Showing posts with label 4/4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 4/4. Show all posts

Friday, December 11, 2015

Wood Are You Lookin At? 1967 Morgan 4/4 Series V

The Morgan Motor Car Company is a family owned British car builder that first started building V-twin powered 3-wheelers in 1911.  Somehow Morgan avoided the market consolidation mess that spawned the British Motor Corp, British Motor Holdings, British Leyland, and Rover Group-- which practically bumped the British car building industry back into the stone ages.  A few standouts like Lotus, Morgan, and TVR avoided the short/easy route to the dark side via corporate sale, and are now joined but newcomers Ariel, Nobel, & Caterham, plus a liberated Aston Martin to allow the little Idaho sized island kingdom an interesting home grown auto industry.  However, truth be told, if I'm going to spend my money on something British, it is going to be a classic, like this 1967 Morgan 4/4 offered here on eBay for $22,000 buy-it-now or make-offer, located in Orosi, CA.


Monday, June 8, 2015

15k: Patina Up The Kazoo: 1966 Morgan 4/4

The Morgan Motor Car company first started producing 3-wheeled cars in 1910, and ventured to less tipsy cars with the release of the 4/4 (4 wheels, 4 cylinders) in 1936.  Oddly enough, Morgan was one of the few British automobile manufacturers to not get swept up in the British Leyland fiasco, and the family owned company is still hand building cars out of a small factory in  Malvern, Worcestershire, UK. I don't claim any expertise on vintage lumber pricing, but this 1966 Morgan 4/4 currently bidding here on eBay for $12,600 with a few hours to go looks like a decent deal if the reserve is close.