SU Throttle Shaft Tip Bob Hughes Spokane, WA Have you replaced a throttle shaft on your favorite British sports car lately and wondered how you were going to pin the idle adjustment lever and the throttle stop lever to the throttle shaft? Or better yet, how do you drill the hole for the mounting pin,…
By Craig Fitzgerald Editor, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car I’m not sure what it is about the MGB GT that gets me flipping through Hemmings trying to find a clean example. Sports cars are roadsters, right? I mean, what’s the point if the top won’t go down? But ever since I was a kid, every…
By Tony Tiffin September 1972. I was in a small North Georgia MG dealership. Standing on the tiny showroom floor were two brand new MGB-GTs: One a mallard green sweetie with autumn leaf interior, rostyles and rubber mats. The sticker read $3,600 drive-out! But right next to it was a wire-wheeled English red heartbreaker. It…
My tip concerns the removal of stuck pistons from brake cylinders. Air pressure usually works, but then you spend the rest of the afternoon looking for the parts on the floor! I have taken some old brake line nuts and drilled them out then tapped them to take grease fittings. Now, with a grease gun,…
As we went to press with the Fall issue of “Moss Motoring”” we were saddened to learn of the passing of “MR M.G.” John Thornley during July. Wc promised that we would give a fuller appreciation of this remarkable individual, and the contribution John made to the most famous British marque of all. We here at…
Over the years I have restored several sports cars including a Lotus Elan and an Alfa Romeo spider, as well as a non-sports car, a Morris Minor Traveler. My daily drivers have been a series of 4 cylinder cars (with the exception of a 2 cylinder Honda 600). About 6 years ago I thought it…
I sat at a stoplight in nowhere important Rhode Island. Just another day at work; I was on my way to see a customer. While I waited for the light to change, I noticed an elderly man taking out trash. I stared for a moment, and then my focus changed and I saw a TR6 sitting in the woods just behind him…and behind that, another one.
The Story of the Kiwi Composite Fuel Pump By: Dr. Michael J. Austin Keeping a classic on the road is a challenge and poses many questions to ownership. Do you restore, preserve, update, or modify? When does a classic, due to modifications, become more of a replica of its original self? When is the “character”…
For my wife and I, our first MG experience was in 1978, an Aconite 1973 roadster. In 1988, we were living in Alabama when I noticed a 1969 MGB GT for sale in the Tuscaloosa News. When I went to look at the car, it was sitting in a carport, sadly well past its prime….
