Talk Morgan Forums Thread Like Summary - by Coupe to Positano.

Well I am off tomorrow to repeat a run we did in 2017.

Eurotunnel to France then down to Nice/Monaco way, then onto Positano.
Apparently 1500 mile each way. I am aiming to use the Peage for some of the running to save time, or spend more of it in Positano depending on how you look at it.

Lets hope I don't trouble Borghi this time around! (I did take the full AA package!)

Photo's will be posted on Farcebook.

In the sun driving down through France

The view from the bedroom in Monaco

They leave the Coupe at the steps, parking a delivery lorry opposite.

Broken down on the A12 waiting in vain for the AA, great for drying my jeans on the hot bonnet in the sun.

Arriving in Positano at 5.30am as the sun rises. Quite surreal.

Going through the tunnel, throttle might have been open....mmmm sidepipes fun

I love this place.

The Mother in Laws favourite view from a hotel in Sorrento.

Well, home again. Sadly.

I did the home journey the hard way.
All Peage, at night when it is mostly clear and you can just rumble on between regular petrol stops.
Positano to just short of Lyon one night.
Lyon to home second night and morning. Quite a rumble and I did take a couple of two hour sleep stops for safety.

I love the fact that you can turn up at totally the wrong time at the Eurotunnel and they just put you on the next train.
I love the friendly way people approach the Coupe and show how much they like it, not the case with supercars.
I get bored of having to get out at Peage stops and walk around to get tickets but even then people queuing behind you smile.
Even the lorry drivers would give me a little flash as I slide back into the lane in front of them.
The Tillet carbon one part seats are surprisingly comfortable, unless I put more weight on....
Sidepipes do drone at 80 so you either use 5th (ZF Auto 6 speed) or just rest below at 75 in 6th but then you can feel it pulling on the uphill bits.
Despite the Sony floating ICE thingy looking a bit awkward it worked so well with touchscreen, carplay, Waze and iTunes that I would not go back.

Yes stuff broke.
Air/Con again (It did it on the same trip in 2017)
Dipped beam on near side went off*
Drivers window just winds down into door as you start up
Central locking has a mind of it's own so I stopped using the fob and just locked them, not done that for a LONG time!

Do people treat Morgans differently - example.
*So I was doing two long night runs home. The near side dipped headlamp failed during my time in Positano. I went to a BMW/Mini dealer to see if they had the correct bulb. The local garage in Positano tried to fix it for me but did not have an H7, what more can you ask? The BMW dealer put me directly in the workshop, after the usual "everyone go cooo" they tried to fix it straight away. No discussion, up on a jack, wheel off, replacement bulb, fail. They diagnosed the CPU/attachment and tried to match it from BMW/Mini stock but could not. In the end I left with a single working lamp, not ideal for the night run home. They did not charge me and could not have done more. No delay, no "we have to book you in".
When it did break down I had the total fail by the AA to do anything. Enough said about that the better. I had pulled into one of the little pit stop side areas on the Motorway where there is a "rescue" phone and so used it. The Italian guy who answered said "ah you are the guy in the Morgan, we have had the camera on you for a while to monitor things. We have a man ready, we know the AA have no cover here so we waited." He turned up 30 minutes later in a van with an extending bed to allow for the low height, he had been waiting so he got this job assigned to him! Google Translate, some judicious pointing and nodding and I was underway in three hours.
Any of you who have visited the little wiggly road down into Positano know the number of scalpers, sorry parking areas and their charges per hour/day. Several offered to park the car for free and keep it at the front if I would stay in theirs, I have never had that in any other car in Positano. AMG and Pork Sausage included.

If I was unendingly rich I would live in Buca di Bacco in Positano until my last day. That view, food, environment just does it for me. The stay in HdP in Monaco was an occasion but never left me relaxed, since the rebuild it has lost it's soul and could be almost any high end chain now. Como was stunning and a very close second but lost on the sense of relaxation in some small degree. I guess much of it is personal experience.

Where I watch all these Million Pound supercars I do not believe that having one of them would have given me anything better. How people reacted to the Coupe remains so much nicer. Money cannot buy genuine love.

I've taken my +8 across France many times - it's always an adventure. Glad you made it through the various challenges!

An interesting bridge from a recent trip.

That sounds like a great trip Dave can't think of a better car to do it in. Remember when you get to Monaco try and park next to a ferrari or Lambo either will do retreat to a safe distance have a coffee or a little drinkie and watch which everyone will take an interest in Em

Traffic jams in Monaco have the potential to be a tad different, from the usual given all the high end machinery driving round in circles...and it seemed a policeman on every street corner, interesting place for sure, and as aerotaff seems to be suggesting, a Morgan can be quite the most exclusive calling card available, even an old +8...(-:

Kinda reminds me of a www story with pictures some years back, where as best I can remember, an old and very well travelled Morgan turned up at a large hotel Morgan club event with all the usual goings on, at such gatherings, concours etc.etc.etc. While the travelled Mog was ..err.. not short of openly displaying a degree of patina, apparently it was attracting so much attention parked amongst all the other Mogs which were no doubt polished to perfection, that it was taken out of the car park and given pride of place in the hotel foyer... (-:
It seems on occasion there can be advantage found in being just a bit different...(-: ?