The only 4 seater convertible I (and my dad) owned and liked was a Sunbeam Talbot 90 (?) back in the mid 1960s . He bought it for me for £50 (?) . It was an off white, almost light grey with brightish red ‘leatherette’ upholstery . Surely it wasn’t leather was it? . The back seats were a good 6” higher than the front . It looked ‘Caddish’ with a badge bar on the front. It was lovely and great to drive down the Golden Mile smelling the toffee apples, candy floss, rock, seafood, fish & chips and horse & donkey dung ! Happy days.
Unfortunately my dad was one for making a profit on anything and I came home one day and we had made £20 on it .
I think a good one now goes for £10 to £15 K perhaps.
When everyone else had a Ford Pop or some other black old fashioned car, we had Victors and a salmon pink and cream
V Cresta and later a caddy Fleetwood. He bought a Daimler Dart but sold it the same day before driving it
My first taste of ‘exotica’ though, was the dad of a uni mate and he had a Gordon Keeble - that was a handsome vehicle and certainly it was no slow turtle…..
Still I have loved the Morgan shape since a teenager and I still love it, there is little to beat it, but no doubt others even on this site might disagree. It gets in the blood and the DNA. Best MM
