This classic Morgan Plus 8 is a tempting project, the outside looks great, but other issue lurk underneath.
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Taken from Bangers & Cash Series 8 Episode 4. This is an Albert Sustainable Carbon Neutral production.
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Yep the seller laughing all the way to the bank -u were mugged .
Typical of the British car industry and the poor quality build that led to its demise, along with a heavy application of road salt. You would have thought that Morgan would have fitted the best quality components, to reflect the high cost of a new Morgan.
I’m not a huge fan of the Rover V8, mainly because it comes from British Leyland heritage and its numerous faults.
A classic looking car with reasonable reliability, says it all and all, for a ridiculous second hand price!!
I wish he’d pronounced MAVERN correctly!
Parts prices for such vehicles I’d expect to pay a premium for rarity bits but that labour charge omg.. it’s just bog standard maintenance stuff I used to use a Haynes manual for when I was a youngster. Nothing technical, no specialist equipment or the like. Someone has more money than sense
How does this show work where bangers and cash make such a big loss on resale?
I like the looks of a Morgan but, I like better what Carrol Shelby did with an Austin Healey in creating his V8 Cobra, it completed the package, James Bond should've drove a Shelby Cobra, …he would just blend in unnoticed, crazy what we believe.
Would never pay more than the hammer. Sorry you put it in an auction, if I win that's the price I'm paying. Or it's no thanks.
Wood rot? These cars are actually made of wood!
Seems silly to sell a £36k car for only £28k.
Bit of filler?😮
Had the Morgan Super Sport, 2 litre engine, all aluminium body, with the leather strap across the bonnet. I had to re-shim the Salisbury 7HA axle and then resprayed it using an etch primer before finishing it off in a lovely British racing green. I was really glad to get shot of it in the end. No windscreen or body heat ! A chap from Fleetwood kept coming round to see if I would sell it to him. In the end I did for £1,500 plus his girlfriends Triumph Spitfire thrown in (on the condition he would marry her !!).
£9,000 for labour !!!!!!!!!!!! If you can get away with it, then I suppose suckers have their uses.
For that price could get a top flight original Ford Focus Zetec 1600 ? People have no sense.
I don't like Morgans.
As soon as you mention the word specialist, be prepared to have your trousers pull down. £9000 in labour you are taking the piss. 5 weeks when you are the second biggest parts supplier, Why?. Morgan could build a complete car in a few weeks.
was painful watching taking it to a specialist? £££££££ it’s a do in your garage job isn’t it
“There’s no substitute for use”
Mine is a 63 4/4 series V and I have been it's keeper for the past thirty six years. Very workable and great sport.
9 grand labour is a total rip off. 1500 is more like it.
I wouldn't pay more than 10k for the car as it was. and 15k when it was fixed.
Adding filler to those wings is a sketchy bodge up. It needs a glass fibre repair.
95% of the labour was merely replacing standard parts.
Skimming the brake discs isa very poor choice. This car will need all the brakes it can get. The standard discs look like Cortina. I would upgrade to Willwood.
“Low Mileage Morgan” means that it never ran long enough to accumulate any mileage 😊
That's a really good way of going broke! I have rules for the classics I choose. #1 is must have windup windows, and #2 is must not be from a rust coast state, and #3 is just my preference, and that is that it should have a six cylinder engine. The ironic thing is that my S1 Jaguar E-Type 4.2 Coupe was in New Jersey up until the end of 2006, but is the most rust free original E-Type that my repair company owner has ever seen. The original owner kept her in his heated basement garage, and he had only driven her 24,000 miles since new. He was a jeweler, so clearly paid attention to detail. Other nicer options would be a late Austin-Healey or a TR5, since both are a little more civilized and you don't feel every bump, IMHO.
Did I miss something? It ‘sold’ for far less than total cost, and the sale room will want a decent commission.
It's pronounced MULVERN !
Low mileage means nothing on an old car. The worst car I ever bought had just 12k on the clock and one of the best had over 100k. Both 10+ years old at the time I bought them.
Nice vid ,but after going on about the V8 rumble would have liked the sound man to go round the back while it was given a rev .
Oh dear, left hand torpedo sidelight going walkies. Lol.
If you don't use it, you lose it. 😮😂
The previous owner should have admitted what was wrong with the car, pre auction. I am shocked if Mathewsons didn't ask or didn't tell.
£36k to buy and rebuild and sold for £28k. I wouldn't say a loss of £8k is good.
As a long retired MV lecturer I never did understand the appeal of Morgans. Only the British would be daft enough to continue building a 1930s car in 2026. However, it’s difficult to criticise their success and good luck to them. I drove one once and still couldn’t find their appeal compared to the reliability, handling and comfort of a Mazda MX5.
Traded one of these back in the 90's and lost a bit of skin everytime I got out of the f&*%&*er
EVERY time the Bangers and Cash "Restoration" team buy something the story is the same. They buy a classic that looks good – Then the experts tell them it's a rusty mess or about to blow up- they spend a Fortune making it better then they sell and 4 months later they sell it at the B&C auction for somewhere between 1/3rd an 2/3rds of what it cost to buy and restore! You can make a small fortune like that but only if you start with a large fortune to begin with! 😁
At 27.25 I see the near side torpedo light had already come loose due to vibration. £9k for the work done seems a a bit rich, at an average of £75 per hour would equal 120 hours just for recommissioning ??
Absolute junk 😮
New discs and pads and a complete caliper strip down and rebuild would have been the sensible approach. How to lose loads of money on a car!
Rich people in South Africa live in a beautiful place called Plettenberg Bay ! I was with family at a restaurant when we saw about ten Morgans parked in the car park ! Millionaires seem to love Morgans ? South African Morgan owners club !
'Water seeps in through the brake hoses' – twaddle. Rubber does NOT allow water to pass.
'Water in the brake fluid can boil' – look at the temperature that water boils at, at braking pressures- several hundred degrees. HIghly unlikely!
'can cause rust'- any modern braking system is entirely stainless steel.
These myths are spread by garages wanting to charge you for brake fluid changes. My fourteen year old sports car is on the original fluid- and it always will be.
I don't understand the business plan here. You buy old cars at auction without having a good look at them, paying WAY over the odds. They you pay someone else to fix them. Then you sell them at auction and lose eight grand in the process. I hope you make a lot out of the video!
Jesus this has to be the most pessimistic, moany comment section, on the entirety of youtube. Not a word about how beautiful the cars are, just moaning moaning moaning.
Hardly big problems, just lots of small ones.
SOLD OUT to money men, only downhill from here.
Such a lovely car, restored by the right team!!!! And the sound of the V8 is enchanting! A dream… for so many years. Thanks for this video.😉
Morgan Cars are bought by people with a romantic notion of how motoring was long ago – but only for the 'well heeled'.
Afterall, they do look rather attractive, just like a Mail Coach does, pulled by 4 horses.
But both are totally impractical in modern transport conditions.
But, if everyone in the household has a reliable car for daily transport, doing the shopping & holidays, you may as well buy a Morgan to witness the other end of motoring…