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Sport and Classic Car Company

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  Billions of Car Parts Company

 

10525 Airline Drive        Houston, Texas 77037 

   On an automotive odyssey since 1976!

 

 Repairs .Service. Restoration. Parts

 

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All roads lead to Sport and Classic Car Company

The Center of the British Car Universe

There can be only One!

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Our parts department will be closed from July 3-July 10, 2009 for a little R&R. It is time to head to Far West Texas, think about all those stars in the sky and ponder why are we on this planet anyway. Then we head back to Houston refreshed.  You can still send e-mail parts requests and we will get to them once we return. Thanks. 

 

For a chat about service requirements, renovations or about shipping your Rolls Royce, Bentley, classic Jaguar, MG, Triumph or other worthy British automobile to us. 

Give us a ring!      281.448.4739. 

For spare parts call 281.448.5165.

  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 talk with our clients and we have found that many owners or shops are unaware of enough specifics to order the correct parts so we make sure you get what you want.

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.  

So...
  Send us an e-mail about your parts or service requirements. Please keep in mind that most days, we receive lots of genuine e-mail enquiries along with mountains of junk emails. Many parts requests require accurate research through our vintage parts books so please be patient as the vintage parts info is not on computer data bases. We do not use a shopping cart part sales system, you can call or e-mail your requests.  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 Nigerian lottery SpamScam. 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 perfect but we still want to help your car attain the degree of perfection you want. 

Bentley. Rolls Royce. vintage Jaguars. MG. Triumph. Mercedes Benz. Aston Martin. Austin Healey. Morgan. Austin Healey. Jensen. Jensen Healey. Lotus. Bristol. Daimler. 

We also work on limited production British cars, at least on this side of the pond, such as Vauxhaul, TVR, Alvis, AC, Bristol, Morris 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 enough to own fine vintage (or potentially fine) cars as well as their daily drivers (vintage cars of the future) and bring them to us if listed in the above Box o'Cars!

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 three 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. 

 

RR2.jpg (60152 bytes) For information about  Rolls Royce and Bentley 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, Phantom, Camargue as well as Bentley cars such as Mark VI, R-Type, S1, S2, S3, T, Azure, Arnage, Brooklands, Mulsanne, Continental R, Continental GT, Flying Spur and Turbo R models. This section is for PMC's or proper motor cars. 

We also supply parts for vintage Mercedes Benz models such as the ferocious 6.3 litre M-100 300sel and classically styled 230sl, 250sl, 280sl, 350SL, 450sl, 500sl and 560sl cars. We have been restoring quite a few SL's lately. Check our restoration section for photos. By request, we are also supplying parts for certain Ferrari cars these days. If we can help Ferrari owners with parts needs, we will. 

A little revisionist history about our firm...

Revising historical events is always advantageous to those doing the revising and with that long established tradition in mind:

And so it was, since 1776 our ancestral firm was engaged in fully and partially restoring, servicing, repairing and supplying parts for a vast range of vintage and currant model British cars before they were invented. Whether on not we were patriots or traitors depended on which side of the Revolutionary War a person was on and we were sort of on both sides. Our founding ancestors used to hang out with Thomas Paine talking and whispering about radical topics like freedom. Some say ( no idea who) that Thomas based his highly incendiary revolutionary pamphlet "Common Sense" on those 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". Paine pushed the ideas for democracy, against the monarchy as well as for American independence from British rule. Thus some people think that British cars are a Paine sometimes. 

If truth be told (and there is not much truth in our revisionist history to be imperfectly honest)  the British Redcoat regiments did look rather silly just standing still in neat rows, in open fields, resplendent in their bright Red clothing and polished brass buttons while the revolutionary marksmen, in what was perhaps the first instance of guerrilla warfare, shot at them from behind the trees. 

A little known, perhaps unknown fact of any era is that our firm loaned George Washington one of our cars to battle the British Army led by Cornwallis.  Contrary some historical accounts, it was not our fault that General George, on a bitter winters night, perhaps after a few too many bitters, attempted to drive across the Delaware River in our car, broke through the ice and sank. Almost a frozen stiff, he was quickly rescued by small boat that was crewed by one of our ancestors attempting to get the keys to the car back. This is the famous version commemorated by the painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze in 1851 that left the rescue 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, maybe not.

Anyway, some 200 hundred years later, in the summer months of 1976,  Sport and Classic Car Company and several years later, the Billions of Car Parts Company were again 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 well ahead of our times so as to write. Our two firms are and have always been subsidiaries of Scott MacClymonds Inc. 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 really recent times, we applied for a couple of billion bucks to "restructure". Our firm has a few too many "toxic assets" (rusted out old cars that we paid too much for with unknown values) and derivatives ( junk parts that fell off the toxic assets) and we will be more than happy to sell them to anyone. Revising the past is so much fun!     

So that is the short of it. The rest of our website is very serious and without the slightest bit of humor as mandated by our Texas company charter as all things are serious in Texas. You might or might not say that if websites had lips, the rest of our website surely has a stiff upper lip. We promise that not one double or two single funny things amongst the cold hard facts will be found henceforth. 

Cars with a 2nd act, 3rd acts, encores, etc...

Click the blue hyperlink and have a gaze at  interesting cars we have available! All 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 business. We offer restored and finished cars, good street cars and unfinished yet worthy projects from mild to 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 most all 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. Unfortunately many people in modern times never 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 beauty came 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 other stuff. 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) 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. 

                     Attributed to S. MacClymonds XXI  in 1774 to no one in particular. 

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P1010457.JPG (77198 bytes) 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 workshops so that we can continue to perform automotive services as well as make our clients restoration dreams come true. 

We have done this sort of work for for astute, sensible, intelligent, thoughtful, fun loving and sharp dressed clients for 33 years in Houston, Texas. 

 Car owners in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, New Orleans, California, New York, Mexico, Canada, Louisiana, Brazil, Oklahoma, Italy, California, Guatemala, New England, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Austria, Norway, Florida, Ecuador, Spain, Alaska, France, Michigan, Hawaii, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia, England, Abu Dhabi, Venezuela, Japan, the Czech Republic, Maine, Australia and the  Philippines or anywhere in the galaxy may find 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.

Our highly regarded and famous throughout the Milky Way service department  possesses many vintage factory special tools. 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 huge (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 modern sports cars as well as vintage 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

SPRINT_CLASSIC.jpg (32632 bytes)   We offer  Austin Healey 3000 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 into a 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!) 

 

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quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclaru

(whatsoever is rightly done, however humble, is noble)  

attributed to the rightly done and ever humble S. MacClymonds II around 800 B.C. 

According to popular Greek lore, after consuming a few skins of red wine, he sang the story that became the premise to the Odyssey to his pal Homer 

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 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 granddaddy 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 was or it was what it is now.  ( Got that? Now repeat it 25 times.) 

 

We know 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 point of restoring a car to sell it? Usually not. The point is to be able to enjoy driving it. 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 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. 

 Personal service and attention to detail are intrinsic aspects of our services as details matter a great deal. 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.  

 

Click here to go to our spare parts page.

 

Indulgences...

For those interested in photos and descriptions of restoration work on a few of the fine cars upon which we have performed in depth restoration work,  click here!

 


Do we like animals or what?

We 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 decided to stay. 

shopcat1.jpg (55944 bytes) 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 more than a bit annoyed from waking up to a camera flashing in her face during her afternoon siesta in an empty parts bin.

We support many animal rescue groups and also foster and board dogs awaiting adoptions with organizations such as www.e-rescue-houston.org and www.scoutshonor.petfinder.com   These dedicated groups have fine dogs and cats of every breed, shape and size. 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 will. 

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 for information and pictures of Siberians that would like a nice home. They have some really beautiful dogs. 

                                                                     

Isis 2.JPG (49971 bytes)  Isis is no longer available for adoption as we took her into our family. We are known as foster failures! When we picked her up from the Houston 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.  If you are interested in adopting dogs like Isis or any dog, 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:

 Aston  Isis 3.JPG (43110 bytes)  Here are Aston and Isis in love. Both are neutered 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 wanderer. 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 like his songs as well. 

 Aston with Toys (2).JPG (720879 bytes) Here is Aston buried in toys. Obviously Aston is a very laid back dog. 

 Daimler Aston  Isis 1.JPG (79565 bytes) Here are Aston, Isis and our brilliant, smarter than honor students border collie Daimler 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. 

Daimler Sleeping 1.JPG (67877 bytes) Sweet Daimler waking up from a nap. Daimler is frustrated in that she has no sheep to herd but makes do with a Frisbee. 

 Tazz (2).JPG (748560 bytes) Here is little blond Tazzman our elderly gentleman cocker thinking about stuff. We found 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 Tazz also had a puncture wound to his neck and we believe 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 said," If you want a friend, get a dog."


Background and personal stuff

Long ago, well before G3 cell phones or the internet had been invented or before much of anything commercially digital was available, 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 Scott MacClymonds Inc. and subsidiary 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 which soon, with the inspiration of Physicist Carl Sagen's  shows about the universe, morphed into the Billions of Car Parts Company for over the counter and world 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 epidemic of 1954 and was very surprised to discover this predicament when he woke up paralyzed in an Iron Lung when he was a year and half old. Check out iron lungs and polio history here.

 http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/howpolio/ironlung.htm

 Polio is still killing and paralyzing people mostly in third world countries whose leaders stupidly resist the vaccine. With a great deal of help from the March of Dimes, he and countless others eventually recovered enough to walk and function with braces. He later had some Harrington Rods installed in his spinal column to correct scoliosis and was able to lose the body brace. Public school in those days was not friendly to people with disabilities. Some people thought and still do think that a person ( even a baby apparently) with a disability had been struck down by God as punishment for their sins.  What Scotty thinks of such people cannot be published on our family friendly pages! Like many kids, he had formative and interesting experiences as a young lad.  Such as in junior high school, the gym coaches made him "run" track with the normal kids. Scotty could not run and he took over 3 hours to slowly, verrrrrrry slowly,  walk the track. Usually two or three other gym classes would run past him as he trudged along step by step. This scene became an embarrassing situation more for the school organization than for Scotty as he just wanted to walk the track to the finish line and was not thinking about the obvious inequities. These sorts of problems were and still are faced by many kids with disabilities and why is this so?  As a culture are we not enlightened enough to care about such things? Sadly not yet. 

Scotty's almost lifelong goal has been to rid this world of stairs, 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 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 Iraq war veterans and the historical and social aspects of wounded soldiers from the American Civil War to the wars of today. 

The 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 Nightline 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? 

Recently, a new 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 " Body of War,". 

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 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.

E- mail: 

Sales and inquiries: Britishparts@britishcarpartsco.com

Our physical address:

Sport and Classic Car Company

10525 Airline Drive

Houston, Texas 77037

U.S.A.

281.448.4739

 

        "A car 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 S. MacClymonds XXI  around 1771                                                                                                                                                              

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 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.

         Our website is written and maintained by Al MacClymonds. If you have a complaint, don't tell Al, tell Obama about it. 

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