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It's a Great Road Ahead Drive a Fun Car Mossmotoring.Com SAVE 20% on SELECT CATALOG PAGES A SPECIAL FOR DIY'ERS SAVE 20% ON YOUR NEXT PROJECT! ISSUE 2, 2018 It's a great road ahead Drive a Fun Car MossMotoring.com SAVE 20% ON SELECT CATALOG PAGES g | Suspension SAVE 20% ON YOUR NEXT PROJECT Brakes | Cooling | Steerin Al would have loved this! Al Moss 2018 Inductee The British Sports Car Hall of All of us here at Moss would Fame will induct new members like to express our gratitude to on June 2, 2018 at a special these heroes for what they’ve ceremony at the Moss Motors accomplished, and for the legacy facility in Petersburg, Virginia. of their life’s passion. 2018 British Sports Car Hall of Fame Inductees Joe Alexander Colin Chapman Paddy Hopkirk Bill Piggott Chuck Anderson Anders Ditlev Clausager Tom Householder Carroll Shelby Clive Baker Joseph Curto Joe Huffaker Kjell Qvale W.O. Bentley Richard “Dickie” Green Al Moss Rex Woodgate David Brown Geoffrey Healey Pat Moss For more information on the inductees, and to inquire about ticket availability for the ceremony, visit www.britishsportscarhall.org. ering | Suspension SEE THE SPECIAL INSERT SAVE 20% ON YOUR NEXT PROJECT Brakes | Cooling | Ste SALE VALID 5/14–6/15/18 4 7 10 14 The Odyssey Home Lab Coat Lessons Bugeye Beginnings Tale of Two Teachers The finale of a story we These cars may be simple, A look at the origins and Buttoned up military man are sad to see end. but there is science within creators of the car that brought meets lead-footed lady. Well done, Paul! their simplicity. a smile to the world. Their child's story. On the Cover: there is more online! The tip of the iceberg. That’s what you're holding in your hands. Brian Kinney's daughter and The MossMotoring.com archive is chock full of stories and a wealth of technical son-in-law begin a new life advice. 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All materials accepted Creative Editor: Brandin Aguayo humorous anecdotes and other odds-n-ends become the sole property of Moss Motors, Ltd., which reserves the right to reprint/ Website Designer: Anne Ducale that help make Moss Motoring great. republish accepted materials. Staff Photographer:Damon Schnepf © 2018 Moss Motors, Ltd. Contributors credited individually Some art created by Freepik LOUD PEDAL A British Chorus Robert Goldman s Moss Motors enters its networks and bases of knowledge, Eric Grunden at Absolutely British 70th year in business, we are but they won’t be known as old time in California. buffeted by some basic facts experts for a while yet. So, Kevin, in answer to your of life. To have driven an Kevin Flint, our young whelp question, going forward, the VoM will AMG TC at 16 years of age in 1948, one (he’s only like 50-something) Director be a chorus. Individual members may must be 86 years old today. Those folks, of Marketing, asked me “what is the pass, but the voice will remain the same and the ones who came shortly behind, voice of Moss?” That’s not a topic on (with a nod to Led Zeppelin). MM are leaving us. Back around the new which I have much sense of meaning. year, we lost two long time stalwarts of He clarified by sending me a picture their respective car hobbies. of a slammed Austin-Healey, with In December, Herman van den drag wheels, and undoubtedly a big Akker passed away. Herman was the V8 motor. “My voice is going to be five speed Triumph gearbox conversion like this!” he declared. Now I get it. guy. If I went to a British car meet, there No, you’re not. was Herman, dispensing knowledge to a Jokes aside, there is a slim trail of steady stream of curious enthusiasts. VoM (Voice of Moss) in our DNA. in January, we lost Ken Smith, Whether it was the late Al Moss who was also known as Mr. MG, or himself, or people like Kelvin Dodd, Mr. MGB. Ken was a central figure in or the recently retired Michael Grant, advancing interest in cars like the MGB there have been identifiable “voices” LE. Although a following would grow within the Moss organization. In organically, Ken’s involvement and reality, Kevin was asking, who is the enthusiasm advanced the cause. presumptive in-house keeper of our Herman and Ken are by no collective knowledge. means the only enthusiasts we have In the case of British car lost in recent years, but they were knowledge, perhaps we will be moving voices for Triumph and MG, pillars away from lead singers, toward more of their respective communities, and of a chorus. As evidence of this, there two individuals I counted among was a time when we, as a matter of a small, and suddenly shrinking, policy, would not look outside the circle of friends. company for technical knowledge. Herman and Ken held an incredible The argument was simply that we amount of knowledge, and knew where should know. We are the expert. to go for the questions they themselves Today, that is an outdated notion. Herman & Ken, they joined us from could not answer. Now they are gone. We routinely work with people like separate countries across the pond and Who will replace them? We have Lawrie Alexander, Paul Dierschow at shared their talent, wisdom, friendship… young enthusiasts building their own Sports Car Craftsmen in Colorado, or and love for British cars. clung to Interstate 10 for the brain are in disagreement. I am looking safety of traffic until reaching Fort out over an ocean and shocked to Stockton, one of the baddest towns know the sea was not there. I had been The of the old west. With my heart traveling across a high plateau. I look Iin my throat I head south to intercept down from atop the cap rock into the Highway 90 at Sanderson. This road is valley below with the Rio Grand River Odyssey lonely, hardly ever traveled. My anxiety some 30 or 40 miles away. Distances in rises. The land is beautiful in the great the desert are deceiving. vast sort of way. I force myself to savor Oh god, what’s that smell? The air is Home the beauty and dominate the tension thick with gasoline. I kill the engine and that keeps welling up in me. I had been coast down the long grade to the floor of in the great vast before, being a sailor. the plain. Only the sound of the wind Part III I had been in the middle of the ocean rushing past the car, and then nothing. The Conclusion in a small sailboat. What does it help Dead quiet. By Paul Stover to fear? The road wound around gentle I sat. Not moving. I don’t know how rolling hills, pale green with the rugged long I sat. If you missed part I or II, you can read desert grass and small, dormant flowers Under the bonnet I discovered what that survive for years without water, I already knew. The fuel line to the the story in its entirety at: only to pop up and bloom, regardless of carburetors had a four-inch split. That mossmotoring.com/the-odyssey-home the season, whenever it rains. old hose was probably born on this car. Suddenly the land falls away leaving I don’t think duct tape will fix that. But me only a view of the sky.
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