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by sam campion
Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:18 pm
Forum: Series I Morgans
Topic: standard specials
Replies: 2
Views: 3052

Re: standard specials

Hi Tony

I have just tried to get you on the number you posted but I think you may have made a mistake, the number came up unavailable.

Cheers

Sam C
by sam campion
Mon Nov 13, 2017 6:42 pm
Forum: Series I Morgans
Topic: standard specials
Replies: 2
Views: 3052

standard specials

The car is now with the upholsterers being coddled, but soon it will return and I will have to address the business of it sounding like a bag of spanners and going even worse. I need to sit in a well sorted Series 1 SS 4/4 to see how they should go, I don't remember this one being as bad as it now i...
by sam campion
Wed Nov 08, 2017 6:58 pm
Forum: Series I Morgans
Topic: 1950 series 1 hood frame
Replies: 9
Views: 5600

Re: 1950 series 1 hood frame

Hi everybody Jack Bellinger sent me a reply (photo) shortly after I posted this, via the historic register, that was exactly what I needed. Since then I have been busy spending a lot of time and even more money on the car. It goes, but has blown the head gasket I think, I did get about seven miles o...
by sam campion
Sun Apr 02, 2017 12:04 pm
Forum: Series I Morgans
Topic: 1950 series 1 hood frame
Replies: 9
Views: 5600

1950 series 1 hood frame

I have been rebuilding my 1950 Series 1 for the last .......... mostly it is finished though yet to run. To the point, it is so long ago that I took it to bits I cannot remember how things go together, and of course I have no photos. Does anyone have a Series 1 of the same era that you would be will...
by sam campion
Mon Nov 19, 2012 1:19 pm
Forum: Series I Morgans
Topic: Making Them Go
Replies: 25
Views: 17603

Re: Making Them Go

Just out of interest I knew John Orton when I was a student in Birmingham and he stove enamelled various bits for me and was very generous, not charging for it and giving me a variety of spares including a tax disc holder, a carbon thrust ring and a radiator brace. He really was a lovely man. Sam Ca...
by sam campion
Mon Nov 19, 2012 1:10 pm
Forum: Series I Morgans
Topic: Nothing to Report
Replies: 51
Views: 35193

Re: Nothing to Report

I have owned my series 1 since 1969 and it has has been in boxes since 1972.It is now getting a lot of attention, all the mechanical components are rebuilt, some twice. I have a new rad, wings, chassis, exhaust system etc. etc. and I am on with the woody bits. If anyone has photos of the back end wo...
by sam campion
Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:22 pm
Forum: Series I Morgans
Topic: Welcome Morgan Series 1 Owners
Replies: 25
Views: 26580

Re: Welcome Morgan Series 1 Owners

Hi I have a series 1 4/4 from 1950 with a meadows box and standard special engine. I have been in the process of rebuilding it now for the last 30+ years though most of the time I have been getting married, changing jobs, producing children, building other things. At last I am completely retired and...