For a chat about parts or service requirements,
renovations or about shipping your Rolls Royce, Bentley, MG,
Triumph, pre-1988 Jaguar or other British automobile to us:
Times of operation :
We are open Monday
through Friday every week except for any and all holidays that are not necessarily government or banking holidays.
Some holidays we
would rather work and others we don't.
Our hours
of operation are 9:00am-5:30 pm Central Standard Time or
thereabouts.
Introduction
Introductions are supposed to be short. However, we always have lot to say about cars and
parts as we have been working with these cars a long time. We like what we do so
brevity is not abundant on our website but run on sentences are. Essentially since 1976 we have been
dedicated to the supply of spare parts and offering a large range of services
for Rolls Royce, Bentley, Jaguar, MG, Triumph, Austin Healey and a lot of other
British cars. Our website chapters have a great deal of technical information,
photographs of cars, photographs of parts of cars, storytelling about British
cars, how to avoid many car related problems, photographs of various
restorations, car related stuff and pretty soon this introduction will no longer
be very short so our introduction ends with this little period right here.
Our major chapters of interest are:
Rolls Royce and
Bentley parts and services Our Bentley and Rolls Royce departments are renowned throughout the first, second,
third worlds and if
there is a forth world, we are hopefully renowned there as well for something
good.
Specialty
Tires/tyres For MG, Triumph, Austin Healey, certain vintage Jaguars and other sports cars.
Spare
Parts We offer parts for British cars other than Rolls Royce and Bentley You never know what we can provide unless you
ask. However, asking for a perfect and rare something like the Maltese
Falcon that is 40 or 50 years old and wanting this something for little to
nothing is the stuff that
dreams are made of.
Restoration
Photos and stories about restorations we have done and are doing.
Repairs
We repair and rebuild just about anything worth doing a good job on as long as
the assembly is not available new or is available new but may be hugely expensive. Our capabilities are quite extensive and this chapter contains many
interesting examples.
Gallery
O' Parts A newly created section that features rare and unusual parts
and objects of desire that we have available.
Cars
for Sale We have some interesting cars for sale here. You should buy
them before someone else does.
Animal
Rescue Our management supports many animal rescue groups, fosters dogs
and cats and rescues animals
on
a regular basis. Lots of great cars
and machines were named after animals and we have many clients that like to ride around
with their dogs and cats. We think that calling a car a dog is actually a compliment
not the other way around. If cars were as reliable and trustworthy as dogs, we
would be out of business! No worries there though.
If you are interested in volunteering to help with
the current BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, here is a list of
resources to get you started.
To report animals affected by oil call
1-866-557-1401
Audubon Action Center
“Everyone’s help is needed but it is essential that our efforts are
coordinated and everyone is given the best opportunity to help. Some
activities are dangerous and require special training; oil and chemical can be
toxic. Please avoid going to affected areas or handling wildlife until you are
part of coordinated responses.” http://www.audubonaction.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=3400
Anyone in the Mississippi
area can contact the
city of Biloxi and leave contact information through an online form.
Volunteers will be notified as soon as opportunities to help have been
organized.
Much of this information was compiled from links
on the Mother Nature Network and updates are also available at: http://www.mnn.com
At the top of this page
and every page are icon keys that when clicked will take you to other
specialized areas about cars, parts, restorations and some of the many services
and car stuff we offer. Our website has been growing and evolving just about since
the internet went public so there is quite a bit of specific
material to absorb. Be a mind sponge. Absorb.
We also work on limited
production British cars, at least on this side of the pond, such as Vauxhaul,
TVR, Alvis, AC and many more as we have time. We just can't
stop.
We
wish for
all of our clients to be healthy, wealthy, wise and in these challenging times, employed
or otherwise fortunate enough to own fine vintage (or
potentially fine) cars as well as their daily
drivers (vintage cars of the future).
Bring them to us if listed in the above
Box o'Cars!
So...
Send us an e-mailabout your parts or service requirements. We like
these as they leave a record we can work from. Please keep in mind that most days, we receive lots of
genuine e-mail enquiries along with massive mountains of junk/spam emails.
For
long lists of parts, complex requests or any sort of spare parts request, an
e-mail with year, model and VIN really work best. We do not do a web shopping cart
as we still like to actually converse with our clients and we have found that many
owners or shops are unaware of enough specifics to order the correct parts so we
like to make sure you
get what you want. This is what we do.
Many parts requests
require accurate research
through our vintage parts books and vintage memories so please be patient as the vintage parts info is not on computer data bases. Don't forget to include the year, model and VIN
(chassis number) if possible for cars you are working with as this information
greatly speeds up the process. In the subject line, please type
the make of your car so we will see the email is not another Spam Scam. If you do not receive an answer in
a reasonable timeframe, your enquiry may have been lost in our spam filter or who
know where it went so
don't give up, send it again! The internet is not perfect, neither are we but we still want to help your car attain the degree of perfection you
want if we can.
Sometimes we receive phone calls from car
owners that have been texting us and wonder why they receive no response. This is because we do
not text or tweet. We don't use Blackberries when we are off work either although we do like to eat them
when in season. We do phones, faxes, e-mails
, smoke signals and sometimes letters as some owners like to write letters to us and
we enjoy reading them.
Our
website has grown considerably over the years as we experience automotive works of interest
and the site has many pathways to explore with lots of photos of intensive mechanical and
restorative work, storytelling and opinions formed from more than four decades of actually
working on these cars. Not all the pathways
are accessible from this opening page but the hyperlinks all go somewhere interesting to
car enthusiasts! There are many companies that sell car parts but very few
indeed have the direct experience we have earned from working on these cars for
so long. There is lots of useful information about cars and the sort of work we
are engaged in all over our website. If you are not an enthusiast, you might just blossom into
one as you read our stuff. We don't know why this is so, but readers tell
us quite often that they get all excited about their cars again after reading our site
for a time.
For
information about proper
motorcars like Rolls Royce and Bentley
and parts and
services, please go to our Rolls Royce
and Bentley section
for Silver Dawn, Silver Cloud, Silver Shadow,
Corniche, Silver
Spur, Silver Spirit, Silver Wraith, Silver Seraph, Phantom, Camargue as well as Bentley cars such as
S1, S2, S3, T, Azure, Arnage, Brookland, Mulsanne, Bentley 8, Continental
R, Continental GT, Flying Spur, Speed and Turbo R models. This section is for PMC's or proper motor cars.
All our cars are "pre-owned". Don't you
love that silly term? Pre-owned? Our cars all have varying degrees of experience
because we don't sell new cars. In fact, very few of the manufacturers of the
cars we work on are still in the business of building cars. It is not OUR
fault that some firms fell and are no longer in business. We tried to keep them
going by keeping as many of their cars running as we could but down they went
anyway.
Sometimes we offer restored and finished cars, good street cars and unfinished yet worthy projects
from mild to fairly wild are available
for consideration now. We also offer intensive pre-sale inspections on cars
being considered for purchase from any seller. We have projects for those
that enjoy a great challenge. Once upon a time, we had some brave Aussies come
to visit. They had noticed some cars we had for sale on our website and traveled from Oz to here to purchase an
Austin Healey 3000 parts car that had been rotting into the ground for some 25
years well in the back of our property. The car split in two when they moved it
as the frame was rusted away. They wanted this particular car as both of these
blokes had a desire for a very hard challenge that would take them a few years
to do. Australian guys are not lightweights. They stuffed both halves of the car into a 20 ft. container along with a much nicer
Austin Healey 100/6 and a lot of spare parts. Back to Australia they went.
Several years later, they sent us photos of the complete new frame they hand
built. We learned to have a lot of respect for the wild men from Down Under.
The
inner pages of our website help illustrate the utterly vast array of parts and services
we offer with many photos of typical works in progress so have fun exploring our site
as it has many pathways and destinations. If
any questions arise, just ask!
Resurrections
Great
sport cars such as this Austin Healey 100/6 and many cars that were manufactured in England are welcome here. Frequently we bring
cars back from the dead or from a long deep sleep back to active duty. The
ancient Egyptians carefully preserved their dead for an afterlife. They were
really into mummies in those days. Maybe the old Egyptians should have built cars
instead of mummies.
Unfortunately
many people
in modern times don't do much to preserve their cars when they tire of them. The old car would be parked in a
barn, storage shed or outside and forgotten until someone with an eye for hidden dusty
or rusty beauty comes along to rescue the car. Many
owners are reluctant to let their cars go even though the car may be in dire
straights. They like their car but just got busy with non- car stuff like
families, work and worthy causes. As human beings, our lives pass through
many phases and levels of responsibility so sometimes favorite cars are
stowed until a more "free" or financially advantageous time arrives and owners
and their favorite cars can play together once again.
Our
real
world experience will without a doubt greatly enhance an owners driving pleasure and this is what
these cars are all about. The well equipped automotive artisans employed here (also known
as automotive restorationists or restoration artistes) are skilled in the ways
of fine craftsmanship and possess considerable product and technical knowledge
learned from working upon and studying mechanical and electronic designs used on
these cars for many years as well as successfully and continuously completing
difficult assignments every day of our five day work week. On a daily basis
we work with cars
that have been long stowed as the emotional appeal of these cars run deep.
One of our
specialists has been employed here for over 20 years. He has been ASE certified
for decades and has restored countless cars amassing a huge range of experiences
while daily solving complex problems
that always tend to come our way. Another
of our guys
is a retired Formula One race car mechanic/fabricator whose resume includes
working for Lamborghini in Modena. We
perform bench work ( assemblies that can be done on a bench, please don't send
us your broken benches) for mechanically minded enthusiasts and shops that have chosen to
have us perform critical and safety related aspects of their restoration
projects as well as perform all manner of services. Successful workmanship on fine cars
or anything else requires
highly refined skills earned from many years of learning experiences. In
many circumstances, automotive shops and owners can move the required work
forward by sending
us critical or complex components for proper and speedy as possible rebuilding or repairs. We
always work with "deliberate haste".
Our hours
of operation are from 9 a.m. until
5:00 p.m. USA central standard time during weekdays. Weekends we are closed but e-mails come in 24/7 from all over the planet.
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We have a traditional Scotsman's penchant for wasting nothing because
nothing is something that should never be wasted whether you have a little
something or a lot of nothing.
Carved
into an old tree on the Island of Skye by
Skye MacClymonds XXI
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Here is a photo of part of our model car collection in the reception area which
is sort of a museum of sorts. As a matter of interest for potential
visitors, our restoration workshop and our parts division stay very busy.
The nature of this business is of course very interesting to enthusiasts wanting
to 'wander" about. However as our primary focus is concentrating on doing
good works and meeting obligations to our clients, we are no longer able
to
give personal tours of the workshopsso that we can continue
to perform automotive services as well as
make our clients restoration dreams come true. Please call ahead of time
for an appointment if you want to make a personal visit for parts or discussions
about future work. We don't mean to be rude but have much more to do each day
than hours to do it as the rotten world economy has made us all the more busier. This
is a phenomena we don't understand but there it is and we are humbled.
We have done this sort of work for for astute, sensible,
intelligent, thoughtful, fun loving and sharp dressed clients for 34 years in Houston,
Texas.
Car owners in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, New Orleans, California, New
York, Mexico, Canada, Louisiana, Brazil, Oklahoma, Italy, California, Guatemala,
Lebanon, New
England, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Austria, Norway, Florida, Ecuador, Spain,
Russia, Alaska, France, Michigan,
Hawaii, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia, Bolivia, The Kingdom of Bahrain, Slovakia, England, Abu Dhabi, Venezuela, Chili,
Argentina, Japan, the Czech
Republic, Maine, Australia, various islands and the Philippines or just
about anywhere in the galaxy have found that purchasing parts
from us or transporting their cars to us well worth a bit
of effort as unskilled workmanship by those unfamiliar with the intricacies of
special cars can carry a heavy cost.
A well known but incorrect
quote from Marie Antoinette, wife of French King Louis XVI was that when informed that the poor people of
France were starving and not happy about it, she
supposedly said, " Well, let them eat cake." According to our
un-named sources what she actually supposedly said in Austrian was, " Let them drive
to the grocery store and get some cake to eat, silly people." A little while later
the silly people lopped off her head. We take off heads as well but they are the
automotive variety and aren't so messy.
We also supply parts for vintage Mercedes Benz
6.3 litre M-100 300sel. Mercedes 3.5 300sel and classically styled 230sl, 250sl, 280sl,
350SL, 450sl, 500sl and
560sl cars. We have restored quite a few SL's. Check
our Restoration section
for photos.
Our
highly regarded and famous throughout the entire Milky Way service
department
possesses many vintage factory special tools and diagnostic equipment for Rolls
Royce and Bentley cars as well as vintage Jaguar, vintage Mercedes and some
others as you can't fix the cars without a lot of suffering unless you have the
right stuff. We offer extensive high performance Weber and Dellorto carburetor tuning and
rebuilding services.
Our well known except for those
yet to know us spare
Parts Department is able
to supply a massive (billions and billions) array
of Rolls Royce parts, Bentley parts, Jaguar parts, MG parts, Triumph parts,
Mercedes Benz parts, Healey parts and accessories for many such cars. .
Comuniquese con nosotros por
e-mail (por corréo electrónico)
para sus piezas de automóbiles
Ingleses y de Mercedes Benz"
Retrofit Electronic Ignitions
We are
a
world wide distributor for
Pertronix Electronic Ignitions and performance
products that replace
antique and unreliable point
style ignitions with tiny (inside the distributor where it cannot be seen) state
of the art electronic ignitions available in both positive and negative grounds
for MG, Triumph, Jaguar, Rolls Royce Silver Cloud and many Bentleys, Mercedes
Benz 6.3, 3.5, 280 and just about any car or machine that uses ignition points.
We fit these ignitions to just about every points style car that comes in the
shop. Owners appreciate the vastly increased reliability and smooth performance. Own a forklift or a pump
of some sort that uses points? We can probably help. These ignitions and hot 40K and 45K volt coils have wide applications for farm
machinery, fork lifts and industrial engines as well as cars and boats of all sorts. A link to the full catalog
with applications and technical information is included on our Pertronix information page.
Tires or Tyres
We offer Austin Healey 3000 tires, Austin Healey Sprite
tires, Jaguar
XK120-XK150 tires, Jaguar E-Type tires, MGA tires, MGB tires, MG Midget tires ,
Triumph TR6 tires, Spitfire tires and Bristol tyres. You want
great tires for your ride don't you? Of course you do as you are no dummy
as dummies seldom read this far into our website. Check out our
Vredestein tire
section here.
The Sum of all Fears
We don't think a car is
supposed to drive like a heap of junk because the car is an older model.
We reserve such judgments for cars that actually have devolved intoa heap o'
junk based on many factors other than year model. Great cars have been built for
over a hundred years and all special interest cars have their unique charms.
Quality parts and a shop such as ours that seeks to
properly care for vehicles and owners automotive requirements with a long term
view are a natural combination. Worn out parts and rotten tires will cause any car to drive
like a wallowy
old lump no matter the age of the vehicle. Who willingly wants to drive a car
that steers like the Titanic or rides like a wheel barrow? (Think
Vredestein tyres, mmmmmm good!)
An
interesting human phenomena is that many owner/drivers simply do not know or
perhaps no longer remember what their car is or was supposed to drive like.
For
example, suppose the car in question is considerably older than the
present owner? This is happening more and more as time goes by. Frequently we are working on cars for the second and third generation as the car
gets passed down the line. The car
might be the only similar car an owner has recent and intimate experience
driving or they might have been in the car as a child with grand daddy or grand mammy
behind the
wheel and perhaps there is no tangible personal reference experience. In other situations
whereby an owner may have owned a car for a long while, the car and the owner
are slowly mellowing together through the years as old friends will do and
normal wear and tear in the suspension or steering or slow
deterioration in the cars performance can be subtle but certain. Owners are
constantly amazed by how well their cars drive after we rebuild a particular
system or restore an entire car for them.
Typically, owners may buy a car and just assume
it is what it is instead of it is what it wasor it was what it is
now.
( Got
that? Now repeat it 25 times as fast as you can.)
We
authoritatively assert that a car can be whatever we build it into
by properly sorting out known ailments, adding effective yet subtle enhancements and working out
potential problems before they occur. Our goal of course is to return a
car to an owner in such a condition that the car will perform well for a long
time without problems. We believe in educating our clients
about their car and what the possibilities can be. If you don't know, how
can you know better?
A
question we often hear is, " Why should I spend all that money fixing my trusty
and much beloved old car that has given me countless hours of fun when I
probably cannot sell it for a small fortune or even for the restoration cost?"
Well, what worthy objects of
desire are worth what was paid right after purchase? Is the immediate goal of
restoring a car to sell it? Sometimes this is the plan and sometimes the point is to be able to enjoy
driving the car. These days lots of things,
everything, loses value after purchase, yes? A new car loses lots of value when
first driven from the car lot. Most products have greatly diminished monetary value after purchase
and are difficult to sell for much. We buy these products simply to do the job they were purchased
for. In stark contrast are certain cars in good condition that
deliver continuous pleasure for protracted periods and still maintain
considerable value that in many cases
hold steady or rise. The enjoyment of owning and driving a fun car cannot be
accurately nor quantitatively measured with traditional accounting methods.
Having a great time driving a cool Austin Healey or Bentley is just that. of all
the things in life worth paying for, food, health, shelter and fun are surely to be ranked
amongst the highest of priorities. Money can't buy you love but it sure can buy
you a fine car.
Our firms are not affiliated with other companies that may
or may not have similar names or may otherwise be engaged in any aspect of the
automotive business. Feel free to use any catalog, parts book, website or
whatever to order parts from us or just tell us what you want and we can work up
quotes and availability. We work with factory part numbers or vague descriptions
for that matter. We are doing our small part to save trees, stamps, ink and
lessen trash by not publishing paper catalogs.
We are are much too shy
to post our time sculpted faces all over the internet.
So instead of us, here are photos
of FiFi, our
extremely sociable shop cat. She wandered in one day looking for a handout,
decided we were ok and stayed.
FiFi enjoys looking over Scotty's shoulder from time to time to make
sure he is ordering enough cat food for the week.
In this photo, FiFi was less than a bit annoyed from waking up to a camera flashing in her face
during her regular afternoon siesta in an empty parts bin.
http://www.caninecovers.com
Here is a link to some things we offer for car interior protection so animals
can be transported or hang out in your car and the cockpit won't be damaged
during a road trip. If some of these items interest you and you want to order
them, let us know. We highly discount these products to animal rescue groups to
use for fundraisers.
We
support many animal rescue groups and also foster and board dogs awaiting adoptions with
organizations such as e-rescue-houston.org
and www.scoutshonor.org These dedicated groups have fine dogs and cats of every breed, shape and
size available for adoption. Why buy a dog when you can find wonderful animals at the animal shelters? There are lots
of fine dogs that need a good home and they will love you when no one else
cares.
Scotty's
lovely, entertaining, highly intelligent and you never know what she will do
next wife used to do a
daily Pacifica radio program called
"Adopt a Friend" that helped find homes for rescued dogs, cats,
chickens, horses and
rabbits. Some of the the theme songs were, " Find Some Bunnies to
Love" inspired by the Jefferson Airplane and "What's Up
Pussycat?" sung by Tom Jones. The main theme song was Carol King's,
"You've got a Friend" performed by a variety of artists.
Life is a
lot more fun with animals and each of them have as distinct a personality as any
human. We have many animals sharing our lives so we have lots of fun.
Did you know that rescue
animals can be transported
to most places in the USA as the animal rescue groups around the country
support each other and have their ways? Check
out www.huskyhaven.org or e-rescue-houston.org
for information
and pictures of Siberians and other dogs and cats that would like a nice home. They
have really beautiful animals.
Isis the Princess of Love was but no longer is available for
adoption as we took her into our family. We are known as foster failures and
don't feel a bit bad about it! When we picked her up from the Houston animal pound, she had a bad lung infection that almost killed her. Isis spent six weeks
at a kindly vets clinic being nursed back to health. She is such a lovely dog
with a sweet personality the vet could not give up on her and we so so happy
about that. If you are
interested in adopting dogs like Isis or any animal, contact the animal
rescue groups in your area or at any of the links above.
In response to requests for more photos of our
animals ( this is supposed to be a car web site you know) here are a few more:
Here are Aston and Isis in love. Both are neutered or
spayed of course but they are star
crossed lovers in every other sense. Aston walked off the streets and into our
workshop one day as a young nine month old wandering pup. He was nodded off in a corner of our
office floor when we found him. Aston had been on the street a while, had mange
and was thin but otherwise ok. He is a fantastic fellow with a voice like
Pavarotti. He enjoys singing his love songs to his girlfriends Isis and border collie Daimler. We
enjoy his songs as well.
Here is Aston buried in toys. Obviously Aston is a very laid back dog.
Here are Aston, Isis and our brilliant, much smarter than honor students border collie Daimler
Benz hanging out after a
hard days work of hanging out. Daimler has a vocabulary greater than many humans
it seems. Border collies are amazing. They know what you are thinking sometimes
before you think about it, like when the exact time of dinner is.
Sweet Daimler waking up from a nap. Daimler is frustrated because she has no
sheep to herd and has to make do with a Frisbee. Here is a little movie
link sent to us by an English Friend called "What bored Welshmen do with
Sheep and Border Collies."
Here is little blond Tazzmo-mon our elderly gentleman cocker thinking about stuff.
We found the young ( at the time) Tazz when we came to work one Monday long ago laying in the gardens
in front of our workshop. A wanderer, he had been mauled and a bad infection had set in making
him unable to walk along any further. The Tazzmo also had a puncture wound to his neck and we believe
that he had decided to die in our gardens
as the infection was very bad by that point. We brought him in, had a vet work
him over and he has been with us ever since. He was a true gift from the streets and
a great friend.
Contact some
animal rescue groups. Find yourself a great friend!
Hurricane Ike left many traumatized animals
behind. Their homes were destroyed and their lives have been shattered. If you
want to help an animal that really needs a friend, contact the animal rescue
groups and Humane Societies on the Gulf Coast and you won't regret it.
As
President Harry Truman sort of said," If you want loyal friends, adopt some dogs."
Here are a pair of little pups we rescued on April 5, 2010. The black one was hit by a car (that did not stop) right in front of our workshop.
She had managed to crawl out of the street and into our gardens and that was as
far as she could go. We named her Driving into Miss Daisy or Daisy for
short. Daisy had some fractured bones but has recovered well with some
weeks of care and isolation. The fine looking brown dog is her loyal sibling that would not
leave her side when Daisy was hit by a car. We named him Bentley. We heard the cries of pain and found them starving,
thirsty and needing a friend. Luck was with them once again as we took them
to the vet and will be working on adopting them out. Both are great dogs. If you are
interested, let us know!
These little pups are 6-7 months old. Bentley
is a very happy fellow, sort of a mini galoot and is very much a puppy,
essentially a mouth with a tail on four legs. He has a beautiful coat and green/hazel eyes. Daisy
is as sweet a dog as they come, already has a feisty personality and likes nothing
better than chewing on her brothers ears. Both are already pretty much house trained.
Bentley has been neutered and Daisy has been spayed. Both have
had their shots and are very healthy. If you want two dogs, these two are really
bonded, love spend hours playing together and would make a great pair of friends.
Daisy has now been adopted by some cool
people in San Francisco. Bentley is available. he is developing into a great
dog. His naturally loyal character is growing and he loves to hang out and just
be a happy dog.
Here are 12 Huskies that were rescued and
need good homes. Here will be photos of them with some information that was sent to us.
There
were 13 huskies seized along with 5 puppies (we already have the mom and 5
babies) so there are 12 still at the shelter right now that need to get out
ASAP. They are all beautiful dogs but have been mistreated (no food and
water and kept outside).
We need
to get the word out to as many rescue groups as possible because we have
taken so many dogs in this past couple weeks due to their urgency that we
are out of fosters.
I have
personally seen all of the dogs and they are all friendly and do not seem to
have any issues with people whatsoever. I am sorry that I was not able to
get better pictures but they are all very beautiful dogs! The shelter did
not have ages on any of the dogs (just said that they were between 1-8 years
old) and most of them were very under weight. All weigh between 28-48 lbs.
We are
doing what we can to find fosters and get some out ASAP. I have been
waiting for the information from Animal Control to tell me which dog was
which but couldn't wait any longer to get this plea out. These dogs need to
get out of this shelter now! Please get the word out to anyone that you can
think of that would be interested in taking any of these dogs. The shelter
will adopt them out but I think that should go into a foster home first so
that they have time to adjust to being fed properly again.
They
are located at:
Bastrop
Animal Control
589
Coolwater Drive Bastrop, TX, 78602
512/581-4080
Texas
Husky Rescue
The following link will take you to a page
that contains some photos that are emotionally very hard to handle. These photos
are not altered and are quite graphic. This is not a happy section however as our
website has been the top ranked Rolls Royce and Bentley website in the world for
some 10 years now, we hope some of our animal loving readers may become
interested in saving or adopting animals somehow wherever they are. The purpose of this link
is to make readers that are unaware, cognizant of how bad a condition some animals
find themselves in through no fault of their own and even though an animal may
have endured a miserable life for a time, this situation can change for the better! The animals
on this page have been flung to the bottom of the pit of life, have nowhere to
go but up and we want to help them achieve a better existence. If
you do not care to see abused or neglected animals that we are sponsoring so they can return
to good health and hopefully be adopted, DO NOT go to this
link .
Shelby, the white German Shepard
that is the subject of the above link, turned out like this and was recently adopted.
If you are interested in volunteering to help with
the current BP disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, here is a list of
resources to get you started.
To report animals affected by call
1-866-557-1401
Audubon Action Center
“Everyone’s help is needed but it is essential that our efforts are
coordinated and everyone is given the best opportunity to help. Some
activities are dangerous and require special training; oil and chemical can be
toxic. Please avoid going to affected areas or handling wildlife until you are
part of coordinated responses.” http://www.audubonaction.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=3400
Anyone in the Mississippi
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Volunteers will be notified as soon as opportunities to help have been
organized.
It is true
enough that
according to not widely
known nor generally accepted ancient Greek lore that after making and then too quickly consuming several skins of retsina
wine he had made and while sitting on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea while
visiting the Island of Crete during a violent sea storm, Mac the II was
influenced by the Greek god of wine Dionysus to sing the story that became the
premise to the iconic fable of the Odyssey while his old pal Homer listened.
Unbeknownst to MacClymondsvitzoupolous, Homer surreptitiously wrote down all the
verses when Mac was not looking which was often enough as Mac was drunk. The
winds were wild that day with storm clouds twisting
churning swirling rapidly forming and then deforming the many faces of the Greek
gods as they were entranced from listening intently to Mac as he sang the story
that many of them were involved in.
Imagine if
you will that MacClymondsvitzoupolous was standing on the edge of a sheer rock
cliff. The waves
of the turbulent wind whipped sea were crashing
like huge cymbals against the rocks and the spray from the crashing waters was flung
well up into the air. Mac's arms were outspread reaching towards the
heavens as he sang the Odyssey for the gods. Poseidon roiled the seas and
the end of each verse was punctuated with massive lightning bolts thrown
down by an angry and laughing Zeus. All of this stuff has been found
painted on vases that were found by early archeologists and are now supposedly
secreted in Swiss vaults so that modern day history is not, well, upset.
The famous
winged statue of the Victory of Samothrace that
now rests in the Louvre Museum was probably inspired by Mac's performance
that day. Once Mac completed the tale and the storm and seas subsided, he fell asleep
for six days. Homer then ransacked Mac's nearby Crete vacation cave. He found a rough
draft of MacClymondsvitzoupolous's epic poem of the Illiad that was written in some
15000 lines of dactylic hexameters. Homer sailed and ran off
to Athens and proclaimed both stories as his own once he figured out how to read
15000 lines of dactylic hexameters.
This was the first Home Run in unrecorded history.
Not knowing
about this theft, Mac went back to his workshop known as MacClymondsvitzoupolous
Wagons and did
not find out about Homer's theft of his tale for 47 years as news traveled
slowly in those days. The two old friends never did get along
well after Homer became wealthy from selling papyrus copies of the Illiad and
the Odyssey. In an angry snit, MacClymondsvitzoupolous II shortened his surname name to MacClymondsvitz II,
bid a not so fond farewell to the land and gods of the Greeks, packed up his rare convertible special
order horse drawn Trojan wagon with extra chrome down the sides and moved to an area then dominated by
the ferocious Celtic Tribes in a
faraway land
that would much later become the Czech Republic.
Whilst there, Mac
invented and brewed a delicious plum brandy called
Slivovitz, named after his 14th son Sliv MacClymondsvitz. A few hundred years later, the exact date is unclear as no one
cared, the
MacClymondsvitz clan moved further onwards to the northern shores of an island with the Celtic tribes
migration west and again shortened their family
name, this time to MacClymonds. As the northern part of this island had not yet
been named by anyone that spoke his languages, the currant Laird of the MacClymonds
clan proclaimed the land to be Scotland naming it after the mythical and mystical
founder of
the family from the ancient days of yore and gore, the even more rightly done Scot
MacClymondsvitzsoupolous
I.
A later generation MacClymonds founded the first
commercial distillery for Highland Malt Whiskeys essentially for his own use
although it is true he sold a few drams to local pubs and to this day there is
nothing else on earth like a fine Highland Malt Whiskey other than a great
Slivovitz Brandy. The family never made much money from the distilleries as they drank the profits and
thus unknowingly began one of the first great Scots traditions of drinking the
profits before a government takes them away. A matriarch of the clan, Anne of
Smooth, thought that fierce and manly men with great hairy legs and
knobbly knees would look more 'umble in skirts so she made one for her husband to
wear thus beginning yet another tradition, the wearing of the Scottish Kilt.
The
name Kilt came from the slaughter of many clans in Scotland that were mostly
kilt in the tribal wars began by the bloodiest of all the clans, the Campbell's
of Soup County. They began these wars because they could not obtain enough of
MacClymonds Highland Malts and had to make do with British grog. Knowing that their fellow family members were better at brewing and drinking than doing
the Braveheart thing,
the MacClymonds clan traded their distillery for a massive wooden boat. They took the entire
clan along with sixteen hundred fine dogs of every description and sailed for what would eventually become
America, as there can only be one Scotland.
The clan arrived well before the
famous Italian fraud Columbus meandered over the Atlantic and they supposedly had some fine parties
with the blond and blue eyed Norsemen that were exploring the frozen northern
areas of the continent but this last bit cannot be documented. It seems that
several members
of the clan split off, changed their name to MacClymondsvitzoupolouson and
stayed with the Norsemen because they were a lot of fun and were great skiers. According to unreliable Norse legends, to this
day there are MacClymondsvitzoupolouson's still living somewhere in the
Norwegian mountains driving old SAAB Sonnets and Volvo 122S's but there
have been no documented sightings of any of
them or the SAAB Sonnets for a long time.
As you might
have gathered by now, the MacClymonds automotive heritage and direct experience
on wheeled vehicles extends over some 2900 years at the least. Prior to 800 BC, scholars
have so far been unable to verify much but are seeking access to certain
Egyptianhieroglyphics in the Cairo Museum that were found on a
wall in a looted tomb somewhere near the Valley
of the Kings. These glyphs supposedly show in an inscribed section that
was damaged by tomb robbers, a reference to a MacClymondsvitzoupolous-amun-ho-tep
riding in a chariot with his arm around a hot looking brunet while being chased by a
pack of happy looking dogs.
We claim all these stories to
be true because everyone is long dead that could reasonably remember otherwise
and any evidence to the contrary has long since faded into the mists and twists of time.
All
of these stories are ancient closely held family secrets that were never revealed until
this moment.
There are further stories below.
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Rewriting
historical events is usually advantageous to those doing the revising and with
this long established tradition that was initiated in the stories above we
reveal more
exceedingly well varnished truths :
And so it is and was
that since well before the
year of 1776 our
ancestral firms were both engaged in fully as well as partially restoring, servicing, repairing and supplying parts for a vast range of vintage and
current model British wheeled vehicles.
And so it
still was
that
whether on not
we were patriots or traitors depended on which side of the Revolutionary War a person was on
and our ancestors were sort of on both sides, depending on the weather. Our founding fathers and mothers used to hang out with
Thomas Paine talking long into the evenings about radical topics like freedom
from speed limits. Some
people have said that Paine based his highly
inflammatory and revolutionary pamphlet "Common Sense" on those very conversations. The work
has been described by the Pulitzer-winning historian Gordon S. Wood as "the
most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire American revolutionary
period". Thomas Paine pushed ideas for democracy against monarchy as well
as for American independence from British rule.
Thus some people still think that
British cars are a Paine sometimes but British cars still wave the rules
whenever they can.
If truth be
told and there is not much truth
but a little in our revisionist history to be imperfectly honest, rightly or
wrongly, depending on
how you look at it, the British Redcoat regiments did look
rather silly just
standing still in neat rows, in open fields, resplendent in their bright Red
uniforms adorned with polished brass buttons while the Revolutionary marksmen shot
them from a vantage point located behind trees in what was
arguably the
first occurrence of guerrilla warfare.
A little
known and perhaps unknown fact (we love unknown facts because we can do what we
like with them until they become known) of
any era is that our firm "loaned" ( essentially he drove off in it
when we were not looking) General George Washington one of our cars to battle the British Army
regiments led by General Cornwallis. Contrary to some sleazy tabloids
accounts of the times, it was not
our fault that General George, on a frigid winters night perhaps after drinking a few
too many bitters, attempted to drive across the Delaware River in
our wagon which broke through the ice and sank like a stone. Almost a frozen stiff, he was quickly rescued by
a small boat (well, the boat did not do much other than stay afloat) that was crewed by one of our ancestors attempting to get the keys to the
wagon back. This is not the famous version commemorated by the painter
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze in 1851 that left the rescue guys off the canvas. We never liked that painting much and we never got proper credit for
the loan of the car.
Nor did we get
paid for the loss of it! John Adams mumbled something inspiring about patriotism and the Continental Congress
eventually gave our ancestors some kind of worthless writ.
Maybe the U.S. Treasury will make it good someday but after all this time maybe not.
Anyway, some
200 years afterwards, in the summer months of 1976,
Sport
and Classic Car Company and several years later, The Billions of Car Parts Company were
pre-founded on the premise that all human beings can equally bring their cars to and
purchase their spare parts from, well, us! Once again we were ahead of
our times so as to write. Our two firms are and have always been subsidiaries of
a very serious and without the slightest bit of humor Texas based
corporation (with a little "c") that has in addition to restoring
British cars, has recycled our waste oil, Freon, antifreeze, shipping boxes,
paper, paper clips and just
about anything we are able to.
In very recent times, we applied to the Government (all of them) for a couple of
billion bucks to "restructure". It seems that our firm has a few too many "toxic
assets" (rusted out old cars that we paid too much for with currently unknown values) and derivatives (junk
parts that fell off the toxic assets) and we will be more than happy to sell
them to anyone. We pointed out to the government officials within earshot that
just like the too big to fail Wall Street banks, we were also to big for our britches to fail but we have not as yet received a check
yet are ever hopeful.
Now that the
Supreme Court has ruled that Corporations, even those with a little
"c" have the same rights as human beings concerning political
fundraising, we admit that we intend to buy as many politicians as we can
afford. The
problem is, most of them are valued much like toxic assets these days so how
does one know how much to pay for a politician? Is a used politician worth more
or less than a new one? Regardless, we intend to buy left and right handed politicians
and also want the underhanded ones just to make sure. Once we have them in our
pockets, our corporation might then just run for President and if we win, all of
us here will collectively hence be known as President
Billions. We think this is how it works anyway.
Revising the past is so much fun, let's do a little bit more!
So what was going on with the
Canadians you wonder? ( If you weren't wondering or are now wondering why you weren't
or why you should care one way or the other, this question might be answered
somewhere else on the website. On the other hand, it might not be and if it is
after all, it may not actually be truthful.) We should submit a script for a TV show called
Lost, eh?
Speaking of "eh"
And so it really was with
the Canadians
that a certain pre-Texican,
once
again one of our remote ancestors, a member of the clan of
MacClymondsvitzoupolous, ran away from home as a young
lad and stowed away on a Spanish galleon bound for
the New World.
He had
changed his name to Pucksteroberto MacClymondsvitzoupolous-hamilcar-Gomez so he would
not attract attention. (Hamilcar was a 3rd-century BC Carthaginian general, the
father of Hannibal and a dear friend of the MacClymondvitzsoupolous clan but the
Spaniards at the time were interested mostly in torturing people and making them
confess their sins so they could sincerely burn them alive and not feel guilty
about it during the Spanish Inquisition so they did not look at MacClymondsvitzoupolous-hamilcar's
passport papers well enough to deny him passage or to justify torturing him and
making him confess his sins of which there were many in those days.)
It
turns out that this particular MacClymondsvitzoupolous-hamilcar
had once or twice upon a time , a time when Texas was an independent
nation beholden to none except to those it owed money, offered to trade a nice car for a
pair of good hockey sticks and a couple of Canadian provinces like
Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Sounds like a bad trade but cars were expensive and awfully scarce in those
times as they hadn't quite figured out how to make rubber tires.
According to hand written
notes in a dog eared hand written vellum diary stuffed into a rotten old leather pouch
with several bullet holes of varying calibers punched right through in a tight
pattern as if shot by a firing squad, found beneath John Wayne's body,
still clutched in his right hand, in the ruins of the Alamo and passed
down through many generations and pawnshops revealed that this Texican just wanted a cool place to show
off to his friends with lots of snow and
ice around to hang out upon occasion because it's HOT in these parts and you
need a lot of ice for a cool ice tea, the national drink of Texas.
Well somewhere
in the deal making the Canadians took his horses in trade. Then they decided to stick with
instead sticking it to their British King and kept their land as well the horses. Now we hold no grudges
against Canadians or anyone else above the Red River due to this very old
transgression and that is a fact but we still wonder every summer about all that
nice ice.
It is arguable , very
arguable, that the very
word "car" was originally derived from Pucksteroberto MacClymondsvitzoupolous-hamilcar-Gomez.
It makes logical sense when you think about it. Eh amigo?
Mexico,
Texas and Mexico have been
married for hundreds of years but the MacClymonds clan did not venture south of
the Rio Grande river in the ancient days because the Aztecs enjoyed eating fresh
and still beating
human hearts that
were ripped from the chests of their unfortunate captives. There is something about that
vision that was really bad for tourism and economic development in those days.
Texans and Mexicans have fought wars and been friends for centuries and today
it's just all mixed up and everyone with any appreciation of fine machinery
loves and hates British cars anyway.
So that is the short of it. The
rest of our website is as serious as it gets.
We are overwhelmingly serious and without the slightest bit of
mirth as
mandated by our Texas company charter as all things, especially high school
football and drag racing are serious in Texas. We sincerely give our words that not one double or two single funny things
amongst the many cold hard automotive facts will be found henceforth.
In the beginning...
Long
ago, well before G3 cell phones or the internet had been invented or before much of
anything commercially digital was available, our founder Scotty MacClymonds began his
affection for fine automobiles and dogs as small child riding around in his dads
cars, a much beloved 1956 Buick Special and later when the love faded, a 1959 Buick Invicta
convertible. Scotty's first car was a very well seasoned (really beat up) 1963 Austin
Healey Sprite. This car was replaced a few years later by a fine 1966 Austin Healey
3000 BJ8 which he still owns and there has been a long succession of vintage British
cars and Mercedes in his stable thereafter. He worked for Mercedes Benz and Lotus Cars
between semesters whilst in
college in the early seventies and developed an increasing interest for fine
looking and driving cars. Thus the unusual marriage of British cars, classic Mercedes
Benz and the occasional Maserati in our service bays has a certain twisted
logic. Scotty founded the Sport and Classic Car Company in the fall of 1976 as a
full service and restoration shop. In 1982, he opened the British Car Parts
Company division that soon, with inspiration from the late physicist Carl Sagen, morphed into the Billions of Car Parts Company for over
the counter and galaxy wide e-commerce automotive parts sales for Rolls Royce,
Bentley and many other British cars.
It's been a long strange
trip...
Scotty survived the polio epidemics
of the 1950's and was very surprised to discover this situation as he awoke paralyzed in an Iron Lung
breathing machine when he was a year and a half old. Very annoyed but not able to say much beyond the usual baby
talk, he had to wait until he got a little older to get
the complete story and start complaining about stairs and inaccessible
buildings. Check out Iron Lungs and polio history here.
Polio is still killing and
paralyzing people mostly in certain third world countries whose leaders stupidly resist the
vaccine because they think the CIA swapped the vaccine for sterilization drugs.
These leaders are complete idiots.
Scotty's almost lifelong goal
( since 1.5 years old) has been to rid this world of stairs and re-educate architects
and designers that ignore accessibility in their creations and
in
whatever small ways possible help make this world
accessible for all people. Scotty
produced and hosted Access This! The Disability Radio Show for four years
and the show was awarded the 2005 Barbara Jordan Media Award for featuring a variety of people with disabilities speaking about
their lives and how they deal with a disability. The award was based on Scotty's
work with the Veterans Administration with a series of radio shows illuminating
the plight of returning war veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with
analysis of the historical and social aspects of
physically and mentally wounded combat soldiers that returned home from the American Civil War
hence.
We believe that the cost of wars should be paid in
full without borrowing from other countries and that no soldier should get short
shrift due to budgets. If wars have to be fought then we as a nation should all have to pay
for whatever it takes to win them and to care for as long as they live those that have
fallen fighting in them. We
also think that politicians that start wars should serve on the front lines
themselves together with their families but not with their dogs. The dogs can
stay home.
The radio show featured music from players like Dr.
John, CCR, Django Reinhardt, Chopin, Duke Ellington, Leslie West, Les Paul, Iron
Butterfly, Patty Larkin, The Chieftains, Vladimir Horowitz and more. Prominent doctors from the private fields,
the VA and various experts spoke about what's happening in the medical world on a featured physical or
mental disability or perhaps about research into stem cells or the sexuality of
people with spinal cord injuries. Scotty was a speaker on a Nightline
episode focusing on Hurricane Katrina with
Ted Koppel questioning experts about how effective rapid response will
be for evacuating people with disabilities from disaster areas when our US
government policy emphasis cutting funding for all social programs for people that need help
such as veterans with disabilities. Military veterans and experts explained what
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is, what happened to them and how
our government is helping or not. Attorney guests explained ADA
issues and legal remedies. Politicians make remarks about laws that directly
affect people with disabilities. Scotty was appointed to the Houston Mayors
Commission on Disabilities in 2006. Disability issues are the same issues that face
anyone that lives long enough to get old and can happen to anyone at anytime as life is full
of... surprises. After all, who knows when someone will drop a Rolls Royce
engine on your foot and you will forevermore be flat footed?
Recently, a documentary was released entitled "Body
of War". The documentary is about Tomas Young, a young soldier that was
shot in the back during his third week in Iraq. Tomas is paralyzed from the
breast down. Scotty interviewed Tomas Young during August of 2005 for an
"Access This!" show and was included in the filming of a movie " Body of
War,".
The struggle by people with disabilities for basic
access continues to this day. Recently a politician by the name of Rand Paul,
running for Senator from the state of Kentucky made the following
statement,"
Paul, when asked, would not say if he would
have voted for the Americans with Disabilities Act. He wondered if a private
businesses should be "forced to put in a $100,000 elevator" for a
disabled employee, for example.
"I think sometimes when we have a
federal solution, we have a one-size-fit-all, and that we recognize the problem,
which I do also, of someone who is handicapped," he said. "But then we
don't take into consideration at all the business owner or the property owner.
So I think it's a balancing act." said Paul.
Rand Paul states that he recognizes the
problem but that seems to be about it. He must have not bothered to read the
extremely weak Americans with Disabilities Act or if he has and thinks it is too
strong, well, that says something. His philosophy seems to be that people
with disabilities should be totally dependant on the good graces and well
meaning of each and every business owner in the USA to make their property
accessible. If the business owner decides to go on an expensive cruise instead
of fixing his steps or bathroom then so be it and this is how life was before
the ADA was passed. The USA was a very inaccessible place to live in those days
meaning people in wheelchairs or with physical difficulties were unable to go
many places much less get a job. Thus the many returning soldiers from WW2 and
Korea and Vietnam that were bodily damaged from their service to the USA were at
the mercy of, well, just about anyone that owned a business. This fact was
recognized by the first President Bush, himself a WW2 veteran that signed the
ADA act into law after a long political struggle with politicians that thought
like Paul, that think it's every one for themselves. So, fooey on
Paul.
Scotty collects British
and Mercedes dealer oriented automobile and advertising signage,
antique electrical fans and early electrical
motors. We also buy old British car dealer stocks and new old stock parts
and buy lots of used parts from time to time as well. Bring them down!
Physical Directions:
From
downtown Houston, take I-45 North to the West Road exit (exit #59). West
Road is an exit south of the
Houston Intercontinental Airport exit. Upon exiting the freeway, make a
quick maneuver to the right lane of the feeder street and turn right on
Bluebell (like the ice cream). Drive down two blocks until Bluebell
intersects Airline Drive and turn left. We are around the corner on the
left behind the green ornamental iron fence.
From
the Katy I-10 area or coming from 290/Austin, take the Sam Houston Toll Road to I-45 North. Turn
south on I-45 towards town and exit on West Road ( the first exit you come to).
Turn left and drive down to the second red light which is Airline Drive. Turn right and
we are 1/2 a mile down on the right.
From
the Woodlands and the great North, drive south on I-45 to West Road and
turn left. Go to the second red light (Airline Dr.) and turn right.
Look for our sign on the right about a 1/2 mile down.
From
the Kingwood area or the Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH), take Beltway 8 West to I-45 South,
exit on West Road and turn left. Drive to the second red light and turn
right on Airline Drive. We are on the right side about a 1/2 mile down
behind the green ornamental steel fence.
"A
wheeled vehicle will drive as well as the average condition of the total sum of all the
parts that have not as yet fallen off."
attributed
to MacClymonds XXI around
1671.
The
contents of our website are subject to change any time with new thumbnail
photos and material as inspiration strikes! Please check back from time to time
as interesting jobs come through and various cars are offered for sale. Hit
refresh and check out our car photo rotisserie at the top of this page.
Scott MacClymonds Inc. is a Texas corporation. The Company is
based in Houston Texas and conducts business through wholly-owned subsidiaries;
Sport and Classic Car Company and Billions of Car Parts Company.
Good night and good luck. Happy trails. So long,
it's been good to know ya. Come back and see us sometime.
All these words are ours or borrowed from famous dead people ( they won't mind,
we asked them first.)
Our website is written and
maintained by a very studious fellow by the name of Al that reads old car repair manuals for fun. He lives in a
modified 1958 Jaguar MK. X and only comes out at night to pet the dogs and watch
Battlestar Galactica reruns.
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These little pups are 6-7 months old. Bentley
is a very happy fellow, sort of a mini galoot and is very much a puppy,
essentially a mouth with a tail on four legs. He has a beautiful coat and green/hazel eyes. Daisy
is as sweet a dog as they come, already has a feisty personality and likes nothing
better than chewing on her brothers ears. Both are already pretty much house trained.
Bentley has been neutered and Daisy has been spayed. Both have
had their shots and are very healthy. If you want two dogs, these two are really
bonded, love spend hours playing together and would make a great pair of friends. 
