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I may have gone for red had my Roadster not been red. Red and black is a great combo, and the matching polo shirt and black jeans is the biz. At least you're not going to have change the polo shirts and sweatshirts for Tigger...that'a few pennies saved! 
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True but I do have an orange MMC polo shirt anyway....
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An interesting aside from the tale of the sale of this ARP4, I noted in this months club mag that a Mr Ian Gay of Gravesend joined the club in April with an ARP4 so welcome to the MSCC Ian, shame the car didn't gell.
I think we have all bought cars like that, some times it just doesn't work out.
Here for a good time not a long time!!
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Neither, but it would appear that as it is a Morgan, some cars are better than others. I'd heard that early cars had to have their roller barrel throttle bodies changed and there is an update to the mapping in the ECU, plus, of course, some suspension setup problems to be overcome on some cars.
There is also a difference in each owners expectation of the way they think the car should perform, so one owner will love reving the nuts off it and seeing the change up light at 7200 in each gear, whilst to another this style of driving might be a complete anathma. Paul , one would wonder why a person who doesn't like revving the nuts off the ARP4 would have bought it !
Geneva 2016 plus 8' The Green Godess' 4 side exits .
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[i]There is also a difference in each owners expectation of the way they think the car should perform, so one owner will love reving the nuts off it and seeing the change up light at 7200 in each gear, whilst to another this style of driving might be a complete anathma. [/quote]
"Paul , one would wonder why a person who doesn't like revving the nuts off the ARP4 would have bought it!"
Because MMC marketed this car as a fast and, by Morgan standards, comfortable cruiser, not a stripped down refugee from a race track, and the fact so many are back up for sale so quickly, testifies to the fact that peoples expectations were not met by Morgan, not because the new owners got it wrong, but because Morgan got it wrong, [and I have to say it], again. How difficult can it be?
Paul
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Cosworth! That says it all to me.
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Wild Mogs Reims 2019, Goodwood 2018, Isle of Man 2017, Carried on to Caramulo" 2016
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I don't remember saying I didn't gel with the car. I said I didn't have the time to drive and it s the fun I had in a car . Thanks also for quoting my name on here .
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Cosworth! That says it all to me. Quite Ian! Paul.....have so many been sold on? I've just seen a handful.
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Quite Ian!
Paul.....have so many been sold on? I've just seen a handful.[/quote]
Oh, not that many that I know of John, it's just that there are several on the market again with only a few hundred miles on them, I'm always surprised when someone buys a brand new car and only keeps if for a couple of months, after all why go to all that trouble and expense?
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[i]There is also a difference in each owners expectation of the way they think the car should perform, so one owner will love reving the nuts off it and seeing the change up light at 7200 in each gear, whilst to another this style of driving might be a complete anathma. "Paul , one would wonder why a person who doesn't like revving the nuts off the ARP4 would have bought it!" Because MMC marketed this car as a fast and, by Morgan standards, comfortable cruiser, not a stripped down refugee from a race track, and the fact so many are back up for sale so quickly, testifies to the fact that peoples expectations were not met by Morgan, not because the new owners got it wrong, but because Morgan got it wrong, [and I have to say it], again. How difficult can it be? [/quote I don't read marketing - I just read cosworth , which to me equals fun !
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Geneva 2016 plus 8' The Green Godess' 4 side exits .
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