On 24-Feb-18 9:17 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On 02/24/2018 06:20 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> ** alan_m > wrote:
>>> If you are that worried about protecting British car working jobs buy a
>>> car assembled in the UK rather than a foreign built car. If all those
>>> advocating remaining in the EU did so then the production at UK car
>>> plants wouldn't need exports of cars in order to survive and imports of
>>> completed cars would reduce - a win, win situation.
>>
>> I assure you that if I could afford a Morgan I'd be driving one today.
>> --scott
>>
>>
>
> I wouldn't mind one of the three wheeled varieties.

A proper one with "Dog Eared" JAP engine is around £35K. Even better but
much rarer are ones with Matchless V twins, pay a £10K premium for air
cooled and an extra £5K tax on top of that for water cooled.

There is one truly "awesome" one with 2 Scott 2 stoke twins chained
together up front. Dunno if it was Green un or Blue un but the "Book of
the Scott" said tester said "overtake at 70 and then change up!", that
was when a fast car did 70mph and supercars (100SS) claimed to be able
to scrape up the ton.

Doesn't help current British manufacturing but the classic car and bike
industry is turning over £1m's and supporting 1000's of jobs each year.

A friend has an alloy bodied 4+4, it's about 30 years old now. The
factory didn't want to supply alloy body as they said flexing of the
body makes the paint flake off the alloy. He had them prime it with a
rubber paint. But I suspect the thickness of paint has negated the
weight saving of the alloy panels.