Reading through NickCW`s excitement relative to his very fortunate acquisition of a Aero 8 GTN as perhaps being a boyhood dream come true, quite by chance I came across a vid of a similar situation, though in this case unfortunately not a Morgan but a Ferrari.... and by a regular YouTuber who has driven a multitude of impressive machines in his time. Perhaps worth watching as other than the usual presenting "skills" it does seem that he might just be really excited by achieving a particular life goal..?
On a more personal note, when the Mog was perhaps demanding more from my ageing physiology than seemed ideal and now in my 70`s, I thought to return to 911 ownership as a more comfortable option.. It took 2 or more years to eventually dismiss the idea of buying an air cooled 911 as those I had owned in past times, as I wrestled with the likely realities, and of course the cost/benefit analysis relative to the reality of buying into the type of car on which I spent rather a lot of my time repairing corrosion damage on some 30 or so years back..! What might any such machine really be like today, and at a cost far in excess of my evaluation of their worth.. and in a then climbing market...!!!
I baled out and started looking at water cooled 911 derivatives.... Long story short... I bought a 911 derivative in the form of a 991.1 C4S. I suspect this vid (link below) helped me decide that there was history and heritage enough in the 991 to risk buying into this particular version of water cooled Porsches...
I suspect history and heritage is perhaps something that many a Morgan enthusiast contemplates when buying, the foibles disregarded as nothing other than a slight inconvenience, and part of the Morgan experience...?
The Porsche vid is a bit shorter at just under 8 minutes..
The 991 C4S unless driven on challenging roads and in a style similar to that which Henry piloted it in the vid, does not quite match up to my failing memories of my 60`s 70`s and 80`s air cooled 911`s though I suspect the levels of safety, comfort and digital decision making of the 991 may be better suited to the old man I have become....
