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RE: different issues

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Subject: RE: different issues
From: arlo j levisen <alevisen@gdhscats.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:46:19 +0000
I am the one who asked the question about speed.  I appreciate the 
various responses I got on that and the one suggestion as to what it 
could actually be.  I now agree that it is probably caused by the wood 
at the rear of the car and not the vinyl top.

While I have driven quite a few different cars in my lifetime, I have 
never before driven one constructed quite like this one.  So, the sound 
was disturbing to me and I think now the cause may well be as suggested 
and that is more reassuring.

I have also enjoyed reading about the trip to the Morgan Motor Car 
Factory in Malvern Link.  Great story!

I do also have another question:  my car has those cheap plastic center 
wheel hubs and I have now spun two (2) of them off.  It has been 
suggested by the dealer that I glue the new replacement ones in place.  
Is this what everyone else does and is this the best solution?

I also had some of the extremely high-quality gasoline we have available 
to us today spill out of the fuel cell and onto the rear taillite plinth 
located just below the fill cap - and it completely crinkled up the 
chrome finish on the plastic plinth.  It now looks like a relief map of 
the U.S.  I now have a stainless steel replacement plinth that I need to 
get installed in place of the crinkled-up one.

I guess I am a little bit surprised that both of the above problems can 
even occur with a Morgan, given the quality of the build in most areas 
and the cost of the automobile.  Seems to me to be rather strange places 
to cut corners!

I also noted with interest the comments made on the bonnet rubbing the 
paint off if not fitted properly.  My car, on the driver's side, has now 
rubbed all the paint off at the point where the front edge of the bonnet 
comes into contact with the nose.  This is an original 1987 car and has 
not been altered in any way that I know of.  At the time of purchase I 
bought the argument, in relationship to another imperfection, that such 
adds "character" to the car.  I guess this would come under that same 
category.

Later,  Arlo Levisen

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