"Sounds like a good business plan - if they don't use Lucas electrical components."
Oh boy! Lucas lighting, Smiths gauges, and hang the whole mess together with Whitworth nut and bolts. Take a giant leap into the 1940's.
I owned, a various times, two Triumphs, an Austin Mini, and a Bugeye. I know whereof I speak.
"I owned, a various times, two Triumphs, an Austin Mini, and a Bugeye."
I had a Bugeye and a Jag XK-140MC - later had a 64 Sprite that I drove from Charleston,SC, to Fairfield, CA, after buying it from a friend. Oddly enough, the only non-Lucas item on the car was a Delco electric fuel pump which failed just east of Little Rock. It was replaced with a Lucas pump which was still on the car when I sold it. I was probably fortunate and had few oil leaks with the Brit cars - the VW with the cardboard pushrod tubes was another story.