Glad some of you found interest in the vids. Heinz if you like that chaps style I can send you some links to his Porsche vids..?
Howard, I was waiting for that...(-: Given I was amongst the first to log on to the MSCCDG when it came into being in the 90`s in search of an insight to Morgan ownership, was on that DG till it`s demise, then on eMog till it`s demise and then on to NBC.... Thus spent years and years of reading of the many "foibles" built into Morgans and the issues suffered by their owners from new and out of the box through to the early 4-4 thus it seems perhaps a case of folk in glass houses throwing stones...all be it in fun...(-:
The first Ferrari I saw in real life was a then new Dino, I was IMPRESSED INDEED, though some said it was not a real Ferrari as it did not have 12 cylinders and thus did not carry the Ferrari badge..(?) A pal of mine once owned Mick Jagger's 400i I worked on it a bit trying to resolve electrical issues... YEAH, wonderful engine, configured as two sixes, each bank with it`s own dizzy and injection systems, got it running on all 12..WHAT AN ENGINE..!!!! Bodywork, was the quality of a Morris Marina in the bad years...!
Think the 308 was available in glass-fibre (?) though not favoured much by the purists..?
I think the chap did well to get that car for circa £34k... it has wonderful lines but.... when younger, for sure, though today, the Morgan seems more fitting.
As for the resentment, I had more than enough of that in my 911, not so bad in my black one, though when I swapped it for a guards red one... Yeah waiting forever at junctions.. My good lady drove it too and was at traffic lights as was her brother in his car facing opposite each other having not noticed each other, until one of his passengers commented... "look at that rich B*tch in her Porsche.... BIG mistake..!!
Fortunately I have never suffered envy of any kind for anything.
The glass fibre one wa a short run because the then two big markets objected to it. Col Ronnie Hoare in the UK thought that GRP smacked of Lotus and the American importer thought it smacked of Corvette. So at the expense of an additioal 120kg the body was switched to steel. The GRP cars were the ones used for racing and rallying so fewer of them survive and they sell at a premium to the steel ones. £34k isnt a bad price but it is LHD and a decent RHD can be had for £40k. Odd really since the successor the 328, which in many ways wasnt that different, is a good 50% more.
Maybe I am thick skinned but I have never seen any resentment from other drivers - mostly indifference if I am honest. I imagine an Aero would get more fingers pointed because it looks very different. What I also dont get is the boy racer challenge that used to plague me when I had the Lotus. You know the situation where jack the Lad in his chipped Clio pulls up along side revving the nuts off it and scorches away from the lights. Daft because it isnt that much faster than the Lotus to be honest.
I just like the engineering, the history, the style and like the Morgan world the cameraderie of the Ferrari Owners club.
