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“Without a wiring harness, you don’t have a vehicle,” says Wayne Wallace, 30-year veteran and managing director of Autosparks.
The Nottingham firm has been remanufacturing wiring harnesses for classic cars since the 1970s, and has a range of thousands of looms.
“What we haven’t made already in terms of British cars, we will probably never make,” he adds.
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Old wiring harnesses are studied in detail (left), with diagrams for new replacements drawn out by hand and kept on file for reference
Founded by Roger Davis, who is still the company’s CEO, in 1971 as RD Components, it began with harnesses for motorcycles.
Owners of cars soon came calling, too, and then, in the early 1980s, the company bought competing Hull firm Autosparks and adopted its name, absorbing the business into its own premises.