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...and here's the ad announcing the car at Olympia! So, it's not an 'old chestnut' as anyone who has bothered to do any actual research would know. Morgans seem not to have been too sure of the nomenclature themselves when the four-wheeler was announced. 
Colin Musgrove
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I think the point is Colin that the adverts have always been a bit confusing, but the factory despatch records and the cars themselves clearly show them as being 4/4s
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Indeed so Tim and it's a bit angels on a pinhead anyway. AAMOI, I have somewhere a hand-written note given to me by Cecil Jay way back in 1963 referring to my, then, daily bolide a '49 4/4 in which he had written 'Four.Four'! Typical Morgan factory attention to detail...NOT! :-/
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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! :-( Hi Colin, that car SLB 930 must have been magnetic to rust. I owned the car for 18 years when I had children growing up. I had to replace or weld the same areas as you. Then had many years of family fun with it. Mechanics were bullet proof].
.+8 Now gone for a 1800 4/4. Duratec in bright yellow.
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