Category Archives: This week at the shop

In Full Swing for Summer

Butch, John, Steve, Patrick and I went down to the Berkshire British Motorcar Festival in Lenox on Saturday, June 16, it turned out to be arguably the best day weather-wise of the month of June. We ended up taking a … Continue reading

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Goodbye Piggy

One day in 1966 Richard Pignatello walked into an Austin Healey dealership in New Jersey and drove out in a new British Racing Green Phase 2 Healey BJ8.  About 20 years later he freshened it up a bit with a … Continue reading

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Steve’s TD Line

Cor’ Blimey the weather has been something.  Today was an unending mobius strip of alternating belts of heavy rains and blistering blue skies.  On a trip to Greenfield to fetch some relined brake shoes the roads were dry and the … Continue reading

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Bad Unipart GFE 422 Oil Filters

Last fall my doctor called the shop on an urgent matter, he had just serviced his MGB and when he started the car it dumped four quarts of oil on his garage floor.  The NAPA oil filter had stripped the … Continue reading

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