I am pretty serious though about my comments on the TD. If it had decent modern brakes, a 2l. Duratec and MX5 or T9 5 speed gearbox and only very slightly modified suspension, it would do everything a trad could do, but then again, who messes around with old cars like the TD?
So what you're really saying is that if you took a TD, and did all the things to it that Morgan have done over the last 60 years or so to improve their cars, you'd end up with something that could be as good as a current trad Morgan: which, were it not for the fundamental ergonomic problems of the cockpit, I might be convinced of. But there would be an awful lot to do - TD's didn't even have a fuel gauge.
There is of course no doubt that the standard Morgan as delivered from the factory is capable of being further improved. This has always been the case, Peter Morgan was quoted on more than one occasion as believing that the car offered a basis for the owner to work on to meet their needs, and it's an activity that I've been engaged in with my car for the last 15 years.
The thing is, if one wants a perfect sports car, all one has to do is simply go out and buy a Porsche - and the very reason many Morgan buyers reject this route is that the result is more than somewhat anodyne. Better to buy something with acknowledged imperfections and fix those imperfections which one finds truly bothersome.
