Sorry Julian, I to think you made a rather sweeping statement re "all on TM" I have long since discarded my rose tinted specs soon after buying my first tired old Lotus dream car.....(-:
Such is my old sports car history that I sampled quite a few before arriving at Morgan custodianship starting with a Frog Eye Sprite, through MGB`s and other Brit kit, even wondered into REAL GT ownership in the form of a couple of Jensen interceptors 7276cc on radial tyres possibly older than me at the time...(-: Sure in decades of being an avid reader of the classic press, I well knew about Morgans even to the stage where I read in some detail about them, but..Nah... I guess I was too...err...immature at the time.. I bought another problem Lotus...(-:
Anyone who has had CARnal knowledge of MG`s and Lotus cars of many varieties, will have dealt with all sorts of corrosion and mechanical mayhem over the years, unless unlike me, they were in a position to buy them new and trade them in before the usual issues revealed themselves, which in the case of MGB`s could be difficult as many decades back I remember seeing tiny bubbles showing through the paint on the rear wing top joint of a new unregistered MGB in a showroom...
I swapped my Interceptor for a rotted out Porsche 912 during the 70`s fuel crisis...Yup Porsche had corrosion issues as bad as any MGB in the 60`s and early 70`s in my climate, though the quality built into Porsche engines, running gear, electrics and trim matched an early Beetle I had owned a few years previously and which impressed me greatly, but time and tide wait for no man and as I aged it seemed my motoring desires ..err..matured somewhat and I had acquired an itch in need of scratching, more so having followed an old Bentley on a twisting road as it roared along and hopping over the undulations in the Tarmac...I have often related that story in detail, perhaps too often...(-: . The result of following the Bentley was that I saved my pennies and in time bought my +8...It has over the years provided most if not all of the pleasures that fellow TM members have already waxed lyrical on, it has also been super reliable in the circa 35k miles I have covered in it in my 22 years of ownership.... I have excuses a plenty for the low mileage, just that life got in the way, though have made a circa 4k touring mile trip in it and others of perhaps 2k miles, thus have covered some reasonably lengthy trips in it, though mostly roaring around sheep scaring, perhaps occasionally scaring myself on Knockhill..(-:
Today, I would put more trust in my +8 than I would in my 991.1, the latter seemingly requiring me to pay a couple of hundred pounds or so for a session of downloading digits to assess whatever any issue might have been indicated on the dash, and in my case, only if the fault can be proven to down be a manufacturing error, can I avoid paying for the fixed price digital download session, it seems there can be many fault codes to choose from on many a modern digitally dependant motor cars...?
I have never required to pay anyone to work on my Morgan given I can still force myself to change the oil and fire the grease gun, as well as re-tightening a few nuts which loosen off from time to time, and with a CTEK connected to it`s battery being about as much as my mid 80`s +8 requires to keep it ready to go, should I feel in the mood to blow some cobwebs off... (-:
Thus my Morgan experience and expectations from the outset of initial purchase and right through to this day have never been less than I could have hoped for. and now with a store of memories created enjoying it and the like minded friends both digital and real world discovered .. Good old Morgan...(-:
