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1Tech Tips • More! SPRING 1998 Moss Motors History The First 50 Years, Part II • Classic Car Show U.K. Style • Overdrive Problems And Solutions • Jag-Yew-Aars John Sprinzel Remembers • Product Highlights • Classic-Fied Ads 1Tech Tips • More! ' - l-sAU. -9*«* Moss Photo Contest Results Grand Prize Winners & Cover Shot: Rick Bushong and Coleen Creeden, Crockett, California The Best In British MBveryonehere at MossMotorsIsgettinga lil- MOSS MOTORING Is published nBjtle more excited each day, aswe enter our Is As Close RSiFlftleth Anniversaryyear. However for me British Car ^ _ „ by Moss Motors. Ltd. personally,I can vividlyremember a coupleof As Next Door! ^ Editor: Ken Smith things about 19-18, which Is when Al Moss opened his firstshop down in Los Angeles. Events Calendar lyvo Irlbullng Writers: Glen Adams, f you or your club are stuulng (in event, then let's have the dates of YOUR event Firstwas the Berlin Airliftwhere as a very Open —•) Cairns. KenGillandere, junior member of the Royal Air Force, any as soon us it is confirmedand we'll Include them in our British Cur Events cal RolmiiGoldman,HarryNewton, Iendar. This is a surefire way to reuch the huye audience just waiting out there to 7 Days! dreams 1 had of emulating W.W.II fighter yet to another car show. Send details at least two months prior to publication to RonPhillips, Bill Piggoll. DougSampson, uce, Johnnie lohnston, were quickly dispelled Events Calendar. MossMotoring, 4-10Rutherford Street, Goleta, CA 93117. Closing <Cost U. C oust John Spriruel, and Eiic Wilhelm. us weshoveled loads of coal, flour, and sugar I ix ati..us Si date for the summer issue is March 1, 1998. Although M make every elton to ensure into our rickety Dakota (C-47 to you!) and I(isicst Shipping Hew literally round the clock, to keep the MARCH, 1998 In The Bi/I the correctness ol technical articles, 15 British Car Day, Phoenix, AZ,(602)547-2317 Moss Motors. Ltd. assumes noliability Cermun population supplied on the other 21 British Car Day, New Orleans, LA, (504)288-4019 loi the accuracy,safety,or legalityol side of a certain "curtain'. Vou can't say we British lack a sense of chivalry towards former enemiesl Also wo met Ihese contributions. All technical material APRIL, 1998 Mail some wonderful USAFair crew who kept throwing chewing gum to the 3-5 Cor South MK XXXII, St. Augustine, FL, (904)285-4998 should be weighedagainst commonly 17-19 MC North/South Meet. Pismo Beach, CA, (805)937-6851 Orders accepted practice. Any opinions kids below, as we flewto and from l.ubeck, Gatowand Templehof! 18-19 Texas Healey Roundup, Marble Falls. TX,(512)288-2335 Moss Motors, Ltd. axpressi those ol The second memory also involves the RAr and the total lack ol 24-26 British Car Days, Las Cruces, NM, (505)526-2318 440 Rutherford Street me authors and do noi necessarilyrelied British sports cars seen In the Canal Zone, Egypt, following a Christmas 24-26 VTRRegional, Lake Eufuula, OK, (800)822-4868 P.O. Box 847, Goleta. California 93116 the opinions or policies ol Moss Motors. posting to Fayid, south of Cairo. However, there were many, many, 25-26 Monterey British Cor Meet, Monterey, CA, (408)643-1066 British motorbikes for theStation personnel to use,many of themleft 25-26 All British Meet, Nebraska City, NE, (402)496-2006 Payment: MossMotoring is © 1998 Moss Motors, over from the desert campaigns. Ariel, Matchless, Norton, BSA, take 25 Britfest, Moss Motors, Dover, N|, (973)361-9358 We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, "' Ltd.All rights reserved. your pick. Moreover, the gas was free! We had gallons of it! So we can ship COD. (CODs and checks over Christmas 1948was spent ridingwith my 'buddies' (no, not the dogs!) MAY, 1998 S400.00 require cash or Certified Check I CONTRIBUTIONS INVITED 2-3 Moss Extravagan/a, Buttonwillow, CA, (800)235-6954 who came from such diverse portions of the planet as Hull, Glasgow, Mail ill- ecu be accompanied by check Contributionsare greatlyappreciated and Cardiff and of course, the Emerald Isle! Up and down the side of the 2 Bnlish Cor Day, Storesville, NC. (704)872-4292 everyettortwillbe madeto use appropri 9 Sports Cars at Tannehlll, Birmingham, AL,(205)663-9299 or money order, although personul chci I Suez Canal we went, mainly because that was the only serviceable may delay shipment. Oideilng, pricing, ate material,Mems lor consideration road! But did we ever have fun on those old bikes? You bel! 16 Jaguar Concours, Louisville, KY, (812)537-1701 shouldbe mailed lo our magazine pro 16 British Car Show, Lewes, DE, (302)645-8073 shipping and other proceduresuie in oui However, all I wanted lo do was to get back home to England 11-16 Sprite Rush '98, Curllsle, PA.(717)534-2525 CurrentPrice list. duction office al the address below: wiiere my 1935 MC. 1'H(purchased lor a mere fifteen pounds!) was 15-17 NAMCAR Regional Meet. Hloominglon, IN, (317)887-2618 Editor. Moss Motoring quietly rusting away under a severe English winter. It was quite a 16 British Cor Show. Moorestown, N|, (609)751-3966 Toll-Free Direct Order 440 Rnlherlord Stieel while before I saw the old girl aguin. but that's another story. 17 All British Car Show, Dixon, CA, (916)783-7375 Golela, California 93117 Meanwhile way back in 1948 as Al Moss worked on MGs.a guy 17 British Car Show. Columbus, OH, (614)363-2203 USA & Canada Wecan accept contributions thai an named AlfredButts was busy finalizing a board game he'd been work 18-24 2nd Annuul Nationwide British Car Week laseipilnted, or on 3'/;" disc; text files ing on for ten years—Scrabble! ALso In Switzerland, Georgede Mestral 23 British Cur Day, Brasellon, CA, (770)491-7573 1-800-MOSS-im '•om Macor PCin ASCII prelerred; bill wus pulling the finishing touches to his invention—vclcro! Both prod 22-24 British Car Festival, Cimrnpugno-Urbnna, II., (309)662-3020 blD-spacud, typedInformation Is also 29-30 All British Show, Oklahoma City, OK, (405)787-0589 Dial righl Into our salesroom to spea ucts nave gone on to become firm favorites, even after50 years. WE like one of our soles advisors nboui orders, cal ..-ceptable. 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