TERRY,
I sure know Peter Satori; he (his company) was in Pasadena and was a
big MG Dealer He was located on the North side of Colorado Blvd. West
of Fair Oaks. The building is not there anymore. They may have sold
other cars(maybe Aston Martins, I remember), too. I was blind to any
other car at that time. I had my 1949 MGTC and needed a manual. I
stopped by Peter Satori and they GAVE me an original copy( in 1952).
You can't get that kind of service nowadays. Even if you paid for it.
I also dealt with Gough. They had locations, I think, in New York and
maybe Chicago. I once had a catalogue from them. I doubt if I still
have it. They had spare parts for all British cars. I have some files
I haven't looked at for over 30 years, so I might dig them out in the
next few months if I'm able. Then I'll let you know if I have
addresses or documents. By the way, my 1929 MG M Type was also from
Pasadena, Murphy Motor Car Company, not far from where Peter Satori was
located. Murphy later sold Dodges and Chryslers. The building is
still there. I have a photo of it. Once, Murphy gave a trophy for
excellent restorations at the Pasadena Concours, also non-existent now.
BOB
On Jan 12, 2005, at 8:20 PM, TATERRY@aol.com wrote:
Gents, some of you know that I recently bought the aborted TC
restoration of
Bill Phy. Bill unfortunately died 3 years ago and well before the
completion
of his TC. Bill was a tool and die maker/engineer and the work he did
do on
the TC was phenomenal! I'm going to try and finish it in the style
that he
obviously intended.
I recently obtained some files that Bill had re MG's in general plus a
lot of
invoices relating directly to the TC. A lot of parts were bought back
in the
50's from Gough Industries and Peter Satori and of course Al Moss.
Bill
lived and worked in Los Angeles at the time. It appears that he
bought the TC
from Jack Morris. Al do you remember him? And who was Gough
Industries and
Peter Satori???
Bill bought the NA Fourseater that I now have from Ward Kimbal who
worked at
Disney Studios and had a Dixieland Jazz band of come note. Bill
brought it up
here to the Bay Area, when he took a job with Fairchild
Semiconductors. He
took the NA completely apart for restoration. Instead of restoring
the NA he
sold it and it got sold 3 more times in boxes until I got it.
In the files that I now have, there is an extensive paper that could be
entitled "The Care and Feeding of an NA" It is 12 pages + double
spaced and starts
off with the NA specs, then goes into timing and all other things
important
to keeping this MMM Car on the road. I say 12 + pages because the
12th page is
the last one that I have and clearly there were more. The paper was
clearly
written by someone in England.
I'm hopeful that someone on this list has the complete paper and will
be able
to fill in my partial copy. Please let me know.
I'll be sending a copy to Larry Long who hopefully can serialize it
for the
NAMMM newsletter.
Looking forward to any insight to the above......
Terry Sanders
Oakland, CA
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