Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Trad prices ..versus owners dreams..

I've always as far as possible avoided the mechanical and electrical tinkering often associated with bringing an older vehicle be it car or bike into roadworthy reliability. Not got the patience or inclination, I'm expert at taking things apart but crap at putting them back together especially if a given procedure, steps, operating tolerances are required. never seemed to have the right tool when its needed.

Started too young with company cars and doing vast business miles to have to worry or want to be tinkering, when fully trained car mechanics were paid to look after my cars. It's not something I've wanted to do since I've retired over 20 years ago, never enough garage space and keeping anything any length of time living by the sea, the salty air soon sees metalwork, mechanical and electrical components off, no matter what you do to try and retard the corrosive air impact.

Give me reliability and easy of use any day over tinkering, although I fully understand why people do enjoy the tinkering and with the poor track record of Morgans and their general reliability, I often wonder why I enjoy them so much........... I

I've just put the Morgan parked in front of my house onto the driveway, as a old codger gets out of the passenger side, his wife's parking attempts outside the house made me move the Morgan (NOT TO TEMPT FATE) and his first words were appreciative 'nice looking car what is it' ' Morgan' was my reply, his retort 'they are expensive aren't they', what can you say other than to thank him for his kind words........how some people judge you by your possessions. I smile when I used the expression old codger, I'm 70 next year and still going strong, how do others see me.?