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Automotive Links


British Car Clubs, Organizations, & Related Websites:         

The Vintage Triumph Register: http://www.vtr.org/

6-Pack, for Triumph TR250 and TR6 fans: http://www.6-pack.org/

Very complete site of British car information and discussion groups: http://www.team.net/

Lots of discussion and images: http://www.britishcarforum.com/

The untold story of the Fall of the Empire: http://www.austin-rover.co.uk/index.htm

Yes, they are still making tanks: http://www.alvis.plc.uk/

Very organized and very dedicated group of Alvis enthusiasts: http://www.alvisoc.org/

SW Ohio MG owners club: http://www.mgcars.org.uk/mgccswoc/

UK Triumph site: http://www.club.triumph.org.uk/

Site for the Triumph 2000 saloon: http://www.t2000register.org.uk/

Nice Triumph 2000 site with lots of tech notes: http://www.kvaleberg.com/t2000.html

Very complete Jaguar site: http://www.jag-lovers.org/

Rover cars: http://www.roverklubben.se/indexe.html

Triumph Stag club: http://www.tscusa.org/

Lots of classic car anecdotes and auction results: http://www.sportscarmarket.com/index.php

British Motor Heritage Certificate site: http://www.mgcars.org.uk/namgar/bmiht/bmiht.htm

Those crazy fast, scoopy Lotus Elise rockets: http://www.puresportscar.com/

Morgan Plus 4 club: http://www.mog.org/

British-based MG club: http://www.mgcars.org.uk/

Did you know they made anything besides Cobras? They really did: http://www.racecar.co.uk/acoc/intro.htm

Here's what happens when an airplane company makes cars...http://www.boc.net/

Lots of information about Riley motorcars: http://www.team.net/www/riley/

One of the oldest car clubs around, original members are scarce: http://www.rileymotorclub.org/

Online manuals for Sunbeam, Hillman, and Humber cars: http://www.roboworld.co.uk/rootes1725/index.htm

Very nice Web magazine about the wee bitty Triumphs. Great links page! http://www.triumphspitfire.com/

The Big Healey is one of the icons of British motoring. Site has a great timeline, and well organized links: http://austinhealey.com/

US-based Sunbeam Alpine club: http://www.saoca.org/

Birmingham (UK) Mini Owners Club: http://www.bmoc.carlovers.co.uk/index.htm

The mighty, mighty mCm, an online Mini magazine...http://www.minicitymag.com/

The most amazing, humbling, complete collection of British motoring sites on the Web! http://www.britishcarlinks.com/index.htm#Index%20header

Here's a list that you DO NOT want to be on: http://www.uglycars.co.uk/index.html

Great page of Triumph print ads, as well as pages of racing images...http://www.fot-racing.com/historicads/historicads.html

Sports car racing in New England, and Berkeley info! http://www.coldplugs.com/

BritBox will not typically join any club that would have BritBox as a member.

                                                                                                

British Car Parts & Service Vendors*:

TRF, The Roadster Factory: http://www.the-roadster-factory.com/

British Parts Northwest: http://www.bpnorthwest.com/

Rimmer Brothers: http://www.rimmerbros.co.uk/

Chris Witor, Triumph 2000 and 2.5 specialist: http://www.chriswitor.com/

Moss Motors: http://www.mossmotors.com/

Redline Oil: http://www.redlineoil.com/products_gearlubricants.asp?subcatID=18

Macy's Garage, SW Ohio British Car service and restoration: http://www.macysgarage.com/

EWA, very cool automotive scale models, books, and magazines: http://www.ewacars.com/

Great selection of racing program covers: http://www.progcovers.com/

McMaster-Carr, for SAE Fine hardware, and more: http://www.mcmaster.com/

Churchill, Whitworth, and even the tools originally included with the cars: http://www.britishtool.com/index.htm

Dan Masters switched from nuclear reactors to Triumph wiring systems because he needed a challenge...http://members.aol.com/danmas6/

Sunbeam parts: http://www.rootes.com/

More Sunbeam parts if you have more Sunbeams: http://www.classicsunbeam.com/

Still more Sunbeam parts. Do you need some? Do you? http://www.rootesparts.com/

Viagra for your 6-cylinder Triumph: http://www.goodparts.com/

BritBox thinks some of these hardtops look better than the originals: http://www.smoothline.com/classic_sports_cars.php

Did someone mention non-metallic body parts? http://www.smithanddeakin.co.uk/

Lever shocks, brake cylinders and calipers, carbs, and more: http://www.applehydraulics.com/index.htm

Western Ohio supplier of new high performance parts, as well as used bits: http://www.tsimportedautomotive.com/

These are the guys who do nice rocker arm assembly rebuilds at very fair prices: http://www.rockerarms.com/

The rust-preventative paint you heard about. Wear gloves while applying, or it's like getting a tattoo: http://www.por15.com/

Howzabout a TR-6 valve cover machined out of a solid billet of aluminum? http://web.tampabay.rr.com/tr6tech/

Nicely restored/rebuilt waterpumps at what appear to be very fair prices...http://www.sandiegowaterpumps.com/pages/1/index.htm

This company specializes in Triumph frame repair. Why would you need that? http://www.triumphworks.com/index.html

An amazingly complete supplier of rubber bits and trim for British cars of all kinds: http://www.scottsoldautorubber.com.au/

You know them, you love them, you can't get enough of their sweet, sweet stuff: http://www.haynes.co.uk/

Yes, there are British cars besides Triumphs, MGs, Jaguars, and Austin Healeys. These guys have parts for the orphans: http://www.kipmotor.com/default.htm

Way plenty cool performance parts from a UK Triumph specialist: http://www.revingtontr.com/

You probably already bought their interior kit, but it had some other company's name on it...http://www.john-skinner.co.uk/

These guys have probably forgotten more about British gearboxes than  you will ever learn: http://www.quantumechanics.com/index.php

Traditional British car and bike badges, on original tooling. For your restoration, or as a gift! http://www.classicbadges.com/

*BritBox wants to point out that inclusion on this page is in no way an endorsement of the companies named, their products, or services. But chances are that if they are listed, they are probably OK or BritBox likes the pretty colors on their Website.

Motorsports:                                                                                             

Great Formula One coverage and archives, with fewer ads: http://www.grandprix.com/

Comprehensive auto racing site, by category: http://www.motorsport.com/

UK's ITV TV channel talks F1: http://www.itv-f1.com/Home.aspx

Good UK-based F1 site with lots of gossip and ads: http://www.planet-f1.com/

Very well done DTM site if you are into tin tops: http://www.dtm.de/index.en.php

The way we all imagine ourselves, racing up a narrow country lane: http://www.shelsley-walsh.co.uk/

British race tracks, famous and obscure, with layouts and particulars: http://www.bmrc.co.uk/index.html

 

Audio & Music Links


Audio Links:                                                                                                              

A very complete pro audio resource, including forums: http://www.prosoundweb.com/

Impartial and very detailed analysis of graphic EQs, with some surprising results: http://binkster.net/geq_shootout.shtml

This guy traffics in cool old JBL, Altec, & other speakers from Way Back When: http://vintageaudiosales.com/

Good article on audio gear from Old Blighty: http://mixonline.com/ar/audio_second_british_invasion/

The evolution of large-format mixing consoles: http://www.gambleboards.com/jamtext.htm

Amazing how touring PA standards have evolved...http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/band/interviews/art-rev/art-sos1.html

All the way back to the Dawn of Time: http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equipment/equip-pa.htm

Do you have yours, yet? http://www.rane.com/pi14.html

The last amp you will ever need: http://www.crownaudio.com/pdf/amps/belchfire_datasheet.pdf

Buy two so that you have a spare: http://www.metasonix.com/TX2.htm

BritBox should have thought of these: http://www.funklogic.com/ap302.htm

These guys have nice test gear and a lot of time on their hands: http://www.prodance.cz/protokoly.php?Lng=EN

Keep your voice quiet, and show respect while you are here...http://www.martin-audio.com/

Crack the pesky EIA manufacturer codes: http://www.webervst.com/codes.html

More people with too much time on their hands, thank goodness: http://www.thielesmall.com/

Find out the value of all that PA crap you have laying around: http://www.prepal.com/welcome.html

Interesting information about some of the giants of the Golden Age of the audio industry: http://www.audioannals.com/

Experienced audio and lighting systems provider: http://www.eventtechnicalsystems.com/


Music Links:                                                                                                                 

The coolest bass player you never heard of. Did some nice stuff with Bill Bruford: http://www.jeffberlinmusic.com/

Wear glasses if you need 'em: http://www.geocities.com/webb_wilder_2k/thealbumspage1.html

Cool reviews by people much smarter than the rest of us: http://www.theChickenFishspeaks.com/

Who knew there were so many of these? Why are there? http://www.rockabilly.nl/lyrics/

More sheet music than you can shake a stick at. Why would you do that? http://www.stantons.com

They are not actually Celtic, unless Virginia is off the coast of Ireland...http://www.carbonleaf.com/

This little guy has never gotten enough credit: http://www.humble-pie.net/

Like a box of chocolate candies: lots of variety, and poisonous to dogs...http://www.putumayo.com/

Very hip blog from someone who knows a couple of things about music: http://bigbadbit.blogspot.com/

What?


Everything that you will see on these links is true. It
couldn't be on the Internet if it wasn't true, right? Right.
    

News, commentary, analysis, delusion: http://smithismyrealname.com

BritBox remembers when these devices appeared in old Road & Track magazines from days gone by...http://www.cyclops.force9.co.uk/cyclops.html

You loved 'em during the election, do you love them still? http://www.jibjab.com/bud2.html

If you are one of the 5 people who do not have cable or satellite TV, this will excite you: http://www.comedycentral.com/

Smaller than a Leonard Maltin book...http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

Win bets, and annoy more people than you already do: http://www.imdb.com/

Bow at the altar of your god: http://www.beerchurch.com/

Bow at the altar of her god: http://www.bettybowers.com/index.html

The new reality: http://www.engrish.com/

More real than reality itself: http://www.borowitzreport.com/

If you think 24 hour cable TV news is sketchy and incomplete...http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8

All the news that's fit to make you choke: http://www.theonion.com/

Organization, combined with malice! http://omega.med.yale.edu/~pcy5/misc/overlord1.htm

Because you wanted to know...http://www.davidvl.org/262WebFilesSpring04/w8a.html

Write and talk gooder than everyone else, and get beat up a lot: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html

This will cost you zero dollars, which is the actual value of the book-style ones at a garage sale...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Not your father's Schwinn: http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/index.html

If you have a bicycle in SW Ohio, you need this site: http://www.miamivalleytrails.org/

Infamous Moscow cat circus, as seen on the BritBox blog: http://www.moscowcatstheatre.com/about_na.html

Learn how everything works! You wanted to know, didn't you? http://www.howstuffworks.com/

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