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That has not always been the case with the Slingshot and the two center headlights. The first year or so they had two outboard lights on each side and none in the middle. So Polaris figured out a way to make the slingshot legal in the US. But Morgan failed miserably making the otherwise pretty M3W bugeyed and ugly!
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That happened to me and my granddad in the early 70's in his Austin A35 estate.
We were travelling down the road and this wheel came bouncing past us to which granddad says " some bugger's lost a wheel", at which point the off side rear goes down and near side front comes up.
Brake drum saves the day.
I went off to retrieve the errant wheel which was re-fitted with 1 nut from the other 3.
No damage to anything.
Happy daze. Same thing happened to my dad also in an Austin an A90. Dont remember how we fixed it but we got home in it. I had an experience with my '64 Corvair at speed where I seized a left front wheel bearing and twisted the stub axle clean off, suffering, as you say on that side of the pond the "loss of a road wheel". A term from my Triumph owners manual warning against loose wheel spinners I believe. I successfully got it to the side of the road, singing the refrain from the famous Kenny Rogers tune: "You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me Loose Wheel" 
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That has not always been the case with the Slingshot and the two center headlights. The first year or so they had two outboard lights on each side and none in the middle. So Polaris figured out a way to make the slingshot legal in the US. But Morgan failed miserably making the otherwise pretty M3W bugeyed and ugly! The Slingshot is legal but so is the M3W. The Slingshot has been ugly... no, fugly, since day #1. What's your point again?
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That has not always been the case with the Slingshot and the two center headlights. The first year or so they had two outboard lights on each side and none in the middle. So Polaris figured out a way to make the slingshot legal in the US. But Morgan failed miserably making the otherwise pretty M3W bugeyed and ugly! The Slingshot is legal but so is the M3W. The Slingshot has been ugly... no, fugly, since day #1. What's your point again? My point is that to comply with US laws, Polaris just added 2 lights to the middle and left the rest alone. So they kept the integrity of the original look. (Whether it was originally fugly or not is irrelevant.) Morgan completely moved the headlights from their wide stance to the middle and made it look bugeyed and hid the beautiful v-twin. It completely changes the look of the M3W. What Morgan should have done to comply with US laws is just add another set of smaller lights close in to the middle and left the current lights in their current place.
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My point is that to comply with US laws, Polaris just added 2 lights to the middle and left the rest alone. So they kept the integrity of the original look. (Whether it was originally fugly or not is irrelevant.) Morgan completely moved the headlights from their wide stance to the middle and made it look bugeyed and hid the beautiful v-twin. It completely changes the look of the M3W. What Morgan should have done to comply with US laws is just add another set of smaller lights close in to the middle and left the current lights in their current place. Totally agree 
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Back on topic...any more "speeches" given about your M3W?
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Can we stay "off topic" please if it includes any more excellent pictures of the historic racing at Pau. (Thanks Shaun ) The drift is always better than the thread...
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Looks like the mini drifted too far 😉
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I do frequently get asked if I built it. This week a car full of 18-20 year olds pulled up at a stop. One asked, "Excuse me sir, where did you get a car like that?" I was about to make up a BS answer, but the young kid asked so politiely that I respectfully gave him the truth. I don't get "excuse me sir" much anymore.
My favorite was another slightly older kid passing in the opposite direction slowly. "Is that a Morgan Three Wheeler?"
"Yes it is!"
"That's f#%@-ing awesome!"
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