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Couple of runs to Harborough today with roof down , much deeper and louder exhaust note now librands manifold fitted , definitely more rapid progress and some lovely popping through the town , can't gets enough of overrun pops , mental , everyone looks to see where the sounds coming from ! Modern cars are very dull after the Mog !

Not today Ruby still at the factory getting wings fixed.

Lovely sunny, but cold, day today. Made a rather quick run 15 kms up the lake road (and back) to sort out a couple of things on the boat. It was a good excuse to try out the latest tweaks to the calibration of the Omex ECU and to listen to those throttle bodies sing

I do the same Peter
A little trip to the golf And after to the sea front for an expresso with friends.
Nice car the 75th

A slightly longer trip in my 4 seater Plus 4 yesterday, to see my 9 year old grandson on his birthday. An hour each way, and it's giving me time to assess the car, never having driven or even passengered in a Morgan, it's a completely new and interesting experience.

The car is far more sophisticated than I was expecting, quiet, [for a convertible], smooth engine and transmission, even the suspension copes reasonably until larger potholes and cross ridges, where it has bottomed out a couple of times, which doesn't bode too well if we are fully laden.

The engine pulls quite well, though I keep thinking that more power wouldn't go amiss, [you can never have enough, of course], and finally, I thought it would be a good idea to practice putting the hood up. It was a good job I was practicing in my garage, it wasn't so much the acres of canvas that got me, but the fiendishly complicated framework which needed stretching out. What a nightmare it must have been to design that, and yet there are other 4 seater convertibles with much easier hoods - the Morris Minor which we owned years ago, comes to mind. I'm sure that a more aesthetically pleasing look could be constructed, if one didn't want or need the full headroom in the rear, which I don't, as it is mainly for dogs, junk and luggage etc. There's food for thought there........

Peoples reactions were either ambivalent or very positive where they actually stopped to talk and admire.

The other thing I've noticed is that the car doesn't encourage fast driving, unlike my Caterham, which, no matter how much of a gentle jaunt I am on, keeps telling me it wants to go faster. Maybe I am old enough for a Morgan after all?

Congratulations on the new car paul i take it you bought the newton car a caterham it aint but you wont get your grandson in the back of one of those and when your four up everybody waves and smiles engoy it you can really wind up that duratec

Thank you, yes it was the Newtown car, there are very few 4 seaters up for sale at any one time it seems, and this one was fairly close to me in Somerset and the price wasn't too bad, but I found Peter, their salesman, not really prepared to give much away - I got some running board treads, and that was it.

Oh yes, just got back from taking LRR out for our 10 miles spin around the block, a mix of 30 mph to start and get things nicely warm, a bit of 50+ through some twisty bits, and a blast along the main road, back onto some twisty and then a wind down back to base. Lovely if a bit nippy, hat on, gloves on, electric seat on, heater on full, nice and snug. A lovely drive after 4 weeks absence due to Kitchen.

Nice trip through the countryside about twenty miles,check the tyre pressures which were way off ,blast down motorway for 5 miles bit of shopping (that was the excuse) (who needs an excuse) great day in west Sweden sunny, bit of mist and no elk.

Spin out this morning across the preselli hills to cardigan bit of shopping then stop off in cenarth falls back over the mountains to saundersfoot glorious weather stunning scenary