Friday 24th December 2010

Pic Of The Week: Open Season In A Morgan

Doing the top-down trip, classic British roadster-style

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Open Season is still in full swing here at PH Towers, with at least two of our number planning open-air Christmas sojourns with topless lovelies. (Easy now, Riggers - Ed).

But we feel that there are those of you out there who might be faltering.

So to encourage you all to keep the Open Season spirit burning through a very cold Christmas, today's POTW features a Morgan doing its roof-down thing in a most British way, albeit in wrong-hand-drive form and on the wrong side of the road - suggesting this heroic British driver might in fact be German. (Right, stop that hissing at the back. Just because The Dam Busters may be on the telly over Xmas, there's no excuse...)

Yes, in the true spirit of Open Season, we applaud Morgan drivers (wherever they come from) for their almost universal antipathy to driving with the roof up. It's not as though it's difficult to put the roof up on a Moggie without losing skin, eh..?

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[frubes]

I think you'll find that it Matt Humphries their car designer who is definitely not German, and having been in that actual car, it is not left hand drive. The image must have been flipped round in photoshop.

[CooperD]

I think the Great Escape has more chance of being on the telly over Christmas than the Dambusters!!

[Boshly]

Absolute respect though I am biased.

Oh, and it takes me 5 seconds and at any speed under 25mph to put my Morgan's hood up. Though I still have it down 95% of the time, what's the point of having a convertible otherwise?

[Roadster25]

Brings back happy/traumatic memories of being strapped in the back of one for a large chunk of the '80s. The ideal family car

[Jolly]

Haha, yep its Humpho!

[L100NYY]

More pictures here of that left hand drive Morgan......

http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/sales/roadster_sport...

Edited by L100NYY on Friday 24th December 10:25

[p1doc]

would be frozen solid up here in scotland lol
martin

[soad]

Love it- interior and dash oozes class

[Hendry]

After the big snow of Saturday I dropped off some friends as both their road and ours were a struggle in any normal car but the Jimny was making light work of it.

However, having taken a slightly longer route home to enjoy the snow driving, my progress was halted by a Morgan struggling to make a bend with an incline. I ended up getting out and pushing him up the last bit.

The chap at the wheel said it wasn't actually too bad in snow...

The wuss had the roof up though, although I think the neighbourhood recorded about -18C that night.

[sospan]

Hood?
I have a 1992 4/4 with traditional hood. I bought !swivel levers" to help raise it and no more scuffed knuckles!
I only use the hood when ABSOLUTELY necessary.
If on my own the tonneau keeps a coccoon of warm air round me and hat/gloves make it fine.
Its an addictive car to drive.
sospan

[sawman]

I have taken off the roof on my mog, and am not planning to put it back on any time soon - I now have a subaru to use in rainy weather.

For the record I have never lost any skin from my knuckles getting the roof on and off. It does however take a couple of minutes....

[madala]

......If I had a large garage a Morgan would be part of it......

[robsco]

madala said:

......If I had a large garage a Morgan would be part of it......

And me.

[h4muf]

The g/f's uncle has one,just a durabang mind you.
It's a lovely little thing imho.

Found a pic!

[sawman]

robsco said:

madala said:

......If I had a large garage a Morgan would be part of it......

And me.

You only need a little garage for a morgan, they are not very big

[andyps]

The Christmas tradition with my family was to go for a drive with the top down on Christmas day if we had an open car. Really must get another soon, the one in the picture would do nicely.

[Rumblestripe]

I've always had a soft spot for Morgans, and possibly a nice string backed glove?

Anyhow, here are three red ones in a row outside a pub near Blackburn from this summer (The Millstone at Mellor - heartily recommended). I think there was some kind of club tour of the surrounding area as they were there all week (I was working nearby)

[4Q]

I want a Morgan!

[sawman]

That reminds me I need to order a new pair of headlamp bezels.....

[Gizmo!]

A few years back I took the piss out of my Dad because he'd put himself on the waiting list for a Mog.

Soon, I may have to admit to him that I sort of kind of want one...