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I know I really should know this, but just to be sure... I have a 2002 Plus 8. How can I tell if it's a wide or narrow body (seems narrow to me)? I ask because I'm about to order the SSL suspension system.
Help greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Rick
Rick
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Same car as me. Wide.
Maurice Owen lengthened the Plus4 to accommodate the V8 and reputedly widened it at the same time to allow for a more portly driver! I read this the other day in a book. The wider chassis/body was then kept for the Plus4 as well.
Can’t remember the actual later date but the door was lengthened too for getting in/out easier.
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Rick
As per Simon and Sospan you have a wide bodied car.
The narrow bodies were on the very early Moss Box and Rover 4-speed boxed cars.
I think it went to "wide" in 1977 with the coming of the 5 Speed cars and the LT77 box.
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Andy, your correct, or as much as you can be on a Morgan .think the long door was about 97.
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Yes the long doors were from Oct 97
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Thanks for the feedback all, greatly appreciated. !!!
Rick
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The widest bodied trads (from all my measurements ) appear to be the 98 on centrelock wheel equipped Plus 8's.
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The widest bodied trads (from all my measurements ) appear to be the 98 on centrelock wheel equipped Plus 8's. . Is that cabin width? Or over all to wing edges .
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The widest bodied trads (from all my measurements ) appear to be the 98 on centrelock wheel equipped Plus 8's. Yes that was true Dave had us all measuring prior to his book I think and ours proved to be the widest rear wings of all, the tubs of the era being identical, there was a 5mm discrepancy left to right on mine so I know it's a Morgan.
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