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 →

Although I only had 4 hours in the garage today I feel pretty exhausted and fired up at the same time. The fixed corner in the rear wheel arch turned out quite nice. With this out of the way I started to assemble all wooden parts both old and as well as the four new... Continue Reading →

We just returned from the UK where we stayed a couple of days for family reasons. This trip was planned for quite some time. A perfect opportunitiy to pick up some new parts for the Morgan. I had already ordered the essential wood replacements for the rotten sill and door rocker from Melvyn Rutter. I... Continue Reading →