The day started very early and clearly not as expected. My daughter called just after 6am because her Ford StreetKa was making "strange noises" on her way to work. Since I don't really need a car during these forced 100% home-office times I quickly drove to the point were she decided that it is better... Continue Reading →

We returned home from the UK at 3am today. After a couple hours of sleep I used the rest of my day off in the garage. A quick clean up of my work bench and I could lift the shinny overhauled Salisbury 7HA onto a pair of axle stands. My goal for today was to... Continue Reading →

...well sort of....  Ok, not really.  But for the second time this year I left the UK just shortly before the Covid19 lockdown. Back in March it was to pick up my MGB GT from Frontline. Today I was able to pick the overhauled rear axle from JB Sports Engineering. Just by the looks of... Continue Reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Squeezing in some hours in the garage after work last week was difficult. One of the important tasks I had to get done was to cut out new floorboards from waterproof plywood. I already dropped off some smaller parts at the paint shop last week and I also want the underside to the floorboards to... Continue Reading →

Especially when you just have a few hours after work to spent in the garage you sometimes feel that you are not making any progress. Well one of the larger tasks was completing the wooden frame and this is king of sorted now. Ok - I know that it isn't. Two more coats of black... Continue Reading →