"William Noble" wrote in message
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"a little rough" - yeah, that's about right. It is a nice handling car -
note that I said "nice" not "fast". it will easily go into and out of a
very controlled 4 wheel drift, it has adequate power (TR-3 motor in mine)
to take it to just under 120 mph flat out. However.... I went from the
morgan to a Porsche 356A - the porsche had about 1/2 the horsepower, but
much better agility in turns - one particular turn that I used to slide
through at 45 in the morgan in a beautiful drift, didn't even make the
porsche chirp the tires at 65

Sounds like a tire issue . . .

(and I couldn't go any faster and stop at the stop sign at the end of the
turn).

Or perhaps a brake issue . . .

And, after driving for a few hours in the porsche I still had my hearing
and all my fillings, unlike the morgan. On the other hand the morgan is
the only car I've ever been able to drive home with the crankshaft broken
in half (and it's the only car that I've ever needed to drive home with
the .....)

Truly an engine issue, and amazing at that.


oh, mandatory wood content - the body on the morgan is framed in wood, the
floorboards are plywood, and the seats are plywood with foam and vinyl
stapled over it. The later ones got all cushy and added things like a
radio, working windshield wipers, and so on.

My friend's Plus 4 had some wood issues. A tornado collapsed his garage
around the Morgan without damaging the car, except for torrential rains
pouring into the open car for a few hours afterward. While he attempted to
dry the car out thoroughly, the floorboards experienced some dry rot over
the next year and one-half, leading him to replace them. Later he found a
few other body members that had also experienced some rot.

Max