Wednesday 22nd May 2002

New Morgans

Special editions commemorate return to Le Mans

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[gnomesmith]

It has a roof but is anybody going to say that it isn't a sports car?

Note. More notice taken of any reply if its based upon driving a Morgan.

[gnomesmith]

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Could have been a Grinnall Scorpian?

Not with an engine sticking out of the front. (Mid engined BMW)

[gnomesmith]

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Huh? The 'roof' in the pic is the foldable hood, just like most other convertible sports cars have.

Look a little closer and you will see it is a TOK 258 replica fibre glass hardtop, consider yourself terminated Terminator.

[gnomesmith]

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They are a very strange lot, those Morgan guys. Making cars out of wood and experimenting with odd looking new versions. They don't really seem to excel in any particular area though, except oddness.

And for consistantly failing to become bankrupt, unlike a certain other British Sportscar maker (No not Lotus, that other one that followed Morgan by using Rover V8s).

[gnomesmith]

Tri King, BRA, JBZ, Lomax.If the engine was cowled it was probably 2CV based.

The Velocette flair is a facsimile of the Brooklands Silencer, mandatory in the 'good old days', predates both McNab and myself.

>> Edited by gnomesmith on Monday 27th May 20:58