I'm glad this is finally out in the open.
I'll put you all in the picture.
My daughter and I were out for a drive on April 14th. It was a lovely sunny day, shortly after rounding a bend we hit some standing water with the left front wheel, this pulled the Morgan 90 degrees to the left. We rolled hit a bank and and then flipped over.
Upside down with our heads touching the grass verge we were able to extricate ourselves from the drivers side. Fortunately we were both relatively unhurt. I suffered a cracked/bruised rib, I assume from the seatbelt. My daughter had seatbelt burns and a few thorns in her arm. Most of her injuries came from trying to go to the toilet in the bushes whilst waiting 3 hours for the recovery vehicle.
The M3W was insured with Heritage Insurance and I can't praise them enough. I had an agreed value of what I paid 18 months ago and after inspecting the car Heritage paid out less my £150 excess. The M3W was classified “Total Loss” New Cat “S”. All sorted in 2 weeks.
This was my first at fault accident since passing my test in 1978, at least I broke my record spectacularly.
Sadly there were no similar M3Ws for sale and the cheapest appear to be around £38K, so it looks like I won't be using my tickets to the Hill Climb.
I was offered the chance to keep the wreck for £6k after talking to the loss adjusters and Phil at Allon White I decided to pass. The vehicle was recovered to a salvage company on Canvey Island where it was sold at auction for £12k5. Today I noticed an eBay advert for £22k.
The front wheel took a big hit and has broken spokes, both the exhausts are broken and bent, wing mirrors broken, rear lights smashed, random bit of wood poking out between drive belt and I assume the chassis bent. Quite truthfully there is not a panel that is straight. The engine would have run upside down, so I imagine oil would have got passed the piston rings.
As I said on the “Register” page, if you are thinking of buying out of salvage contact me as I don’t think the description on eBay is very accurate.
I'm sorry my M3W ownership ended this way, every time I opened the door to the garage I used to smile, nothing can come close to the fun I had driving it.
Would I buy another one? yes absolutely with extended rollover hoops, although Mrs W is not so sure.
Sorry if I've let you down as a community but hopefully I can still follow your exploits.
I don’t know if the 2 tickets to Thrill On The Hill Sunday event at Prescott and 1430 Hill Climb on Sunday are transferable, I won’t be needing them now.
Archie
