My geology (well palaeontology actually) lecturer who was into Alvis (a TD21 and a Grey Lady) asked me about Morgans when he heard I was born there.
On my recommendation he bought a 1955 +4 4 seater (YDV 286?) in 1967. One summer when he was alway on a field trip he asked me to take it to Malvern for him and get a new hood made by MMC. Well I was hooked from then on and I scoured the mags for anything that I could afford to buy.
The week that the +8 was announced a +4 was advertised in Exchange and Mart for £100 , I went to see it , and it was in a rather sorry state regarding the woodwork, so I got it for £85 and had to sell my Morris Minor convertible immediately and borrow some money from my parents.
That car was a flat rad with a TR3 engine , LWK 517 , which is currently owned by Sid Madrid. I rebuilt as best I could, and learned much while doing so. It was never reliable , but its was great fun and I must have covered quite a few thousand miles whilst living in the N East.
Eventually I sold it in order to buy a faster car , this time a +4 with a Daimler 2.5 litre V8 engine (no not Basil Fielding's car a home brewed job) that had been campaigned on the Cornish and Devonian hills.
I graduated from that to the ex Mike Duncan +4 (MVJ 101) which I kept for 32 years racing it across the UK and Europe , with great fun if not always very successful.
After realising that I was better retiring with my reputation intact rather than making a comeback and ruining for ever, I bought my current +8, and even that I have now owned for 20 years.
