Moss came and was the guest speaker at our car show. Interesting guy. Lives in Sedona now, and maintains a Bugatti race car for a friend of his. The Bugatti is worth like 3 million or something. He said driving it around the roundy-rounds in Sedona is a bit nerve wracking.
Anyway, he founded the company but sold it years ago and no longer has any connection to it whatsoever. And he mentioned "Chinese" several times.
Ya'll should come to our show, Brits in the Ozarks, 9/22/2012 in Fayetteville, AR.
The one thing to be careful with is buying parts. Some of those Chinese made parts are complete crap.
No, not much of a difference - the GM parts are about 60% of the MG ones 
Anyhow, it's fair to say that they're both fairly affordable as long as you don't buy yourself into an oddball. Most of the small shops resell the Moss parts for about 15% off the Moss prices.
Moss Motors has had stable management for a long, long time. Al Moss sold out 35 years ago, and it's been in the Goldman family ever since.
In reply to mguar:
Yes that is true but you need to be careful about the product you buy. A guy in the British car club got a ignition switch and it set the dash on fire because they used plastic in a particularly bad place.
You mean, the Chinese made an Authentic Lucas Part?
Yeah, that sounds like an accurate reproduction to me.
Of course, new MGs are made from 100% Chinese parts. And can Chinese parts really be worse than ones made in the UK during the 70's?
Taiden
SuperDork
2/15/12 11:42 a.m.
From what I've gathered about NOS brit parts, I'd rather have Chinese (except for cool factor).
Taiden wrote:
From what I've gathered about NOS brit parts, I'd rather have Chinese (except for cool factor).
Honestly, the most reliable parts of my MGs have been the OE parts that the previous owner hadn't berkeleyed with and the parts that I've rebuilt.
The horror stories are often hyperbole.
oldtin
SuperDork
2/15/12 12:05 p.m.
People piss and moan about chinese parts - they have very good manufacturing capabilities - we either sold them the stuff or taught them - they produce what their customers are willing to pay for (customers being the resellers - I'm looking at you Moss, V-B...). End customers, being the cheapskates that we are, naturally keep the pressure up for cheaper parts rather than quality parts.
As far as the OE parts - they weren't all that great - but a lot of parts were serviceable so you could keep them going - so you might get a long life, but it won't be without paying attention to things.
I am not saying don't buy any Chinese made parts but be careful with the parts and try to find reviews.
oldtin
SuperDork
2/15/12 12:13 p.m.
^ Agreed - there are many crap parts built to a price point. Then again, there's only about a half-dozen MG parts left on my MG so I'm not as current on the hard bits.
Mine's like yours. I don't think there are any moving parts with an MG part number. Oh, wait, the heater fan...
My MG lost its heater fan in the swap. Nothing that moves is MG any more.
Even the steering column? 
I guess I have to count pedals, I'm still using those. And doors.
