• Hi Guest!
    If you appreciate British Car Forum and our 25 years of supporting British car enthusiasts with technical and anicdotal information, collected from our thousands of great members, please support us with a low-cost subscription. You can become a supporting member for less than the dues of most car clubs.
    There are some perks with a member upgrade!
    **Upgrade Now**
    (PS: Subscribers don't see this gawd-aweful banner
Tips
Tips

Morgan Plus 4

Share this page

AngliaGT

AngliaGT

Great Pumpkin
Silver
Country flag
Offline
Noticed an ad for a +4 in the local paper.
I had to call - you don't see that very often.
Talked to the owner.It needs a total restoration,
& it's been owned by the same person for years.
It's a '59,with a TR3 engine.
I might go take a look at it tomorrow.
Anybody interested.Oh,he's asking $5000.

- Doug
 
Total restoration.......on a Morgan, that can be scary. Check the frame out carefully, it's made of wood. If the wood and the chassis look okay then anything else is straightforward, you can get (or even make) panels.

If it's not too bad, five large could be a steal.
 
Exactly what I was thinking, Steve.
 
[ QUOTE ]
... Check the frame out carefully, it's made of wood. ...

[/ QUOTE ]

I thought it was just the body frame (supporting structure) that was made of ash, not the chassis itself.

Whatever the case, I think it'd be a great car to own.
 
[ QUOTE ]
Dang! How come you west coast guys get all the cars and girls?

[/ QUOTE ]

ALL of them? I dunno... I seem to recall there being *LOTS* of talent in Florida... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Oh yeah, maybe not as many as CA, but there were plenty of classic cars to go around out there too /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Although, it seemed the average Joe was more interested in the muscle cars of the era. oh, wait... that pretty much describes the entire US.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
... Check the frame out carefully, it's made of wood. ...

[/ QUOTE ]

I thought it was just the body frame (supporting structure) that was made of ash, not the chassis itself.

Whatever the case, I think it'd be a great car to own.

[/ QUOTE ]

The chassis is steel, the body frame is wood. A local LBC shop (that is also the local factory authorized Morgan repair center) has done a few frame off resto's of plus fours. The owner of the local Morgan dealership has a '67 +4 that began life with a 1500cc Ford Kent engine. It is now powered by a 1600cc Kent Crossflow. That car started as a "restored" Morgan bought off of Ebay. What arrived was a Morgan in need of a restoration but with a fresh paint job, new top, new interior and new wire wheels. $40,000 and an actual restoration later, he had a car worth just over $40K (don't know current value though) and practially a brand new car as very little of the original was worthy of saving after all the poorly applied paint and bondo was removed.

The same shop currently has another Morgan undergoing a full restoration that the owner believed was 1949 car when it turned out to be a 1939 car, powered by a 1 litre-ish Standard engine. I was there during that discovery and the subsequent confirmation by the Morgan folks. Pretty cool actually.

The other bonus of having a Morgan dealer in town, and knowing and having worked for the owner. Is that I have had the opprotunity to drive several new Plus 8's, a V6 Roadster and have even taken a turn behind the wheel of an Aero 8. Good times. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif

/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
 
I went and looked at it this afternoon.
He sold it right before I got there.
At least a local person bought it,who told me that he'll have it done in a couple of months.He's restored other cars,
so it might just happen.
Looking at the car - it was definatly worth $5K
It needed a restoration,but it wasen't a "rust bucket".

- Doug
 
Back
Top