MGB Transmission Conversion All MGBs desperately need an overdriven top gear for highway driving, but unfortunately, the now pricey overdrive option was only installed on about 10% of US-bound MGBs. These rare overdrive units are now hard to find and fairly expensive to install. Using a rugged, time-proven Nissan 5 speed transmission, we offer a […]
Restoring a 63 MGB Roadster Here at Sports Car Craftsmen, we are always searching for the unobtainable: The factory original car, the perfect restoration, a working Lucas electrical system. Around 2000, we stumbled across that unobtainable dream, in the form of a severely bashed up MGB: We know what you’re thinking. It doesn’t look […]
A large percentage of our business is concerned with getting ‘ran when parked’ cars —or those even less fortunate— up and running for the first time in 30 or 40 years. The first question on the tip of every driver’s tongue, after the obligatory “Can you save it?” is “How much will it cost?” That […]
When it comes time for a new paint job for your British sports car, it is tempting to head down to the local budget-oriented paint shop for the $499 deal, pick out a flashy color, and be done with whole ordeal as quickly as possible. As we’ve discussed elsewhere , getting a paint job done […]
At Sports Car Craftsmen, our dedication to authenticity and our attention to detail often result in weeks of research and surprising discoveries. Between our vast collection of original parts, our library of original shop and parts manuals, dozens of reference texts, and our years of experience, we can reconstruct the evolution of these cars over […]
Fewer cars offer a higher fun/money ratio than Spridgets, although I believe it’s largely an illusion due to the car’s size and inherent steering responsiveness. When the driver’s rear end is located mere inches above the pavement and one looks eyeball-to-eyeball with an adjacent semi’s lugnuts, it doesn’t take extraordinary performance to make one of […]
When considering a TR6 for purchase, looking carefully at the items listed on the following checklist will quickly sort out a good candidate from a bad one. With a cursory 10 minute scrutiny, one should be able to quickly detect most of the items that would lead to huge repair costs down the road. This […]
Would you buy a house without an inspection? Don’t take a chance on that great bargain in the newspaper, or worse yet, on the internet. Often times you are buying trouble and the car has cleverly been prepped to appear “too good to be true” at a “real steal”. British Car Inspection We will inspect […]
In keeping with Sports Car Craftsmen’s venerable tradition of supercharging cars at every available opportunity, we jumped at the chance to make this TR-250 the first car in the country to be supercharged with Moss Motor’s latest conversion kit. Between the original overdrive and the supercharger, this singular piece of British automotive history is now […]
You’re looking at a special piece of MG history. Only 2,111 Twin Cams (numbers 501 to 2,611) were made in the short two year production run from 1958 through 1959. This later model example is one of the last Twin Cams made and is identified by the larger later style turn signal and taillamps. It […]
