Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Classic Morgans (pre-CX) A WINTERS TALE.........

This is not over by a long way.

. Is that a G string?

In a previous episode......

As I mentioned in what seems months ago (probably seems longer for you poor readers !!!) I had approached the Citroen community with details of the 54 2CV and received lots of useful information on UK built Citroens,the build date of my car and leads to obtain some missing rare parts.

Very helpful....a bit like Talk Morgan but with a whiff of garlic and onions.

Then I received two private messages..one from a Belgian collector wishing to buy the car as is for a large sum of euros...

The other message rather disarmed me and became the catalyst for a series of unexpected events....

It was a message from a gentleman who purported to know the original owner in the photograph...and was in fact his grandson !!!!!!


We exchanged a number of messages and he sent me the only photo he had of him in the car in 1961 when he was nine.

He expressed a wish to see the car but Covid 19 restrictions prevented that unfortunately

We then had a number of phone calls and he was clearly understandably very emotional about the discovery of his grandads car.

Then the request I was expecting...would I be prepared to sell the car to him as he saw it as part of his Family history ?

He offered to pay a sizeable profit on my buying price and for my time and efforts and he would restore it in memory of his grandad.

.I told him I would consider the offer and contact him in the next few days.

I had to decisions to make...I needed to listen to the Jesuits talking in my head and also talk it through with The Splinter Group: DaveW..accomplished ,published author and two Morgan owning wine expert,and SBM ex Police Officer,ex Morgan owner,ex lots of other things.

I had found and bought the project for Winter restoration,a different opposite driving experience to my Supersports,....but how special to find a car that what is important in your Family history ..special !!

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To be continued...

I looked for them on the server too, but couldn't find them. I can't fathom out, however, how some TM members can still see them.

I don't think "thumbnail" is the issue as the one I can see (https://www.tm-img.com/images/2020/12/05/thumbnail_IMG-20201205-WA0035.jpg) follows the same naming convention as those I can't see.

They have to be on the image server somewhere, as clicking on either of the links Peter has posted takes me to a photo...
Can you see this in my post Alan?

Yes I agree 'thumbnail' is a red herring. A few days ago I could see all the of the several pics Kev had posted of his project and linked to a couple of them. They were all dated 5th December. Most recently they have all seemingly dissappeared on the tm-img server except this one.

No. The mystery deepens again!!
Clicking on the two links Peter provided just gives me a 404 Not Found error message, as does yours when I copied the link..

I can't see that pic Graham

Now, I'm the first to admit to a penchant for thread drift .... but just as our hero has the grail in his grasp and has been forced to gather his wise men to grapple with the moral and philosophical dilemas thrown up by his acheivement ... it seems to be turning into an IT helpline


K

Maybe so, but it's an issue that needs to be solved for the continued enjoyment of all those on TM.