I hesitate to reiterate my reason for buying a Morgan as I have done it so many times. I did not jump in blindfold, I had the benefit of circa five years of advice on the web from kind folk who had been there done that. Not only that, but I had spent many a year learning to be as independent as I could be relative to the care and maintenance of my old scrappers, up until the stage where I had worked my way into ownership of a few air cooled Porsches over a decade or so. Having worked through MGB, TR, Lotus and others, I learned just how good automotive engineering could be in the shape of an air cooled 911.... Morgan had always been of interest, not much interest, but interest none the less.
By the time I had spent a few years on the internet with MSCC DG and then eMog, I had been well educated to just about every foible a Morgan might suffer, be that straight out of the MMC`s doors, or some old crock that had lain in a barn with a hopeful soul looking to restore it....Great times indeed.
I felt sorry for the evolution in expectations that seemed evident at a time when delayering and downsizing was in full swing with "forced" early retirees all looking for a project, or to buy the Morgan of their dreams... Those looking for a project were searching for something relatively simple to tinker with, or indeed totally rebuild, which seemed to make even barn finds values soar outside my idea of their real worth. Perhaps al those lump sums added to a possible market surge..?
In truth I did feel rather sorry for those who had been enjoying the benefits of company car ownership up until industry spat them out... The idea that a new Morgan was not perfect out of the box seemed`d beyond the level of understanding for some, and to add insult to injury, to have to pay for repairs to foibles...when the cost of their company car service or repairs mattered not a jot. Yeah Morgan ownership came as quite a shock to some, but then the pure joy of driving a Morgan and all it brings with it is so very different from driving any high end saloon ? With luck the frustrations were overcome for quite a few. Fortunately for me I was never one of them, though I will admit to using occasional foul language when thinking "They could have spent a few more bob on this," however years of reading of those who thought they new better and modifying this or that and ending up chasing their tail as each mod created another issue when resolved created... well you know what I mean... All part of the fun for some, less so for me these days..
