Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Number plates again and front valance's

In the recent thread which turned to numberplates it fired me up to look at going with the square plate on the wing and junking the factory number plate box. Car is a 80th 4/4 in Saxe blue.

Another local chap who has just bought a Morgan (+4) wants to do the same.

Yesterday he removed his factory reg box and was about to order the new plate online.

However with the box removed the horn and other gubbins then become on show and in your face we decided.
I checked on mine when I got home and it'd be the same.
What do you guys do who've done this? Reposition horn etc?

He's now talking about a valance to hide this from Wolf Performance and then deciding on a stick on plate placed on either the wing or the new valance.

I quite like the idea but reckon it would spoil the diminutive lines and narrow tyred look of the 80th, his sits on 205 V8 alloys.

At the end of the day I'm probably just looking for little items to purchase for the new car. Problem is the 80th already came with most of the usual suspects you'd exitedly buy after purchase. I've bought the sun visors, deflector's and junked the big plastic mirror but can't find anything else the car needs, apart from the numberplate swap I'd like to do.

What is the general view on these valances? Are they period for a 1936 replica? Are they just for Supersport/V6 performance related cars or is it a case of "if you want one get one"?

Ideally I'd just like the plate on the wing but I'm now thinking it could look naff.

Cheers Guys.

Hopefully this helps, its one of cains front valances along with his alloy shorter plate mount. I thought it looked great

That does indeed look lovely and thanks for the pic. I'll google Cain;s now. Have you removed the reg box and put the number plate back on with velcro or something?

Cheers

No it was a mount that cain made up in alloy with 2 spaces and then bolted on. It was beautifully made unlike the original and worked perfectly, looking much more traditional aswell

Is Cain from Wolf? I'd have similar if poss!!

Yes thats it Wolf performance, really nice chap and helped out no end with that car.

I put on a Wolf valance but put the number plate back. The valence is great but the number plate box does protrude. A square plate on the wing could look good.
Geoff Red +4

MMC have a lovely down grille, not easy to find but really nice and well done, no need valance with that.

The square plate for be nice must have max 6 characters, have way to fix it from back of the wing without drill the wing .

I am working on something like this but with some special part and i want to keep the over rider

I have a nice Wolf valance on my new(ish) 4/4 and have plans to replace the number plate and box with a square stick on number plate on the wing. Things have not quite gone to plan in that latter regard!

A hillclimb scrutineer who is also an MOT tester once advised me that the stick-on plate I had on the front wing of my Sport Competition would be an MOT failure because it was not vertical (most Morgan regular plate locations aren't) and didn't show the suppliers name and postcode along with the required British Standards number.
I don't know where lat leaves E type Jaguars etc!