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Morgan:The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur
      #368287 - 13/08/22 05:58 PM

I'll have one!


1976 Morgan Plus 8 Sports Lightweight

Finch Studio is a premium automotive photographic studio, created as a wonderful collaboration between renowned Adelaide Hills photographer Andy Rasheed, and Finch Restorations the renowned Adelaide Hills vehicle restorers.

It is an inspirational studio where classic cars and motorcycles can be professionally photographed in a blackwall space.

Particularly suited to sophisticated advertising clients, enthusiasts, and collectors that want exquisite images to show off their vehicle at its best!

To showcase the Finch Studio, we are pleased to present this photoshoot by Andy of a 1976 Morgan Plus 8 Sports Lightweight restored by Finch Restorations.

The Morgan Plus 8 is a beautiful two-seater open tourer originally built by the British car makers from 1968 to 2004. For decades, it was the fastest-accelerating British production car. Plus 8s were successful in competition, and won the 1978 and 1979 Production Sports Car Championships.

Between 1976 and 1977, Morgan built only nineteen very special 'Sports Lightweight' models, sometimes called 'Super Light'.

Today, the Morgan Plus 8 remains one of the most exciting of all Morgans, with the Super Lights at the pinnacle.

Andy Rasheed has expertly captured the magnificent results of the superb ground-up restoration on this Morgan Plus 8 Sports Lightweight by Finch Restorations. The Australian Morgan community is beginning to notice this car and describing it as the best Morgan in the country.

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Re: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: NitroX]
      #368308 - 14/08/22 03:54 AM

Images added.

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Re: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: NitroX]
      #368315 - 14/08/22 07:02 AM

Gorgeous!

Fabulous photography

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Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: Rockdoc]
      #368335 - 14/08/22 03:58 PM

The winter sun is shining for a while. If it was mine, I'd take it for a spin in the Adelaide Hills or down the coast.

Was supposed to be doing both yesterday. A clay range on top of a hill above Port Eliot with beautiful views of the coast and Southern Ocean. But not ideal for stormy winds off the sea and driving Southern rains. Open unshelteredhill top. Lovely in Summer. Cancelled.

Last time I did a scenic return drive through the Italianesque landscapes of the Flerieau Peninsula, meandering on back tracks and roads and finally coastal roads back to my townhouse. Unfirtunately not in a Morgan, but my Series 80 lumbering diesel Landcruiser.

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Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: NitroX]
      #368336 - 14/08/22 03:59 PM

A matched pair of Purdey side by sides in their motorcase would go well with this Morgan!

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Morgan:The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: NitroX]
      #368374 - 15/08/22 04:59 PM

I've just come back to perve on, and enjoy this car again.



Someone said the Morgan car company closed? Another said they are still producing?

I remember watching a documentary film about the company. A business change management consultant would visit good businesses with issues. See what they do, and advise improvements. A film crew recorded it all.

The Morgan Car Company was a very traditional classic car maker in the UK. Artisan level. Very traditional and classic as one can see. An artisan company.

They made the car very un Henry Ford like. Non production line. Each worker is an artisan. But like a quality bespoke gunmakers, follows the car being made from beginning to end. All the workers, more or less, make every part of the car. No specialisation.

The cars are not inexpensive. Someone said they start at $250,000. I think that might be on the low side! The order to delivery time was also several years. Like an English double rifle!

The consultant advised limited production line changes and worker specialisation. The company refused, made no changes and continued doing what they always did.

I hope they survived and still make classic, vintage styled quality bespoke cars like this.

Something special about them, compared to mass produced garbage.

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Edited by NitroX (15/08/22 05:10 PM)

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Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: NitroX]
      #368375 - 15/08/22 05:07 PM

By the way I was at my club the other weekend for a musical recital dinner, Czech and Ukranian music and food.

Sitting with a couple of ladies with origins from Lithuania, we chatted about many things. Including m interests, travel, safaris, guns, cigars, wine etc. I was asked - "do I have a classic car?".

Ha ha ha, I wish! Does my 1990 Diesel commercial Landcruiser count? Or my 2000 Holden Acclaim bogan car. Or my 2006 (?) Holden Berliner! Both cars are "hand me downs". I do have a Porsche in the shed. But it's a drill press. .

I think a classic sporting car is needed to fill out. I think an old MG car might be nice. If it works! One doesn't see them on the roads anymore at all.

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Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: NitroX]
      #368376 - 15/08/22 05:08 PM

To add to everyone's envy, please share your classic vintage cars or vehicles.

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Re: Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: NitroX]
      #368394 - 15/08/22 09:29 PM

Would be nice to take for a spin, alas if it got to North Queensland it would be gobbled up by one of the multitude of pot holes in the 'goat track' we call the Bruce Highway!
Sad but true!

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Re: Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: 93x64mm]
      #368401 - 16/08/22 12:55 AM

Ahhhh - yes. Morgan. I had to put a piece of inner tube between my upper and lower jaws when I took my +4 out for a drive. Sliding pillar suspension rode a bit harsh. Mine had the Triumph engine and electrics refused by Lucas. Traded it for a Triumph TR-6. Much better car but not as attractive.

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Re: Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: poprivit]
      #368409 - 16/08/22 05:46 PM

So the suspension and ride comfort of a Morgan might be a little stiff.

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Re: Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: NitroX]
      #368410 - 17/08/22 01:05 AM

John, "might" is not quite the word for a Mog's suspension. "Get down, can't cry, oh lord gonna' die" stiff coveres it better.

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Re: Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: poprivit]
      #369076 - 08/09/22 09:01 PM

Morgan are very much alive and building cars. Not a lot of luggage space though, but am sure a nice double could be fitted in somewhere- separate case for barrels and stock perhaps.

https://www.morgan-motor.com/

They have even built an off road / adventure version that would be perfect for a hunting adventure- just have your man drive the truck with all the gear.

https://youtu.be/o8dWW5QwKDY

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Re: Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: HeymSR20]
      #369091 - 09/09/22 05:57 AM

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Morgan are very much alive and building cars. Not a lot of luggage space though, but am sure a nice double could be fitted in somewhere- separate case for barrels and stock perhaps.

https://www.morgan-motor.com/

They have even built an off road / adventure version that would be perfect for a hunting adventure- just have your man drive the truck with all the gear.

https://youtu.be/o8dWW5QwKDY



Hopefully the suspension of that one is softer than poprivits car! Else the bumps would be murder!

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Re: Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: NitroX]
      #369178 - 11/09/22 06:46 PM

These original classic English cars look and sound great but unfortunately these days most people cannot fit in them as they are very narrow, exceptionally so in the case of pre-war cars. We love working on Pre-war MG diffs as they all very small and light and easy to maneuver around. However Nitro (Please don't take offense) you wouldn't ever be able to fit into a pre-war MG or early Morgan. I just fit in.

One of our customers has the largest collection of pre-war MG's in the world and his wife runs the register. They travel everywhere together and regularly take the cars overseas and travel around and he said to me once that if you own one of these cars and want to drive around with your wife you have to like each other a lot, or else it will never work.

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Re: Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: Waidmannsheil]
      #369183 - 11/09/22 07:07 PM

Oh well a vintage Jaguar will have to do.

We had three for our wedding. I'll have to photograph a large promo photo the photographer displayed in an outside stand.

My old winery had three company car vintage Jags. A couple of employees also had one. Some of the company ones looked good outside, inside bits were missing!

One director had 23 and 3 E types!

Yes a tight fit, I have trouble sometimes getting my head in my wife's car. A neck injury doesn't help.

Yes whatever the car is, I got to fit in it!

A Landcruiser is great! Or my bogan Holdens.

A lot of these sports cars are made for little men.

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Re: Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: NitroX]
      #372110 - 08/12/22 12:33 AM

If only I'd been born rich instead of good looking.........

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Re: Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: NitroX]
      #372139 - 09/12/22 03:24 AM

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Oh well a vintage Jaguar will have to do.

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A lot of these sports cars are made for little men.



I was in to Lotus cars for a while "back then", even got to take a chaperoned lap or two at Hethel.
My recollection is that Colin Chapman was not very tall (maybe 5' 8") and designed his cars for people his size (and girth).
I am 5' 11" and was 165lbs, while I did fit nicely into my Lotus Esprit, it was "comfortably snug" once inside with the seat all the way back.

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Re: Morgan: The perfect car for the double rifle connoisseur [Re: NitroX]
      #372141 - 09/12/22 05:19 AM

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Oh well a vintage Jaguar will have to do.

We had three for our wedding. I'll have to photograph a large promo photo the photographer displayed in an outside stand.

My old winery had three company car vintage Jags. A couple of employees also had one. Some of the company ones looked good outside, inside bits were missing!

One director had 23 and 3 E types!

Yes a tight fit, I have trouble sometimes getting my head in my wife's car. A neck injury doesn't help.

Yes whatever the car is, I got to fit in it!

A Landcruiser is great! Or my bogan Holdens.

A lot of these sports cars are made for little men.



I fit very well into my 2015 F350 6.7lt. Love that truck, even though mine doesn't have dualies.



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