We used to have a European Car Parts store and a dealer called Continental Cars, where you could find maintenance parts for your LBC. If you were lucky and made friends with the parts people you could get a discount by showing up more than 3 times a month. Back then the Jaguar dealer would actually sell parts for you old Jag and could order I whatever you needed. Then the late 80s hit and that was a bygone. I had bought every manual I could get on any LBC ( which I still have today ). You just needed a typical hotrod mentality and dig in and repair and fix whatever you had. Then Fuel Injection came out and the dealers no longer had carburetor guys. Then electronics moved in and no tech at the dealers can fix anything without an R N R attitude. Nothing is rebuilt anymore. In 49 yrs. of automotive work I have always told anybody who wants to work on a LBC buy a manual and read it. Worked for me! Worked for a Marine dealership for a while, only because I could read the manuals. Today with more modern MINIs and Land Rovers, still possible with thought and diagnostics. Just like the old days. I once tore apart 2 Cortinas and made one good one. My neighbor is a Master Nissan Tech and said there is now way he could ever do that. He has to send out his Harley and Ford truck for repairs and he went to tech school. Stay as a member of BCF and help support the site so we may continue to help each other. Make sure we get the spiders to join so Basil can keep up the site and hopefully he will have a long and everlasting life so we can continue sharing info.