Bespoke Projects
Bespoke and One-Off Vehicle Projects
With over 25 years of bespoke builds, television commissions and show car interiors to our name, Alpha Auto Concepts takes on the projects that other workshops simply don’t have the experience or the imagination to deliver.
Bespoke and One-Off Vehicle Projects
Some of the best work we’ve ever done started with a customer saying they wanted something that didn’t exist yet.
No reference photos, no catalogue to point at, just a vision and a conversation about how to make it real. Bespoke projects are where the depth of experience built up over 25 years becomes genuinely irreplaceable. You can’t troubleshoot a problem you’ve never encountered before if you haven’t spent years developing the judgement that tells you what will work.
Our bespoke projects have taken us to television studios, to the Geneva Motor Show, to national magazine shoots and to the private garages of customers who simply wanted a car that felt completely and uniquely theirs. And it doesn’t stop at vehicles. We’ve been approached to assist with all manner of custom projects — from leather cladding safes and door handles to redesigning a VIP ferris wheel pod, upholstering branded golf buggy captains chairs for the Solheim Cup and building a car-themed bar in a customer’s home. Whatever your brief, if you can think it up, we can make it happen. Every one of these projects started the same way: with a brief and a belief that something extraordinary was possible.
Featured projects
Mercedes Vito VIP project
Delorean
Zeclat Prototype
VIP Ferris Wheel Gondola
Television and Media Builds
Working for television production is one of the more demanding contexts in which we operate. The car needs to be photogenic from every angle, consistent across multiple shooting days and often completed to a deadline that doesn’t leave much margin for error. We’ve worked on Supercar Megabuild series one and two, Goblin Works Garage, Ali A’s Superchargers and the Channel 4 production “I’m Not Driving That.”
TV builds teach you a lot about what genuinely looks good under scrutiny. A camera lens catches every imperfection, every slightly loose stitch and every material that doesn’t lie quite right. Working repeatedly in that environment raises the standard of everything else we do, because you develop an eye for quality that simply doesn’t tolerate average work.
If you’re involved in automotive media production and need a trimmer who understands what on-camera results look like, get in touch. We understand production timelines and we understand what’s required.
Show Cars and Exhibition Builds
Show car interiors are perhaps the most scrutinised interiors in the world. They stand under intense lighting in front of thousands of visitors, photographed from every direction by people looking for any reason to be critical. We’ve produced interiors for cars shown at the Geneva Motor Show, which is about as high-profile as it gets in the automotive calendar.
Both Geneva builds were for a British boutique car manufacturer and represented the interior fitted to pre-production vehicles unveiled to the global automotive press. The standard required was faultless. The results were.
Show car work requires meticulous execution and often creative problem-solving around structural elements, panel gaps and lighting interactions that you simply don’t encounter in production vehicles. It’s technically demanding and it’s enormously satisfying when the finished car drives onto the show floor.
Private Commissions
Many of our most interesting bespoke projects come from private customers who know exactly what they want and are willing to invest in having it done properly. Unusual material combinations, completely custom colour palettes, integrated technology that doesn’t visibly exist until it’s switched on, structural modifications to create a design that never left the factory this way — we’ve done all of it. We don’t just specialise in vehicles either; if you can imagine it, we can more than likely make it happen.
The brief can be as developed or as rough as the customer brings. Some people arrive with detailed mood boards and reference images. Others come with a single clear idea and leave the execution largely to us. We enjoy both equally. The conversation at the beginning of a bespoke project is one of the most enjoyable parts of the job.
Starting a Bespoke Project
The best first step is a conversation. Bring your idea, bring your vehicle if it’s ready, and let us talk through what’s technically possible and what the most effective approach might be. We’ll be honest about complexity, timeline and cost from the start, because bespoke projects only deliver what they promise when both sides have a clear and shared understanding of the plan.
Tell us your ideas
Call us on 01484 603 000
Bespoke projects vary enormously in scope, complexity and
cost, and there’s no meaningful way to put a number on a
project we haven’t heard yet. We’d rather have a proper
conversation about your specific idea than have you talk
yourself out of it based on an assumption about
what it might cost.