From Moss Motoring 1985 By Don Hayward Many distinguished scientists have worked their entire lives to try and figure out why British autos never seem to obey any scientific laws known to man. Most of us are familiar with the physical laws thought up by Isaac Newton, the guy who invented gravity. He said things like…
From Moss Motoring 1985 WELL PLEASED Gentlemen: I have been well pleased with the quality of your products, the promptness of your service and the conduct of your business in an ethical manner. You and your products were recommended to me by people that have used Moss Motors and have been very pleased with the…
Every now and again, I get a letter that has a little dig in it about driving in California. Usually very subtle, they go something like’Too bad your cars wear out so quickly from being driven all year1 or “The reason that there are relatively few cherry MGAs in California must be that you folks…
From Moss Motoring 1986 By Conrad Campos Jr. Keizsr, Oregon A top is a toy and a top is opposite of a bottom. There is the expression ‘to top someone’ and a description such as ‘Top Banana’. There is also the top that is a hood. I was lucky to find one in the boot…
(Ron and Patty D’Aigle sent in a funny log of the trials they went through in obtaining and restoring their MGB GT, which was just too long to print in its entirety in Moss Motoring. In this issue, you’ll read Part I, which deals with finding their first British sports car. Look for the continuation…
(After Ken and Barbara Smith logged over 5,000 miles while visiting countless states to attend British sports car events all over the country in their bright yellow ’78 MGB, it seemed that the time had come for Moss Motors to purchase a company RV. Although Ken and Barb proved that an MGB could hold an…
The response to our “Join a British Sports Car Club” invitation in the last issue of the Moss Motoring has been nothing less than amazing! We’ve received a constant stream of letters and SASEs asking for details of local British car clubs from the Moss club database. In the majority of cases, we were able…
As you may have read in the last edition of Moss Motoring, we were busy readying the Moss TR3 for the upcoming Gold Coast Rally in San Luis Obispo, California, a beautiful two hour drive north of our California headquarters. As a major sponsor of this three day event, which included a vintage car auction, 175…
Go east, young man! Once again, we’ve hauled the Mossmobile away from the California sunshine and over the Rockies to yet another season of British Car events back east. However, before we started out we had an exciting weekend on the west coast with a tremendously successful MG Marque Day and the conclusion of the…
We last left you somewhere “back east”, during this summer of quite bizarre weather, but eventually the Pacific Ocean again came into view through the windscreen, some 11,000 miles and 86 nights after we left Goleta in June! Driving down scenic Highway 1 through Monterey, from Palo Alto, gave us the opportunity to review our…
