Originally Posted by Shooter
Originally Posted by NickCW
Originally Posted by aerotaff
Kevin. There wasen't that many silver S1s made I used to call at the factory quite regularly between 2002 and 06 I can remember a silver with light ash dash floating about . My first S1 was an ex factory car. I took a waterlogged Gtn out and that was it hooked, it was about 4k more than mine at the time and i didn 't think it was worth the extra it's now worth double. Em


Great picture in the last thead Kevin, the closest I have gotten to taking mine out is sitting in it laugh2

Em - got to admit I don't understand why the values suddenly doubled on the GTNs, seemed to coincide with the classic car boom but for some reason the S1 was left behind..call me cinical but often dealers can be behind driving these values and a few make a tidy profit as a result - not saying that is what happened here though or that they aren't worth the money as they are very special cars. Just an odd scenario!

Oddly the last one that came up didn't sell for over a year, so perhaps people don't believe they are worth double the amount when they were only a few k more? Who knows..

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The GTN retail price when new was £72,500. A series 1 at the time new was around £55,500. So 30% more expensive than the standard series 1.

In the January 2004 edition of EVO they got an exclusive first drive in Morgan's Road-Racer as they called it The tag line was: Inspired by the successful Morgan racecar, the GT is a rawer, faster take on the Aero 8. Listed differences according to the article, the 4.6litre Alpina engine (about 44bhp more than the 4.4 standard engine), stiffer suspension, centre lock OZ wheels (like the early S1's) with Yokohama semi-slick tyres, an extended spoiler that spans the scallop between the front wings and a trimmed version of the racer's carbon fibre hardtop. Inside, the traditional Morgan ash framework has been hidden by a blackened and carbonated interior - a detail described as 'Ebonisation' by Morgan. Interestingly, I dont know who made the black steering wheel for the GTN. It is wood, not leather covered but Moto-Lita say they have never made a black wood wheel (as at 2017 when I showed it to them).

Given that it has a different powerplant to any other Aero, it is a proper limited edition compared to the Series 5 GT which was pretty standard apart from the body kit and a partial improvement to the suspension I would expect it to run at a higher price than a standard S1. Of the 2 versions available of the GTN, I prefer the S1 body rather than the S2 body. The narrow cockpit suits the cross-eyed look much better than on the S2.

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Some interesting information there, would love to see the original article. I always find a shroud of mystery around them as there was talk of different brakes, weight loss and differing spoilers none of which materialised in the end but I think it wasn’t needed with the purity of the design. Also the talk of a single wide S2 body GTN, never seen pics of it tho.

Considering there are only 11 I would have thought they would be worth a lot, but I find it very odd that they went from a few k more to double with seemingly no explanation.

Re the steering wheel if you shine a bright light on the black wooden rim you will see it’s actually not black..but a very dark almost brown colour that you can see the woodgrain through. I figure Morgan just lightly painted a dark wood Mota-Lita wheel, as I to spoke to them and they said they have never done one either.

If it helps my S1 was £60’000 new in 2001.

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