MG Links

Updated November 2008: Get a Birth Certificate for your B (and other MG models and marques). Direct from BMIHT price (at last time of checking) is £37 and should be with you in less than 28 days. There are extra charges for searches on engine/body number if the chassis number is not available. There is also an expanded version with technical specification for £56, and if you just want a dating letter e.g. to change its taxation class to Historic and be elegible for free UK Road Tax that is £19. Also see British Motor Heritage Ltd. for OE shells, panels and other parts.

Learn all about the role and Frank Zappa play in owning an MG. Two versions are available - 'real time' and the digest. The last time I used the digest it arrived a day or two later than the 'real-time' messages would have, and the messages were in date/time order making it awkward to follow and contribute to threads. However the digest means that if you only access your mailbox once a week, you only get five messages instead of five hundred! (Those were the days, probably only get about 70 per month now). The Team.Net MG Mail List and MGB V8 Mail List archives - Retrieve past pronouncements on all MG topics under the sun, rather than asking "Why don't my turn signals work?" or "What does mean?"

	The most important MG site on the Internet		The MG Web Ring originally set up by Ben Russet.
	The original MG club ...		... and its V8 Register
	The largest one-make car club in the world	British Car Cottage Industries	Devoted to enthusiasts who have developed items for British cars not normally available from commercial sources, by Barrie Robinson of Canada.
	The square-riggers club		The North American MGB Register
	Scions Of Lucas		Rendez-vous des Anglaises is the British car club located on the east coast of Canada in the Province of Québec. An English-language version of the site is under development.
The Victoria (British Columbia Canada) MG Club purveyors of that fine 1999 MG calendar that is now a valued part of my archive. The calendar came to me via Larry Unger in Woodbridge, Virginia as a barter for a water pump pulley I had located for him in the UK.			Kentucky club site with newsletter, events, discussion board ...
	Skye Poier's Historic MGB Race Results		Wayne Kube's selection of MG graphics and images
	Paul Tegler's MGB colours - codes and examples	PARTS SUPPLIERS	Neil Cairns' Parts Suppliers list, mainly UK
	A fascinating and unique photo-archive of the last days of the Abingdon factory. The pictures were taken on a personal visit by an AMGBA member just four weeks before the factory closed.		Martin's M.G. Cars Webguide, in German and English
	Not MG but not a million miles away either. Just a friendly link-swap.		Another Classic Car portal from UK-Classic-Cars.
	Factual stuff on speed cameras, engine-oil, snakeoils etc. plus humour - motorway mayhem, daft place names, and loads more.		Erm an automotive web site for geeks?
	Classic MGs photo archive from Rick Jones, who has two other sites at Classic Wheels and OldClassicCar	Austin Memories	Commemorating Longbridge and the cars made there. Primarily Austin, with some MG
	Desmond Mullen's database of over 1000 MGBs for sale in North America.		You want Auto Webrings? Well here are all the ones you could possibly want. And if not you can create one of your own.
	'MGs in the Movies'		'British V8' online magazine

Commercial links:

	John Twist's University Motors site		Lawrie Alexander's British Sportscar Center in Sacremento, Northern Fornicalia
	Tends to be more 'techy' than the MGOC mag (Enjoying MG), which tends to be more 'clubby'		Successor to MG World
	Another magazine. I'm a bit doubtful about the 'Official' bit, though		Official MG Rover site on the new Z-series MG Saloons.
	MG Rover's MGF site		No claims as to who this site is by or for, but it is probably Aussie MGF dealers. Interesting sounds and graphics, look out for the howlers in the historical section
	BMIHT Gaydon - the No. 1 LBC museum by far. Yahoo's list of motor museums, worldwide.		Beaulieu, pronounced "Bewly" with the emphasis on the first syllable only
	Haynes - the author of all those auto manuals		Unipart Parts Direct. "Thousands of parts for millions of cars" - service and repair. From the Magnette to the MGF
	The Automotive and Motorcycle restorers first shop for specialist tools and equipment. With over a thousand items, products can be purchased securely online or by telephone or fax.		SU fuel systems - Australia
BURLEN	SU and Zenith fuel systems - UK		Parts Suppliers Prices
	K&N Filters - Filter Facts, cleaning etc.		K&N Europe - includes worldwide dealer list
	Hundreds of 'MG' collectibles on eBay, and most of them are Octagonal	Swattons Sports Cars MG Specialists in Swindon, UK
Classic Car Restoration courses in the UK	Nothing more to be said.	British Tools and Fasteners - thread charts and forms, drill charts, helicoils, taps and dies and more.
	R&S Coachbuilts of London supply and fit complete kits or replacement parts for the original (that is, aftermarket) Webasto folding roof.		Moss Motors - Europe at the top and USA at the bottom, with free snail-mail and on-line (USA only) catalogues. Also their British Motoring on-line magazine.
	Specialists in and factory trained reconditioners of classic & vintage Luvax, Girling & Armstrong lever arm and telescopic shock absorbers. Parts for many marques including MG.		Fancy having a stained glass window of your MG?

Some sources of classic car hire in the UK and elsewhere:

	UK-wide Guild of classic car hirers
	MG TD, MGA, 2 MGBs, MGF. Tim and Heidi Hallam are members of the Exeter MG Owners Club and organisers of the River Exe Rally.
	MG Car Hire in Kent in the South-East of England. MGF and MGB from £70 per day.
	Choose from an Jaguar E-Type, Lotus Elan, MGB Roadster, Triumph TR4A, Triumph Stag or Triumph Spitfire for a memorable and thrilling day out touring this unique area with its host of scenic and historic attractions, including Stately Homes, Castles, picturesque villages and The Cotswolds. Priced at UKP100-200 per day, picnics extra.
	Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire
	Tunbridge Wells, on the Kent/Sussex border
	Cornwall Classic Car Hire incorporating Devon Classic Car Hire, Bude, Cornwall
	Clackmannanshire, Scotland (between Edinburgh and Glasgow!)
	Several locations in the English Lake District, Newcastle area and Scotland
Self Drive Classics 01889 504040	MGB, Midget, Healey etc. in the Lichfield, Staffordshire area
	Historic motoring relived, Scottish Borders.
	Ribble Valley, Lancashire.
	Styles Classic Car Hire, Poole Dorset.
	Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.
	Mid-Wales.
	Vintage Classics, Wiltshire.
	Solihull, West Midlands.
	Cotswolds.
	Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset.
	Scotland.
	Devon.
	Scotland.
	Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Europe.
	Hire a classic MGB Roadster (choice of 1.8 or 3.5 V8), a BMW Z3 Roadster or a Triumph TR4A and take off on a sightseeing tour of the Limousin and Dordogne, in west central France.
	Renting Classic Convertible Sports Cars in the Charlottesville, VA area. LBCs and others, including Sports Car tours of Virginia.
And finally ...	... a link to an MG Enthusiasts news item on MG hire.

Start them young, get them a classic pedal or electric car:

Build your own	1957 MG Magnette ZB Varitone
	Bugatti, ERA, Rolls Royce, De Dion-Bouton
Totcars.com	Classics include Citroen 2CV, Beetle, Mercedes 300 SL, Ferarri 250 GTO, Citroen DS
Premier Pedal Cars	Generic classics including a hot-rod, fire engine and pick-up
Classic Pedal Cars	'Brum' the childrens favourite, Comet racer, Chevvy 55, tow truck, fire engine, police car, Ferarri 50s F2 racer
	Includes yellow taxi, fire engine, pick-up truck
	Includes Comets, Classic 55s, Nascar, Indy racer, Mustang, Porche Boxter, Ferarri F1, tractors
	Links to UK pedal car sites

And last but not least my favourite parts suppliers:

	Clive Wheatley. Clive specialises in V8s both factory and conversions, but can also supply parts and services for all MGBs. He has an agent in Washington DC who can deal with the transport and currency issues for North American customers, or he will deal direct. Although Clive has a web site and email I would advise you to contact him by telephone. Clive has recently (Feb 2004) moved and can now be contacted at:
		Clive Wheatley High Grosvenor Workshops Worfield Bridgnorth Shropshire WV15 5PN ENGLAND Phone +44 (0)1746 710810 Fax +44 (0)1746 710999

Quite local to me in Brum and a huge stock as well as a good online store with many items photographed.