Having spent rather a lot of time under various of my old sports cars over a period of decades, I have become acquainted with many a little tears in underseal, cracks and crevices where crud can build up allowing the dreaded tin worm to make headway over time, and of course in the case of Morgan there are the issues related to the wooden aspects of construction, but unlike my previous sports cars there are no voluminous cavity sections to suffer the build up of condensation causing corrosion to work away quietly from the inside out.

Fortunately for me Kevin the chap who rebuilt my +8 to his personal spec, knew well where all the usual Morgan problem areas were to be found where they might have been exposed to all weathers over a long period of time, thus Kevin set about providing extra protection in those areas, which has paid dividends in my 20+ years of ownership, though truth be told I bought my Morgan to enjoy as Dave suggests, " At the right place and the right time", which for me these days, the right time, is in dry weather minus hood and side-screens.

My good lady ever preferred to run with side-screens, but these days as a solo performer, both the hood and side-screens have been retired.. The hood was only ever put to use in the past when touring on the occasion of wet weather, usually in the UK, I am struggling to remember any time the hood was put to use on any of our Southern European adventures.. though Dave`s comment caused me to remember running in the light rain on a balmy evening while staying in Tuscany in an agriturismo near Cortona, we had crossed into Umbria to a reasonably nearby lakeside restaurant, and on the drive back to our accommodation, it began to rain lightly causing the aromas to be released from both the earth and flowers, creating a memory to treasure...(-:

Re the idea of it perhaps thought of as being poor form to run with the hood up, I suspect that may be a hang over from the days gone by when many a Morgan may have been used as daily, and even pressed into service on occasion to act as a pick-up truck loaded with a Christmas tree, building materials or somesuch...(-: I suspect in the passage of time, Morgans have become more enjoyed as recreational vehicles ,as our American cousins describe hobby related machinery, or even garage queens and suchlike, thus living a somewhat more restricted existence....Which is perhaps just as well given the amount of bling to be found in the interior fit and finish, enjoyed in more modern Morgans than one from the mid 80`s such as mine..?

Referring again back to Dave`s typing of rides around dusk, and the possible increased in pleasure to be found at both ends of the day, I was most fortunate to be able to enjoy a circa 80 miles of mostly "B" road driving a few nights past and posted a pic in another part of the forum, and thought to try to post it again here, in the hope of again sharing just a little bit of dusk driving pleasures..(-:


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