Also, how many people buying a Morgan for the first time would buy privately from someone they have never met before?
One at least. I went to known Morgan dealer when first looking, that was a sufficiently bad enough experience for me to look privately. Strangely the person I bought off had bought from said dealer and his experience wasn't a positive one.
My experience is that buying a selling privately with Morgan's and classics isn't like horse trading in the Eurobox market. No hard sell cup of tea chat you either want it or you don't.