 10.00 am the following resolutions were passed as a Special resolution and Ordinary resolution respectively:
"That the Company be wound up voluntarily and that Richard Paul James Goodwin (IP No. 9727) of Butcher Woods, 79 Caroline Street, Birmingham, B3 1UP be appointed Liquidator of the Company."
Nobody from the business was available to comment when contacted by the Shropshire Star.
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