My childhood memory of being in this car, huddled on the floor of the passenger footwell, trying to get a bit of warmth off of the heater before the side curtains let them escape off into the Indiana winter cold (seriously, I fit in that footwell, 4 years old?) is one of my earliest.

A few years later, enjoying summertime rides, asking Mom to "make it shimmy" (IE. going over 70MPH)and watching people doing double-takes, seeing my sister's cello "driving" the car (right hand drive, with the cello riding shotgun, a strange thing to see in the colonies)...very good memories.
Did I mention the fact that it was a +4 four seater?

When we moved from Indy to a rural northwest Indianapolis area (including a very steep hill with winding gravel driveway) Dad parked his '56 Morgan +4 4 seater into his new pole barn...about 1970.

No idea of its true origin, but it did come with a real enclosed boot; "Thunderbird style" as Dad says, pictures to come. It supposedly came from a Japanese businessman who imported the car to the US. All I know is Dad bought it from a used car lot in Indianapolis around 1960.

When my parents downsized last year, I now found myself the owner of:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bzyp_TBTkjQXczlDdjR5UmFlODA&usp=sharing

Sorry for the out-of-focus cellphone-camera pictures. The wood floor sounds solid, and the frame only has surface rust. The clutch was depressed during attempts to tow/park it onto the trailer, but is stuck in the down position. It took 2 car guys (one foreign car bloke as well as me) to figure out where the clutch throwout fork was (and that included me jiggling the clutch pedal)...we were used to it being a big bulge on the bell-housing. During last Saturday's assessment it was also found that the TR4 motor had seized (though hoping the aero-kroil squirted in the cylinders will help over the next month).

Thus, the "daunting task". I have googled the F out of the web, and have found lots of Morgan sites, but with lots of parts information....lacking specifics.

It would be nice to have an excel spreadsheet, knowing that in what year/model:

engine/mfr/bore/stroke
trans/type/mfr/clutch
front brakes/type/mfr/(pads|shoes)

but at this point all I have is Dad saying it was a "moss" transmission, but really a Jaguar....

--Ken