Three years , plus 6, 30 plus thousand miles, drop dead gorgeous looks, insanely fast, eats tyres on rears, no LSD. Most days winter or summer, enjoy the fast drive, and you can make your own drama, hitting the ton up every day you drive it, thanks to living Rural. One radiator replaced, brakes sorted, nothing else mechanically went wrong. Never used any oil. Trip to South of France twice, aircon a godsend.
Hard top and soft top leaked, under carpets front and back regularly had to have mould wiped off. You catch pneumonia from the side door draft in winter. The heater only keeps your left knee warm. The windscreen had also been replaced, and a few times the wiper arms flew off . The inner plastic wing protectors all fell off. Apparently these bad things were due to me driving it to much.
The ugly bit was, I couldn’t sell it easy. The factory told me they didn’t want it. 3 Morgan dealers said too many miles, chipped paintwork, few scuffs on Black wheels. Petrol cap and door surrounding all pitted. The full service history meant nothing. Even experimental talk , saying I’d be interested in a Supersport, but I need a PX price yielded nothing. In the end, as I wanted out of it, as I fear the body is falling apart, I took 42k. It’s gone, I won’t have another. They are just not built for the stick I want to give it. They are just not good enough yet for a daily.
I admit that driving it all year, 10k per year maybe could have been foolhardy. But I don’t, and can’t afford a 80k car just to sit around in garage. It was a main car to be used. Gone back to a robust German sports car now, for all year use. I’ll miss the Morgan for sure. But owning one is to much hard work for me going forward.
