Originally Posted By Richard - Aus
Originally Posted By auster
I'm currently on family duties down under and have just caught up with this post. It makes me want to boycott vegemite, crawl under a rock and drink warm beer sick The bureaucrats obviously don't or can't drive or they would observe people on bicycles and motorcycles and horses and realise that a Morgan is actually a sane vehicle in which to cover the distance between A and B.

I can't guarantee the veracity of this but one car magazine says...

"The issue has surrounded the adoption of brake-assist standards, which Morgan has not got the locally-required certification for among its more traditional offerings".



The sentence construction is appalling but I take from it that Australians need more assistance with their braking than do most of the rest of the citizens of the civilised world. Spare me. I'm cancelling my plans to return and preparing to settle somewhere in the civilised world where drivers are allowed to brake without "brake-assist standards."



Where about's are you?


Hi Richard. Quite some distance from you at Hervey Bay on the east coast. A place where, despite coming here for more thank 40 years, I have never seen a Morgan. I spoke to a friend yesterday, he's 60, and he has never seen a Morgan in the flesh. I commiserated with him and we drank another beer. Apart from the lack of proper cars it's a lovely place.


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1988 Peugeot 205 GTI 1.9