Shop Talk

Even when on vacation I seem to find car events. While in Rhode Island I had the opportunity to attend the Cars & Coffee in Newport sponsored by the Audrain Auto Museum. This was a casual event held in a...

Abingdon Spares hosted another Cars & Coffee on July 17th. We had a strong turnout of over 30 cars, we were not expecting so many due to the really high temperature and the chance of thundershowers, but the hardy souls...

Abingdon Spares attended the MG 2021 convention in Atlantic City, which was held from June 13th to June 17th at Harrah's Resort. This event is held every 5 years and includes all the MG registers, MMM, NEMGT, NAMGAR, and NAMGBR....

Abingdon Spares was out and about at Cardone & Daughter's Open Shop this past Saturday! A beautiful day weather wise and car wise. A true mix of classics came out to enjoy the hospitality of Cardones and the camaraderie with...

Abingdon Spares hosted a tech session for new owners at our shop in Deep River on May 16th. We had limited it to 10 owners and we had exactly 10 attendees! As expected there was a mix of cars and...

Abingdon Spares ventured out in the newly "refreshed" MG YA to Lime Rock Park for the VSCCA's Spring Sprints. This is normally a low key event for spectators, and due to the ongoing pandemic it seemed a bit smaller than...

Thanks to all the British Car folks and some non-British ones too, who came down to Abingdon Spares on April 24th  for our first of the season Cars & Coffee. We had close to 60 cars and at least 10 more "regular cars" in...

The name MG almost universally brings to mind a two seat sports car. This is logical as literally tens of thousands of two seat MG sports cars were assembled in Abingdon from 1929 until production ceased in 1980. These nimble...

The final British Car Cruise-In for the season! October 7th was the last official British Car Cruise-In held at Abingdon Spares! We had a great turn out for the final night, the weather certainly helped as it was a beautiful...

Abingdon Spares was back at Lime Rock Park for the annual VSCCA Vintage Fall Finale. Our intrepid reporter Matt C. sent back some photos of the Brits at the event. It was another limited spectator event due to the ongoing...

The Connecticut British Reliability Run for 2020 was held over 3 days, from September 18 - 20, 2020. The run this year was 3 One-Day runs, unlike previous years where it was one central location for the 3 days. Once...

British Car Cruise in at Abingdon Spares! This past week was our second to last British Car Cruise in of the year, the final one is scheduled for October 8th. This was one of the bigger turnouts of the season...