The Morgan Aero Tribute Where it all began: 800 hours, two years, one English wheel and a hand driven metal roller… The Morgan three-wheeler is one of the great eccentrics of British motoring. It is a light, lively machine with an engine hung out in the breeze ahead of the front wheels. Of all the cars of the Golden Age, it seemed the right one to start with: small enough for a home workshop, but with every skill a bigger build would need. I built this tribute over two years, in about 800 hours of work, almost all of it…
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Recreating the Golden Age of Motoring In the old legends, the phoenix burns and rises again from its own ashes. It has stood for renewal for nearly three thousand years, and it seemed the right emblem for this workshop. The cars of the late 1920s and early 1930s were made by people who were still working out what a motor car could be. Bentley’s Le Mans cars, the great Rolls-Royce chassis and the extraordinary bodies from Gurney Nutting, Jonckheere and Figoni et Falaschi were built in tiny numbers. Most are gone, and the survivors live behind museum ropes or change…