From Moss Motoring 1984 Dear Sirs, The newsletter I just received was very interesting and amusing particularly the piece by Steve Hensley. I’ve been there before and I’ll be back again. I hope you will be continuing this newsletter Thanks, Keith A Lindstrom St Paul, Minn. ********** Hi, Here’s a suggestion from an Austin Healey…
From Moss Motoring 1984 Handy Hint: It’s what you don’t see that can hurt you! Have you ever noticed while driving, that the car in front of you has a wobbly wheel? Or that its front and rear wheels track out of line, indicating that a past accident has left the chassis out of alignment?…
From Moss Motoring 1984 By Dave Ramstad Just three dozen short of 72,000 Big Healeys rolled out of the BMC works at Longbridge, and later Abingdon, between 1952 and 1968. Donald Healey’s “Hundred” hit the United States like a bombshell. Its fresh, sensational lines, ample power, and very attractive price created overnight queues of eager…
From Moss Motoring 1983 It has been many years now, but oh, the shock, the shame of it! My husband Joe, confessed that he had feelings for another woman! They say that the wife is the last to know, but in the beginning I was so completely ignored that suspicion soon dawned, and then he…
From Moss Motoring 1983 July 23rd, 1983, will go down in Moss Motors’ history books as the date another great new venture began. Some one hundred sixty Austin Healey enthusiasts came to our Goleta office, many of them driving their Healeys, for our first-ever “Moss Marque Day”. Arriving at 7:45 a.m., we found several ‘early…
From Moss Motoring 1983 Doesn’t that want ad sound intriguing? Yeah, it did to us, too! The end result was that, in mid-September, we adopted this ‘old’ solution to a new problem, by moving our East Coast Distribution Center from Montville, New Jersey to Rockaway, New Jersey. This move, less than a year after our…
From Moss Motoring 1983 Thanks in large part to the developmental work and skilled driving of Bob Tullius and his Group 44 team, the name Jaguar is again appearing in the Winners Circle! With strong factory support, the new “XJR5” Prototype racer is making a very impressive showing in GTP racing around the country. Powered…
From Moss Motoring 1983 Observant readers of the Moss Motors semi-annual Price Updates will have seen the page devoted to our non-catalog parts division, Moss Santa Barbara. A word or two of additional explanation of the services they offer may help clarify where they fit into our overall picture. Physically, Moss Santa Barbara is located…
From Moss Motoring 1983 If your wire-wheeled car should ever have the misfortune of needing to be towed backwards, you should stop every so often to re-tighten the knock-offs. Prolonged counter-rotation of the wheels will often loosen them. -Daniel Shapiro Torrance, CA. We hope Dan didn’t find out about this potential problem the hard way!…
From Moss Motoring 1983 Most British sports cars have no provision in their front suspension for adjustment of caster and camber. Only toe-in can be altered, by adjusting the length of the tie rods. So long as the chassis is straight and undamaged, the lower control arm pivots and shock absorbers securely mounted, and all…
