MyHusbandTheEngineer has a green car. He adoringly calls it a ’57 Austin Healey 100-6, BN4. I would turn it into a planter upon his demise, but he’s sunk too much money in it. The green car has no shock absorbers (“shocks” to the intelligentsia), radio (but you couldn’t hear it over the din of the …
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(Authors note: This story is part fiction and part fact, the names have been changed to protect, well…me obviously.) Part One: Discovery It was a dark and stormy night…no it wasn’t either, it was a rainy Wednesday morning, really. March, 31st, 2004, look it up. I had just stopped by the heating and cooling repair …
The little car is off the ground On jack stands in the air. Where it spends a bit of time Waiting for repair. It could be brakes I have a hunch I just don’t know Let’s go to lunch! Somethings leaking Something failed, It’s always something But parts are in the mail. The clerks, my …
The following are suggestions for working inside in an environment that you share with your family: 1. Do not use the clothes washer/dryer as a work bench • Talk about warpage when welding, try porcelain coated steel. • While extra holes help clothes dry more quickly, auto parts and black spots are hard to explain …
Whatever happened to that British Racing Green MG TC in the academy-award winning film, The Way We Were? 39 years later, I can tell you that it’s happily parked in my garage. Acquiring my MG TC At age 10 I saw a photograph of a 1947 MG TC. It was black, with chrome wire wheels, and red wheel wells. …
The travail of finding parts for a 1960 Jaguar XK150 It was a rare sunny day in Seattle, the clouds had all blown south to Oregon and I was free to take my Jag out for a ride. I lowered the “head” (top) and snapped the large bulky cover over the bulging material at the …
This is the best, that is, as recommended by British car fans. Here they are folks; from the people who responded to our survey, this is the driving music that moves them the most. Listed in the order that they were received… Me and Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin I want to take you Higher – …
British sports cars were wired really, really weird. (Say it 5 times.) The earth was negative on every American car I had ever forced an 8-track tape player into, and I was sure that my skills could be applied with no less success on the Austin America I had just acquired. After all, it said …
One night as I was watching Letterman’s “Stupid Pet Tricks” and reading an old Peter Egan article “Speed Secrets of the Ultra Slow.” I was inspired and Stupid Sprite Tricks was born. These stories are dedicated to the things we and others have inflicted on our British cars. “What fools these mechanics be!” – William …
