An aspect of a Morgan rebuild project that I did not really thought of too much in advance is trial fitting. Since this is still a hand-made car it is quite obvious that some parts require more fiddling when reassembling compared to for example the 1991 Mini Cooper I restored last year. So the last... Continue Reading →
Door repair
The doors were taken off the Morgan on the day in mid-April 2020 I made the decision to do a full restore of the car. Back them I stored them somewhere safe on a shelf just as they came off the car. During the frame repair I stripped all panels on the frame by hand.... Continue Reading →
Corona blues… and Weber issues
The bell rings. Half asleep I put on a shirt, get some coffee, and move into the "Home Office". 7 to 9 hours of emails, online meetings, phone calls, web browsing, presentations, trainings. Repeat this 5 out of 7 days a week. Not that my job would be any different than it was in the... Continue Reading →
Brakes
While the entire family loved driving the Morgan before I started the restore, nobody would have claimed that they liked the brakes. It is not the lack of an ABS - it is the lack of a servo combined (as I know now) with a broken rear slave cylinder and the rather small surface of... Continue Reading →
Trial fitting, master brake cylinder and suspension work
Unfortunately, I didn't have much time I could spent in the garage the last two weeks. But that doesn't mean that there wasn't any progress. After I fitted the new floorboards, I decided to have a stone-chip protection paint applied on the bottom side. The paint shop finished those as well as the inner wings... Continue Reading →