There are certain cars that an owner can forgive practically anything, (The same goes for women too apparently), and the Morgan is one of them. Another close to my heart was the Caterham Seven. I feel that owners of such cars must expect to 'bond' with their loved ones, having put in blood, sweat tears and other emotions, you end up either loving or hating. If you hate you bite the bullet, if love, then nothing anyone can say will be wrong.
On a more prosaic note, after 9 years and 14,000 miles running my ARP4, I only had a gearbox oil seal and steering gator rubbers which needed replacing, although I was surprised to have to renew the 'king pins' and bushes recently, but that is a Morgan thing, other than that, it never let me down nor gave any trouble. It is for sale because I have succumbed to a very low milage MY 25 Plus Four and am mightily impressed. It is early days yet, but I have already put 2000 miles on the clock and absolutely love driving it. Yep, there is a howling gale around the passenger widescreen and door rear, but only with the hood up and Berrybrook promise faithfully they will make it like new - something about a hide mallet........ I do believe them too, I've owned Morgans for too long not to.
Prior to the ARP4, I had a Plus 4 4 seater for a couple of years and apart from suspension which didn't suspend, it was a reliable enough car and my two early Three Wheelers didn't give any problems either. Maybe I'm just lucky............
