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Confessions of A Teenage MG Driver
by Charles Cutler I grip the large metal-spoked steering wheel of my 1975 MGB, zipping between humdrum hybrids and stale SUVs, my red British roadster releasing the smell of carbureted happiness in its wake. I’m an average 19-year-old guy, but I’ve been photographed, waved at, and propositioned—all because of this classic British car. It is…
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Maiden Voyage
by Ned Serleth I inspected my machine from grille to tailpipe. This was going to be my car’s first ever road adventure since its completion. All fluids met approval; the radiator, oil pan, and master cylinder passed inspection. My insurance agent had picked my pocket once again, and a new license plate adorned the rear….
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Taking the Lead: Lifetime Love Affair
by Kathy Cook Al and I fell in love just after high school. But I was not Al’s first love. He had already fallen in love with MGs. In 1972, during our senior year in college, Al picked up a disassembled MGTD. He and I both went to law school and during the summers Al…
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Sharing Your British Car With The World
by Glen & Jill MooreWe purchased another British car. Yes, we already had a collection of MGs in the garage. Is this a disease or just an obsession? Took all the paperwork to the county tax collector’s office to pay the sales taxes, get the car an updated title, and obtain a license plate. In…
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Future Barn Finds
by Jake Voelckers Fall started a few weeks early in 2023. That’s when my brothers, Adam and Evan, and I started discussing our second annual trip home to New York. Last year was the first time we met up there in the fall, just us, at our childhood home. We planned to gather parts we…
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A Golden Gate Opportunity
by Greg Cory An unusual bit of luck and an opportunity was presented to the Golden Gate Austin-Healey Club (GGAHC). It was an inquiry from an attorney who wanted to run an ad for a car. He described it as a “very rough” Austin-Healey and sent a couple of pictures. I gave him a call…
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The DS420 Limousine
by John Quilter Jaguar, who once owned Daimler, was in need of a much larger limousine car for the livery trade, funeral homes, for UK and foreign royalty and high government officials, so the DS420 was born circa 1962 on a 21-inch wheelbase stretch of the Jaguar Mark X saloon. The DS420 had a long-running history, the last being made in…
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Going Topless
by David Mathias Over the decades I have owned literally dozens of British and German sports cars. I can’t say this without likening myself to a character in Aesop’s Fables about the grasshopper and the ant. The ant is wise. He works hard, saves his money and is both thrifty, conservative and probably drives a…
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Kids and Cars
by Jake Volkers Part of being a good dad is finding ways to connect with your kids.When I was a teenager, I started getting interested in cars. In particular, the cars at my dad’s shop. In the mid-1970s, he started and single-handedly ran a business that was strictly about British cars. He found ways to…
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10 YEARS FROM NOW…WHO WILL TAKE CARE OF THIS CAR?
by David Stuursma Share your thoughts, stories, and photos of efforts to encourage the next generation at mossmotors.com/in-10-years. There’s a question I’m hearing often from British car owners: How do we get the next generation ready and interested in taking on our classic cars? I know this is a concern for quite a few owners….