Denise:
The competitive market it already at work. There are hundreds
of people employed trying to keep parts for our cars available. Most of
the time they get it right and we are able to enjoy better availability
and pricing than on many modern car parts. Sometimes someone makes a
GLOF (grand leap of faith) and all hell breaks loose. (It looks right,
it plugs in, how come the wipers now go backwards?) The last success
that I remember was finding that Austin America headlight switches could
be made into 68-70 MGB headlight switches (the ones with the cute lamp
design on it). The original Lucas part had been superceded to the 73-76
switch by Lucas years ago. (It works don't it). So for a short while
originality buffs could get the correct looking switch.
By the by, I have a factory parts book for the 1100 if you want
I can send it to you to copy.
Kelvin.
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There is so much crossover in parts used on British cars, that it would
be
interesting to look at the same part in different car catalogues and
compare
part numbers and prices. I agree with your arguments about the cost of
overhead
and minor differences in electrical parts, but different companies may
now be
selling the same parts for different cars that were once under an
umbrella
company. We might be able to come up with cross-references for the same
parts
on different applications and find the cheapest source for the part.
For instance, the front runnning/turn signal lights on an MG 1100 are
the same
as on the MGA 1600. Anyone have a price on these lights (or lenses) for
an
MGA? One problem with this though, I've never seen an MG 1100 parts
catalogue.
Denise Thorpe
Now you know where I get my opinions of Porsche and Ferrari owners ;-)
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