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Serving British Sports Enthusiasts Since 1948 • Our 11th Year of Publication • Fall 1994 • $1.50

for the older British classic car. but often patts arc not available until another Scene and... Older Vehicles Still Under parts car surfaces or another source can be found. Anything that will take these CONTINENTAL MGB REBUILD Threat From Pollution out of circulation permanently will ventured have a devastating effecr on the hobby outside the UK. for the first tune to in general! undertake .1 rebuild using .1 Heritage Legislation We are not afraid of, nor arc wc hodyshcll when they took their show to Essen, Gernuny. against the emissions standatds and rests outlined, although it may not be the best Tnc car rebuilt was an MGB which We make no apology for return Supposedly revenue generated by the belonged to Jack Bellinger who retired ing to the subject of proposed legislation would go into a fund to assist use of public funds to ensure that techni from Heritage in 1993 Federal and State legislation California residents with lower incomes cians are educated on the intricacies of to buy newer, less polluting cars! the SU and StiOiubeig constant depres charge ot the hodyshcll plant at which could affect your car, in fact the Election year in California would pre sion, side draft carburetors that were Faringdon which manufactures MGB, whole British hobby! clude any new taxes in the short term used exclusively on these cars. Are you Midget and TR6 bodies. 0*et 90.000 Let's just consider a few recent but Presley's bill could become law really going to train personnel at a refer- European visitors attended the show pointers and what they might mean to sometime around 1995-1996. ee station to be knowledgeable on SU and the organizers instigated a new you down the road, (if you've anything and Strombergs?" prizetor the Heritagestand in recogni left to drive down the road!) The latest And it doesn't stop there! We recent tion of the interest it created. idea from (where else?| California, ly received from Howard Wiles. Get the drift.'-we thank Howard for David Bishop, the BMH I would require every vehicle to display a President of the Red River Triumph allowing us to quote briefly, from his commented, "Germany :s the third "Smog index" along with EPA mileage Club down in Texas, a copy of his nine page, point-by-point reply to the 64 largest market for British classic cars so figures on window stickers of both new detailed reply to the proposed State pages of the State Implementation Plan, Implementation Plan for the control of for the control of vehicle air pollution! we were keen to demonstrate and used cars sold in the state. pollution in that great State. In the first and quality of Heritage and its Under the proposal the smog index So what can YOU do about impend instance Howard requested an extension Specialist* over [here. We consider the ing legislation that could take YOUR would be used to determine an "annual to file his tcply to the proposal, but this .how to have been a great rod pollution offset fee" to be paid by the British sports car off the road for ever? was denied on the grounds that "noth Well, we urge you, cither alone or thett :s no doubt that we will he return- owner of the vehicle. The proposal pre ing should delay adoption of the plan"! inji to the Essen Show, which HOW sented to State Senator Robert Presley- through your local club, to contact one substantial British content, with ore in would be based on various factors, but Howard then went on to state. "Our of the associations that arc fighting eightcompanies bring from(he UK and George Kostryko of "Autowcek" maga members as a general" rule do not drive back. The Council of Vehicle ill the cars on display ot for tale zine states that a higher pollution index their classic British sports car as their Associations, a not-for-protit organiza being classic Bnrish cars." vehicle such as a 1966 Cadillac with a sole mode of transportation, and it is tion is devoted to protecting the interests Plow Motors arc founding numlxrs of pollution index of 12.94 would be common for them to engage often in of individuals, companies and organiza 1 Hmtih Motor Heritage Specialist's assessed a fee of nearly S400.00 per total rebuild that takes several years to tions involved in the collectible vehicle complete. Anything that prevents them industry. COVA states that we arc all --ganajtion.) year. Conversely the owner of a 1994 Ford Tempo, with an index of 0.87 from this pursuit will have a devastating would only be charged S26.10! effect on the hobby. The number of Continued on page 3 vehicles wc are discussing is very small, Presley is a major supporter of clean but the number of salvage yards that arc ...Heard air legislation and his participation puts crushing our cars is increasing at an considerable clout behind the concept. AUSTRALIAN ADVENTURE alarming rate! OurNew DIRECT-TO- The legislation, known as SB 1070, has We have received news of what promis The classic cars we possess no longer es to be a super event for MG fans. already drawn support from both auto SALES Order Line makers and environmentalists. However have a dealer network or parent compa Down Under 1585" in Perth, is ny to support the cars that were once so scheduledfor April I4th-18th 1995 and cars prior to 1965 which arc already exempted from California's smog check popular. To own one of these classic 1-800410SS4JSA will be an official celebration for the vehicles puts one in the difficult position fiftiethanniversaryof the vcncrabli.MG program would be relatively unaffected, of having few resources in repair and TC. The meet will be based in the beau but cars after 1966 would gradually be In today's last paced world noth tiful port city of Freenunde, the center forced off the road as their owners paid refurbishment. We do have at least three ing less than immediate access will for the 1987 America'sCup, and the car higher and higher fees. national parts specialists who manufac do. With this thought in mind, we've iil include no less than 26 classes ture and provide a supply of product added a new phone number. Dial 1- lor all MGs. Wc have a limited number 800-MOSS-USA and go directly to a ol Registration torms available al the sales representative, no operators, editorial offices, or you may write to: and no automated phone answering •MG'l Down Under" P.O.Box 2 NEW MOSSMOBILE OUT ON THE ROAD! system. We understand the frustra Osborne Park, Western Australia 6017, tion of wading through an automated phone system when you already ANOTHER MOTORING know what vou want, so we've GREAT PASSES added this special ORDERS ONLY As wc were going to prc-.s we were phone line. For questions regarding saddened to learn of the p.i previously placed orders and backo- John Thornlcy - former General rdcrs, please call our customer service Manager of the MG Car Co. and one line at 1-800-235-6953. of the founding members of the MG And to keep the ball tolling, here Car Club. Known throughout the are a few tips on how to help our world as "Mr. MG" John's contribu staff serveyou quicklyand efficiently. tion to MG history in particular and Take time to prepare your order the automobile industry in general will before calling. If you've ever been be fully acknowledged in our Winter stuck on hold waiting for assistance, issue. In the meantime we extend our just think how much sooner you svmpathy to his son Peter and other family members. would have been served if the "other guy" had all the necessary informa tion ready when the call was placed. THE FINAL FLING? Before making your call, write down We would like to remind you tlui a few important pieces of informa there are still a couple of opportunities tion. We need to know your car type, to enjoy our hospitality at our famous its chassis or identification number, Marque days this Fall. On September Many of you will already the CB radio from the truckers who your customer number and the part 17th we will be holding our "I'M I. have had the chance to sec we've met along the way. They all numbers and quantities needed. If < I ASSIC- at beautiful Golcta bj the and visit the new Moss display a good knowledge and a you're ordering by charge card, have Iseach in California! This event is for Motors RV which has been attend great deal of interest in the cars wc the card out of your wallet and ready all British cars bur will highlight the ing the shows this Summer. For the cherish and love. Thanks to all who to read. Triumph marque. Mote details Imni waved and honked at us as wc trav benefit of those who haven't yet had One way to organize yourself is to the Moss Crew on l-800-.MOSS USA. the opportunity to see our new won eled the great American road. October ISth sees the annual MG Thanks also to all of you who visited use one of our mail or fax order der machine, the photograph will forms. By writing out your order in MARQUE DAY. at our Do. give you some idea of the graphics the Moss Road Show and compli Ictsej facilitv. hosted bv the Eastern mented us on our display-wc really advance on one of our order forms, which the "Mossmohilc" carries. It you'll have answers to all the ques New York MGA Club, and further certainly leaves no one in any doubt appreciate your comments! details on plans for this great d tions we'te going to ask before wc he obtained by contactingTony Pfister about the business Moss Motors is Look for the "MossMobile" in ask them. Remember, if we're really in, and their commitment to the your neck of the woods this Fall, on busy, the time you spend thumbing at(210)365-0363. British Sports car movement! Some Lots of activities, prizes, bargains the west coast at Portland, San through your catalog while on the of the more colorful moments on Podfun, at both locations, will lie Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, phone may mean time spent on hold our journeys have been received over >set your spirits up in case next and other fine British car meets! for some one else. is likelast year!Come on down!!

L Moss Motoringis published by Moss My quarterly homily to you this Another aspect which has struck me is Motors, Ltd. time will, of necessity, be short the tremendous amount of enthusiasm Robert Goldman Editor: Ken Smith er than usual, (who said shown at any meeting we've attended 'Good'?!). The main reason is that we this year. My old teacher was prone to New Head of Marketing Contributing Writers: Doug arc out and about at your meetings and say, "Enthusiasm is knowledge on fire"! Beaglcy, David Eichelbaum, Ron Moss Motors' success can be traced Phillips, Eric Wilhclm, Harry events with the Moss Road Show and He was quite right, and the endless to its experienced management, and a the "Mossmobilc". What with driving search for knowledge about your cats commitment to customer service shared Newton, Ken Gillanders, Jan and how they run, where they were built Dawson, and Bob Mason. out to Washington by all employees. A large percentage of D.C, then down to and how they came our management team is comprised of Production: Barbara Davis. Atlanta, over to about, has been employees who have worked their way Although we make every effort to Arkansas and up FROM THE one of the high up through the company. Knowing what ensure the correctness of technical to Grand Rapids, lights of our time it's like to work in the warehouse helps articles. Moss Motors, Ltd. then out to the on the road this our managers keep perspective on the assumes no liability for the accura West Coast among summer. This can complex task of buying parts from cy, safety, or legality of these con many other places, only be for the around the globe,inventorying them and tributions. All technical material time available to good as YOU are sendingordersout quicklyand efficiently. should be weighed against com really the custodi philosophize in this Following in the Moss tradition of monly accepted practice. Any ans of cars which column has been at promoting from within, Robert Goldman opinions expressed in this newspa a premium. have long since per arc those of the authors and do has been assigned the responsibilitcs of However, we ceased to be manu corporate marketing manager. Robert not necessarily reflect the opinions have noticed sever factured, and yet or policies of Moss Motors. started with the company in 1978 as a al things this were such an part time warehouse employee. He important part of Moss Motoring is © 1994 Summer which worked weekends and summers until Moss Motors, Ltd. All rights impressed us a the history of the going full time at our upholstery manu reserved. Moss Motoring Offices: great deal. For automobile. facturing division in 1981. later, he 400 Rutherford St.. Goleta, instance, the stan Finally, 1 want helped establish, and managed our New California 93117 dard of the cars shown at events is just to thank all you who made us so wel Jersey warehouse until 1985. After doing Contributions Invited trcmcndous-thc attention to detail and come on our visits. We realize that each a stint as Moss Motoring editor, Robert one of you individually is the reason we Contributions arc greatly appreci the enormous amount of preparation is left in 1988 to pursue other interests. evident. Our congratulations go to all arc in business, and we value your cus ated and every effort will be made tom and support very highly. Wc intend By early 1993, however, his Brirish to useappropriate material. Items those hard working show competitots car collection had grown to unmanage who provide us with so much pleasure. I to ensure that whatever your British for consideration should be mailed sports car, we will be here to serve you, able proportions. "1 couldn't spend to our newspaper production well remember the standard of concours money fast enough. I needed warehouse in the USAsome 15 years ago. and com and your needs, foi a long time to come. office at the address below The warmth with which you've greeted access to find more things to buy." down the road from Moss Motors): pared to the European scene then -it was Fortunately for Robert, we had need of us on our travels makes all the hard frankly, pathetic. Now however, what a someone to coordinate our then-new Editor:MossMotoring work well worthwhile, and we thank difference! The British sports cars now accessoty program. His background in 400 Rutherford Street prepared for show in the United States you most sincerely lor your friendship. Goleta, CA 93117 British cars, and knowledge of the graph compare well with-and could probably Sec you ontheroad h| ics industry were well suited to the task. We can accept contributions, type bcat-thcir counterparts anywhere in the - Ken Smith W, written, laser-printed, or }'/z~ disc World! As marketing manager, he has much only; text files from Mac or PC, to accomplish. We currently publish 10 ASCII preferred; double-spaced, different parts catalogs, plus our British typed information is also acceptable. Car Accessory Catalog, Moss Motoring We regret that wc cannot return my and a plethora of related marketing material. Wc also reserve the right to materials. Wc asked Robert for an t reject any material on what- Dear Editor... insight into his goals for the future. "I lunds we decide. Wc reserve intend to grasp chaos from the jaws of the right to edit or change any materi order!" We thanked Robert for his com al to suit the needsof our publication, ments, offered him the phone number of without prior notification to the con Dear Moss, Please continue to keep us on your a reliable local psychologist and let him tributor. "Letters to the Editor" will I wanted to write and tell you how club listing so that we can keep in touch. get back to work. be accepted for publication provided much 1 enjoy your fine publication. The "Happy M.Ging" they are accompanied by a name, articles, format, layout and quality of the Victoria MC Club address and phone number. photographs are excellent. "Moss Victoria.B.C Canada Contributors whose material is Motoring" and your catalogs provide a selected for publication in Alois" wealth of information, (and entertain Motoring will receive Moss Motors ment) for we British Car enthusiasts. I Dear Moss, Gift Certificates in the following keep looking for a 1967 MGB GT and This photograph of an XX120 might amounts: although it's a little hard from out here, I follow up on leads during vacations back look a little strange. Actually it is my SI25.00 Gift Certificates home. entry in my son's Boy Scout pinewood TechnicalArticles, Marque K. derby contest! Histories (cats, race teams, etc.) and Enclosed is five dollars to help with postage and again many thanks. There was an adult division and 1 Personality Profiles was successful as the most realistic S75.00 Gift Certificates David.L.Hagen model. However, I have to tell you that BookReviews, Club ArticleReprints Dhahran, Saudi Arabia the dimensions wete taken from the card (humorous or general interest) cutout model of the XK120 which (thanks David-UK really appreciate your appeared in "Moss Motoring". With a comments and you really shouldn't have S3S.00 Gift Certificates pinewood derby car there were no Technical Tips, Cartoons. Humorous sait the ftve bucks. We can still afford to getyour favorite paper toyouanywhere in restrictions on size or weight which suit Anecdotes, Puzzles and Photos (not ed the XK120 perfectly. 1 have to admit OOPS...Sorry Dept! theivorld! What saywe donateit to cliari- photo contest contributions, however) it was a choice between the Jaguar and ry howaliout the March of Dimes?! Ed) the big Hcaley, but the Jag was more Dear Moss, OurCatalogs! recognizable by the other parents of the 1 would like to take issue with a boy scouts. We offer a full line Dear Moss, point in the article on TR6 front end of complete and Wc bought our 1977 MGB in the late Dan Stewart repair by Peter Arakelian in the Summer issue of "Moss Motoring". comprehensive Summer of 1993. After a winter of hard Maitland. PL catalogs. work, and boxes of parts from Moss Peter remindedus to grease the trun Beautifully Motors my wife and I were about to nions, but all the factory manuals dctailcd illustra realize a long held goal: cruising clearly indicate that GEAR OIL is tions of each car Washington's SanJuan Islands,camping required, not grease. make finding the and backpacking along the way. Two decades of working on parts you need easy. Helpful tcch- As we drove down the long, Icaf- Triumph cars has convinced me that nps and hard-to-find accessories also the factory' was correcr-regular doses aid you in the restoration, mainte canopicd driveway to what is known as "British Camp" on San Juan Island, the of gear oil to the trunnions provide nance and enjovment of your British very smooth lubrication and elimi little roadster seemed to be at home and classic. Call toll-free, 800-23! 6954, nate any chance of seizure. tor your FREE Moss catalog. (At run a little bit better! publication date, our current price list Thanks Moss Motors lor helping our '-James T-reyler. Sunrise.FL is effectivefrom January 17, 1994 till dream come true. Dear Moss, To which Peter replies: "After further notice.) Enclosed is a photograph of my son checking we find that Mr. Frcyler is Choose from MG TC-TD-TF, MGA. John & Saudi O'Donnell. correct and wc had been following Matthew (age 14) and HIS 1975 MGB! MCI',. Sprite-Midget, TR2-4A. Bothell. WA. Matthew is restoring his MGB with a lit old information by using grease. We I K2S0-C. TR7. Spitfire MkIV-1 500, really don't think that grease will Austin-Healcv 100-4. 100-6, 3000 tle help from his father, and the friendly people at Moss Motors. cause problems however, after all, and Jaguar XK120-150. Dear Moss Crew, those of us at Moss have been riding Keep costs down, ask your sales Thanks for sending your newsletters, IIc can only drive on the dry lake bed on grease for years, but we must advisor if you have the current edi many of our one hundred members at the moment, but will be on the road in acknowledge that the manuals do tion of our catalog. know you very well and arc on your cus about 8 months with his driver's permit. specifygear oil for the trunnions" tomer list. Continued on page 11 Pall'94, Page2 Siam. After competing in during the Hotel Royal bar as they finalized chc 1935, it too went to Australia in the group's strategy and logistics. A more AT FULL CHAT by HARRY NEWTON Mid-1930s, and had an active competi dedicated bunch would be hard to find, tion life, winning the hill-climb champi as evidenced by the kit they had assem MG Again at the Mille Miglia onship as recently as 1949. This racer bled for this memorable event. Even in finished the 1994 Mille Miglia in 246th the hotel parking lot, the MG's appear position with Bradey and Howell up. ance captured the essence of competition Closely related to the K3 Magncttcs in the 1930s; when drivers like Nuvolari, was the MG L Magna, an example of Eyston, Isirkin and I.ord Howe, as well which scries was entered this year by as Gount Lurani and Prince Bira, demon Mullins and Leigh from England. This strated their ability and daring at the black beauty, running as #101, was a wheel of Spartan vehicles over open crowd plcascr throughout the 1,000 mile toads in contests that rewarded skill and run, finishingrespectablyin 91st place. stamina, and which created intemational A veteran of the 1934 British heroes overnight. Empire Trophy races and of the 1935 Nowhere is the MG story better told Mille Miglia, this year is #109 was an than at the Nuvolari Museum at American entry, driven by Butler and Mantova, and that was our destination Jones, two of the most enthusiastic MG for the day following this year's Mille fans we have met. It was largely their Miglia. I lerc, the saga is told of the 1933 efforts that produced the assortment of Tourist Trophy, in which history's best Memorabilia, including octagon shaped ever driver took the Eyston/Lurani Mille sun glasses, that was seen in Brescia to commemorate the K3's rctutn to this presti gious event. They finished in 202nd place this year. From Spain, the team of Homethoughts from abroad in the 1936 Australian Tourist Trophy. Gtegory and Lindgrcn This MG was classified 214th in the a letter to the Moss Chairman brought the K3 prototype, 1994 tetrospecrive 1,000 mile rally from which ran this year as #117. Brescia to Rome and return. Dear Howard, They finishedin 242nd place. Now 214th place may not sound Again, no trophies are I guess that five trips to Italy in as many like much, even in an event that saw- years to cover the Mille Miglia retrospec needed to recall a weekend more than 320 starters, but those who that will remain in one's tive qualifies YT as a "junkie". I admit have been fortunateenoughto take part having become an addict. Our report to memory for a lifetime. At in a Mille Miglia te-enactment would Ferrara, Ravenna and you on last years trip touched on a num happily settle for 320th position, just to ber of British marques that we came Ancona and again at have been there. The Mille Miglia races Firenza, Bologna and across in our travels through Italy. This could only have happened in Italy, a year our focus Modcna, the ctowds was solely on — seemed as numerous MG, well almost // was largely their efforts thatproduced the assortment and as enthusiastic as exclusively, any ofMemorabilia, including octagon shapedsun glasses, those diat cheered the way. I hope that Lurani/Eyston, I can, to some that was seen in Brescia to commemorate the K3's return Birkin/Rubin and extent, convey to ^—^——^-^^^^^— __ Howe/1 lanulton MGs in 1933. The high your readers country that ttcats automobiles as a some of the excitement these cars gener speed curves and first gear mobile fotm of an. Among the hundreds switchbacks in the mountain ated among the hundreds of thousands of of thousands of spectatots who each year spectators who saw them as they helped passes demand just as much pack the ancient city piazzas and who finessein 1994 as they did in to turn back the calendar more than a cheer from carefully chosen vantages in half century. 1933. And the synergy i the mountain passes there arc some who between cat and driver is just i Youraging correspondent, can recall seeing many of these same - Harry Newton! as strong today as one con highly tuned racers more than half a cen centrates on the issue at hand while lis Miglia class winner to an overall victory tury earlier. It could be described as the One of the brightest jewels in the tening to the rise and fall of the exhaust in a contest that wasn't decided until the ultimate national deja vu. note; enjoyingthe moment, but on guard final lap. Tazio Nurolari drove for AlfaJ- i heritage of the MG marque is Sporting #94 in the 1994 Mille Tazio Nuvolari's incredible 1933 for any discordant sound that might sig Romeo, Mascrati and Auto Union, as Miglia was another famous K3, original nal an impendingmechanicalproblem. well as Bugatti,and Ferrari, and even for Tourist Trophy victory in a K3 Magnetic ly owned and taced by Prince Bira of over the favored Alfa Romeo's. Earlier We met the MG team members in marques like Chiribiri and Bianchi that that same year, Captain GeorgeEyston few people now even remember. But, it teamed with Italy is Count "Johnny" was the drive he gave that ••••pj Lurani to win the HOOcc class in the l,100cc MG that is best noted in (PH! tortuous Mille Miglia... with the same the archives at Mantova. ••• car! Actually, there was a three car K3 team in the MG Mille Miglia team that year, all piloted by a Who's Who of British motor-sports. But, vou already Pollution Legislation knew about that (MOSS MOTORING, Continued from front cover SPRING 1993). This past May, a fleet of K3s and facing the demise of our hobby,(or in other Abingdon models from collections some cases livelihood) unless we can gain around the world arrived in Brescia the ear of those who write legislation, early in the month to reenact MG's role and we will only gain the attention with in this historic race. From Australia the a coordinated National effort supported team of Bcrryman and Valmorbida by all those who stand to lose the use of entered the cx-Birkin/Rubin K3, a car their collectible vehicles. that did not finish the 1933 Mille COVA has issued an Automotive Miglia, but which had better luck down Hobby Surveywhichall individuals,clubs under, with a second place in the 1934 and companies are asked to complete to , and which won enable them to present YOUR point of view to the bureaucrats. You can obtain a sample of the survey form by writing to MGB Rocker Switch Bezels COVA at 10400 Roberts Road, Palos MGA Battery MGB Battery Hills, II. 60465, or call them on (800) IIyour switthes ate faffing out ofthedash. Is CARS-166 for further information. Link Cable bemuse the one-way plastic retaining dips inthe Remember this is YOUR Triumph!, Link Cable YOUR MG!, YOUR Austin !, Great reproduction of the original Lucas bezels henlong since broken. Out block plastic that we are talking about here, and Super reproduction of the original bezel fits 1948 -71 MGB rocker switches onthe should you think this problem is exclu "helmet head' double- ended coble Lucas "helmet head" double- radio console (4req'i per car). The chrome-col- sive to the United States we advise you which connects thetwo batteries. oied plastic bezel fits 1972 - 76 MGB rocker that similar legislation is already being ended battery link cable proposed in Europe. In fact the French switches: heater, lighting, hazard, map I 332-035 $24.50 usedonall MGBs from recently announced that if you crush GT heatedrear window. your older car, and then produce the 1962 through 19741/2. crushing certificate to the authorities, These heavy cables even include the Block Bezel you will receive a voucher worth around outer armored steel conduit as original. 142-120 $4.95 S700 to be applied to the purchase of a Chrome Bezel NEW vehicle! We urge you to please 332-130 $24.50 support the "save the old classic"move 141-265 $6.95 ment in any way that you feel able! -KS. Fall '94, Page 3 ••R/S

GEOFFREY CARROLL HEALEY A DD7FERENT KIND OF HEALEY. Automobile Engineer, bornPerranporth ket. Geoffrey Hcaicy with a deeprooted Cornwall1922, chief engineering direc love of motor spott, took over responsi The car shown here is not all it seems! Bob Matcheski of Alpha Omega tor Motor Company bility for the tracing and record-break Restorations in Connecticut, tells us that when it was delivered to them, it 1955-1974, sadly, passed away April ing side of the Warwick business and in had been sitting for some 17 years, was completely rusted and had obvious 29th 1994. 1955 was appointed engineering direc ly been in more than one front end "shunt"!. tor. It was in this capacity that he had Wotk started, and four years later the resu overall responsibility for the Sprite of was the Hcaicy fully restored but with a 5 Geoffrey Healey- 1958 which was created in the utilitari liter FJT Mustang engine 4 speed. an spirit of the prewar Ausrin Seven AOD and a An Appreciation Nippy. Soon to be universally known, in narrowed limited slip dif Mark I form as the Frogeye, or Bugeye ferential. byJonathan Wood ,on account of its distinctive protruding headlamp, it proved to bea great sales Many of the pieces on Despite the Austin-1lealcy surviving success for BMC and eventually some the car were hand made for a mere 18 years between 1952 and 130,000 were built. and all four fenders were 1970, today it is remembered both with hand formed in steel. Tfo affectionand respect as one of Britain's Alas, the following decade saw BMC dashboard, rear bumper, tumble into deficit and it became a sub most successfulpost-war sports cars. front fender vents and all mounts servient partner in the and brackets were also handcrafted. Although it is forever identified with Motor Corporation, created in 1968. Irs the colorful extrovert figure of Donald chairman. Lord Stokes decided to dis The owner of the car is Tom Burck of Jupiter, Florida. Healey, an immeasurable contribution to continue royalty payments to consul the success of the 100, 3000 and above tants. The Healeys had their contract A HEALEY MEMORY FROM And although Harold had been helped all the cheeky low cost Sprite, came from terminated in 1969 and the last Austin- by officials of the Canadian Austin sub the quiet mustachioed figureof his eldest Healey was built the following year. WAY BACK! sidiary he received no acknowledge son, Geoffrey who was responsible for The MG Midget version of the Sprite An old friend of ours, in Canada, ment from Austin. their engineering and design. held on until 1979. recently sent us a batch of club maga He never did-but it was rather sur •After attending Warwick School, Geoffrey and his father were the first zines from the late 50's. Among them prising that when the MGA Twin Cam Geoffrey Healey received his technical to recognize that the demise of the 3000 was a copy of "Just Driftin'" and a was launched it was almost an exact education at Technical would produce a vacuum in America rather obscure fact emerged while read copy of Harold's Healey conversion! College. He left in 1939 to join the and the car created to fill it was the ing this fascinating document. In 1956 Harold accompanied the Comercroft EngineeringCompany as an Jensen-Hcalcy of 1972. They had joined apprentice, a task which he completed It concerned Harold Hunter who BMC North American team to Scbting the board of and Healey was a founder member of the Grand whete he helped ptcpatc the Austin in 1943. In the following year he joined senior became chairman. Sadly there REME,(Thc Royal Electrical & Valley Car Club and its first president. Hcaley team fot the race. The following were two many fingers in the corporate He was also well known for his year, he helped Jim Ferguson of Mechanical Engineers) and left the ser pic and the I.otus-engined car suffered vice in 1947 with the rank of captain. exploits in the spotts car racing field. Toronto, a long time friend, prepare a from poor build quality, and lacked the team of MGA's for the Sebring race. His father had, in the meantime, persona that the 3000 had possessed in He first started racing on motor cycles and won the Canadian light The team picked up first place for the established the Donald Hcaicy Motor abundance. While the IIcalcys carried second year in a row. Company in Watwick, but before some responsibility for the car's short weight championship, the same year he Geoffrey joined him there, Donald comingsthey found theiropinionsdisre submitted a set of specifications to the There our part of the talc ends rather believed that his son should gain motor garded and the world depression, fol Ariel Motor Cycle Company in abruptly but, we wonder if there is industry expetience with another car lowing the 1973 world oil price rise, England and the company subsequently someone among our readers who maker. The younget Hcaley therefore provided the knock-out blow which cul brought out a machine named after remembers Ilarold and could maybe fill went to as a devel minated in Jensen's 1976 bankruptcy. him-Thc Ariel Red Hunter! in the rest of the story? opment engineer where he worked It was at this time that Geoffrey The purchase in 1954 of one of the under W.O. Bcntlcy and Donald Bastow Healey turned to authorship and his first Austin-Healey 100's to arrive in Canada started him off on yet another on a stillborn 3-litre model. Thus is was book "AUSTIN HEALEY," the first of Austin-Healey Clubs not until 1949 that he joined his father three related titles, was published in creative journey and the result was the full-time in what was to become the Hunter-Healey conversion of the 100, a The National Club addresses for 1977. Ptoviding a first hand account of Austin-Healey arc as follows, how- family business. His brothct Brian, later the 3000's creation, it became required twin overhead camshaft powerhouse, ran the company's sales side. which won him many laurels. is i-r there arc hundreds of local reading for a generation of classic car clubs tor each marque. Contact us Geoffrey soon proved his worth in enthusiasts, who nostalgically tccalled Perhaps the best known of his suc for further details of the club in taking over responsibility for the con the great days of the Big Healeys. cesses was the 1957 Indian Summer Sr area, ot send us details of your struction of the Nash Ilealcy and seeing, In 1979 Geoff renewed his contacts Trophy races at I larcwood. The Healey I club to add to our database! in 1950, the model into production. But with what had become BI. Cars and swept the field to complete the 105 Austin-Healey Club of America these Warwick-built mostly Riley- joined the business as a development miles in just 88 minutes! Two weeks engined, Healeys proved to be heavy, before that, at Watkins Glen, N.Y., the 605 F. Euclid engineer, a position he held until his Arlington Heights. IL 60004 expensive products and Donald Healey retirement in 1987. He continued his car was fourth ovctall when it ran into recognized that he would have to pro work with Healey Automotive trouble and eventually had to retire Austin! leaks Pacific Club duce a smaller, cheaper, lighter car if he Consultants in Barford, Warwick, with a broken piston caused by a stone P.O. [;.>\6197 were to remain solvent. He and where he delighted in his involvement in entering the carburetor. Before that the SanJose,CA 95150 Geoffrey therefore laid out the specifica an updated version of the Frogeye Sprite Hcaley had been clocked at 155 m.p.h Austin-Healey Sports & Touring tions of the Austin-cngined Hcaley 100 which impressed him sufficiently for it along the straight! Club sports car, which appeared at the 1952 to carry the Healey name. Harold sold four of his converted 21 N. Rockburn Street Earl's Court motor show. (Jonathan Wood is a noted automobile engines and eventually received recog York. PA 17402 Overnight it became the newly- journalist and author, having written nition from the patent company, the Sprite Club nl America formed British Motor Coporation's more than twenty books on clas in England. A 1421 Chocolate Ave. sports car and as the Austin I lealcy was sic sports cars.) converted engine was shipped to Hcrshes. PA 17033 aimed at the burgeoning American mar ^^9 England in the spring of 1956, by air.

Healey Happenings Austin-Healey 3000 THE DONALD M.HEALEY MEMORIAL FUND. Brake Pad Set In 1991 the Austin-Healey Club of America established the Donald M.Hcaicy Memorial Committee to raise funds for projects honoring his This brake pad set fits all 3000 name. Through the support of Chapter and Area Clubs nearly $20,000 has models through tar#26704. been raised. 517-007 $29.75 The Committee's initial plans wete to provide for the ongoing maintenance and upkeep of the Donald M.I lealcy Memorial Garden and Walk in Perranporth, Cornwall, England. Expanded support has allowed the commit tee to fund the design, manufacture and installation of stained glass svindows in St. Michael's Church in Perranporth. St Michael's stands adjacent to the Knockoff Wrenches DMH Garden and Walk and the windows will serve as a tribute to one of Perranporth's most honored citizens. These cleverly designed wrenches allow The DMH Memorial Fund Committee is asking for individual contribu removal and tightening ofknockoffs with tions to continue its work in honoring DMH in other meaningful ways. Present plans include a scholarship fund for deserving youngsters from the out a hammer, and without risk ofdamag Perranporth area. ing your expensive wire wheels with an To express your appreciation for what DMH did for the Hcaicy enthusiast, errant hammerblow. please consider a donation of $25 or more and you will receivea handsome (Sorry, these do not fit Jaguar knockoffs.) engraved brass dash plaque especially created in honor of Donald.M.Hcalcy. Please send contributions to: Wrench for"eared"knockoffs 386-125 $35.95 Beverly Sealand, Treasurer DMH Memorial Fund, 653 Churchill Drive, Wrench for octagonal "safety" knockoffs 386-120 $32.95 NewingtonCT0611t. Make checkspayableto "DMH Memorial Fund".

Fall'94, Page4 J fillers are slightly different to fill in the area to match the contour of the appro FACTORY HARDTOPS FOR priate vehicle. The large metal hcadliner frames, however, arc all the same. And, as I've said, die fiberglass shell itself, is slightly different in the rear of the top to mate properly with the appropriate car's THE BIG HEALEYS by Ron Phillips body. Finally, if this isn't enough, the backlights (read windshield here in the states) is different. Why? You guessed it! At various times during the manu facture of the cars called Austin- The two-seater backlight must extend Healey, both big and little ones, down into the shtoud and fender curve the factory' made available removable contour to fill the opening. So, yes, the fiberglass hardtops for most models. backlight glazing rubber does need to be There probably aren't rarer original just a bit longer on the bottom fot the options available today that can dramat two seater tops. ically change the looks of your favorite OK. Is that enough differences to model the way one of these hardtops convince you to shop those swap meets can. What was a roadster or sport con and ads carefully before you buy a hard vertible before attaching a hatdtop top for your six cylinder roadster? And becomes a real Grand Touismo after. remember, spare parts arc virtually non Having seen pictures in books of various existent for these tops. Anything missing hardtops, you may be interested in how would have to be made by hand. And you can identify an original one that then you would need a pattern. One was supplied by the factory from an more bit of advice. These tops arc now aftetmarket manufacturer's one. on the order of 30 years old or older Further, before you fork over many hun and if the fiberglass is cracked or deteri dreds of dollars for an original, you orated, major reconstructive surgery probably would like some reasonable may be necessary. So beware of basket assurance that it will fit your car. And, case tops if you're on a budget! maybe a note or two about what a hard 1 said I would discuss three models of top can do to your car may change your foam rubber blocks which deteriorate technique I've see that works great is to tops. So far we've only talked about mind on this subject. Well, you've come with time. These blocks make contact by down a piece of tape in a matching two. The third type of factory hardtop is to the right place. I'm going to discuss with the car at the pillar post and again color (black on black works best) on the the very rare one that could be fined to the three types of original tops, how to slightly aft, with all four pieces riding on rear shroud where the edge of the top the sport . This top has been identify them, and share some of the the edge of the rear shroud's aluminum rests. So all the abrading and chaffing commonly called the "BJS top" yet it fits problems fitting them with you. Let's trim piece. Then the takes place on the tape, all BJ7's quite nicely. That's tic good start at the beginning. lower edge of the top con not on the paint. Then the news. According to Geoff Healey, whose No factory hardtop was ever offered tinues out over the paint tape can be replaced recent passing we in the Healey world for the four cylinder big Healeys. I work on the rear shroud every so often without all mourn, is quoted as saying he would guess that the folding windscreen where a wo piece rubber having to re-paint the car believed that fewer than 200 of these layout may have had something to do seal just sits on top of the to keep the rear shroud tops were ever made. There simply was with the decision. Or perhaps there just paint. Why the different looking "fresh"when the no demand for them because the was no demand at the time for such, or mounting techniques? hardtop docs come off. BJ7/BJ8 tops were so good at the factory was just too busy meeting While the two different What arc the differences sealingand were very easy to put up and the basic demand for the cars. In any tops look almost identical between these two tops? For down. Well, that wasn't the only reason. case, there arc a few examples of after- and have very similar fittings, starters, the aluminum ttim In order to fit the hardtop, you must market hardtops, so if anyone tries to the fiberglass shell and rear around the rear bottom of the remove the soft top and its mechanism tell you it's a factory original, just smile! deck sealing mechanisms and fiberglass shell is different as arc completely from the car. Then the hard After the introduction of the six-cylin- hardware are different. The two- the scaling rubbers. Also the plates top rigidly affixes to the soft top det big Healeys in 1956, a factory hard seater top must "nesde" into the curve through which the tear clamps secure mounts. There goes your convertible! top was advertised as available. The of the rear shroud's fender line to form a the top to the shroud are different. On And after all, isn't that why you bought copy of the factory literature, publica good weather seal. The four seater top is the four-seater tops, these plates are an Austin-Healey in the first place? For, tion number 1561, that I have has a much straightcr in this area because it much shorter then those on the two these reasons, this is the rarest of hand written name and date on the top seals around the aluminum trim strip seater tops. The two-seater top plates options fot the Austin-Healeys. Pricesof of it of September 12, 1959. (I was fif attached to the edge of the rear shroud. must extend from the edge of the hard two grand and up have been turned teen years old on that day!) This would Remember, the rear of a four seater has top, out over the rear shroud, and then down for a clean example of this top. have been about the time the 3000 mod Seriously! els were introduced and well after the The roadster tops all had two alu cessation of production in March, 1959 "I'm going to discuss the three types oforiginal minum stiffening bars in the backlight. of the 100-Six models. As it turns out, The BJS top does not. So the BJ8 top these hardtops fit all of the 100-Six and tops, how to identify them, and share some ofthe looks, and is, much more fragile and has 3000 model roadsters through the end a much more "bubble" type look. of the Mark II, tri-carb, production. problemsfitting them with you." Cracked fiberglass seems to be the rule However, there is a catch. While the lit on the BJ8tops as they tend to flex a lot erature piece doesn't say so, there were more than the roadster tops. One very two models of this hardtop. One to fit distinguishing feature of the BJ8 top is four seat cats and one to fit two seat those "occasional seats" taking up the finally, extending far enough, allow the its small, beautifully colored, cloisonne cars. What were the differences? Read space where you find aluminum shroud hold down clamps (called hooks) to emblem affixed externally to both sides on. and a spare tire on a two seater! secure the top to the rear shroud. These of the top in the rear quarter area. This two-seater style plates measure approxi The four seat roadster hardtop sits on Well, this "floating" type mount on emblem has the brass Austin-Healey the two seater hardtops causes a lot of mately 3 1/4" in length. The four seater wings with the red Austin-Healey script the rear shroud's aluminum trim. Thus, plates are less than 2" in length. Also, it doesn't touch or mar any of the paint abrasion of the paint and aluminum on surmounting a shield with the British the hooks are different to suit the two work. That is not the case with the two the rear shroud that is simply not possi Union Jack in dark blue, brass, and red different models. The remainder of the seat roadster hardtops. They were ble to stop if the car is driven at all. in the top field of the shield and the clamping hardware, both front and reat, designed to "float" above the paint Maybe that's why you never sec one on words, in brass, saying "Donald Healey is the same. The rear quarter hcadliner work by being held off it by four dense really concourse two seat cars? One Motor CoLtd Warwick England" in the light blue lower field of the shield. Yes, there is no space between Co and Ltd! All of these BJS tops were commissioned by the company and then offered as Austin-Healey Hardtop Seal Sets options for the cars. The example I have came from a garage wall in England Those of you lucky enough to have found an original hardtop for your Auslin-rlealey probably were dismayed to find its seals near Cheltenham via a very devious and circuitous route I only discuss after sev and other rubber parts either missing or deteriorated. Moss is proud to offer rubber seal sets for your rare and valuable accessory. eral pints of the best English ale. Our seal sets include glazing rubbers, seols, packing strips, buffers, and pads to keep wind, rain, Well, as rare as these BJS tops arc, and rattles out. (We regret that the contrail seals ore still unavailable.) you can imagine that demand for them in tcccnt years has been very keen. So ^^ Comprehensive illustrated instructions are included to assist you in fig keen in fact that approximately 100 more were made in recent years that, at uring out where oil of these seemingly unfamiliar pieces of rubber fit. first glance, cannot be distinguished from the originals. If you could park an BH4-BT7 SealSet 021-890 SI 48.50 •• original and a replica side by side, how ever, you would notice very slight detail BN6 - BN7 Seal Set 021-885 S129.95 • differences in the aluminum trim pieces Continued on page 10

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sense of tradition may prefer to put a weight on it immediately and skip the Qassic-fied Ads cutses. VIEW POINT With the sidescreens and the valence We accept ads for British cars MG out of the way, the hood is plainly visible mil;.; no parts ads, replicas to anyone who bends double behind the or exporters, please. Single seats with an electric torch. There it is, insertion is $35.00. Publication is lurking just above the battery compart quarterly, the deadline for the next ment. (The location of the batteries is September 30, 1994. Place ERECTING THE MGA HOOD something else a new owner doesn't your ad well in advance, limiting it to know about, and doesn't want to believe 50 words or less. Ads received near ALighthearted Treatise! when you show him.) Grasp the hood the deadline may be held for the next firmly in the middle and pull it forward issue. Late ads will run in the next One of the most daunting tasks a although sidescreens are more commonly until it clears the tonneau. If it binds, jig issue unless you specify current issue new MGA owner can face is the found rattling about in the boot, where they can get scratched more efficiently, or gle it gently. When that fails, shake it the only. Plea.c include your name, yearly ritual of erectingthe hood way a terrier shakes a rat. The MGA address state the car is located in, and or, as wc say on this side of the Atlantic, languishing in a dark corner of the garage, where they're safe from the ram. hood bows are of a unique, "double phone number. Send payment with ad "putting up the top". Many misconcep jointed" design as shown in to: Moss C.lasMc-fied Ads, 400 tions have arisen about this the diagram. This allows the Rutherford Street, Goleta. CA 93117. operation, and one automo bows to fold double upon tive magazine even went so themselves, so the hood can 1962 MGA MK1I Roadster: Full far as to describe a new ground-up restoration. Engine bal drop down and swing under sports car as having "the the tonneau for storage. anced; lxirc .030 over. BRG with Moss worst top we've seen since gray leather interior and black carpet. Theoretically, it also allows the last time we drove an the hood to swing back out Win, with Avon radials. Equipped MGA!" Statements like this with Weber carb and Mallory distribu and snap into an upright can mislead the new owner position. tor. Low miles since completion. Show into thinking the MGA hood svinner.Photos available. Si7,500. Jim is difficult to erect. Actually, After swinging the Flankcy, 407-886-3347. P.O. Box 437, the MGA has a well designed hood clear of the tonneau, Clarcoru, FL 32710. hood which can easily be raise it to its full upright 1950 Riley 2 1/2 Litre Saloon: Full erected in a single weekend. position and press joint "A" ground-up restoration to 1953 Like most automotive pro toward the rear of the car mechanical specifications. Full tan jects,experiencemakes the job easier and If your car has the valence, unfasten the until it locks. This can be done while leather interior. Autumn red and beige. some MGA clubs stage annual "erect the "lift-thc-dot" fasteners along the sides of standing on cither the driver's or the pas Have original tunning gear and many hood" events where members help each the valence and fold the valence over the senger's side. In cither case, there is an extras. Many "Best of Show" other with this task. Prizes are offered for top of the metal tonneau. (That's the identical joint on the opposite side which Refer to Rile) las VoL 12 =2 (1984) side events such as hurling the sidescreens body panel just behind the seats.) There also needs to be locked into place. Walk and Vol. 3/4 (1986). Photos available or the most creative oaths. Although rhe is an old established ritual among MGA to the other side of the car and lock that $17,500. Jim Flankev, 407-886-3347, assistance of fellow enthusiasts makes the owners which requires the valence be left upright. This will generally dislodge the P.O. Box 4 i7, Clarcona, Fl. 3271U. job go easier, and a circus wagon full of loose until the third time it falls in your side you started on, so walk back to that 1952 MG Midget Roadster: New acrobats and strong men makes it a snap, face while you're wrestling with the side and re-lock the upright. Naturally su-jih color paint and chrome. All new the jobcan be done by one person,evena hood, then it is secured with a heavy- this will dislodge the other side. Even tires - needs upholstery plus small novice, if the following procedure is fol object and a few curses. Owners with no Continued on page 12 mite restoration. Price $7,000. Call AI lowed. in Glcnd.ile, CA at S1S-243-8540. The first step is to get a beer and read MGTF: Restored. $16,995. Call 408- the section of the workshop manual on 258-2236 or 408-270-5147. erecting the hood. This will provide no Dear Diary... 1959 MGA. Rebuilt engine has less useful information whatsoever, but than 200 miles. New brakes and mas British manuals are always entertaining A CAUTIONARY TALE FROM THE HOME FRONT! ter cylinder. Rebuilt carbs. Some spare and you can spend hours afterwards speculating about which part of your car pans.Good body-needs paint. Stored Last week, while rummaging around the basement, I found what appeared to in garage tor over 10 vears. S8.000. is the "backlight", the "tonncau", etc. (My favorite section of the MGA manual be a diary. Thinking it was my sister's, 1opened it, hoping to find a nice tidbit of Bob Kane, Fullcrton.CA (714)528- information to throw in her face the next time she told that embarrassing story', "ISd-Evcnings. is the description of the "anti-dazzle about my first girlfriend.However the diary was my wife's. I didn't mean to look, device", but that has nothing to do with 1971 MGB Roadster: Oneoss: (Honest dear!), but this entry caught my eye erecting the hood.) The real benefit of blue with aunimn leaf interior, original Dear Diary, hardtop, new soft top with zippercd this step is that the beer will help dull the teal window, tonncau cover, two extra pain of the pinched fingers and scraped My husband Dan had to take his car into the shop today. Somethingabout a svhccls, new brakes. Maintenance knuckles that follow. Teetotalers can gizmo called a kingpin. Itsoundedexpensive! (Itwas!) achieve a similar numbness by breathing records available. 105k miles. Starts He treats that car like a child! It backfired the other day and he pulled over and easily and juris well. $1,500. (nego into a paper bag until woozy. started parting it on the back! This isn't the first time,cither. Let me give you the tiable). State College, PA. (814) 234- The next step is to locate the hood. last year in review: 4285. This is not as easy as it sounds, as the October 1 through April 1: iFools day... how appropriate!) Car in storage. While 1953 MC-TD: Red with black interi MGA hood is well concealed when it's it is hibernating, he readsita storyand tucksitinto bedevery night. or. All original and runs goud. stowed. (I've met a few owners who didn't even realize their car had a hood.) April 1 through April 15: Prepare car for Spring Rally. He washes and waxes it, $11,000. Jack Hcadlev, Rosevfue, CA. cleans the interior, and tunes it up. Unfortunately, it rained that day and we had to (916) 783-4080. Remove the tonncau cover, tilt the scats forward, and peer into the dark recess take MY car! 1969 MGB: Burnt orange. Mint condi behind the seats. If your car is in "pris April 16 through May 5: Car in repair shop for some obscure ailment. I wonder if tion. New engine and carburetor. Wire tine" condition, there will be a leatherette this is covered on our Blue Cross? The mechanic said it would only take a week, svhccls. New top and interior. Best valence with pockets for the sidcscrccns so he usesmycar whileI take the bus into work. offer. (201) 783-10-13. behind the seats. In rare instances, there May 5 through June 17: His car sits in the garage because it has rained every 1980 MGB: Absolutely 100% factory may even be sidescreens in these pockets. weekend for over a month. He refuses to take his car into work. On the bright mint original condition. White with side, I am learning to understand how the public transit system works. black interior, wire wheels and over drive. One owner with only 1020 June 18 through July 31: 1le has moved his car three times so far, once getting as miles. Car has been in dry covered 1962- '67 MGB far as the sidewalk before it stalls out. Meanwhile, he has bought a car to drive levis storage since 1980. Thi. .. because he says that my car isn't holding up as it should because I don't really opportunity to get an MGB that is Instrument Cowling drive it all that much. NEW and PFRFF.CT in ever-, was. August 1: It lives! We go out to the park lor a picnic and the car behaves beauti- $13,000. Call (713) 928-4817 This ison excellent reprodudion o( fullv! I lowcvcr, I get sunburned to a crisp because he refuses to park it under a days or (713J 43S-9H1 esenings. the injection molded cowling which tree for fear of birds. August 2 through August 28: After spending three weekends washing, waxing, surrounds the tachometer 8 huffing, and painting in preparation for a show, the fuel pump conks out halfway- 1962 -'67 MGB speedometer, supplied with mounting out of the drive way. He gets mad, spanks the car and sends it to bed without its supper. Steering Column Cowl strews. What ogreal way to finish off August 29 through September 15: Hell hath no fury like a car spanked! I'm think your restoration! (Also fits RHD UK- ing this car should be named "Christine". In two weeks the top has torn, rhe This 2-piece spec, cors through 1976.) headlights have burned out, the muffler has fallen off, and the windshield molded plastic cowl cracked...all without the car leavingthe garage! Dan callsthe cars bluff.He puts a for sale sign in the window. tomeswith strews September Id through September 23: It worked! The car has behaved itself quite for quick and nicely. Dan has driven it all week widi no problcms...wc even drove it to a show. eosy instoilotion. I'm starting to like it again. September 23 through September 30; Dan is getting the car ready for hibernation. 233-205 After one year of being an MG widow, I now know why the wives show up at 233-790 $19.95 club meetings,and why the meetingsare alwaysheld in bars! $28.90 -Dan Zebarah

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Dateline: Januaryl969-Richard close examination for rust. Repair sec Nixon was sworn in as President tions are available to repair even the and NASA chose Neil Armstrong most badly rusted frames. and Buzz Aldrin to make the first land Turning to the bodywork, ensure ing on the moon. In the UK, Ford that the hood is correctly aligned with unveiled its new sports saloon the Capri, the surrounding inner ftont fenders and and the QE2 luxury ocean liner was front valence. Similarity, check the trunk stuck in hatbot because of trouble with lid for even gaps and rust on the trailing her tuibines! Yassir Arafat was appoint edge. Bad alignment due to accident ed chairman of the PLO a quarter of a damage could mean the chassis frame is century ago. also twisted. The strong sill assemblies However it was also in January of are prone to rust and their condition can 1969 (well, to be specific the first car seriouslycompromise the integrity of the was produced on September 19, 1968), body structure. Also, be forwarned of a that the powerful Triumph TR6 was car that has had cover sills fined in the introduced, and today the car commands past-thesc could be disguising. lather a strong following among Triumph than curing, rust damage. Other areas to enthusiasts in the United States despite disappear through tinworm can be the production having ceased in July of cxtrcmcrics of the inner and outer front 1976. A spirit of individuality gave these fenders, front wheel arch splash guards, cirs the style and performance to make it the rear faces of the B-posts behind the big-especially in America. doors, and headlamp buckets. The TR6 was wrapped up in an Fortunately, virtually every single body attractive and impressive re-style of the panel is available, most from original Windin your hair in a TR6... what more could you want? venerable TR4. However, the TR-t's tooling. body stylist, Michellotti, was unable to The TR6s engine is normally a long take on the job so the redesign was lasting unit, however oil pressure much undertaken this time by Gcimany's was independent with coil springs and year, thus making it quite feasable to lower than 50psi at idle on a warm Karmann. Tne re-style managed to give semi-trailing arms. Wonderfully reassur own a new 1977 TR6! engine may indicate that an overhaul will a whole new look to the car while retain ing disc front brakes were complemented The handling and roadholding arc very- be needed soon. Rocker gear is prone to ing much of the inner panelwork. The by rear drums and were servo assisted. good, and not at the expense of comfort rapid wear from a poor original lubrica TR6 featured more angular and aggres The steering was by rack and pinion and cither. The IRS system (derived from the tion system. Repairs in this atea can be sive lines, and the longer flatter tail benefited from the addition of a ftont TR4A) helps to ensure respectable costly to fix since rocker arms arc not incorporated a somewhat larger trunk, anti-roll bar. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^_ behaviour even the bushed type and must be replaced even if it was a bit more awkward to get Wheels widrhs SS on the rough- once wear is present. Tuftrided rocker to now. grew in width I est of roads. A shafts, (Moss 839-130), and an external Affordable performance is what the to 5 inches and I well furnished oil-feed line, (Moss 821-360), will help TR6 is all about. To be precise, the abili then later to 5- n t e r i o r to avoid these problems in the future. ty to reach 60mph in just over eight sec 1/2 inches to I doesn't hurt Drivingthe car should be part of any onds in the non-U.S.A. 150bhp versions, provide a more I things cithct! prc-purchaseinspection. Listen for and maybe half a second or so more in s u r.c -footed There's even a "clonks' at the rear when the is the later 125bhp versions. The fact that ride than its genuine wood suddenly engaged. This could indicate carburetor versions for the U.S.A. would senior relative, dash fascia to wotn universal joints (they're present ii» * require almost three seconds longer to the TR250. make your abundance on IRS Triumphs!) or, worse, reach this mark didn't seem to dampen Sales were trips mote broken differential mounts. Necessary enthusiast's spirit. especially brisk enjoyable. In repairs in this area will require removal The 24948cc six-cylindet engine in the export proper running of the differential and likely the exhaust allows all versions to comfortably cruise markets. In fact, out of a total produc condition, a TR6 should return about system, as well. Geatboxes should be at 70 mph. The engine's plentiful tion of 94,619 TR6s, only 8370 were 25-28mpg on the highway, even when checked for weak synchromesh on sec also makes around town and traffic dri sold in Britain. driven briskly! ond gear, and listen for noisy (read ving a docile and pleasant experience. However, by 1972 Triumph design worn!) bearings. Otherwise the normal The big six engine was conventional ers were feeling the design a bit long in BUYING A TR6-a few pointers. running gear checks apply but it is enough with it's overhead valve design. the tooth and so, for the 1973 model We get quite a few inquiries from important that the lower trunnions and The cylinder block and head being of year, some major changes were called readers who ask us about the pitfalls of upper ball joints have been lubricated cast iron with cam journals running for. These included a new aerodynamic buying a British sports car, and the TR6 regularly. Finally ensure the suspension straight in the block, was a source of front spoiler, blacked out windscreen is no exception! bushes appear to be in good condition. perpetual wear and trouble for restorers. surround and wiper arms, interior trim ITic chassis ftames can suffer from Continued on page S Conventional rear wheel drive was revisions, a smaller diameter steering rust and/or damage, so examine the through one of the most pleasant, four- wheel, new instruments, and brightly frame looking for evidence of twisting speed, all-synchro manual gearboxes to colored Union Jack transfers for the rear and corrosion. The front suspension fenders. he found anywhere. The optional "A mounting bracketry frequently suffers C/D Type" Laycock dc Nortnanvillc over Few changes were to come alter that from curb-side parking damage and is Triumph drive, which operated ou 2nd, 3rd and aside from an increasing proportion of particularly subseptable to cracking and top gears through 1972, was replaced in safety and pollution equipment. Obtnisis-e breaks. Fortunately, repair pieces arc CQ Clubs 1973 by a J-Type unit which functioned looking rubber overriders were fitted to readily available and easily welded in 1 lie National Club only on top gear. Final drive was Hypoid ftont and rear bumpersin 1975. place. Mounting brackets and bolts hold ^j addresses for Triumph are type with articulated rear drive shafts. The last TR6 was built in July of ing in the differential are another as follows. However, there Up front, the suspension was by 1976 and is currently owned by Bob "Achilles Heel" and should be inspected —1 arc hundreds of local clubs uppet and lower wishbones with coil Tullius Racing. However cars remained very carefully for cracks. Chassis sections for each marque. Contact springs, while at the rear the suspension on dealer lots well into the 1977 model around the trailing arms are worthy of a w us for further details of the club in vour area, or send • us details of your local club to add to uur database! TR4 - 4A Rear TR3 Grille Finisher = Vintage Triumph Register View Mirror These chromed grille finishers were used on all a* I521SW. Warren Avenue Dearborn. Ml 48126 Improve your rearward vision small-mouth TR3s, but haven't been available with this very nice since the carswerenewuntil now. S Triumph Register of reproduction ofthe We offer excellent reproductions mode in the U.S.A. ^ America plastic backed wind 5650 Brooks Road, N.W. Upper Finisher 870-055 $54.90 Lancaster, OH 43130 shield-mounted rear view mirror fitted ^ Lower Finisher 870-065 $54.90 tomostTR4sandTR4As. QC Triumph TR6 Club Joint Finisher (2 ntfU 870-035 $13.95 1617 Harmonv Road 801-070 $18.95 Stud Plate (9 rtq'd.) 870-085 $.75 H Akron, OH 44333

Fall '94, Page 7 L 1970 1971 • Newdisc wheelwith 15 hole pattern. • Stag type gearbox parts used • Painted valvecover replaces chromed • Seven blade tan substituted version. lor 8 blade at CP52420 • New inlet manifold on carbureted cars. • Square reflectors • Steeringlockintroduced on exportcars. under tail lamps. (1971 U.SA. • Ignition switch moved from dash to under column. cars only.) • Windshieldsutround now blackregard less ot body color. • 72 spoke wire wheels still ottered • Firstyear ot although theyreceive little mention. /_s= • 9/19/68, first prototype production. • New steering wheel with silver Com TR6. CP25001. •TR4 type 16P brake anodizedspokes replaces from 8: • Karmannrestyles body,using f replaced with 16Btype. black-spoked Performance sutlers. main substructure of the TR4/250 • Black-spoked steeringwheelwith wheel Newexhaust system, in an amazing 14 months. pierced holes. pipe for catbureted a • 5 1/2' wheel replaces 5"version ot TR4A • Chromed valve cover Gas tank capacity red • Provision made (or tront ami-roll bar. • Windshield surroundin bodycolor. gallons. • Twincarburetors in U.S.A. Lucas fuel • Laycockde Normanville A-typeoverdrive Rear springs and w.si injection in U.K. carried over with TR250gearbox. rated late 1971 • CP25003, first carbureted TR6 on record, • Rostyle wheel covers standard to Grease nipple on ptot built 9/19/68. CCSOOOO. Brake calipers change • Rostyle wheelcovers standard. •Scats feature"breathing material*. incorporate metric tht

25 yean of the TR-8 Continued from page 7 was kicked out by his own directors and Alick Dick took over at Standard- Longer wearing polyurethane bushes are Triumph. Just ptior to this Sir John had available from Moss to assure longer indicated a desire to produce a competi TR6-BITTER SWEET?! bushing life in the future. tor for the Jaguar XK 120 and that led to by Jan M. Dawson going on and on about this TR250 he We here at Moss Motots can give work starting on the TR2 in 1952. you a lot of help when you eventuallyget had found advertised in the "Penny As Stuart recalls: Colonel White who Saver" a local free sheet. I must admit, your TR6 dream car and wc would cer later became managing director of A was at a book stotc the at the time, I didn't even know what a tainly recommend that you join your came into my I / other day browsing up TR250 was, but Kevin insisted that 1 ^^^_ drawing office one dayand [. ~J X and down the aisles, go look at it with him and he insisted said: "Look Peck, I want you ^>^ / when I sawa book that even more that the TR250 would be to go over to Coventry and caught my eye, "Lemons, just the perfect car for me! talk to Walter Belgrovcand The World's Worst Cars." I was Leslie Ireland because they intrigued enough by the tide to pick it I can still picture it sirring there, in arc planninga lOOmph sports up 3nd start thumbing through the a little one car garage, with a heap of v. car." It all sounded very pages. I expected to find a run down junk piled on it. a flat tire and a dead battery. We walked around it a few- I exciting and when I went on the old stand-by "lemons" such as over, they already had the the Ford Edsel, AMC Pacer, Chcvrolcr time. It was several different shades of green, every piece of rubber needed to drawings of what became the Corvair, etc. when I came across some be replaced and those were just the TR2 and I brought those thing totally unexpected and shocking! obvious problems. I honesdy can't say- back to Mulliners to build the Right there on page 141 was a picture of a Triumph TR6. 1could not believe that it was love at first sight but there prototype. was something in me that wanted that "We weren't very keen what I was seeing! How could the author of this book say the TR6 was car. Kevin kept telling me that ft just on the hob-tailed rear, but needed "a little work," while my Mom Style and performance-lhe TR6. after the Earl's Court show one of the "World's Worst Cars.?" All -^^^^^ debut. Sir John rang 1could think about was how much my advised me to think about it for three Ptvotoby Tom Horvat. Faitouin. GA liking TR6s and Triumphs in general days ,and reminded me that I didn't Mulliners and asked us to know anything about cats. Sony design a new rear end. We took it on had influencedand affectedmy life. local Triumph Club and rake someone Mom!, but the next day I called the from there and did all the engineering for I can still remember my first TR250's owner and made him an offer along with you whencontemplatingyour the T.R. range and 1was put in charge of encounter with a TR6. One weekend, purchasc. The Triumph on the car which he reluctantly accept while I was still in high school, my ed. He wanted to see the 250 go to TR6 club caters to TR6 and older brother, Kevin, came home from is highly recommended. The " somebody wht>would restore it, how Vintage Triumph Register ^^^ college to visit. Somehow he convinced ever, I don't believe he thought a me to go and look at this cat he was young girl just out of college stood has a large and enthusiastic I interested in buying. I can still see it TR6 contingent. much of a chance of successful clearly in my mind as if it were yester Triumph ownership. A belated credit by the day. Wc pulled up in front of a house way... the superb TR6 on and there it was, sitting in the drive That was over nine years ago and the cover of the Summer way, a 1974 1/2 bright yellow although it has not always been issue of "Moss Motoring- Triumph TR6. The owner greeted us smooth sailing, my TR250 and I arc was taken by Michael Hayes and the exchange of conversation that still together. I have learned a lot of Colony Texas. followed centered on the TR6 and its about Triumphs over the years, and history to date. The guy said he would yes, I did restore my TR250! I even be happy to take Kevin for a test ride, took it back to the guy I bought it but we would have to push the car to from and let him drive it again. He STUART PECK- get it started because the original was amazed and told me it was just as he always dreamed it could be. Automobile TR4's forma large contingent at any British car meet. Lucasbattery had gone flat! That day was to be the first time I For eight years my TR250 was my designer and ever push started a TR6 but it certainly only car and I have a photo album full the T.R. Sports car section of the draw would not be the last! Kevin bought of pictures of all the places my Triumph draftsman ing office, becoming Chief Draftsman in the "I"R6 and even, as time went by, let Triumph and I have been together. by BarneySharratt 1956. me try drivingit, which was very brave From alongside the Queen Mary in "Classic Car Weekly" In 1958 Standard Triumph took over of him considering at the time I did not Long Beach, California, to the Cadillac A little known architect of the Mulliners and by the time of the TR4, know how to drive a stick! Sure, dri Ranch in Amarillo, Texas to the many Standard Triumph Company in the fifties Harry Webster had become technical ving someone else's Triumph is fun, highways and byways of the USA my and sixties was Stuatt Peck. Post war director. It was he who brought in but it doesn't influence your life nearly TR250 and 1 have traveled together. most of his career was spent at Mulliners Michelorti to style the Vanguard Vignalc as much as owning one yourself as I Looking back, I would not trade my the famous coach builders in Birningham, and the . Stuart traveled eventuallydiscovered. Triumph experiences for anything in England. Stuart's first major job was to to Italy to sec Michelorti several times the world. I love my TR250 and to and got to know him well. One day, shortly after I finished Mr. Timothy Jacobs, the author of produce a full size drawing for the college,Kevincalled me on the phone. "When Michelorti was busy with the "Lemons, The World's Worst Cars," Triumph 1800 razor-edged saloon that I could tell this was something special, would eventually be sold as the Renown. TR4" recalls Stuart," he came to my my Triumph is definitely not a because he could hardly get the words lemon!!! The car was already in production but office with a pile of drawings and out of his mouth fast enough! He kept ^^ the original tubular chassis was being spreading them all out said, "I've been replaced with a modified Standard asked to design a typically Englishsports Vanguard chassis-hcncc the need for a new car, but I'm Italian so you must tell me drawing. In 1951 Stuart designed what what an English sports car should look named out to be the lastone-off bodybuilt like". He had obviously been working on Water Wetter 220-115 $6.95 by Mulliners other than prototypes for it for some time. Many of his sketches Standard-Triumph. It was built on a were typical Italian things, but I pointed chassiswhich Rolls-Royce present out one design which caught my eye, This isnot jusl o pilch from your friendly snake oil specialist atMoss Motors! Water ed to SirJohn Black of Standard Triumph. which was within striking distance of Wetter isan amazing product which ton help your tor run as much as 10to20 Recalls Stuart, "I was given a com what became the TR4." degrees cooler. British tors were designed for the Engbh climate, and hot American pletely free hand and when I took the col As project engineer for the TR4, tonttlkins lax our cooling systems tothe limit under the best oftircumslonces. ored drawings over to Sir John he just Stuart was handed Michelotti's final said,"Yes, that looks great" so I put up sketches. And using these he put up the Water Wetter is a cooling system oddm've which significantly increases the heat the full size drawingsand supervised the first full sizeddrawingsand set to work transfer property ofwater and ontifreeze solirtions. We highly tecorranend this revo building of the car which we delivered in on the body engineeringand the building lutionary ptodotl for all stock ond modified water-cooled engines. (Yes, many of us the Spring of 1952." of the prototypes. atMoss use itinour own cars, with outstanding results inour hot CoWornio dimale.) However soon after that Sir John In 1962 while Stuart was still busy Continued on page 9 Fall '94, Page 8 1973 1974 1975 1976 • Major U.SA restyle. Note: Certain specltied changesoccurredat • Rubber bumper overrides • Black plastic ait dam introduced. chassis points only,and have been placed introduced to USA. market to • J-type overdrive Introduced; overdrive on into the appropriateyear. Factoryrecords meet federal 3rd and 4th gears only. are not always clear; we have been as regulations. • New steering wheel and instruments accurate as possible in this limited space. (Late 1974.) including'inverted' small gauges. • New interior trim includes center door • Front bumper • UnionJack decal replaces TR6logo on pull. raised. rear lender. • Chestnut and Beige trim ottered in tire- • Amber/white • Air intake tlap on cowl replaced with resistant material. indicator lamps plastic grill. • Full tonneau cover now standard. moved under • Voltmeter replaces ammeter. bumper. • Airinjection systemintroduced iression dropped • Commission plate moved to lefthand :1 to 7.72:1. door post. • Wire wheel option ends in May. • Triumphstyled hardtop continues to sell Twin exhaust down well until end ot production. rs. • Last P.I. TR6 built on 2/7/75. iced to 10.25 • Front indicator lenses amber. • Last TR5 built on 7/15/76. CF58328. iboncs brackets up • Some 1976 TR6s were sold in 1977 and may be registered as such. start deleted, d again, now IMS.

with the TR4, Ley-land took over Chassis Condition leans excessively. Ensure that all btack- Standard Triumph. On the day the TR4 "A Tale of It's worth mentioning that IRS cts are corrccr. Bracket positions on was announced, Stuart (along with 80 frames ate extremely prone to rusting TR4A-6 up to CC61570 are: 1- other managers) was told his services and should be checked very

were no longer required. Stuart remem carefully around the trailing C7f^iio»*f»:>---; bers: "So it was good-bye to my Sagging Tales" arm mounting brackets for Mulliners staff and everything else..they by David Eichelbaum thin metal (this is the just cleared everybody out." lowest point on the Later in the days of the car whetc water col- '«•»»"«• Imp, Hunter and Avenger, Stuart was a In my technical services corner one ,.„.,, F«l»,lllIMI problem keeps cropping up with lects). Serious clunks vc—tnu senior project engineer for both Pressed could mean a bracket Steel and Rootes at Linwood and ended renewed fervor; sagging IRS Triumph rear springs. Wc thought a technical that's about to pull up as resident engineer of IIK. loose. Avoid buying a car recap would help, and since 1 REALLY until the takeover. with repair patches around like these squatty-tailed monsters, I vol Still retaining his lifelong fascination this area. Their bell- with automobiles, this remarkable gen unteered to write this column! An array of problems results Irom shaped design renders tleman is now the archivist of the IRS frames extremely Institute of British Carriage and worn and sagging springs. Mismatched or upside down trailing arm brackets prone to accident Automobile Manufacturers (IBCAM). A damage. Be sure the can cause fits in spades, and can push fulbcirclc move, for it was in 1937 that frame is solid and Stuart produced an IBCAM medal win people to unbelievable measures. You can ask me about it sometime. If your straight before diag ning design for a Sunbeam Straight nosing suspension Eight and received his medal car leans in one direction or drags it's problems. notch inner, 2-notch outer. Longer in London at the magnificent tailpipe on the ground and squats like springs of increased rate were used after Coachmakers Hail-quite an an east-Hungarian bull frog when you experience for a lad! let the clutch out, then sit hack and grab Mounting Brackets CC61570 to cope with settling prob something cold to drink. Checking the mounting bracket lems. The brackets were changed then types (1-notch, 2-notch or 3-notch) and. to provide anti-squat geometry. positions will often show why a car Positioning was now 1-notch outer, 3- Continued on page 13 Triumph TR6 November 1968marked trie beginningot TR6 manufacture, with91.850 produced through 1976. The large displacement 6 cyl-nder engine Ks ensured an enthusiastic fotowing among sports Of aficionados.

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venues. In 1934 they organized the MG It was also in 1954 that the SCCA Sales Company and began importing the established the Collier Brothers nimble Abingdon machinery. Memorial Race. Through 1959 the tact- World War II brought an end to racing was for MGs only, (although for histori and the Automobile Racing Club of cal accuracy some VW Beetlescompeted America, however after the war some in 1959!) and from 1960 to the present, members of ARCA were instrumental in SCCA has included the Collier Cup on starting the SCCA. For Sam and Miles, their calendar, but with other marques their passion to race resumed and like now filling the field. many others their car of choice was MG In 1985, The Sponscar Vintage Racing as they lined up for the rebirth of road Association decided to reach rack in time racing at Watkins Glen on October 2nd and establish a link with the past by- 1948. rekindling the MG spirit. The Collier Miles would taste the fruits of victory Cup race for MGs is the result, and the as he won the Watkins Glen Grand Prix cup is awarded by a vote of the drivers, aboard a Ford-Riley. However, one and not to the first car to cross the finish MOTOR^^P year later tragedy struck. Sam was at line! Pedigree matters not as past winners the wheel of the first Ferrari to reach have ranged from T-Types to MGBs. these shores-a 166 Inter owned by For 1993 and again in 1994 MOSS Briggs Cunningham. While leading the MOTORS have lent their generous sup MOSS MOTORS race, he left the road at a fast right hand port to this prestigious event. Moss's turn and crashed. He passed away later link to MG racing goes back to their TO SPONSOR that evening at the age of 38. founder Al Moss and continues today In 1954 Miles passed away as a result with strong support of various forms of of polio. Loyal friends felt some sort of motor sport, under their motorsport coordinator-Harry Haigh-himsclf no THE COLLIER CUP tribute was in order to honor the contri WATKINS GLEN. NEW YORK. bution to road racing of Sam and Miles mean competitor in the past! September Sth-llth 1994. Collier. A stone memorial was placed at So we urge you to join the celebra the site on the originaltrack where Sam tions September Sth-llth at Watkins lost his life, and no visit to Watkins Glen, as thousands of British car enthusi Thirty years ago, road racing cours THE 40th Anniversary Glen is complete unless a tour of the asts gather to witness the 40th anniver es like Watkins Glen and Road original track is included, and a moment sary' °f the Collier Brothets Memorial America shook from the power of of the COLLIER CUP spent at the simple marker honoring Race. sports cars in theit brutal dance. As the The race today is simply known as these pioneers. - Joe Tierno. cars lurched and slid, and smoke broiled the Collier Cup, but in actual fact was from their tires, drivers held their originally named the Collier Brothers breaths, locked their elbows and stamped Memorial Race and honored the the throttles to the floorboards. Tens of founders of Watkins Glen, Sam and thousands of us stood at the fences, awe- Miles Collier. You might be wondering in our hearts and hearts in our throats. about the origins of the race and how it These men were our gods and their became so prestigious. car;, our stallions, and the scenes, burned The story begins in 1929 on a very- in our minds were replayed a thousand extensive driveway as a group of enthu times. Although the world evolved and siastic teenagers raced their home made moved on, we never forgot the sight and cars. Those ambitious teens, Sam, Miles the smell. Racing was never the same and Barron Collier even had an organiz- again. Peering through the chain link ' ing body for their races,"The Overlook fences, wc watched ttansfixed. They Automobile Club"! raced-and we reveled. They raccd-and wc dreamed! They were our soldiers and Around 1933, the young men changed checkeredwas our flag. the name of their fledglingorganization to the Automobile Racing Club of But every once in a while good fortune America (ARCA). This coincided with allows us to explore an ancient fantasy, the purchase of two MG J2s and also the even if it is 30 years overdue. Of course expansion of the club to include many this is the life force that powers vintage other cars. The group outgrew the drive racing. way and soon became the catalyst for the - Dave Quinn. creation of road racing at various

Healey Hardtops ANSWER TO SUMMER 1-3/4" Continued from page 5 "Stelling & and fastenets. But the best giveaway is MYSTERY CAR CONTEST that beautifully colorful cloisonne Hellings"-style badge. On original models the badge Well all 1 can say is that you gentleman from Seattle whose name has a pronounced curvature to it. All people certainly know was obliterated by the U.S. Mail Chrome Air modern badges of this pattern arc flat as your obscure British cars! stated the car should have P100 they come from a key-fob! No kidding! You may recall that in our Summer headlights! Rob Reilly from Glen I have a couple of these key-fobs just in edition of "Moss Motoring" we Ellyn.IL told us a great story about 2 Filters case anyone ever steals the originals off asked you college the car! In all other details, the badges to id itify This style ofair filter was an are identical once you remove the loop the car extremely popular after-market that attaches the badge to the fob's shown on leather. On the replicas, you can just page 4 - a accessory in the 1950s and '60s, and make out where this loop was removed. photograph taken at isfinished in beautiful chrome To clamp down the front of the BJS Phoenix Fits 1-3/4" SU and early hardtop, two specially made turn-buck British Car les are used to effect a semi-petmanent Day. (pre-pollution control) mount rather than the normal clamps Out of Zen'rth-Stromberg carbs. that hold both roadster hardtops and the many two-seater soft tops to the front wind entries we 621-500 $27.95 screen. Again, the BJ8 tops just were not received, designed to be taken off in a hurry! A several cor good number of the factory rally cars rect replies used these tops. And the BJ8 tops fitted identified the car as a 1931 INVTC- PETER VANDERVORD, from to these race cars had an air scoop TA.Bruce Carnachan of Glcndalc Harrison Township, Ml! Petet will molded into the top to help with cockpit recalls seeing one driving down the be receiving his prize in the mail ventilation. If you trip over one of these street in London back in 1984, while shortly. BJ8 tops with an air scoop, you may several readers correctly identified Now try your hand with the one have a real rarity! I solved the cockpit the model as a 12/45. Most also above, a popular little sportscar in ventilation problem on our BJS by mentioned that the body had been its day. Entries on a postcard only installing air conditioning. That's why altered as "the Tourer never had cut- please by Sept. 30th to "Mystery it's called "Cold Duck"! But that's down doors"! Keith Gerard told us Cat Contest #2, 400 Rutherford St, another story. 'Till next time, the car was fitted svith a Meadows Goleta. CA 93117. Ron Phillips. 4.5 liter pushrod engine, while a CSS

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3) The third step is to replace the ter; then oil pressure relief valve and connecting rod beatings and the oil spring; and finally rod bearings. Or, you OIL PRESSURE RELIEF pump ("B Series"). The sump is easily may elect to do the whole job at once. BYJohn.Fl.Twist.University Motors removed on the XPAG/XPEG engine, This is a preventative measure. You will and bearing replacement is straightfor extend the life of your engine, dramati ward. Ensure that you use a liberal cally, by making these simple repairs. As I entered the intersection of bottom of the oil pump. You may elect amount of oil and keep all components Fulton and Fuller on my way to to use the "competition" spring setup to work this morning in my wife's boost the oil pressure into the 60+ psi CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN!! range. The pump may lose its prime dur The sump on the MGA and MGB 1973 MGB/GT, my eyes were inexplica engines can be removed WITHOUT bly drawn to the odometer. Why 1 ing this operation, so be certain to spin removing the engine from its mounts, MG Clubs should have glanced at the numbers, the engine until you indicate oil pressure The National Club addresses for BEFORE restarting the engine!! especially the 1974 1/2 on MGBs. Use which at that moment were tolling to the an offset 7/16" ring spanner (box end Ms; arc as follows however there next thousand, I do not know. But The relief valve on the MGA and arc hundreds of local clubs for each MGB engines is located at the rear of the wrench) to get those five bolts at the today, here in sunny Grand Rapids, front of the sump. Use grease on the oil marque. Contact us for fuithet Michigan, this daily driver turned block, left hand (driver's) side, just above details of the club in your area, or the sump. The socket necessary for the pump gasket, and push that gasket onto 165,000 miles. That mileage placesthis the oil pump studs and against the block send us details of your local club to GT into a limited class of MGs — and domed nut is one inch. If the valve will add to our database! not come out, spin the engine over (dis BEFORE fitting the pump. Remember into an even more exclusive group when that the 3-main and 5-main oil pumps you realize that the crankshaft has connect the coil so the engine will not New England MG "T" Register start!) and the oil pressure will blow the are NOT' compatible, and each has its Drawer 220, Oneonta, NY 13820 NEVER been out of this engine. Oh, it own gasket! Get oil pressure before has received two cylinder heads, and sev old valve out. Replacing the valve can be restarting the engine! Disconnect the oil North American MGA Register eral , but never has the engine very difficult as the new spring is very- stiff, so follow closely here. Assuming pressure gauge line from the bulkhead 13420 Summit Hills Rd. been torn down — and it still runs down (or sensor) and point it into a can or bot the road with the oil pressure blowing you are right handed, place the valve into Albuquerque. NM 87112 tle. Remove the spark plugs so the off at a respectable 65psi. Frequent oil the engine, hold the spring in your left hand, and start the domed nut with your engine spins more quickly, and have your North American MGB Register changes are the secret to engine longevi associate spin the engine over until oil ty, but oil changes alone do not account right hand. Remove, refit, remove, refit P.O.Box MGB. Akin. II 62805 the domed nut several times without let squirts from the line. DO NOT start the for this enormous mileage. The "secret?" engine without oil pressure!! American MGC Register 1changed the rod bearings and oil pump, ting go of the nut. This is a very coarse The Midget sump, both "A Scries" as a preventative measure, at 95,000 thread (1/2-14 BSP) and the domed nut 34 Park Avenue will start easily — if YOU know where it and 1500, drops off like a dream. The Ashevillc. NC 28803 miles! "A Series" oil pump is located at the It struck me today that many MG catches the threads. Once you've prac back of the block, under the flywheel, American MGB Association, owners would love to avert an expensive ticed with the nut, then fit the spring with your left hand, and start that and cannot be changed. The Midget P.O. Box 11401, Chicago 60611 engine overhaul by making these relative 1500 pump can be tricky to align with ly simple repairs to the engine. If your domed nut with your right. (Fit the spac the cam drive. MG engine is old and tired then the max er to ALL MGA/MGB engines, on either In all cases, use the PROPER sized imum oil pressure is less than it should end of the spring, whichever is easier for you.) It will take all the strength you bearings, of course. This means that you 1962-'64 MGB "Pull- fee; By restoring that oil pressure to must drop the sump, remove one set of about 70 psi, the engine can run for tens have in your wrist! This nut WILL NOT start unless you know where it starts, as bearings, and examine the backside of out" Door Handles of thousands of miles more before a the bearings for markings. Standard major rebuild is necessary.*Follow these your wrist will tire quickly!! Tighten the rules for oil pressurerelief! nut to 401b-ft. sizes arc not marked as such, but all Moss scoops the competition again by offering The Midget "A Series" engines have undetsizes are marked 010, 020, 030, or superb reprodurtiorrs ofthe long-unavailable 1) The first step in oil pressure relief 040. Order the bearings AFTER you've is to change engine oil and filter. Use the the same domed nut as the "B Scries" MGB exterior 'pull-out' door handles fitted up determined the proper size. Never mix proper filter for the MG, and use Castrol engines, only it is a dream to change. It the tod caps from one rod to another!! tocar# 57,985. GTX 20W/50 in the sump. MGB own is located on the right side of the block, just to the rear of the distributor. Use lots of oil when fitting the new bear ers with the "original" oil filter on 1968- ings. Absolutely, positively, get oil pres 69 engines are cautioned to discard that The Midget 1500 engine uses a long, entire filter assembly, replacing it with hex fitting, under the disttibutor, to hold sure BEFORE you start up the engine. the valve and spring. Use a #10 spring Read your workshop manual before "# the 1970-1980 spin on style (Moss 460- starting these repairs, just to assure that L/HDoor Handle 910) as the upright canister filter is the lockwashcr, twisted flat, to act as a shim WORST filter ever designed by MG!! between the valve and spring, to boost you have the correct tools, torque specifi 401-510 $26.50 the oil pressure cations, and step sequence. 2) The second step is to change the R/H Door Handle oil pressure relief valve and spring. On The MGC oil pressure relief valve lies You can extend the life of your engine by boosting the oil pressure. You rhe XPAG/XPEG engine, this is very sim within the filter head, and is not yet 401-520 $26.50 may elect to try this in stages: oil and fil ple as the relief valve is located at the available from Moss.

Dear Editor... was in fact a 1964 Austin-HealeySprite! A SHAGGY DOG STORY! Continued frompage 2 I immediately appealed to the propri etor for a stay of execution and after the ...a reminiscence fromourregular M.G. contributor, Doug Beagley exchange of two S20.00 bills, the The following happened in the and which came with a large rubber Once the MGB is completed, we have a Spridget was removed from Death Row early fifties, when imported cars suction cup. We stuck the wheel on 1962 Austin-HealeySprite to restore and and placed in my custody!' were a really unusual sight. the left side of the dashboard of the sve hope to make it to one of the Moss To my surprise and delight the Those were the days when, if you TC and in this configuration entered festivals once both cars are on the road. engine, trans, doors were intact and the took your car to a dealer to have it the parade. Lawrence Keeney. cat possessed one good bumper. Mr. wotked upon, you were informed in Rob, the dog, was seated on the Boulder City. NV. Proprietor noted the car had been an no uncertain manner that "We do not left side of the car, wearing his green abandoned restoration project and deep wotk on foreign cars"! Imagine that bubble goggles and with the screen within its bowels lay several great parts. attitude today. flat. Martin was driving of course (There's nothing like starting them These included wire wheel hubs, a great Wc drove an MGTD and we had a from the right hand position, (You did young is there? Any other young British dash, and two ignition switches-new and friend who owned a TC. This friend know of course that TC's only came enthusiasts out there should write and let in the box! This ex-con will now join its also had a very large and lovable in right hand drive form?) and the us know. How about a Junior section in four other siblings that grace my garage. Collie dog called Rob. Rob would ride car's steering wheel was almost out of "Moss Motoring"? It makes such a J.Douglas Davis. beside Martin, his owner, in the TC sight. Rob had his front feet up on the change to hear of someone so young, and like most of us in those far-off steering wheel that could be seen and doing something constructive, insteadof Bonita Springs, EL. days we not only drive with the top we drove quite majestically through some of the other things which make the lowered but also with the windscreen the town in the parade. We were fol headlines today! Ed) Dear Moss, folded flat forward. However, travel lowing in our TD and could see the ing like this made Rob's eyes water tremendous interest generated by the On a recent trip to the UK, I had the and so he was provided with a set of TC and the dog! chance to visit the British Motor green bubble goggles which he wore The following Monday morning I Industry Heritage Museum at Gaydon, and which cured the problem of his was back in my office when and elder which was featured in the Fall 1993 issue eyes. ly gentleman entered who I knew of "Moss Motoring". Our town was really into Armed quite well. He was breathless and After reading Rick Fcibnsch's article I Forces Day and we people who drove couldn't wait to speak to mc. "You made the trek to Gaydon, and it turned these odd foreign cars were invited to drive one of those small, funny foreign out to be worthwhile as the museum is drive them in the grand parade. Wc cars don'r you?" I confessed that I did. absolutely man-clous. I can't say enough duly accepted and then decided that He then continued, "You are not about the quality of the content and the we would add a little zest to the show! going to believe what I am about to presentation. Wc lowered the steering wheel of tell you. I was down at the parade on Saturday and saw a dog driving a car I highly recommend the museum to the TC and shoved it as close to the just like yours!" Dear Moss, your readers and thank Moss and Rick instrument panel as it would go. Wc Feibusch for making me aware of its He truly believed this was an out then bought a steering wheel which On a recent foray into a junkyard in existence. was intended for small children to standing dog-and I just didn't have the South Fort Myers, I noticed a Spridget play with, as they drove with Daddy, heart to spoil his wonderful illusion! dutifully awaitingits turn at the crusher. Carl.F.lenders, Upon closer inspection, I discovered it Foster City. CA

Fall '94, Page 11 good lifter to utterly destroy a camshaft within the first few minutes of opera FOR THE VERY BEGINNER IN i=w:iii*: tion, no matter how much Moly-lube BRITISH SPORTS CARS! you use! Also, you should keep all the Heard any interesting tech tips lately? We're interested in publishing new and related valve train components identi exciting hints and tips if applicable. Send your tech rip contributions to: Editor, fied as to their corresponding place in FUSES Moss Motoring, 400 Rutherford Street, Goleta, CA 93117. If wc can use them, the block or head. you'll receive a 25.00 gift certificate. This results in a mated assembly. If Fuses are those little glass "things" you're extremely lucky you might get by that sit in the fuse blocks of our removing the head. While this may seem using "used" lifters, but is it worth the cars. They arc designed to protect 91) a good way to save labor and a few- gamble?! Take the extra time and do it the various circuits of the wiring bills, in actuality you will probably end right. It might cost a little more effort system from burning if, for what BRONZE VALVE GUIDES. up spending even more in the long run. and a few extra dollars, but the added ever reason, a "hot" wire happens We have enjoyed owning a 1959 Allow me to explain. peace of mind that the job was done to be grounded. All of our cars MGA 1500 fixed head for more without compromise is well worth the came from the factory with a par Every camshaft manufacturer, and ticular Lucas fuse of a given rating, than 30 years. We have been able to effort. any mechanic worth his salt will tell but if you were to look at many keep the car in good condition during you, never, NEVER! use old, used - Barry Schwartz. Ld Mesa. CA. that time, thanks to an adequate supply fuscboxes these days, you would lifters, with a new camshaft! Even lifters probably sec many aftermarket of parts from Moss Motors. that look good can cause damage, and ...and further support for Barry fuses installed, many with ampere 1 recently had the valves gtound, usually that will not take long. The rea ratingsthat range from the sublime and had the old steel valve guides son, and it has nothing to do with sell comes from Frank Ieraci of New to the ridiculous. You might even replaced with new brass valve guides. ing more lifters, (cam followers, or tap York... sec sometimes a strip of aluminum After assembly, and when test dtiving pets), it has nothing to do with the bores foil from a cigarette packet used to they fit in, but has everything to do with the cat, the engine began to "flutter". How could you recommend replac bridge the gap of a blown fuse! The problem was discovered to be a the "face" of the lifter. In fact the num ber one cause of new camshaft failure is ing a camshaft without replacing the The correct Lucas fuse originally stuck valve and bent push tod. After tappets? That has always been a no-no replacement of the push rod, yet another the use of "old" lifters! carried a message such as-"35 in the automotive world as I know it. amps Lucas", or "17 amps valve stuck, although this time the push Normal lifter faces arc not flat as The bottom of the tappets become worn Continuous Lucas 35A". The mod- rod did not bend! most people assume, there is, in fact a in to match the corresponding camshaft ctn Lucas fuse says "17 Hold Apparently after the engine is up to slight crown, usually around two thou lobe, and substituting a new cam would Lucas 35A". What this means is normal operating temperature the brass sands of an inch. This in combination cause uneven wear and premature fail that the fuse is designed to carry a guides expand more than would a steel with the way the camshaft is positioned ure of both parts. Your Tech-Tip section continuous steady load of 17 amps guide. The solution is to slightly hone in the block relative to the cam, forces has educated me out of a jam or two in but will hold a momentary surge the guide when installing. Hopefully this the lifter to rotate while lifting instead the past and I though I would try and up to 35 amps beforeit willblow. information will prevent someone teat- of just "pushing" the lifter upwards. help with this one. An American fuse of 20 amps or ing down the engine of their MG, a sec If you look down the botes of the By the way I enjoyed your recent so, will probably be alright, but the ond time for valve guide tcplaccmcnt! lifters with the camshaft installed, you article on "Double Declutch" tech fuses of a higher rating should not -KenSchutt. Winnegabo.MN will see that the cam lobes arc slightly niques, 1 have always been in the dark be used, because if something wetc off to one side of their respective bores. about this and you really set me to go wrong withinthat circuit, the These factors are designed so that the straight. Thanks! damage would already have been 91 cam lobe and the lifter will mate with O^ilriU -Frank done to the wiring before the fuse each other after a period of break in. would blow. Be original-Be* Safe! This break in is critical to the longevity (Well both readers arc right, and it was CAMSHAFT LIFTERS. Use the correct fuse as designed for of the camshaft and related parts and is an etror which we shouldn't have your car, and which are available I wish to follow up on the Tech Tip allowed to slip thtough! Thanks to usually around 30-45 minutes at 2000 from Moss Motors. #84 which appeared in the Spring issue RPM or above. Barry & Frank and others who wrote of "Moss Motoring". This described - Doctor Bob It is not uncommon for a seemingly pointing out the error. Ed) how to install a camshaft without

Erecting the Hood a wife,a son, a friend, or a passingpedes only remained for him to match on round, many owners abandoned the idea trian who can be induced to stop laugh Moscow. No matter how Little time has of putting up the top. That's how the Continued from page 6 ing long enough to lend a hand. Failing passed since you last erected the hood, stereotype of the sports car driver began that, agile ownets can sometimes balance you will discover that cither the hood has — a hardy soul in a cloth cap who gjins experienced MGA owners can while their weight on a single forearm placed shrunk or the car has grown sincethe last as he drives top down through a five away several hours in the garage, walking lengthwise along the header rail, freeing fitting. As long as your fingers have the county frogchoket, describing it only as from side to side locking the uptights. their other hand to tighten the wing-bolt. sensitivity of a safecracker's and the "a bit dampish". The truth is, he wasn't Eventually the bows will tire of this Whichever procedure is used, it should strength of vise-grips, the hood can even grinningbecause it wasthat much fun to game, and both uprights will stay locked then be repeated on the other side. tually be stretched over the lift-thc-dot drive in the rain. He was grinning at the same time. Now extend the header Once both wing-bolts ate secure, fasteners. One rum button can generally because the misery of feeling the rainwa rail into its full forward position and lock be fastened without too much difficulty. ter infiltrate his BVDs was peanuts com it into place by pressing upwards on joint walk to the rear of the car and swear pared to the misery of puttingup the top. softly. Then unfasten the wing-bolts, lift The other will bend back your thumbnail "B". Of course, this may unlock one or and be declared not worth the effort to My personal experience has been that the header rail free of the windscreen both of the uprights, allowing the owner fasten. (Or words to that effect.) winters in upstate New York occasionally to repeat that portion of the procedure. posts, and hook the metal bar "D" at the require the hood, but anything northern rear of the hood into the two retainers on This completes the task of erecting Since there is an identical joint "B" on Indiana throws at me can be weathered the other side, it is easy to sec why an the tonneau. It will generally be necessary the hood. If the weather really turns frosty you may want to consider mount with a sneer of contempt. Now that the MGA provides more entertainment for to give the hood a sharp tug rearward to averageMGA spends winters as "hiber the price than any other sports cat avail position the bar over the retainers, a pro ing the sidecurtains,but that is the sub ject of another article. In the spring, of nation heaven" for wayward rodents, able today. cedure which also serves to unlock both uprights and let the hood crash to the course, you will need to go through the erecting the hood makesabout as much Once all the bows have been locked floor of the vehicle. When all the uprights ritual of "stowing the hood." The manual sense as changing the air in your tires. into place, carefully position the header have again been lockedinto place and the says that stowing the hood is the reverse Sure you'll get caught in a few sprinkles, an occasional thunderstorm, and a hurri rail so the hole on the undetsidc near metal bar secured to the retainers, it is of erecting it, but of course the manual is wing-bolt "C" is directly over the post on time to once again ptess the header rail optimistic about a great many things. As cane here and there, but that's what the top of the windscreen. Check to make against the windscreen and tighten the you struggle to cram the hood back into cloth cap is for. Your wife will say you look like a geek, but what docs she certain the wing-bolt is slacked off wing-bolts. the recess behind the scats without enough to make room for die windscreen scratching the window (or at least, widi- know? That lady in the Volvo probably post. This is generally done by unscrew Now that the hood is securely fas had her mouth hanging open becauseshe tened at the front and rear, it only out rendering it totally opaque), you may ing the bolt a few turns, allowing it to find yourselfwondering why you both was amazed at how rakish you looked! drop on the floor and bounce under the remains to secure the edges to the "ltft- And anyway, it could be worse. You thc-dot" studs and the turn button on ered to put the bloody thing up in the scat. It can then be retrieved with a yard first place. And indeed, that is a very could be erecting the hood! stick and reinserted to its correct position each side. This is a little like saying diat once Napoleon captured Germany, it valid question. Even back in the days -STEVE TOM5. Honolulu. HA in the header rail. Press the header rail when MGAs were routinely driven year firmly against the windscreen to ensure a good seal. This can best be done by plac ing both hands on top of the header and pressing down until yout feet rise six 1965-'69 TR2 - TR3A Brass Door Hinges inches off the floor. Experienced owners can judge the six-inch rise by feel, novices MGB Gas Tank rtaretief Hwill be tofinally be able toproperly align your doors, may wish to have an assistant check their Replace your tired, and have them open and close without having towiggle, push and rise against a calibrated spacer. With pull them into place every time you get in otout ofyour car. These superb your free hand, reach inside the car and ;j rusted, and dinged- reproductions ofthe original brass hinges for TR2 through TT.3A to tighten the wing-bolt "C" until fully seat ed against the windscreen post. Readers up gas tank with 1560500 aremade inthe ll.S A. on computer centre !';J who arc particularly astute at arithmetic one ofour superior machines. (Wil not fit later can with steel hinges.) |H may wonder where this free hand came quality reproductions. from, as both hands were previously Hinge, upper L/H 804-635 Hinge, upper R/H 804-630 engaged pressing down on the header ^^ Hinge, lower l/H 804-645 Hinge, lower R/H 804-640 MlpricUtoily $31.95 ewh tail. Generally, the free hand comes from 456-815 $139.95

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"SW" and "CB". These coils were form; dark shadow areas may be printed Under The Bonnet almost all marked for positive ground as brown, while the highlights print as systems, with "SW" being the switch white as the paper, both on a yellowcar. Welcome to Under The Bonnet,our quarterly technical column dealing with wire terminal, and "CB" indicating Obviously, then, it is impossible to say the basic maintenance and repair of your British car. We'll be covering "contact breaker" (points). As the what color the car really is from the topics here that have been the cause of recurrent problems and questions newest of these coils are probably about printed image. by customers as well as our own staff members. While much of this may be rudi 25 or 30 years old, I would suggest mentary to old-time mechanics,we'll be exploring various short-cuts as well as talk reserving their use for show, rather than ing about tricks-of-the-tradc not mentioned in manuals. If you're interested in a par daily use. ASSEMBLY & REASSEMBLY ticular topic, please write: UnderTheBomiet, 400 Rutherford St., Goleta, Cj\ 93117. When rebuilding a pair of anything, whether seats, carburetors, or front sus BALLAST RESISTORS pension assemblies, work on them one Don't waste time looking for the at a time, keeping the other one intact as This "Under the Bonnet" is a pot connectors on the terminal bush and pourri of short topics suggested by our condenserleadsmust be installedon top ballast resistor on a late MGB or TR6 - a reference. customers, and selected to be of interest of the point spring, with the upper nylon they ate in the form of a resistive wire bound into the wiring harness. What is to the novice home mechanic. "top hat" insulating sleeve running often thought of as a ballast resistor on TOOLS through these. The object is to insulate electronic ignition equipped MGBs (and the point spring and the terminal bush The two most important tools for IGNITION POINTS mis-identified as such in some older working on your car arc your brain and and condenser leads from the lower printings of our MGB catalog) is the You have just finished installing a point plate, which is grounded. the best workshop manual you can find new set of points, but can't get the drive resistor for the elecronic ignition (usuallya reprint of the factory manual)! engine to start. Beforeallowing panic to system. Even though these manuals can be fairly set in, check the order of assembly at the IGNITION COLL POLARITY expensive, theit cost would pay for only "eye" end of the point spring. The eyelet The key to figuring out which wire an hour or so of a professional mechan PAINT COLORS ic's time; they are almost guaranteed to to connect to which terminal on the coil Wlide we publish paint color codes is knowing that the wire from the igni save you much money and frustration. in many of our catalogs, many of the tion switch is the "hot" wire. For nega Shops need good wotkshop manuals, color codes listed are obsolete, and do tive ground systems, this wire is positive, too. Can you imagine having your engine not appear in current paint code listings. or gearbox rebuilt by someone who and should be connected to the "+" tet- Where possible, we have updated the minal. The low tension lead going to the doesn't know what the clearances and old codes to current ones, but many of torque values should be? How would distributor then connects to the "-" ter them have gone away forever. In this you feel if your newly rebuilt engine minal. In a positive ground system, die case, if your paint shop docs not have a "hot" wire is negative, and connects to leaked oil because you made a guess at collection of old obsolete books, try to which way to install an oil slinget plate the "-" terminal, with the low tension obtain a sample of the original paint you lead to the distributor being connected (and guessed wrongly), or simply left it wish to match. One of the best places to out because you didn't remember that it to the "+" terminal. get this is from underneadi the dash. had to be there? Workshop manual For those of us who want to look at We often get requests for the paint information is essential. this another way, keep in mind that codes for the cars on our catalog covers. when the distributor points are closed, Before tackling a project, study Even if wc knew, the information would they are grounded. Therefore the low- what your manual has to say about not be meaninglessbecause the color printed only the particular component, but the tension lead between the distributor and the coil goes to the "-" terminal on neg is usually very different from the actual related system as well. Figure out what ative ground cars, and to the "+" termi color of the car. Colors shift from the parts and tools you may need for the car to the photograph, and are further nal on positive ground cars. The switch job. Knowledgeand planning are impor changed for artistic reasons in the print wire then goes to the other terminal. tant tools. Workshop manual and brain ing processes. Furthermore, the colors in - don't work on your car without them. Old style Lucas coils were marked a photo or printed image are not uni - Eric Wilhelm

ATate pfSagtfpg Tales 065) which fitted between the spring and the control arm to rectify the condi TRIUMPH I.R.S. REAR SPRING DATA Continued from page 9 tion in "most cases". MODEL O.E. SPRING FREE LENGTH MOSS RATE Today, most suppliers offer one or notch inner, and remained so to the end more "stock" springs and perhaps a TR4Ato(?) 211658 "Short" 9.5" N/A 280 lb. of production. "competition" version, but everybody TR4From(?)' 213166"Long" 11" 675-035 280 lb. has their own idea of what a "competi TR250/6 to Springs 214293 10.375" 675-055 320 lb. tion" spring is. A number of these "com CC61570 (1973) Aside from chassis damage, there arc petition" springs actually worsen the TR250/6 From two causes of tear camber problems on condition; most have the length of an 216275 11.375" 675-045 354 IbA these cars: the springs and chassis original "stock" spring, but are made ALLTR4A-6 mounting brackets. The accompanying from a coil with an outrageous rate. MOSS Competition chart shows the springs Triumph fitted Installed, these springs have little or no Spring Set N/A 10.1875" 670-148 390 lb. "give", causing a car's tail to poke up at the sky; altogether inappropriate behav "Specified as a replacement lot earlier "short" serinos. in paits only. GROSS VENKLE WEIGHTS* ior for a Triumph. The increased rate 1965--67 TR4 2240 lb. gives a ride stiff enough to shake your you can expect a nice wallowy ride as of our customers who report good 1968 TR250 2270 lb. fillings loose. Congratulations - you just Triumph intended. traded one extreme for the other. results on both early and late TR6's 1969 TR6 2390 lb. If you're interested in something (post '73 cats may require packing piece 1975-76 TR6 2624 lb. Wc at Moss take our IRS Triumphs very seriously. When we set out to have above the stock springs, wc offer a really 675-065 to maintain stock ride height, "Takenfromrespectivetriumph ownersmanuals. springs made, wc came up with a couple nice blue painted spring set which com as this spring is shorter than stock vet- of nice and workable solutions. Wc offer pares to factory spring V-739, and is my sions). In my opinion this spring is what a stock-grade spring, 675-035, as a personal favorite. Unlike originals, this the factory should have used to give a to the TR4A-TR6 models. I always replacement "long spring" for all spring is progressive, meaning it gets nicely controlled but not too stiff ride . replace rear springs when I buy a TR TR4As, with a-normal ride height and a stiffer as it's compressed more. This is That about finishes things up on because they're cheap and they provide a bit stiffer ride than the weak original nice - you can bounce the car easily at springs. For those seeking all- out racing good reference point. versions. For TR250-TR6 up to first, yet after 1/2 inch of travel it stiff goodies, we offer a selection of competi Fined length and spring rate are crit CC61570 wc offer the 675-045 stock ens up quite a bit. This gives a comfort tion-grade spring sets on a special order ical on these cars because the spring spring. Ride height may vary slightly able ride with lots of control. basis, directly from TriumphTune in determines rear wheel camber. Changing from car to car with this spring (due to I've fined this set to both a TR4A England. Please contact any Moss mounting bracket shims adjusts only the different vehicleweights - see chart), but and a TR250 with wonderful results. salesperson for details. toe-in; it docs not alter camber. As I've also suggested this set to a number Triumph changed the spring specifica tions, they altered the rate in relation to the fitted length. All factory springs were of a non progressive rate (i.e. the rate Position Available Eastern Regional Manager did not change as the spring was com pressed). Triumph offered at least two uprated We are bolting for an experienced management professional - with an emphasis on soles - to join our management teem. Aqualified indiridual will springs, part No's. V-499 and V-739. have strong organizational and motivational skills. Abackground in British aula pads dsiribul'ion is aplus, ond athorough working knowledge of British These are thought to have been offered outomobiles isa must. The position islocated in Northwest New Jersey. only for TR6s. The former was for com petition use only, while the latter was offered as an heavier-duty stock replace Prooctive involvement is expeded. Your input wffl hdp expand out customer ond product base. Hits hyour c^poctunity to help grow on important component ment, tated at 450lbs. To deal with of the largest classic British parts cfetributor in the US. Pleose send resume and salary history to: compaints of settling springs and exces Arthur Deworf sive camber. Triumph issued Service Personnel Manager Bulletin 75-F-l in January, 1975, 400 Rutherford St., Goleta, CA 93117 (No phone talk please.) informing dealers of aluminum packing piece, part No. 64-20-01 (Moss 675-

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however is not to let anyone know How to ruin your there's any voting going on at all! Above British Car Event! all conceal the ballot box. We're always trying to improve on 8. MAKE SURE the awards/prize presen the quality and presentation of our tation goes on for at least three hours! British events whether it's a one day- This way you ensure that some potential affair or a full blown convention. prizewinners will get teed off and go However not all meets run smoothly, and home without their award, which you often this is mainly due to lousy organi can then save and use next time. If you zation and attitude, plus sometimes the have mounted an expensive awards ban people putting on the event get carried quet, then your task is to get the dullest away by their own importance! So if you presenter you can find, who will then really want to screw up your meet then plod his way through dozens of classes, here are our top 10 suggestions you in a boring monotone with a non-work might wish to follow: ing mike, so that the "Car of the Show" First of all choose your event team finale announcement is a complete anti carefully. Make sure you only get climax! This is a cardinal rule in ruining promising people. People who will a show-Do not let the excitement build! promise all the help you need six months Also a good tip is to give the long dis in advance, but the day before the meet, tance award to the guy who drove his tell you they can't assist because their Buickfrom Floridaand stopped off at the mothcr-in law is flying in from Alaska! meet just on chance. 1. DO NOT advertise the event, at least 9. BE SURE to practice your "I'm in not until the week before it takes place. charge" mode. You'll need it many times Do not let "Moss Motoring" know the especially when visitors have the temerity date, and certainly your local press and to enquire about timing or the judging TV station should be kept completely in criteria, or any other small thing that the dark. This way you are able to throw might go wrong. the attendees and any potential sponsors, 10. FINALLY DO NOT make any advertisersor prizedonors for a complete attempt to tidy up the show site either during or after your event, this will TR'satthe Moss Festival - Fullreport in our next issue! loop. They'll never forget you! 2. DO NOT greet people cordially when endear you to rhe site owners, and ensure they arrive at your event! , but by all that you get a different place to hold the are in charge-and they are doing some means make disparaging remarks about show every year! Hope you are all enjoying this great We have only been able to give you a summer of sports car motoring. thing they neverdreamed they would ever the type and the condition of die car they do-run a British sports car rally! Several arrive in. Also undertake registration at few pointers on making a complete mess We've been to some terrific of your show, but we're sure some of our events this past few weeks and wc still clubs undertake the Braille rally exercise the gate as slowly as you possibly can. have nearly half the season to got and some of these events are long estab This way you will get to enjoy a long, other readers will contribute to our lished. What a way to use your car frustrated line of cars and owners,espe knowledge on this subject. And while I was thinking the other day how this has been written with tongue firmly lucky we are to be able to drive our cars instead of just driving it around! ciallythosewho mighthaveprc-regtstcrcd. Another instance of community ser 3. THROW away the clocks! Do every planted in cheek, don't laugh too hard. It whenever, and almost wherever, we wish, happened! and I got a couple of letters which made vice was die adoption by the MG Club of thing on a random basis so you can enjoy Sue Mason and Ken Smith me ponder that wc arc much luckier than Baltimore, of a stretch of highway-the the discomfort of those who have the vergesof which they keepclean. In return audacity to try and stick to the published (Justfor the record-Sue organized the very we realize! successful British Car Show in Fairhope, there arc signs at each time schedule. Alabama for four years,and the last event end of the stretch which 4. NEVER, never, allow two members of proclaim just who is your helping team to give out identical Ken organized attracted over 5060 cars to responsible for keeping pieces of information. It will make for a an event in England! -but what do they know?) this stretch of road in far better puzzle if everyone tells a differ litter-free condition. ent story, and if those piecesof informa Neat idea and good tion change regularly! publicity for the club! 5. MAKE SURE you position the cars at My second letter told the show site so that they faceaway from me of a club who orga the sun! Then all the people with their nized a British Car PHD insramatic/automatic cameras will Meet, where everyone get lousy photographs, from shooting had a great time, and all against the light. This way you may per Classic Coldrs the profits went to char suade Kodak or Fiji to sponsor your ity. Again this is not event next year! (PHD by the way means uncommon, but it "Push Here Dummy!) makes me wonder if 6. PRACTICE APARTHHD- Position YOUR club should all the high dollar cars on one side of the What does Clipper Younever know what you'll find at Britishcar meets undertake something field and send the Midgets and the like this to assist those Spitfiresto the far corner of the site! You Blue look like? One letter told me of an event where less fortunate than wc arc. I guess I'm willsucceedin making some poor unfor Now yoo ran step guessing, because uWss has on the local dub took a bunch of blind chil trying to say that it might be worth con tunate feel very inferior. English poof rrooofoctwtr pcodudog touch wtpants far dren on a "Braille" rally. 'Ihe kids had sidering mounting such an event if your 7. ONLY ALLOW about 30 minutes HGT-series. their navigational instructions in Braille club docs not already do so. maximum for people to vote, (if it's a hats raw a 125oi (4.25 R.n.1 tans*n>• con and read them off to the sighted driver as By the same token why not write and popular choice show) alternatively if the venient brraWcop. 01coin*, wedas'! octoovy apd they ran the route. Now it's a rush to tell us what your club has been doing to show is to be judged make sure the fat you1 hi able tojo out torow40-pks year colcar drive an MG or a Triumph when you can help those who arc disadvantaged com judges know nothing at all about British mi toodi opscratches; Willi oo'rtoffering nest paints see- but can you imagine the thrill these pared to us? We'll print a selection of the cars. This way they will go for the MGB IBMb raceM otesswonc ovt ot motoojojco engine* youngsters got being hurtled along with best stories received and I'm sure it will with the 454 Chevy installed! ALso if it is color. Boy lie colon you tb and sootyId* samples to the wind in their hair? Can you visualize not only show our readers what a great a popular vote show make sure you enter your weal pantHonfororruratt conpottnadraxbnej. your car, and if you don't have an orga VmrfcooUbe easier? yourself driving the car but being told by bunch you arc, but might inspire some These pouts ore edeai if youwont w paint plastic someone who can't see where to go?! other organizationsto get cracking! nizer's class-create one- and get all your models and toycars id oothenlk colors! Ouc Touch Up The children feel important-lhey feelthey buddics to vote for your car! Best way colors have been erierenrly researched, end ore asdose toknown origiool colors asyou con get_cnd they're only OKMObieIlKI MOSS. BRITFEST '34 AT MOSS any deer which might have wandered Prize presentations took place at Please nolo: locnol Soda on looted,butwt have onto the back roads! However the fog 2PM and by 3.30 wc were on our way- more irnnkty and addoionol caws toiheway. MOTORS, NEW JBtSEY bumed off and we were able to make back to Baltimore after a super day. up the lost time. imtc (:I 15 i»] leu Room Mass t The 9th Annual Britfcst sponsored Our thanks to Moss Motors and the Wc reached Dover around hard working organizing club, for a Victory"Csnr by the MG Car Club of Central Jersey 9.30a.m. having passed and been super day! W (KG led) teoolol 21*025 and Moss Motors was held at Dover passed, by other enthusiasts on their Richard Liddick, (bgencyled) NJ. in the spring and the event went Green (Shires Greet) Almond Green 216-300 way to the show and when wc arrived MGs ofBaltimore. off without a hitch. There were plenty (•GGtcenl of spectators and lots of famous the show cat area was already filling Hue dipper Sue 214-215 British marques on hand for viewing. up and many ven Naturally the MGs were the most dors were to be seen .".DTD 117;?-:;! numerous. setting up to sell KGted lew led 216425 The event is one of die first shows their wares. With a Aukmlal (otomnted 21(470 of the season for British cars on the temperature of llcaod Green AbnaodGrsn 21r-300 east coast, and after being hit with around 80 degrees hoy Ivory 21(310 some of the worst winter weather in and sunny skies, we QpOtfHJt Offerlk* 216-215 recent memory, I was ready to shine saw over a hundred ffaloWljioi I''.rhf^r, up the MG and head out to New Gcesn (dark) 216-290 Jersey. My friend Kurt Nagl and I, cars ranging from MGs to , and traveled north the 220 miles from Baltimore, which meant leaving there was a sizable •S If (1953-55) Maryland at 4.30a.m.! Earlyvisibility contingent of MGRed Renoted 216:15 ALt.xJGicci AlraondGieen 216-300 was zero due to thick fog, and we had Triumphs on hand. Ivory hory 216310 to make haste slowly to avoid hitting Kith Grey BretGrey HA

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In the interest of British sports car owners throughout the country, wc publish major British car events in our quarterly events calendar. If you would like to list an event in Moss Motoring, please send a short description, Sept. 24 Jaguar Auto Group Autumn Meet & All including date and telephone number. We will list as many es-entsas possible in our available space. Send your British, at ????, Bob Herfunh (908) 369-3300. entries, attention: Moss Motoring Events Calendar, 400 Rutherford Street, Goleta, CA 93117. Our next deadline closes September 30, 1994. Note: Events and dates arc submitted by club members. Moss Motors, Ird. cm not Sept 24 MG's On The Green, Davidson College be held responsible for accuracy. (So please confirm all events by telephone before traveling.) near Charlotte, NC, Tom Cotter, 704-455-3500 Sept 29-30-Oct 1-2 Triumphest '94, San Diego, CA, August 3-7 Vintage Triumph Register Convention, Sept 2-4 11th Annual races, at Dave Johnson, 619-693-0443 Ashevillc, NC, Jamie Palmer, 919-639-4907 Steamboat Springs, Vince Quick (303) 671-6174 Sept 30 -Oct 1-2 Btitish Car Festival Weekend. August 4 - 7 Southeast Regional MG Festival, Sept 4 Autumn Spons Classic, Como Lake Park Waynesboro, VA, Roger Hammond, 703-377-4652 Belleview Mido Resort Hotel in Clearwater, FL, (Casino), Lancaster, NY, Lvnnc Puma, 718-632- Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 6 Pack Trials '94, Hobday Inn in Bruce Rauch, 813-576-9474 or 813-576-9570 9001 Richfield, OH, BeverlyFloyd 216-666-2817 August 4 - 7 British Car Festival, at Ramada Inn in Sept 8-11 NEMGTR. G.O.F. MK 59, Trumbull, Oct. 1 4th Annual British Car Day, USS Battleship Auburn, MA, Robert Stahlbush, 401-944-8727 CT, Dick Knudson, 607-432-6835 Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile Bay, AL, Ben August 5-7 Southeastern MG Festival, Clearwater, Sept 8-11 40th Anniversary'Collier Cup MG Race, Caddel, 205-661-9388 or Mike Thomason, 205- EL, Ben Rauch. 813-576-9474 Watkins Glen, NY, Greg Prehodka, 201-473-3888 343-0726 (Sponsored by Moss Motors). August 6 10th Annual British Car and Cycle Day, Oct. 1-2 1994 AMGBA National Convention, San Davton An Institute - Davton. OH. Jim Quillen, Sept 10 British Car Day, St. Louis. MO, John Diego, CA, 800-723-MGMG 513-252-1948 Mangles, 314-939-9338 go Oct. 1-2Tri-HcalcyOzark Meet, Inn ,Osage Beach, August 9-14 Austin-Healey West Coast Meet, Sept 11 British Car Dav, Palo Alto, CA Rick MO, Joseph Smathcrs, Jr., 913-8424822 Ventura, CA, 818-998-6932 (Incorporates Austin- Feibusch 310-392-6605 Oct. 2 San Diego All British Car Day, Del Mar, CA Healey Day at Moss, Aug 13) Sept 11 British Car Gathering,Wickham Park, Oct. 7-9 Hospitality Savannah - A British Motoring August 13th. All Morgan Car Show, Manchester. CT Weekend, Savannah, GA, Charles Anderson, 912- "S Redmond.WA. Michael .Amos,8056 161st Ave NE, Sept 11 Battle of The Brits, Sterling Heights, MI, 897-9933 Redmond. WA.98052. Steve Calkins, SI0-268-9495 or Jack Fuller, 810- Oa. 14 - 15 11th Annual Memphis British Car & August 12-14 American MGC Register 553-8738 Cvcle Fesi, Memphis, TN, Jim Hofer, 800-344- Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Keith Sept 11 Third Annual British Car Show & Swap 9683 or Bill Cravens. 901-683-7195 Holdswonh, 416-8894028 Meet, Cleveland, OH, Bob Palmer, 216-274-0017 Oct. 15 MOSS MG MARQUE DAY, Dover, NJ, August 18-21 Encounter "94, AUcntown, PA, John Sept 11 British Car Festival, Oakton Community Tony Pfistcr 201-365-0363 Morrison, 215-538-3813 College, Des Plaines, IL, Mahlon & Jan Hillard, Oct. 15 8th Annual All British Meet & Autojumbie, August 19 - 21 MG/Jaguat Heritage Classic 708-885-7789 Picnic Island Park, Tampa, FL, Coleman Keck, 813- Concours and Slalom, Doug Gale, 604-521-3021 Sept 17 MOSS FALL CLASSIC ALL BRITISH, 752-0186 August 19-21 University Motors Summer Pany, Goleta, CA. 800-235-6954 Grand Rapids, MI, John Twist, 616-682-0800 Oct. 22 British Wire Wheel lech Session, Dare Carrier. Sept 17-18 British Cat Conclave, Arvada, CO, Scon 408-688-2727 or John Krischcr,408-688-0676 August 19 - 21 14th Annual Rendezvous, at Story, 303-755-1426 Oct. 22nd.British Car Classic MklV. St Augustine, DO Embarcadcro in Newport, OR Sept 18 British Car Day 1994, at Historic Berkeley FL. Tony Kimball ,904 268-8137. August 20 Jaguar Concourse & All British , at Park Plantation , Williamsburg, VA Dave Harrison, Oct. 23 Autumn Classic Concours, Santa Cruz, CA. City Utah.fcary Pizza (801) 485-7366 804-7484601 or Barbara Andres, 804-346-4840 Bill Meade, 408-459-9636 August 26 - 28 Montcrcv Historic Races, David Sept 23-25 Indy British Motor Days, Conner Oct. 28 - 30 GOF "94 Roadrunner Roundup, * r""N Carrier, 408-688-2727 or John Krischcr, 408-688- Prairie, Indianapolis, Brett Johnson, 317-849-2001 Flagstaff, AZ, Lee Kaplan, 602-937-1203 0676 Sept 23-25th Rio Grande British Car Meet. Silver August 28 5th Annual "A taste of Britain" Car City. NM. Tyler Irwin (505) 299-7864. . We're happy to list your British spons car event in Show and Polo Match, Lancaster, PA, Raymond Sept. 24 15th Annual "MGs on the Rocks", Rocks Moss Motoring, providing you with scvetal hun Emery, 717-872-7528 State Park, near Bel Air, MD, Richard Liddick, 410 dred thousand potential participants!

THE 1994 MOSS MOTORING PHOTO CONTEST THE 1994 "MOSS MOTORING" JOURNALISM AWARDS As we've made our way through the entries can be returned. summer, we've seen some great events 7. If there are recognizable persons in Robert Goldman our Cotporate and we must also have seen a million What do these names mean to your entry a signed release must accom you? 'Spoke and Word'? Marketing Managet, Mike Chaput our rolls of film being exposed by all you pany your entry. If securing a release is 'Boot & Bonnet'? Talcs & enthusiastic Sales Manager, plus Jamie great photographers out there! So what impossible, a note of explanation as to better time than to choose the best of Trails'? 'The Roars'? 'Blucbonnet'? Pfeifer our Art &c Advertising honcho why a consenting signature could not be complete the panel. yout work and submit it for the 1994 obtained must accompany each entry. Nothing?-wcll these ate the titles of Moss Motoring Photo Contest? some of the hundred or so fine club There will be several different cate OVER S500.00 IN PRIZES! As we told you in our last issue we publications wc receive at Moss each gories for clubs large and small and have increased the prize fund and there ...And now for the prizes to be award and every month. These plus several every publication submitted will is over Five hundred dollars in total ed in the form of Moss Motors Gift 'Octagons', 'Healey News' and the receive equal consideration. All entries waiting for the winnets, but you must Certificates, which can be exchanged for 'Jagwirc' arc all avidly read by our will teccivc a special certificate signify submit your entries by OCTOBER 31ST the widest selection of quality pans on staff, and very impressedthey are. ing their efforts, and the winners will the planet! 1994. So get cracking, and send your So we have resumed our search for receiveunique plaques, plus a valuable entries to: One GRAND Prize of a $150 (one the best club publications with the Moss gift certificate to be used bv your MOSS MOTORS PI lOTO CONTEST hundred and fifty dollars) certificate. "Moss Journalism Awards 1994" and club. 400 RUTHERFORD STREET One FIRST Prize of a $125.00(one the entries will be judged by a distin If you wish to enter YOUR club hundred and twenty five dollars! certifi guished panel of people who know just GOLETA. CA 93117 publication for consideration by the cate. what it is to put a magazine together- judges, then please send a self And once again here arc the rules: One SECOND Prize of a Sl00.00(One especially on a voluntary basis and addressed stamped envelope for an 1. All entries must be received no later hundred dollars) certificate. with limited resources. entry form to: Barbara Thorpe, 'Moss than October 31st 1994. Pleasesec para One THIRD prize of a $75.00(Scvcnty Assisting the Editot of "Moss Motoring', 400 Rutherford St, Goleta graph 4 for information that must accom Five dollars) certificate. Motoring" will be Barbara Davis man CA.93117. Mafk the envelope pany each entry. "MOJAS". Closing date for entries is At least six HONORABLE MEN ager of the graphics production house 2. Each entry must be the original TIONS will be awarded a S35.00(Thirty which produces "M.M", also our November 1st 1994. How would you unpublished work ofthe entrant. Five dollars) certificate. senior motoring scribe, Harry Newton like to put "Winner-Moss Motoring has agreed to come up for lunch one Journalism Award" on the front cover 3. Entries will be judged on the basis All entrants will receive a of content, photographic skill and appro day and help sort the entries out! of YOUR magazine in 1995?! priateness. S5.00 gift certificate. 4. Each entry must be labeled with the photogtapher's name and address. We suggestthat you attach a separate labelto Self Triggering Hood & Trunk Stays the reverse side of the print. Do not write on either the back paper or the emulsion for Sprite, Midget and MGB side of the prim. Up to three (3) submis sions will be accepted from each entrant, Factory hood and trunk lids area lot easier toopen than close, especially ifyou have but each must be labeled individually. anything inyour hands atthe time. Out Amerkan made replacement stays are aself- 5. This contest is limited to Black & triggering design. You open them the same asever, but toclose you need only lift the White and/or Color prints only. Entries must be no smaller that 5" X 7" nor larg panel up and then let Hdown. There's no need touse a second hand torelease the catch! er than 11" X 14" glossy prints. Wc regret that we arc unable to accept color Trunk Slay Sprile/Midge! 406-985 $19.95 transparencies for this contest. Trunk Slay MGB 1971 -'80 457-540 $19.95 6. All entries become the property of KoodSloyMGB197I-'80 457-535 $19.95 Moss Motors for their exclusive use. No Fall '94, Page15 I MailOrders:

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