Feels good to be able to be able create an occasional smile Richard...(-: I looked out the Bugatti pic I mentioned and hopefully have succeeded in attaching this to this post.

I suspect I have related this story before, perhaps too many times, but as an old duffer I can repeat myself in the same sentence without knowing while typing, sigh!

While on eMog one of our American cousins reported an old well used/far travelled Morgan turned up wearing it`s history in a car park full of polished and perfect Morgans... You can guess which car had the folk gathered around it, all wanting to know it`s story... So much so that it was elevated into the foyer of the hotel at which the event was being held...(-:

I hold my hand up as being guilty of spending hours polishing alloy engine internals as well as their externals on my old Brit Motorcycles as a yoof. When I decided that a Morgan might be a fine substitute for a real vintage car with performance enough to keep up with modern traffic situations and more (-: I searched for many a year to find some old Mog in need of restoration at a price that reflected it`s condition.. None to be had at the time, and as a result thanks to Lorne the GoMoG webmaster I ended up with a concours condition restored Mog... First day I had it home, I ragged it up an unmade road with stones flying... Best to get it over than suffer death by a thousand cuts every time I might hear a stone hit the perfect paintwork... All that typed today some twenty years and 26k miles later it still looks pretty smart and a credit to Kevin`s workmanship. Kevin is the professional repairer/restorer who rebuilt it. circa Y2K

I suspect the patination purists might spend a great deal of time trying to differentiate "originality" in terms of the appearance of age, and the ageing techniques applied to cars as being similar to the sort of faux patination that the antique trade can apply so well to furniture ...? (-: Yeah well we guys have to have something to keep us occupied in discussion in our dotage...(-:

As for the evaluation of polished to perfection. Whether the French or others might pay more for a patinated machine wearing it`s history well, than they might when compared to a similar aged and well polished machine, I know not. Lorne`s +8 was (is?) quite the most polished Morgan and perhaps unusually also perhaps one of the most travelled Morgan`s I know of .... Each to their own ideals of that which is perfect for them..?

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