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1964 + 4 Super Sports
at H&H Auctions 18 March
enticing price guide or a sign of the Times,
could also be that the cogniscient for these much vaunted models are sadly diminishing. I hope not
regards
1964 + 4Super sports
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peter rafter
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Re: 1964 + 4Super sports
Singleton family. I think Robin is the current owner.
this from the catalogue
"As one of only 104 Super Sports produced, of which ninety-six were the two-seater variety, ‘JMD 111B’ is really something special. Factory records indicate that it was originally Green and its specification included “Lawrencetuned engine and oil cooler. Aluminium wings, bonnet and body. Wire wheels. Nylon tyres.” It was despatched on July 23rd, 1964, to Lawrencetune Engines of Acton, London W.3, and registered the next day. While Lawrencetune went to work on it, a year passed before it was sold to Mr. Peter Hahn of Radlett, Hertfordshire. He enjoyed it for five years, before selling it to the present owner on May 13th, 1970. Considering he paid £675 for it and has been driving it with vim across the years since, we’d say he got his money’s worth! He clearly had his heart set on the car, as he was living then in High Pittington, County Durham—about 250 miles from Radlett.
Much of this early history survives with the car, including a copy of the original green logbook, a copy of Mr. Hahn’s handwritten sales receipt, and the 1970-71 tax disc. A 1973 letter from Tim Cree of the Morgan Sports Car Club indicates just how sought-after the Super Sports was even then, as he wrote: “I’m pleased to be able to record the existence of another Super-Sports as I only know of about a dozen SSs at present (I know of one or two that might be but I haven’t yet positive identification). Many people (especially Americans, if the rocker cover has ‘Lawrencetune’ on it), claim their cars are Super-Sports, but the chassis no. soon identifies the car.”
It is quite evident that the vendor has always maintained the car well, and the earliest invoice on file is from the well-known Morgan garage of Melvyn Rutter in 1988. However, it has never required any major overhaul, and the most substantial work on file was performed by the Techniques Morgan service centre circa 2018. Totalling around £5,300, it entailed a full fluid and ignition service plus greasing the suspension; cleaning the carburettors; fitting new rear wheel cylinders and brake shoes; replacing the rear springs; and painting the engine, head and appropriate ancillary fittings, as well as the rear axle and chassis “where necessary.” The superb condition of the original interior is, perhaps, the greatest testament to how well the Super Sports has been cared for over the course of its life. It has required little attention since then, though interested parties will note that it received new Avon 175/70R15 tyres in 2021, and a new Enduroline battery in 2025.
Although the vendor bought the Morgan when it was only six years old, it probably goes without saying that it has, for several decades, been treated as a hobby car, and has seen only the lightest of use over the past twenty years; fewer than 300 miles separate the 2007 odometer reading of 32,841 miles and the present one of just over 33,100. In addition to the historic documents described earlier, several invoices and a copy of the Morgan factory’s chassis records are on file."
regards
this from the catalogue
"As one of only 104 Super Sports produced, of which ninety-six were the two-seater variety, ‘JMD 111B’ is really something special. Factory records indicate that it was originally Green and its specification included “Lawrencetuned engine and oil cooler. Aluminium wings, bonnet and body. Wire wheels. Nylon tyres.” It was despatched on July 23rd, 1964, to Lawrencetune Engines of Acton, London W.3, and registered the next day. While Lawrencetune went to work on it, a year passed before it was sold to Mr. Peter Hahn of Radlett, Hertfordshire. He enjoyed it for five years, before selling it to the present owner on May 13th, 1970. Considering he paid £675 for it and has been driving it with vim across the years since, we’d say he got his money’s worth! He clearly had his heart set on the car, as he was living then in High Pittington, County Durham—about 250 miles from Radlett.
Much of this early history survives with the car, including a copy of the original green logbook, a copy of Mr. Hahn’s handwritten sales receipt, and the 1970-71 tax disc. A 1973 letter from Tim Cree of the Morgan Sports Car Club indicates just how sought-after the Super Sports was even then, as he wrote: “I’m pleased to be able to record the existence of another Super-Sports as I only know of about a dozen SSs at present (I know of one or two that might be but I haven’t yet positive identification). Many people (especially Americans, if the rocker cover has ‘Lawrencetune’ on it), claim their cars are Super-Sports, but the chassis no. soon identifies the car.”
It is quite evident that the vendor has always maintained the car well, and the earliest invoice on file is from the well-known Morgan garage of Melvyn Rutter in 1988. However, it has never required any major overhaul, and the most substantial work on file was performed by the Techniques Morgan service centre circa 2018. Totalling around £5,300, it entailed a full fluid and ignition service plus greasing the suspension; cleaning the carburettors; fitting new rear wheel cylinders and brake shoes; replacing the rear springs; and painting the engine, head and appropriate ancillary fittings, as well as the rear axle and chassis “where necessary.” The superb condition of the original interior is, perhaps, the greatest testament to how well the Super Sports has been cared for over the course of its life. It has required little attention since then, though interested parties will note that it received new Avon 175/70R15 tyres in 2021, and a new Enduroline battery in 2025.
Although the vendor bought the Morgan when it was only six years old, it probably goes without saying that it has, for several decades, been treated as a hobby car, and has seen only the lightest of use over the past twenty years; fewer than 300 miles separate the 2007 odometer reading of 32,841 miles and the present one of just over 33,100. In addition to the historic documents described earlier, several invoices and a copy of the Morgan factory’s chassis records are on file."
regards
peter
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