Company Profile

Classic & Sports Cars by Tom Zwakman is part of Zwakman Motors Europe (ZME) and active in the Classic & Sports Car market since 1974 and the leading international dealer for highly original low mileage examples of SS & Jaguar and Aston Martin. 

As well we achieved by far to find the most one off cars of above makes out of all corners of the world.

ZME did invest every single day from 1974 onwards in knowledge and original parts and be the very best house for your SS/Jaguar and Aston Martin. 

For car sales info contact:

Zwakman Motors Europe is a closed entrance and private company. Visitors are only accepted by proper premade appointments. Visit requests can be made to Mrs. Rol by phone 0031 – 72 564 1882.

All work carried out by ZME and TJR will be charged at a hourly rate of £ 150,= excl. 19% Dutch vat. We do fully guarantee all our technical work and all will be carried out to first class spec & A1+ quality without ANY compromise.

All jobs to be paid by delivery or by monthly brake downs.

All our car sales are warranty free transactions unless there is a warranty stated at the bill of sale.

Car purchases are payable to us by Euro / US dollar / NZ dollar or British pound bank transfers or by notarial bare gold or diamante transfer.

We don’t have retail parts sales facilities, however we do sell rare items and they are listed at this site under “Parts”.

TJR Racing is a department of ZME (Zwakman Motors Europe) and does develop and fabricate specially designed racing & high performance parts and engines & boxes & diffs.
This is a TJR cylinder head in the process of preparation.

TJR engines are not only the most powerful & reliable but are worlds very best build Jaguar engines and done by people that have the privilege of 37 years SS-Jaguar & Aston Martin experience.

TJR does produce new Cranks / Rods / Pistons / Liners / Bearings / Camshafts and many more parts for SS & Jaguar engines, as well gearbox and differential parts.

Our engines are of a highly unique quality, by now we invested multi millions of Pounds to produce A1+ quality parts and also we cover over 200.000 hours resurch & practice to achieve the standard.
So TJR engines are certainly very costly but not expensive as nobody ever can repeat our quality within a life time.

Tuning and preparation of racecars from prewar to present cars.

On the photo a brand new XJR15 but when you have a SS100 and like to go out racing, no problem we build you a 250 bop SS100. No worries because this is without blower and just on good old carbs.

Being the leading dealer for SS cars & Jaguars, we found also quite an impressive number of Aston Martins. We are specialized in one off cars and very rare types as well in very low mileage Jaguars. For example this (one off) baby Jag, previously owned by sir William Lyons.

We have succeeded over the past 35 years to locate and purchase many master pieces of above makes.

Also we are specialized in the restoration of SS-Jaguar & Aston Martin, and especially to 100% original standards.

To restore a old SS-Jaguar or Aston Martin up to absolute new condition the cost price will be approx 6 times of a new today's equvalent, and depending at the type of car sometimes even more so the price of a new Jaguar or Aston Martin have to be multiplied by a average of 6.
it's quite simple as a new car will be assembled with special developed production lines which takes no time from the start to finish to build the new car ready for collection while by a restoration all work are individual jobs and will take hundreds to thousands of hours, also the parts for new cars will be bought in high quantities for ultra low prices while in our business we must produce parts in very small quantities and many times just single productions so we can't be cheap,however not expensive either as doing it ones right will be the best way to reach the target.

Here a rare 1933 SS1 Tourer with very special history, previously spoiled by some unprofessional people and now restored all over again by us to exact standards as it left the factory in 1933, a major task but when finished good for the next 50 years or more.

Engine rebuilding works.

We are not only a restoration company but as well an official engine rebuilding company. All machine work will be done in our own house without any exception.

We can develop and build the ultimate high performance race / rally cars and race engines.

Also we design our own suspensions. 75% of our design works are redesign jobs of the existing factory base.

This equipment can check every cylinder block or cylinder head by a water temperature of 95 degrees and variable pressure on cracks and leaks.

This equipment can show us very clearly any crack in a crankshaft or connection rod and all other crack sensitive parts.

This cylinder head machine is the most advanced machine which is currently available and is normally only used in car factories for high precision production.

We are proud to tell you that we have been involved in the development of this machine. With this machine we are able to carry out all sorts machining on cylinder heads with a higher precision than any other machine can do. This results in a much longer life of your cylinder head.

New Aston Martin crankshaft in balancing process.

Before correction it carried 6.7 gram unbalance after corrections we reduced this figure to 0.5 gram which is our approximate standard. Every balancing process yields a printed report.

Difficult to replace crankshafts which are bent can be straightened with this alignment bench.

After this job we will check all crankshafts for cracks.

New made rods, boring finish here in progress.

With this modern machine we can do any ground boring for Jaguar and Aston Martin.

One of our milling machines to machining various parts and produce parts which are no longer available as well to produce our special TJR suspension and steering parts and many more.

We have very small to quite big lathes which can be used to manufacture little things as new gas jets to flywheels.

Just one of our welding machines.

We have a lot of experience with welding alloy, cast iron, stainless steel and other metals. We also use a special oven to heat up materials so that these can be welded at a safe temperature.