After reading the thread on galvanising chassis and the subsequent thread drift into how Morgans may develop it would be interesting to know would folks on TM buy a Trad Morgan with for example an aluminium alloy chassis or even a carbon fibre chassis / bodywork?
The new multi link rear suspension may become standard in a few years then what about a modern front suspension?
To many I guess its the look of the car rather than how or what its made from. I like old cars so I like the wooden construction and that a guy has hand made some of the bodywork so I doubt if I would buy something with a carbon fibre body / chassis if it ever got to that point.
Excellent points made here thanks for this , I for one would buy one and agree that its the looks that sell a Mog more than anything , it would be very difficult then for the Evo magazine to make rude comments about horrible handling and bygone mechanicals if the Mog started to snap at the heels of dull modern sports cars they seem to love blindly !
Actually Henry Catchpole was rather complimentary about his long-term 4/4, which had a tuned or replacement engine in a standard chassis.
When I first drove a few Morgans in the late 1970s - Plus 4 and Plus 8 - I thought they were awful and that Morgan enthusiasts were a bit barmy. The handling was dreadful and the driving position poor.
Even in basic form, the modern 4/4 and Plus 4 are enormously improved in many respects and with the addition of two inexpensive extras, brake reaction rods at the front and Panhard rod at the rear, they now handle very well, even better in my view when you add the Suplex/Bilstein front suspension kit; I believe some of the other available front end mods also work well.
For the trads in the future, I see no objection to an aluminium chassis, front wishbones and multi-link coil-sprung rear. Whether it is worthwhile introducing such changes as standard production is another question.
The big problem for the MMC, as is well known, is increasingly restrictive legislation. Will it be possible to sell trads at all 10 years from now? Can an Aero successor be made to comply with even existing US homologation requirements - and if so, how?
