If I may (at risk of boring people beyond repair) poke once more on this topic, on the theme of "the urge to improve":
If the basic premise of a Morgan is that they are, well, significantly flawed, and it's those very flaws that endear them to us, why is it so attractive to so many to tinker/fettle/engineer/weld/bend/wrench/adjust etc. in the pursuit of mitigating those flaws?
I have my own theory, which is that Morgans, being more mechanically simple and more flawed than, say, a Bugatti Veyron, simply lend themselves more to improvement by the "home mechanic", and that as humans we just enjoy improving things.
Or is it something else? Is it because we experience them as having a kind of "living" quality and they therefore give rise to the natural human instinct to care for living things? I already find myself kind of getting attached to my car as I might, say, a pet (my kids even gave it a name, "Toad" -- 'cause it's green and has big eyes I guess), which I really like but also find kind of weird....
Or is it because I'm the farthest thing from a mechanic so just don't "get" the satisfaction of "fettling"?
Sorry if I've banged on on this quite too much, I will now have a whisky and remind myself to think less and drive more!
