Morgan Factory visit

[red5]

Stay here - you'll love it and the town. So will SWMBO. And it's not far from Malvern.

 

https://www.kateshillhouse.co.uk/

[simon8201]

The WD car definitely had a Rover engine, Mike "Mr Accurate" Brewer may have referred to it as a K or I may have assumed.

 

If Morgan's had T-series engines does that mean an owner looking for more poke could fit a turbo...

Yes, it has been done. I think those in need of 'more poke' in the Morgan world normally go the V8 route. For me, a 1.6 ford engine gives me more than enough to consider given it's essentially a 1930s design!

[Noel Tidybeard]

Yes, it has been done. I think those in need of 'more poke' in the Morgan world normally go the V8 route. For me, a 1.6 ford engine gives me more than enough to consider given it's essentially a 1930s design!

 

no, i think the ford engine pre-dates 1930

[simon8201]

And lo! In the week before Christmas a bright new star was born in Malvern. Wise Men Holbeck and myself gathered to admire it in its manger and then made a pilgrimage to the absolutely superb and eccentric 'Three Kings' at Hanley Castle. Christmas has already come!

[chaseracer]

JAMMY.  B'STARD.

 

That is all.

 

 

[holbeck]

My two penny's worth,

 

 

 

 

 

They appeared to be making it with this!

[holbeck]

 

Oh, and the aforementioned celebration. at The Three Kings, Handley Castle.

 

I nominate this pub to be the venue for SF17

[simon8201]

I second this nomination. They have a Gazebo which was full of the detritus of hog roasts past. We found the 'smoke room' through a hidden passage which had been decommissioned years ago and left to become a ground floor attic of wondrous junk. The selection of fine whiskies is to be admired in and around the sink behind the serving hatch. This is a top top pub!

[simon8201]

I'm sort of hoping they forget their screwdriver...

My two penny's worth,

 

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They appeared to be making it with this!

[Guest Lord Sward]

I'm jealous.  

 

What colour are you going for?

[RoadworkUK]

DO NOT PAINT!

 

[/JM]

[simon8201]

It's going to be red, or 'Sports Red' as Morgan would have it. I really wanted it to be orange but was talked out of it by my other half and then the dealer! You can have a Morgan any colour you like, but it costs a fair bit if you don't go for one of their standard colours. I'm saving a few pennies for some cosmetic alterations when it arrives at the dealer!

[simon8201]

DO NOT PAINT!

 

[/JM]

I expect there would be a surcharge for this! They charge you £1000 if you want to collect it from the factory!

[chaseracer]

How the Jimmy Hill do they justify a GRAND to pick it up yourself?

[anonymous user]

How the Jimmy Hill do they justify a GRAND to pick it up yourself?

Because it's a profitable way to put people off

[The Moog]

My two penny's worth,

 

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They appeared to be making it with this!

Bloody new fangled handbrakes...

[simon8201]

Today's update...

[simon8201]

And then, an hour or so later...

[r.welfare]

Cor!

[RayMK]

It looks very pretty in red.

[simon8201]

I'm very pleased with how it looks. The finish is great. We were very lucky to catch it as according to Morgan it was only just out of the paint shop and in the trim shop. We started to have a little panic when we couldn't find it, but then saw it in the pdi bay. An hour or so later it was waiting to be loaded onto a truck bound for Northampton (Something I cannot explain-like so many things that they do at Morgan!)

[simon8201]

Oh, and Holbeck (he of Rancho fame) and I may have recruited a new autoshiter as the Morgan dealer that took us to the factory today seems to have a bizarre thing for Austin Princesses, especially in yellow.

[holbeck]

 

 

Nice isn't it.

[Noel Tidybeard]

dont tell him but they forgot to fit the bumpers and parking sensors!

[Guest Lord Sward]

I'm jealous.  

 

 

 

Even more so now.