Barbara and I get in about 7,000 to 10,000 MORGAN Miles a year. That is
down some from (25,000 or so) when I used to drive a MORGAN to work every
day and we had fewer other interests.
We can drive a MORGAN all year here in California so that is not the
problem. It is more a matter of "too many cars and not enough time."
Sailing takes up a few of our Weekends as well.
Normaly we do not do any "preflighting." Normal maintainance and the
instruments tell if there is anything wrong. When we drove to Toronto a few
years back, we operated on the theory that it is the part that you do not
have that will break. We took a spare of nearly everything so nothing
broke. Some years afterwards we found that the generator that we had
carried as a spare did not work! We took a "CB" instead of a cell phone.
Barbara liked to listen to the truckers.
We do all three of the things you mentioned can be done. We restore our own
cars (the SNOBMOG is currently under restoration), we show them (our 1952
MORGAN Saloon won 2nd at Pebble Beach) and we drive them (alas, not as often
as I would like).
All the best,
Gerry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lorne Goldman [SMTP:snotrek@cil.qc.ca]
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 7:37 AM
> To: morgans@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Preflighting
>
>
>
> This pre-flighting thing has providing me with an opening for a straw
> poll that I have been thinking of for a while.
>
> For some time, I have been watching a very valuable info exchange going
> on here but at times I wonder whether anyone is getting much driving out
> of their mogs.
>
> There are three things one can do with a Morgan, work on it, show it or
> drive it. What do you do most of? The British dealers I have spoken to
> say their customers average 10,000 miles a year in their Morgans, old or
> new.
> On the other hand, we are not amazed to see 1965 cars here with 35,000
> miles on them.(1000 miles a year means it was driven only to the car
> wash and back...what fun).
>
> Can you email a reply with your average yearly mileage and the number of
> months you can drive it (climate considered). I will add it up and
> average it.
>
> I take long trips with the Morgan...2000 miles at a pop. Any car from a
> 1999 Nissan or Chevy to a 1957 Morgan can break down at any time. I
> would prefer it to be with a Morgan. A Morgan can be normally be fixed
> at the side of the road...rarely can that be said of a 1999 vehicle.
>
> Lorne
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