Bob, Another good book is Phil Benfields Buyers guide to a plus 4 Morgan. It has a lot to say and is relevant to all modern classic's really in so many ways. Phil works at Allon White Morgan and is a very approachable guy. If you are really foxed send him an email. He's like an encyclopedia when it comes to Morgan's. Melvyn Rutter is much the same as is Brands Hatch Morgan.
Dave, Your'e welcome and it's a much earned plug! Your book took some writing, It is fact filled with those questions you wouldn't know where to start looking for answers and full of the most relevant information that a new or even a long term owner might ask questions of. Many of which Morgan won't even answer for you!
I think the new breed of Morgan owner is playing into Morgan's modernisation drive re. the CX platformed car. These 40 somethings and younger didn't stand at their fathers right hand watching him fix and repair the family car. It was common for the old man to come home on a Friday night with a head gasket set and say up early tomorrow lad, we're giving the car a de-coke! Or, I'm servicing the brakes and giving the car a tune up this weekend! Yes, that was the way to demystify the I/C engine! Modern cars just don't need that treatment and when work is required it disappears into a faceless garage somewhere then re-appears some time later. So, they lose the joy of running, maintaining and driving their dream and as we know one little problem with the suspension or steering set up can destroy that driving experience! Most of all though, they have no idea of what is wrong or how to diagnose a problem, what needs doing or how to rectify it so soon lose interest in what was their dream car that they probably have waited half a driving life for!
Morgan don't seem to have the parts/spares for the classics in the way they used to have, perhaps they prefer to service the main dealers in preferance now but it seems that it is harder all round to obtain some things already. Lets hope the after market picks up the spade!
