Originally Posted by TBM
Originally Posted by OZ 4/4
Originally Posted by TBM
Originally Posted by CraigL
If you want a post/pre Morgan 3 Wheeler, BAT has a Liberty Ace, his #2 car, up for auction now:
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2008-liberty-ace-2/

Not sure how the bidding works on BaT, but it went from $21,000 to $42,000 in one bid. Lot of money for a plastic replica smile

A replica of what....?


Pre-War V Twin Morgans? Not hard to see where the intial inspiration came from.

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Originally Posted by OZ 4/4
Then I wonder why Morgan bought the rights to the ACE if they already had that IP....?

I think it is a bit more complicated than that. Pete Larson wanted to buy a Triking but Tony Divey was not a well man at that time (he had had a stroke) and Pete gave up and decided to build his own.

When he had virtually stopped working Tony offered me a LHD Triking that he had started to build for an American. I often wondered if Pete Larson was his "lost" customer.

So we have a circle: the Morgan that inspired the Triking that inspired the Liberty Ace that inspired the Morgan (M3W) laugh

I imagine that the original idea was for Morgan to build the Liberty Ace design with a Morgan ash framed aluminium body but somewhere along the line they (unfortunately) kept modifying the design till it finished up a cat of a different colour.

Peter

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