Description
Royal Ivory with Yarwood Maroon leather interior. Reliable Ford 1800 Zetec engine and 5 speed gearbox. As a later car it benefits from galvanised chassis, stainless steel bulkhead and aluminium bodywork with superformed wings, giving much better corrosion protection than the older models.
Desirable lowline body with wider chrome wire wheels. Factory extras including: sports seats, walnut dash and steering wheel, Sony CD/ radio with remote control, cross-member covers, Librands sports gearshift, luggage rack, round mirrors and wing top lights. Fitted tool kit. Factory rustproofed from new. The car additionally has the great benefit of a Simmonds easy-up hood in mohair with matching leather hood bag and mohair tonneau cover.
Service history: 2 owners before me, both long term, who looked after it. This car has never failed an MoT or had even a single advisory. In my ownership I have invested nearly £7000 with a well-known Morgan specialist to make this car an outstanding example. Work includes:
- fully upgraded Rutherford front suspension with new hard chrome king pins, main and rebound springs, blades and AVO shocks etc. Steering and roadholding much improved over standard.
- rebuilt steering rack.
- rebuilt front and rear brakes: new calipers pads and discs on the front, new cylinders and shoes on the rear.
- new cambelt, tensioner and aux belt
- new upgraded performance alloy radiator and expansion tank.
- new stainless grill.
- new twin Librands spotlights wired in.
- 4 new Yokohama tyres.
- fully serviced with all oils, and filters changed inc engine (now has a K&N filter fitted), gearbox and rear axle.
- most recent service and MoT Nov 2024, again with specialist. The car is perfect and needs nothing: I regularly use it for the 5hr round trip to Brooklands and it doesn't miss a beat. I would think it is now one of the best in the country. With £7000 invested in the last year, this car is perfect. It is garaged just outside Weymouth in Dorset. I would be interested in a trade with a pre-war car, MG, Riley etc, cash either way.
