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Attributed to British comedian, Dave Allen.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who likes taking pictures of sunsets and sunrises around here. So why don't we post some of the good ones we have. I took these ones yesterday evening out at the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge, which is just down the road from me.

Hi all, My BN6 has developed a rattle from the front of the rear springs. With an axle stand keeping the axle in its normal position I can move the front part of the spring up and down - you can see the gap where I have put the screwdriver. The guides seem to be in teh right place and there are no broken leaves. Any thoughts other than new springs?

At the Blackhawk British Meet in Danville, CA this past October, was this Sprite: Which I found really interesting. Nice car, but it was the plate that I really wanted to talk to the owner about. See, (ye gads!) forty years ago, we had a Spridget club in the Bay Area, the Sprite-Midget Owners' Group (yeah, "SMOG") and one of the members had the car below, an immaculate silver Bugeye with American Racing Spectres and a special pedal set-up because he was a Vietnam vet who'd given... Read more

Found a right hand steering knuckle complete from top link to the bottom link inclusive with the drum, except when I attached it to the vehicle then the top of the tire extends angled out wards too much??? Not sure exactly how to bring it back in?? Yea so that the bottom of the tire rests/fits more evenly with the pavement??? Think it's called either castor or the camber?? Not sure which one though either?? Help????

that have a ball on the end to fit into the link rod. Moss sells the bell crank but those screws do not come with it? Does anybody know who sells them. They always get worn down and I'm trying to get the slop out of the linkage.

Hi folks, I'm Larry. I bought my first britcar in 1978 during my senior year of high school. It was a 1969 Austin America. A couple years later I learned that while I was struggling to keep that car running, I was walking past the house of Mike Kearney who was racing the Fortech Mini at the time. Since then I owned a 68 sprite Mk IV, which I rebodied at a '64 Mk II. I raced a 68 Cortina GT in Improved Touring C in the late '80s/early 90s, and a '69 MGBGT which I still own. When it was last... Read more

Hi folks, I'm Larry. I bought my first britcar in 1978 during my senior year of high school. It was a 1969 Austin America. A couple years later I learned that while I was struggling to keep that car running, I was walking past the house of Mike Kearney who was racing the Fortech Mini at the time. Since then I owned a 68 sprite Mk IV, which I rebodied at a '64 Mk II. I raced a 68 Cortina GT in Improved Touring C in the late '80s/early 90s, and a '69 MGBGT which I still own. When it was last... Read more

Has someoone installed an AC Ace kit on their MGB body? Any comments?

The other day I was rereading a "news" article for the third time trying to figure out the 'who-what-where-when' supposedly contained in it. I realized that (i) I had been having this issue with increasing (yet still small) numbers of articles for some time and (ii) that the name in the byline was a pseudonym for some AI agent. Full confirmation of my conclusion came today. An article on the Reiner son whining about not getting his trust distributions to pay for his defense against killing... Read more

Queue is a funny word. It's just a Q with a bunch of silent letters waiting in line.

Folks, The starter on my 1959 3000 has finally decided to call it quits. I may rebuild it, but in the immediate time frame, I am installing a gear reduction starter. I assume the starter does not care if the car is positive or negative ground, since there is only a single post for the battery connection. (Mine car is positive ground.) The existing starter solenoid has a brown wire that connects to one post on the solenoid and goes to the voltage regulator. The gear-reduction starter I... Read more