A few days into 2013, a fellow car enthusiast from work asked me if I had seen the scavenger hunt article in the latest Moss Motoring. He and I talked about the challenge and calculated we would have some easy sign photos within a short distance, so we decided to do it. I told my wife …
Club tours are a great opportunity for father/daughter time. I am not by nature a club-type person. I was active in sports car clubs when I was single, but now I find that work, family, and trying to keep a motley assortment of cars on the road keep me busy enough without adding club activities …
I walked around the car show feeling very out of my element. Of course I am a HUGE car fan and my family complains endlessly about my obsession of the show Top Gear (the UK version of course—the others are just lame), but I only have a brain full of facts about cars going back …
An advantage of driving clear across the country in June with the top down—assuming you’ve managed to avoid debilitating heat exhaustion from humid, 95-plus degree afternoons—is the symmetry you get with having not one but two dry, cracked, sun-fried arms…
With the summer season upon us, our thoughts turn to long motoring trips in our British cars. My “big trip” of the summer is a drive some 250 miles up the coast to the Monterey Peninsula for what has to be one of the most incredible automotive weekends on earth. It includes the Monterey Historic …
Participating in some kind of motorsports usually requires specialized equipment ranging from special tires to a fully prepared race car. There is a way, however, to compete without any car prep: enter a road rally. This is an event held on public roads in which a driver and a navigator must follow a set of …
They’re the automotive equivalent of reality TV: today’s televised collector car auctions. Once the domain of just those in the know, these events have become a big deal thanks to their big prices, big lights, big ratings and big excitement. There’s a method to this sensory overload, assuming you can take in the whole picture. …
Not all Competitions Require the Pedal to the Metal Instead of the same old wax-and-shine car show, some clubs are reviving the economy run events that were popular in the past but unheard of in recent times. They require a different skill set since they’re driving events—think shifting and braking rather than cleaning and polishing. …
If you’ve been working on mechanical projects and upgrades on your roadster all winter and are ready to do more with it than drive to the park on Sunday, then perhaps a vintage tour or rally should be on your agenda. These are multi-day events through scenic areas on great sports car roads with fellow …
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 birds’ pacing the forecourt, …
