Well that's a new to me edition London .... That's a lot of car for the money too
Stunningcar in top condition.

Very cool find, Richard. I agree that this is a special car. If I were in the market, this one I would prefer to a CX and safe 30K.

Agreed about the affordability, a lot of (low mileage) car for the money. These were attracting pricing if not sales approaching £100,000 more not so long ago.

B&C had a Speedster in that colour which I test drove - ultimately leading me to buy my +8. Unfortunately I am a bit too tall for the Speedster and didn't fancy a mouthful of wasps and flies every time I took it out.

But it's a lovely design, just right to my eyes.

I agree on both counts with you Heinz.
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday with many more to follow

Lovely car!
But any talk of it being better than the Plus Six is misguided IMHO.
The CX platform is in a different league to the old ali chassis on that car and I wouldn't buy it on those grounds.
There really is no comparison between the handling of the two cars and everything else is basically what you want it to look like

Indeed, a Speedster is going to be a "it's how you want to look" choice - but I'm not sure the CX car will be the nicer car to drive.

While Aero & CX chassis are leagues ahead of Trads, I doubt there's much difference in the chassis abilities between this Speedster's Aero chassis and a CX Plus Six - the CX might have a theoretical edge, but it'd be lost to being that bit harder to exploit. I reckon you'd have less confidence in the Six - losing it somewhere between the Six' well-known difficulties under acceleration making it hard to consistently get the power to the road, and Morgan's preference for trad-style suspension setups. In contrast, the auto box suits the V8, encouraging progressive power delivery without surprises.

And of course an SSL suspension improves both cars. :-)

Will

Many thanks, Richard🙂

Thankfully, there are enough rooms in the Morgan Mansion for all tastes.

It's never been about which is better because Morgan is a cheeseboard with Marmite dips.

I found the cheese I like best. If others prefer different cheeses, I really don't care. I wouldn't even try tasting the Marmite dip.

With Dave W on this, I really like it and know that it would be a hoot to drive, black upholstery no good out here but at that price compared to a CX wow.

Really a beautiful car.

@Heinz, alles Gute zum Geburtstag

Yes these Speedsters are really very special cars

Danke, Kai🙂

OK. I give up. Why is black upholstery no good in New Zealand?

Sir P

^^^ Dirt roads maybe....

Horses for courses.

V8 and sidepipes makes the Aero way more enjoyable than a CX to me. Never said better.

Re the upholstery -in a normal summer (not this one) you would get fried sitting in it after being parked outside while you were having your "coffee".

Agree it’s a lovely car!

However, I don’t agree that the CX chassis is in a different league to the Plus 8 chassis. Maybe improved and somewhat stiffer, but the Aero-chassis was designed by Chris Lawrence and was “one of the stiffest chassis of all the convertible roadsters” for quite some years And it has been amended over the years of production. Many enthusiasts prefer the Series I chassis as being the purest to the original design.

As regards a V8 versus a turboed BMW engine and if it has had the Litchfield ECU programme developed for the Morgan GTR it makes an enormous difference to the performance and works well with the auto gearbox, I’ll take the V8 any day!

Luckily, we all have our own ideas of what is the ideal Morgan and imho that’s down to personal choice rather than mine’s better than yours…

Brian, are we allowed to ask why the Super 3 is cancelled ?

Did I miss something??

Sure Jon, I and several others decided to cancel our Super 3’s which were due to be produced in January 2023 due to some changes in MMC. 😉

And here we go again up for auction now this fabulous Speedster



I was surprised to see this other Speedster back on sale at Henrys , another pure form.