So many thoughtful and insightful reflections in this thread! If I may pick up on Simon's Wabi-Sabi analogy, which I found very compelling, this leaves me with a kind of puzzle: it seems many of the "imperfections" of Morgans are not just something to put up with but actually directly part of their appeal. For instance, I absolutely love the very stiff and bouncy ride, captured perfectly by Luddite's description of the LM Bentley bobbing and weaving down a country lane. I imagine that this is shared by a lot of Trad owners. But why then the inclination to try to improve the ride with, say, better dampers up front or an SSL kit in the rear? Doesn't that just risk undermining the very thing that makes it appealing in the first place? (I ask as someone who feels the "improvement" bug coming on and wondering if it isn't wiser to just leave well enough alone, as +8Rich evidently has done). Or is there some kind of subtle pleasure in taking a flawed but beloved object and, well, making it just a bit (but not too much) less flawed?
Also, I can add myself to the list of gents who wonder if (or perhaps hope that) their partners see in them something kind of like what we see in our Morgans.
