[Leica] Morgans

[joseph at yao.com (Joseph Yao)]

William,

Sorry for the late reply.

I was living in the UK at the time and my Plus 8 was ordered through a
dealer there.  Even the UK waiting list was long in the late '80s/early
'80s.

Mine had a Rover 3.9 V8, although at the time of ordering it was a 3.5.  I
never kept the car - by the time it was available I had already moved to
Hong Kong, where the car would be subjected to 60% tax and there was also a
question if it would pass the emission test here.  In addition, it was also
the wrong car for our climate, with no air conditioning etc.

The recent discussion of Morgans has fuelled my interest in their cars
again.  I am not in a position to get an Aero 8, I am more interested in the
Plus 4 and the new Roadster V6 and I would love to hear your comments on
them.

Without an official dealer here it will be fun and tricky to bring one in,
not to mention about servicing.  I noted from the Morgan website they now
demand a despite of ?1,000.  I was only ?125 when I ordered my last one.

Bests,

Joseph


on 19/2/05 1:00 pm, William G. Lamb, III at lambroving@worldnet.att.net
wrote:

> Joseph,
> 
> Hot diggity! I'm not the only Plus 8 owner here! :-)
> 
> Mine's a 1998 as well, but I only waited three years. The allocation for
> the Far East must have been the culprit. Do you have a 3.9 or 4.6?
> At least waiting all that time, you got a car with stainless valances
> and bulkhead, and all the Superform alloy wings. The long-door is
> a much better car than a 1990.
> 
> John (Collier),
> 
> Morgan is doing quite well today after a couple of years fighting with
> the debt service on the new Aero 8 assembly building. The "new"
> traditional V-6 Roadster, replacement of the Plus 8, has filled the
> order books and saved the day. The Aero 8 shop is now being
> used for final assembly of both cars.
> 
> ON topic, you could say that Morgan has survived precisely because
> it does not chase trends, but concentrates on what it does best and
> what others can't. In spite of the pundits here, Leica may do best by
> following a similar path.
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/album25/LUG4?full=1>
> 
> William