More than 30 years of history
A classic car mechanic workshop in Brookvale, Sydney that is run by passionate automotive enthusiasts that have more than 30 years of trading history together with over 200 years combined motorsport and mechanical experience within the team.
Founded in 1994
Peninsula Sports Car Services is an Australian success story, first established by passionate motoring enthusiast Geoff Morse back in 1994. Geoff was already involved in the long-established “The Morris Minor Centre of Australia” so his reputation had been well forged within the classic car community.
The early years
Geoff made the decision to sell MMC & rebrand his mechanic business to ‘Peninsula Sports Car Services’, in keeping with the peninsular location of the Northern Beaches, and very quickly built an enviable reputation for high quality repairs, mechanical restoration and modifications for classic British sports cars.
These early years saw the workshop filled primarily with MG’s, but over time this broadened to include Austin Healeys, Aston Martins, Jags, Triumphs, Morgans, Sunbeams, Lotus’, and even Mini Coopers (yes the real ones before BMW bought the brand).
Award winning workmanship
Amongst many other achievements Geoff’s meticulous attention to detail saw him win awards at the Healey Concour & Sydney Concour – testament to his quality craftsmanship & specialist focus.
More than 20 years later Peninsula Sports Cars has a very well established reputation in the community & spends as much time on the race track as it does in the workshop.
We look after car enthusiasts because we are
Fast forward to 2021 and Geoff has turned another chapter in his life, handing the Peninsula keys over to Darren. Geoff spent a lot of time very carefully searching for the right successors to uphold the values & ethos that Peninsula Sports Cars is known for.
Darren has a long, varied automotive and motorsport background including his own collection of various road and race cars from different eras.
MEET The owner
Darren Freeman
Darren grew up in and around cars thanks to his Dad’s passion for motorsport and cars in general. He learnt to drive in the family Kombi when he was nine, and competed in his first motorsport event at 15 in the family’s daily driver, a Nissan Skyline.
Over the years he raced Formula 2, Formula 3, Sports Cars, Sports Sedans, a V8 Supercar, Targa Tasmania and more. His passion leans toward open wheelers, and British and European classics sports cars, but then again he can enjoy just about anything with 4 wheels.
Motorsport is part of his Freeman DNA, as is anything adrenalin related, something he shares with his sons Luke and Jii.
Some of the cars in Darren’s collection currently
- 1999 Swift 008.a Formula Atlantic
- 1972 Volvo P1800ES
- 3 x Austin Healey 3000’s
- 1973 Steyr Puch Haflinger
- Mini Moke Californian
- Cobra Daytona
- Perkins V8 Supercar
- VS Commodore ute, V8 of course!
- and a couple of Mercs but they’re not Classics yet
Some of our partners
Over the years Peninsula Sports Cars has forged strong relationships with a number of partners with active relationships with local car clubs, associations and motoring enthusiast focussed brands. We have an enviable network of contacts to help sports car owners get the support they need for road vehicles, track day cars or race cars.
