ISSUE 3, 2025
Welcome to Issue 3, 2025 of Moss Motoring. Immerse yourself in a vast range of stories that range from personal profiles, to technical advice, and more. We promise it’s a ride worth your while. Browse the articles below.
Tinker Time in Tennessee
by Ned Serleth with artwork by Howard Stacy What could be more cathartic than tinkering with our British autos? Bashing our heads against a wall? Jumping into the North Sea? Consuming vast amounts of alcohol? Naw. Working on our BMCs is good for the heart and soul, especially when the hard work is done, and…
Patience is a Virtue and an MG Midget
by Tara Feeney My arrival into the world of antique British cars was a happy accident. I was eighteen and searching for a relatively cheap project car on Facebook Marketplace to restore while in college. When I was searching, several MGs came up for sale, ranging from the late 1950s to well into the 1970s….
10 Years in the Making A Recreation of the Macau Spitfire #3
by Art “Dutch” Van Diggelen I have been a Spitty-holic ever since 1968, when my wife, Sue, swapped her VW Bug for a BRG Triumph MKIII Spitfire. We joined the Continental Sports Car Club and met fellow member Butch Gilbert, who had just started road racing his MGB. According to the Sports Car Club of…
Fire in the Hole
by Russ Sharples submitted by Mitchel L. Friedman I’ve seen a lot of burned and melted wires in little British cars in my time. This is not surprising, considering that most of these cars were built with just two fuses. When a short circuit occurs in an unfused wire, the wire rapidly heats up all…
If James Bond Drove An MGB GT
by R.L. Corn Sixty-one years ago, “Q” presented James Bond with a highly modified Aston Martin DB5 so that he could save the world from Goldfinger. The next year, the good folks at BMC released a Pininfarina-styled hardtop version of the extremely popular MGB to save the world from pricey, high-end sports cars while providing…
That’s My Story, and I’m Sticking to It!
by Kevin Jeffers It was a hot and humid July day in 1974 when the shiny mimosa yellow 1973 Triumph TR6 cruised slowly past the crowds at the St. Matthews Parish Festival. The driver crept along, only wishing that someone he knew would notice him. I had just detailed the TR6 for my neighbor Jeff…
Screwed Again
by Fred DeSantis Just when you think you know something about fasteners, your little British car tells you that you really don’t. All I wanted to do was adjust the doors! The door hinges on my 1967 Austin-Healey 3000 are fastened to the body with 8 screws, 4 to a hinge. The driver’s side had…
Reunited and it Feels So Good
by Kevin Turner In 1982, I was a sophomore in college when I got an unexpected phone call from my father, saying he had a car for me that one of his friends wanted to get rid of. I had always been a car fanatic, getting Road & Track, Car & Driver, Motor Trend, and…