But how did you find the car then I asked. "Must have improved a lot". Cheers. Meabh.
I was at a track day recently and got chatting with a young guy in a Westfield. He was bemoaning the death of TVR and I said, "well, we still have Morgan and they are 100 this year", his response... wait for it...
"I don't like Morgans, they give people the wrong idea about what British sports cars are all about."
...he then went on to say, "they also give the wrong impression of British drivers..."
I started laughing - as you can guess I wasn't there in the Morgan so he didn't know I was an owner - and asked what his perception of a Morgan owner was, and what they could possibly be like to sully the image of British drivers to all other countries in the world.
You can imagine the picture he painted but let me just say it wasn't far from this PR photo of Aeroman, Boshly and myself: -
...he was a really nice chap and there was no malice in him; however, when questioned, he too had never driven a Morgan. His opinion was based on being driven around Classic Le Mans in his friends Plus 8 (which in his words "didn't handle, was too hot, too cramped", etc); he had never driven one and wasn't even sure what a 4/4 Sport or Aero 8 looked like.
I've been lobbying MMC to bring a 4/4 Sport to certain track events and let interested parties do a session in it. My guess - and I could be wrong - is that it would win over many and do a lot to dispel the myths of the arm-chair experts.
