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I thought Cuprinol became standard in 1986. It was certainly a cost option in 1985 when our old car was registered - as was wing beading. Fortunately for me the first owner specified both - hoping the third owner appreciates it.
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I could be a year off...  However, standard from mid '80s sometime 
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Very nice & different.
My Roadster is partly funded by my inheritence from my Mum also. I found them on E Bay (USA) at 25 US Dollars ( Repro-Cast alloy) 
Magwa
1950 Allis Chalmers B tractor
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I could be a year off... However, standard from mid '80s sometime Forgive the pedant in me!
Paul
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Hmm, pretty cringe-worthy excerpt from the 'Morgan Experience' vid from the presentation point of view (!) but in no way unusual in its depiction of the appalling state of relatively recent-build Morgans we saw regularly in those days. That particular car was less than ten years old, one-owner and had lived all its life in rural Cheshire. Owners new to the marque really have no idea just how badly constructed Morgans were in the early and mid-eighties. Any attempt by me and others to discuss this with PHGM was met with the inevitable 'Emperor's Suit of Clothes' attitude which Sir John Harvey-Jones also got after 'The Troubleshooter'. Mercifully, but slowly, matters improved.
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Colin Musgrove
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That mog must have been left outside to be in such a state after only 10 years ?
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Hmm, pretty cringe-worthy excerpt from the 'Morgan Experience' vid from the presentation point of view (!) but in no way unusual in its depiction of the appalling state of relatively recent-build Morgans we saw regularly in those days. That particular car was less than ten years old, one-owner and had lived all its life in rural Cheshire. Owners new to the marque really have no idea just how badly constructed Morgans were in the early and mid-eighties. Any attempt by me and others to discuss this with PHGM was met with the inevitable 'Emperor's Suit of Clothes' attitude which Sir John Harvey-Jones also got after 'The Troubleshooter'. Mercifully, but slowly, matters improved.
Colin M. Do you know what became of the Morgan Colin?
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Do you know what became of the Morgan Colin?
No I don't Stewart, it'll be around somewhere. My restorations keep turning up on YouTube or in the pages of Octane at some ludicrous asking price! As for it's being unusually rotten I can assure you that it was by no means unusual as I found out to my considerable cost earlier. When my daily driver +4 'SLB 930' (still going strong and now a film star!) was found at Bowman and Acock to have a sagging chassis. I had it rebuilt by the Factory rather than doing it myself thinking it would be quicker and I could get on with my vintage cars...big mistake. One year later and at a cost greater than that of a new 4/4 Comp (which B&A did offer me instead!!) I collected my restored Plus 4 and was not altogether impressed. Four years later the steel wings, door lower edges, rear quarter panels and scuttle base had rusted out, along with a good part of the bulkhead and valances. Thus I took the bloody thing totally apart and rebuilt it properly. Then I rebuilt about 150 more over the next 20-odd years! :-(
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Oh, btw, re the '4-4' business...here's a 1936 sales brochure extract... verb sap 
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Do you know what became of the Morgan Colin?
No I don't Stewart, it'll be around somewhere. My restorations keep turning up on YouTube or in the pages of Octane at some ludicrous asking price! ....... . Then I rebuilt about 150 more over the next 20-odd years! :-( Thanks Colin That's impressive
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