Sources of Technical Expertise
Are you wanting to know more about repairing or restoring your British sports car?
It's often hard to find knowledge and expertise regarding them long after they were manufactured.
It turns out there are a large number of very knowledgeable people who still restore and maintain their Classic British sports cars.
Here are just a few resources for restoration and maintenance. Most of these are for MGB's, but almost all the information is transportable to other cars. By doing an Internet Search you can find the ones for your vehicle. I found all of these during the past several years using the Google search engine, but others will work as well.
Click on any of the logos or pictures below to open a window for the appropriate website.
John Twist of University Motors does a series of 7-minute "how to" videos on YouTube that are excellent. John is also the "Tech Tips" editor of MGB Driver, the publication of the North American MGB Register (NAMGBR). He does these excellent instructionals on such subjects as brakes, carburetors, tuning, etc. If your car isn't an MG, do a YouTube search and you'll almost certainly find some videos. If there are none, do a Google search for your car name with such words as "repair," "service," "maintenance," "help," etc.
The MGB Experience site below is an excellent website full of charts and a complete library of information. Take the time to browse around it and you'll find lots of useful information and many answers to common problems.
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Click the Yahoo Groups buttom to the right, then, using their Search function, enter the type of Classic Car you're interested in (i.e., MGB, Spridget, Sprite, Midget, Austin Healey, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Morris Minor, etc.). You'll sometimes get some non-appropriate hits, but, in general, you'll find several Bulletin Boards that have information that will benefit you. The "Join" process is usually simple and quick... and then you can start posting your questions.
However, do the existing members a favor: First, buy a manual for your car. You can usually find them on eBay or other sources for anywhere from $20 to $50.
It can get tiring to already-existing members to have a new member suddenly asking dozen of questiions (like "where is the fuel pump") that are easily answered by opening a manual. Save the Bulletin Board for questions that are difficult to find even after reading the manual.
The North American MGB Register is the authoritative source for MGB's, primarily in the US and Canada. I strongly recommend you join it. Its approximately $32/year membership is a steal. It includes a subscription to the 11 times per year MGB Driver, full of articles of interest and about the best tech tips section around.
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