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1970 ish at a London motor show, Earls Court? Green Plus 8, I was wowed by 3 wiper blades!
Took me another 44 years of hard work to own one.


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1968 Earls Court Motor Show, got to sit in the new then Plus 8.
It seemed rock hard and chunky. Loved it.


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1976 or 77 at the Motor Show in Birmingham before that I was forever looking through the window of Lifes Motors around the mid 60's on my way to the Victoria Baths for swimming lessons.


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Similar to John Earls Court Motor show 1975 There were two Morgan's on the stand my brother sat in one me in the other and I shouted across to him one day I will own one of these! It took me 36 years for this to happen! Just think John we could have sat in the same car!


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That fateful day in May 2014 when I test drove Ruby at Newtown motors in the rain it was mine before I got back to the showroom.


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In the early 70's I was the MOT tester at a BL dealership.

The sales manager sent his daughter along with a yellow 4/4 2 seater.

In those days brake testing needed a road test with a Taperly meter.

The view of the long, louvered bonnet seen through a letter box windscreen, swinging like a gun barrel is one of the the classic sights in motoring.

I was not happy with some play in the "king pins."

The sales manager said give this number a ring, and I had a chat with Mike Duncan, the short version being "they all do that".

About ten years latter when I was marine engineer, I bought a red 2 seater from Mike, I still have it.

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1967 when I was an apprentice. The chap I was working with took me for a drive in a green 2 seater, either a +4 or 4/4?
After that it was every year if they were at Earls Court Motor Show.
Then at BHM when they were still at Brands Hatch, it was a red 2 seater then, finally when I bought my first +4 from BHM at Borough Green. It was Lambo Yellow with Bobin Blue leather.
Now on my 3rd +4 from Krazyhorse.
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Probably around 1954 aged 5 ish when my father used to borrow the use of tools at the factory on a Saturday-with Peter Morgan to make bits to keep his car on the road.

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