I think Johns comments re

Expectations due to better abilites and infrastructure
Less patience as I grow older and less enamoured with inexperience and foolishness

Hit many of my buttons.

I also admit that driving an Aero with dual sidepipes is wonderful in a clear open area but awkward as hell sometimes (passing horses, speed humps in built up areas at night, passing a queue with open throttles) so I choose not open the throttles.

I always have to remind myself that the roads a shared resource to allow travel by all.

Also that whilst a corner may be marked 40mph because that was set when a Morris Minor on bald cross-ply's was used as the benchmark it would probably have only just made it. But today it is more likely that some donkey has dumped diesel on the same bend on a wet day and so my 295/30 shod sport-air suspended uber-sofa is still going to dance on ice just before sucking ditch. Track days/hill climbs/autocross are a good thing to let the inner loony out as long as the loonies are evenly matched and all pointing the same way.


Everyone loves a Morgan. Even me, unless it's broken again.