<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>In no particular order:</div><div><br></div>Moss<div>Mini Mania</div><div>British Parts Northwest</div><div>BugeyeGuy </div><div>Winners Circle<br><br>Howard Collins <br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iCouch</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 17, 2022, at 2:47 PM, Ron Soave via Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Yes, much comes from the same place That said, I use:<div><br></div><div>British Parts Northwest<div>7Enterprises</div><div>Minispares UK</div><div>Rimmer Brothers </div><div>APT</div><div>MED engineering (UK)</div><div><br>Hope that helps - <br><div dir="ltr">Ron Soave</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 17, 2022, at 12:40 PM, Karl Vacek via Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I was on this list in the mid-2000’s, but have been away from the list for at least 10 years.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In 2006 my wife was fondly reminiscing about the 64 MIdget I’d bought for her in 74 when we were first married. eBay to the rescue – we bought her a very clean, 14,000 mile 78 Midget. that had been won on Wheel of Fortune. One owner till it was sold to the kid who flipped it to us. Extremely rust free – actually lots of still-shiny threads on things I’ve taken apart. A treat to work on, other than the fact that I didn’t realize till we bought it that Leyland had dropped the BMC engine and shoehorned a Spitfire engine into it. I wa always a TR guy – starting with a TR3 in1965. But it just doesn’t fit in the car well.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">After I’d renewed hydraulics, brakes, fuel system, etc. she was excited for a while and drove it all summer, but after a few years she just didn’t drive it much it came out less and less till in 2016 (I think) we just put it away. Now, after maybe 6 years in storage, we brought it home, thinking that with prices up we might recoup some of the giant pile of dollars I put into the car.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">So much of the suspension rubber that I put on in 2006-7 has now split and deteriorated. Back then there were choices in parts dealers (I haven’t been a Moss fan since Al Moss sold out – used to be a great place to get real TC parts when that’s all they sold). Now they seem to be the only game in town, and many of the bad new rubber came from them. Further, they don’t even list some of it any more. Rimmer has some stuff too, and the MGOC lists lots of parts, but I don’t know anything about them except the assumption that they would have good quality.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Who can I trust? Where can I get quality parts nowadays?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<br>Karl<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><span>------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>spridgets@autox.team.net</span><br><span></span><br><span>Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html</span><br><span>Suggested annual donation: $12.75</span><br><span></span><br><span>Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive</span><br><span></span><br><span>Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/soavero@yahoo.com</span><br></div></blockquote></div></div><span>------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>spridgets@autox.team.net</span><br><span></span><br><span>Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html</span><br><span>Suggested annual donation: $12.75</span><br><span></span><br><span>Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive</span><br><span></span><br><span>Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/miniac7@aol.com</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>