Author: atomjohnson
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Morgan Three Wheeler Convention – May 2017
At last count there were over 200 vintage Morgan Three Wheelers and another 200 or so modern Morgan Three Wheelers (aka 5 Speeders) in North America. Many of these cars have been in the hands of their owners for decades, but they have simply been left at home when the other Morgans go out to…
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Understanding the Concours Game (https://classicmotorsports.com/)
Like a race, a concours is just another type of competition. It helps if you go in prepared and aware of the ground rules. We’ve been on both sides of the judging game many times at major and minor events and more. But there are two guys who know this world even better than we…
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MORGAN 4/4 80TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (http://www.msn.com/)
Good Show! Morgan Plans to Sell Its Venerable Roadsters in America Again Call us lazy and unpatriotic, but we don’t tend to read more than the first couple of dozen pages of any bit of legislation enacted by the federal government. Others do, however, and an obscure provision in the so-called FAST Act that passed…
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Stuffing Your Boot or What To Take With You (www.justbritish.com)
Greetings again, Jolly gang! It has been suggested to me by persons unnamed that my recent article “What Stops Us” was geared too much towards the possibilities of failure and that this circumstance is so rare (at least with the more handy side of our group!) I should focus now on what to carry in…
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Hemmings Tech 101: Fuel-line hose – what you should and should not use
Most vehicle repair shops are encountering a lot of fuel-line-related issues since the introduction of ethanol into America’s pump gas. Because of ethanol’s effects on rubber, plastic and metals, they are finding themselves spending a lot more time fixing fuel delivery systems than they did in the days of leaded gas and carburetors. Neoprene fuel…
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The British government is granting Morgan $8.5 million to develop electrified powetrains
England-based Morgan Motors is out to prove it’s not as old-fashioned as it might seem by developing a handful of electric and hybrid models. Backed by the British government, Morgan is injecting £6 million (a figure that represents about $8.5 million) into its Malvern, England, factory in order to develop clean drive trains with input from…
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Book Review: Morgan International Adventure II
With Britain recovering from World War II, Morgan introduced the new Morgan +4 sports car. Sales were very limited not helped by the scarcity of steel supplies. The Morgan factory needed to sell in the global market and there was no better place to give visibility to the brand than the Le Mans 24 Hour…
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The Morgan 4/4: nostalgia on wheels | Euromaxx
A review of the new 80th Anniversary 4/4 with comments from Martin Webb.