If you are going to own an MGA, you had better be prepared to do at least some of the routine maintenance yourself, because shops that will service older cars are few and far between. You should also be minimally prepared for some basic emergency repairs, which can make life much easier if your car should happen to have some problem on the road. Additionally, the more you know about your car the more likely you will head off potential problems before they happen, and the easier it is to deal with the professional shops.

To this end, you will want some books, some of which I have listed here roughly in order of priority. Only the first few are absolutely essential. The first of each category are personally recommended but not absolutely required. The rest of the list is purely optional, the importance of which depends on your intended use of the car. You can find a brief review of each by clicking the links below, or you can see all of them in series by following the green arrows at the bottom of the pages.

THE SHORT LIST (mandatory reading):