British Car Enthusiasts Launch Heritage Spares

Genuine OE archetypal British car backup locations fabricated accessible in North America through Michigan aggregation “By reintroducing 18-carat AP anchor and clamp backup locations to the U.S. and Canada, we are accouterment the British car enthusiast with the optimal aliment or apology solution," said Thornton.

Highland, MI -- In ablaze of added than 60 years accumulated acquaintance in the automotive industry and a accurate affection for archetypal British automobiles, Brian Thornton and Keith Leigh-Monstevens are embarking on a new adventure calm with the enactment of Heritage Spares. Headquartered in Highland, Mich., the aggregation will serve as a assumption North American benefactor of acclaimed AP Braking (formerly AP Lockheed) anchor and clamp backup parts.

Keith Leigh-Monstevens, left, and Brian Thornton, founders of Michigan-based Heritage Spares

“By reintroducing 18-carat AP anchor and clamp backup locations to the U.S. and Canada, we are accouterment the British car enthusiast with the optimal aliment or apology band-aid – the adeptness to fit branch specified, aboriginal accessories backup locations to their cars,” said Brian Thornton, admiral and carnality admiral of sales and business for Heritage Spares. “The brake, clamp and automotive engineering acquaintance that Keith and I accompany to the company, alternating with our affectionate ability of archetypal British cars and our atypical focus on anchor and clamp backup parts, will assuredly authorize Heritage Spares as a arch antecedent for the British car owner, restorer or mechanic”.

With backgrounds stemming from automated and automotive engineering, respectively, both Thornton and Leigh-Monstevens accept an acknowledgment for the technology abaft top above automotive parts. In addition, Leigh-Monstevens’ 40 years of acquaintance alive for AP companies, including AP Braking, and confined as its arch architect added drive his affection for authoritative arch British locations accessible to American and Canadian archetypal car aficionados.

At the captain of Heritage Spares, Thornton and Leigh-Monstevens will accommodate barter with a artefact band that appearance 18-carat AP backup locations that are bogus to aboriginal tolerances from aboriginal AP applique and defined materials. This charge to above will advice advance the achievement and assurance that the British OEMs originally engineered into their products.

Heritage Spares barter will accept acceptance to: foreground and rear anchor drums; calipers; limited and absolute acting servos; individual and bike adept cylinders; anchor valves; adjustment kits; anchor hoses; caster cylinders; clamp adept cylinders; clamp bondservant cylinders; clamp hoses; and clamp dampers. The locations will be applicative to models spanning the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s for several of England’s archetypal brands, including: Austin; Austin-Healey; BMC; Jaguar; Land Rover; Mini; MG; Morgan; Morris; Riley; and Triumph.

This year’s Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) appearance in Las Vegas served as the company’s unveiling, as it alien itself to common car enthusiasts and industry counterparts.

“We were captivated to be a allotment of the SEMA festivities,” said Leigh-Monstevens, the company’s carnality admiral of engineering. “This is the capital date for all things automotive, and we achievement the abundant acknowledgment we accustomed in Las Vegas will abide to advice us ability those who allotment our affection for archetypal British cars.”

For added advice on Heritage Spares and its accessible artefact lines, appointment heritagespares.com or alarm assessment chargeless 877.278.6465.