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MORGAN
+8 TURBO For those who appreciate their nostalgia straight-up PHOTOS BY DOROTHY CLENDENIN |
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YEAR 1936 was a momentous one in Great Britain: She had three sovereigns
that year, with King George V dying in January, Edward VIII abdicating to
marry the woman he loved, and his brother becoming George VI before year's
end. In the midst of all this, one of her motorcar manufacturers, Morgan
Motor Company Ltd, Malvern Link, Worcestershire, introduced its 4/4 model
(that is, four each of cylinders and wheels) characteristically understating
the point that 4-wheeled motoring might not be just something of a fad.
To cover its bets, though, Morgan |
kept its 3-wheelers in production almost to the end of George Vl's reign, 1950 to be exact. Beg pardon, ma'am; that's the Moggie Trike, not George VI. And if you're wondering why, in this twenty-eighth year of Elizabeth ll's reign, we're making such a big deal of things that happened so long ago, you've not reached the proper frame of mind for appreciating the subject of this road test, the Morgan + 8 Turbo. In our " 10 Best Cars for a Changed World," R&T, June 1978, the Morgan garnered the coveted Henry N. Manney III Intransigence Can Be a Virtue Award. "After all," we noted, |
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