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GerryWal #493696 13/01/18 02:56 PM
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Happened to see this today parked outside my local today (just now actually)... has 'trafficators' fitted.



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I have had the "pleasure" ???? of driving one of these in it's proper home, i.e. across farm land and ploughed fields and I have to say it was awful.
I can't imagine why anyone would spend a lot of money on one then drive it on the road ,however I guess it's a case of what ever floats your boat!!


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Originally Posted By Eddie Cairns
Have you driven one any distance?


I've never owned a Series 1, but I used to drive my IIa all over the place. Huge fun. Modern cars have made us all soft I reckon.


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I quite enjoy not having my kidneys displaced in one - It could always be that we have become more discerning after all an all weather Morganista is hardly what I would term "soft".


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Originally Posted By +8Rich
I quite enjoy not having my kidneys displaced in one


Admittedly, my IIa was an awful lot better with 4 paving slabs in the back, it gave the suspension something to do. And it was best not to try to do more than 45mph.


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Originally Posted By Eddie Cairns
Nev,

It was so good and you loved it so much you got rid of it!!!!!!!!!!


It was a long time ago when I had a small family and a large mortgage.

Priorities and all that.

Nev.

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I drove one many years ago when I spent a week helping a friend set up his prawn fishing business on the West Coast of Scotland. I seem to remember being able to turn the steering wheel 90 degrees either way with it having no appreciable effect on the front wheels. Maybe it was just that one.


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Originally Posted By Hamwich
I've never owned a Series 1, but I used to drive my IIa all over the place. Huge fun. Modern cars have made us all soft I reckon.
+1.

A Series IIa was my daily driver for a couple of years in the eighties, one of the most fun cars I've ever had and one I regret having to sell.

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Nearly bought my first IIa back soon after I bought the first Morgan. However, while the chassis was the same the body had been replaced with a SIII. Just wasn't the same...


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