- LBCarCo Chatter - Chicago Swap, BMTA and 8 Spaces Left for Adventure 2005
- Extra Order Value Sale only Three Weeks Remain
- New Items - OSH Pub Glasses, New Haynes Manuals
- WindBlocker - Order One Now for Spring
- Hot Off the Press - Subscribe Today at LBCarCo Savings to the British Marque Newspaper
- MINI, PT Cruiser and Miata Parts and Accessories at LBCarCo
- EVENT LISTING - Your Events can Appear in This Newsletter!
- LBCarCo Tech Tips each Week a New Reader Submitted Tech Tip!
- LBCarCo and Guy's Garage Team up in the Detroit Metro Area
- Your Comments - What you are saying
This week was pretty hectic. I had to fly down to Atlanta for a car club meeting on Thursday though I did get a chance to have dinner with our son Aaron. Then I had to fly back on Friday to help Jan finish getting ready for the Chicago indoor swap meet. We were leaving early Saturday for this event. I had a 4:30 flight out of Atlanta to arrive in Detroit at 6:30. The flight was delayed due to mechanical difficulties. Seems that on the sold out flight, the two coach class "loos" were not functioning.
After an hour’s wait, it was postponed again for another hour. A gentleman I was sitting next to happened to notice my Portland All British Field Meet shirt and we started to talk. Seems he has a few odd British vehicles, one of which is a Jaguar powered Spartan armored personnel carrier, vintage 1974. He seems to collect these offbeat British vehicles and has several varieties. This conversation did help to pass the time until finally they canceled the flight. The line to find out about other flights was very long as many folks were trying to make connections they had already missed. We tried to get on another flight at another location, but couldn’t as everything to Detroit seemed to be sold out.
All I could think of was Jan having to finish everything at home by herself as the worse case scenario loomed that she would have to take the QE3 & Big Honker to Chicago and I would have to get a flight to Chicago in the morning. Meanwhile, my new friend was on the phone to his office and luckily found us two seats on a Delta flight leaving at 6:45 PM. So, in a nutshell, I had to buy another ticket to get home as Northwest could not get us on that flight. In the end it all worked out and I arrived home to a nice crème brulee birthday dessert. Through all of this I had even forgotten it was my birthday.
Saturday morning we finished getting the trailer loaded and hooked up to the QE3 and off to Chicago a bit later then we had planned. We arrived at the event building under beautiful sunny skies and warm temperatures for this time of year (mid 50’s) and our son David, who had moved to Chicago last month came over to help us set up.
Sunday morning we were back in the building at 6 AM to finish preparing for the big swap meet. Every year this event is busy from the 8 AM opening to noon, when the crowds start to thin out. It was nice to see many faces we hadn’t seen for a few months. We also had a chance to talk to several people that are going on our England Adventure at the end of March. Two couples even came by and signed up for our 2005 Adventure (see below for more information.)
We did have one unfortunate mishap. A misguided enthusiast decided he preferred the five finger discount over our very reasonable LBCarCo price and took home one of our beautiful $200 wood Moto-Lita steering wheels. It really is a shame but unfortunately things like this do happen once in awhile. Last year our good friend Jerry LaBant had a very expensive vintage manual taken at the same swap meet. Keep your eyes open for someone looking for a Moto-Lita boss kit and not needing a steering wheel. ;)
Many thanks to the organizers in Chicago and the Chicagoland MG Club for putting on another exciting event for this large group of vendors and hundreds of enthusiasts.
After packing the trailer we made our usual post-swap meet stop and introduced David to our favorite Roosevelt Road eatery, the Seven Dwarfs. Then homeward bound we were, arriving just in time to catch the final minutes of the Oscars. You’ll probably get this newsletter on Monday or early Tuesday instead of Sunday.
Thursday of this week Guy St. John (the local mechanic I use and highly recommend) are off to Moss Motors in Goleta, California for the second annual British Motor Trade Association meeting. From what I understand, about 45 – 50 of the 70 + and growing membership will be in attendance. If you have a British car related business and are interested in joining the group, please visit the website at www.britcar.org for more information.
Until next week, which again may be Monday, enjoy your week and think spring. It is getting near!!!!
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Extra Order Value Sale only Three Weeks Remain
When you place your parts order on our LBCarCo website www.LBCarCo.com via our Secure Server you can SAVE even more over our everyday LOW LOW Prices! If your order is from $200 to $499 you will save an additional 2%. If your order is MORE than $500, you will save an additional 3% off the LBCarCo already low price. Give us a try and you will see how much you will SAVE. This is a limited offer so don't delay!
Order NOW! Order Often! At Little British Car Co, Ltd. (LBCarCo) we really appreciate your business!
Visit us for year round savings at www.LBCarCo.com and check out our exclusive and/or specially priced items on our Specials/Gifts pages.
New Items - OSH Pub Glasses, New Haynes Manuals
Over the next several weeks we will be introducing lots of new and fun items to accessorize with. Hey you can't ever have too many toys right ;) Our first item is a very limited one and that is Old Speckled Hen Pub Glasses. These are Genuine Government Stamped OSH British Pint Pub Glasses for one of the most famous LBC related beers around. Priced at only $7.00 they just arrived on Friday and were a big hit at the Chicago Swap Meet. My supplier emailed me last month and said they were able to get only 200 of these would I be interested? Well they are now in our inventory and ready to be raised for your next pint! Order one or more today, priced at only $7.00, you will want one or two to call your own. Pick up a Genuine Pub Towel too from our wide selection at only $5.00. Guinness $7.00.
WindBlocker - Order One Now for Spring
This is one of the more popular items we sell! It really does keep your hair down or that hat on when you drive your MGB, MGA, Midget/Sprite or Triumph TR 6/250/4A. Keep your passenger happy too and enjoy your top down without the constant rush of air that can make top down driving so uncomfortable. Your Lexan Wind Blocker is VERY easy to install and you can take it on and off in a "breeze." Get yours today and drive in style and comfort down the highway ;) Visit our website for all the details and order one today! It REALLY Does Work!
You always SAVE with LBCarCo! Regular Subscriptions are $18.00 U.S. , $22.00 Canadian and $27 for the Rest of the World per year. When you subscribe via LBCarCo you will get our Low Subscription Rate starting at only $11.00 per year.
Each subscriber is also entitled to one free classified (up to 20 words) per issue. Sell those extra parts laying around, or even your LBC. (This is for non-commercial ads only!) Don’t delay — Subscribe today on our Specials/Gifts pages!
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MINI,
PT
Cruiser
and
Miata
Parts
and
Accessories
at
LBCarCo
We
will
now
be
providing
all
the
Moss
Motors
(and
more)
new
BMW
MINI
items
on
our
site,
check
it
out
and
save
a
few
bucks
on
these
items.
There
are
lots
of
performance,
trim,
chrome,
interior
and
fun
items
for
you
to
choose
from.
Just
use
the
Moss
part
number
in
our
search
page
for
now
and
later
on
this
week
we
hope
to
have
our
category
lists
ready
where
you
will
just
click
on
the
MINI
logo
at
the
top
of
our
page
and
presto
you
can
view
the
items
by
category
or
search
by
part
number.
Either
way
you
will
find
that
you
will
save
a
few
of
those
hard
earned
dollars
at
LBCarCo.
We
are
now
also
offering
the
Moss
Miata
and
PT
Cruiser
accessories
and
parts
on
our
site
along
with
the
New
MINI.
If
you
have
one
of
these
cars
please
stop
by
and
visit
our
site.
Save
a
few
bucks
with
our
easy
online
ordering
today,
just
use
the
Moss
part
number
on
our
search
page.
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EVENT
LISTING
-
Your
Events
can
Appear
in
This
Newsletter!
LBCarCo is pleased to publish event information of interest to everyone in our weekly newsletter for any National/Regional Register or Club of any British Marque. Please let us know at least two weeks before your event. Please contact us at LBCarCoNews@LBCarCo.com to have this information included and when sending notice of an event to us, please provide a plain text email in a similar format to our events listing. We are now accepting events for 2004. We will also indicate which events we will be at and hopefully if you are there you will stop by and say hello, we would love to see you.
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Complete Event information for the events listed below may be found on our new events page on our website. Please visit the following link LBCarCo Events or click on the Events button at the top of our website.
March 20, 2004 - New Orleans, LA. - 14th Annual British Car Day Hosted by the British Motoring Club of New Orleans.
March 20-21, 2004 - St Louis, MO. - 9th Annual Missouri Endurance Rally and Missouri Mini-Endurance Rally
May 7-9, 2004 - Townsend, TN. - 17th Annual British Car Gathering.
May 8, 2004 - Northern, NJ. - Fourth North American Cecil Kimber Run.
June 5, 2004 - Louisville, Kentucky. - The 20th Annual Marques on the Green, featuring over a 100 British Cars. (Visit LBCarCo and Say Hi to Jan and Jeff)
June 5, 2004 - Virginia Beach, VA. - 4th Annual "Brits On The Bay" All British Car & Cycle Show. Sponsored by the Tidewater Triumph Register.
June 6, 2004 - Toledo, OH - 6th Annual British Car and Motorcycle show at Historical Fort Meigs (in Perrysburg) (Visit LBCarCo and Say Hi to Jan and Jeff)
June 6, 2004 - Clinton, NJ. - "Ninth Red Mill British Car Day," Sponsored by the M.G. Drivers Club of North America to benefit the Red Mill Museum Village.
June 24-27, 2004 - Parsippany, NJ. - 13th Annual North American MGB Convention, Hosted by the MG Car Club, Central New Jersey Centre. ((Visit LBCarCo and Say Hi to Jan and Jeff)
June 27, 2004 - Buckeystown, MD. - 27th Annual Original British Car Day, Chesapeake Chapter, New England MG 'T' Register, John M. Tokar, 301-831-5300, tokarj@erols.com
June 29 - July 1, 2004 - Rockford IL - Mini Meet West meets East. Minis in Northern Illinois
August 7, 2004 - Dayton, OH - 20th British Car Day 2004 (Visit LBCarCo and Say Hi to Jan and Jeff)
August 12-15, 2004 - Grand Rapids, MI. - University Motors Summer Party Reunion. (Visit LBCarCo and Say Hi to Jan and Jeff)
August 13-15, 2004 - Grand Rapids, MI. - "Drive-In #8" Annual gathering of the M.G. Drivers Club of North America. (Visit LBCarCo and Say Hi to Jan and Jeff)
August 12-13, 2004 - Grand Rapids, MI. - 12th Annual Grand Lake Tour.
September 4-6, 2004 - Portland, OR - Portland 28th All British Field Meet. (Visit LBCarCo and Say Hi to Jan and Jeff)
sponsored by the Detroit Triumph Sports Car Club and Little British Car Co, Ltd. is open to all British Sports cars. Up to 50 vintage British cars will depart Sarnia, Ontario, Canada for a demanding 36-hour, 800-mile drive for CHARITY around Lake Huron, with the finish in Port Huron, Michigan.
September 25, 2004 - Bel Air, MD. - The 25h Annual 'MGs On the Rocks' Car Show & Parts Market at Rocks State Park 4-H Camp.
October 8-9, 2004 - Nashville, TN. - All British Motorcar / Motorbike Show, hosted by Nashville British Car Club at Pinkerton Park (New Location) (Visit LBCarCo and Say Hi to Jan and Jeff)
October 9-10, 2004 - Columbus, IN. - Abingdon Endurance Trials.
November 21, 2004 - Fullerton, CA. - 31st Annual Vintage MG Club of Southern California ALL MG PARTS EXCHANGE
Complete Event information for the events listed above may be found on our new events page on our website. Please visit the following link LBCarCo Events or click on the Events button at the top of our website.
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LBCarCo Tech Tips each Week a New Reader Submitted Tech Tip!
Our Tech Tip this week is from Jim and Ruth Bottomley. Thanks Jim and Ruth ($20.00 will be credited to your LBCarCo account) Please contact us ASAP for further info.
That left the boot open for tool roll, small tool box, and tire stuff. We decided to leave the spare home and brought a tube and tools instead. That was our biggest space gain by itself. Also all those tote bags from exotic places (read other GT's) really make great luggage as they are stuffable and clean up well.
Another good source of space is under the bonnet. 2-3 quarts of oil can be stored under the right fender near the firewall and a zip lock bag of small goodies can slip in under the left fender next to the wind screen wiper motor.
Of course since we had all of these items, we didn't need one of them, but we were prepared
You can now view our entire list of previous tech tips by visiting LBCarCo Tech Tips or by clicking on the link at the top of our website.
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Keep those TIPS, Mechanic (Wrench) of the Month and Humorous Stories coming, WE ALWAYS NEED THEM!
You can earn a $20 purchase credit for each tip, Wrench of the Month or Story that is published in our weekly mailing. Please send your tech tips or other submission to me at LBCarCoNews@LBCarCo.com put the words Tech Tip, Wrench of the Month, or Story in the subject line please. If you don't currently have an account with LBCarCo you can still make a submission. We will provide your credit of $20.00 (only one credit may be used per order/shipment) any time you should purchase something online from LBCarCo.
Wrench of the Month, Humorous Story or an article about and picture of your first LBC you would like to share with our audience, drop me a note along with the submission. They should be no more than 500 to 1,000 words. For Wrench of the Month you of course would also need to include their name, address, phone and if they specialize on a particular Marque or all LBC's. If we use it we will provide you with a $20 LBCarCo purchase credit.
Tech Tips and Wrench of the Month are a service of LBCarCo and our friends and customers. They are provided on a use at your own risk basis. These tech tips may be reprinted in club publications as long as credit is given to Little British Car Co, LTD along with reference to our website and the individual that provided the tip.
You can now view our entire list of previous tech tips by visiting LBCarCo Tech Tips or by clicking on the link at the top of our website.
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LBCarCo and Guy's Garage Team up in the Detroit Metro Area
Guy's Garage and LBCarCo team up to provide mechanical services for our local customers. Guy has been doing mechanical work now for over 10 years and is meticulous in all aspects of his workmanship. In fact I use Guy for all my mechanical work too!!! Now you can really save by ordering your parts on our website and have them delivered right to Guy's Garage. Then when Guy performs his magic you will save again with traditional low LBCarCo pricing from Guy, while still maintaining the quality and service you have come to expect from LBCarCo. Contact Guy today for an appointment at 248-349-3649 and start saving NOW!
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We have put up several of the comments we have received from customers. Since we get several a day I do try to update this as time permits. You can find this link on our main page under references and on our contact page. Thanks very much for all the support and comments and helping to make our little company what it is today.
Jeff and Jan Zorn
Little British Car Co., Ltd.
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