More Pictures

Here is a view of the back of the car. That is the gas tank there. There is not much room for storage or a "trunk". There is a storage compartment that is the width of the car and about two inches deep.

This is a side view of the gas tank again. You can see the amount of wood that is put onto this car. That curved wood there is for the rear deck which is in the next picture.







That is the rear deck there. Since the car is made of wood each car is slightly different. We had a new wood frame built but had much of the original metal so we are running into the problem of almost all of the metal not fitting and having to have new pieces made. This is one of those pieces. The hole is for the two spare tires that go on the back. They sit back in the hole and there is a bar that runs between them to hold them down,






This is a picture of the front of the car. Again the unpainted bulkhead is present along with the engine. The engine is a 4 cylinder Vanguard. Vanguards no longer exist and it was an old tractor engine that they used. It only has 68 horsepower but with the light weight of this car 68 horsepower goes a long way. There
were only a few years of Morgans that were outfitted with this engine and ours is one of them. There are only about 4-5 left in the cars. All other cars were destroyed or the engines replaced with a more powerful one.














This is just the tip of the iceberg. More to come!

Morgan Pictures

This is a picture of the car with the wood body frame. You can see the unpainted steel bulkhead. The doghouse, transmission cover is running through the middle. That is cardboard on the floor of the car there. Underneath that lies another unique feature of the car which is the wooden floorboards. Ours are made of black walnut. The shifter knob is also made of wood with an inset Morgan logo.

A Morgan History: Part I

I will start from the beginning. The Morgan Motor Company was founded in 1909 by HFS Morgan. The company is now in its 101st year and is still family owned. The company started by making three wheeled Morgans because of a tax on cars that had four tires. The company is family owned and all the cars are made by hand. The Morgan Motor Company is the only family owned Motor Company left in the world and definitely the only motor company that builds all cars by hand.

One of the most unique features and what makes this car so rare is that the body frame is made out of wood, Bavarian Ash to be exact. Each car, even the most recent model, the Morgan Life Car (Which is a hydrogen fueled concept car) has a wood body frame.

Part 2 to come soon along with some pictures of our car.

The Wiring Harness Has Arrived

Sorry I have come along so late. Starting with the wiring and all but the restoration of our Morgan is not something that I though that I would ever blog about. But anyway, we have received our wiring harness. We have been examining the diagrams and are getting ready to install the wiring.

We have the dashboard finished and are going to be working with that with the harness.

More to come:
-A history
-Pictures
-Knowledge