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Pure fun! Morgan three-wheeler pics

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  1. Every extremity of the car is visible from the driver's seat  you really do fly it with the seat of your pants.
  2. This is the crew at Morgan Design who brought the classic three-wheeler back to life. They look quite sane, don't they?
  3. A leather-padded cockpit complete with aircraft-style instruments (including a starter button that looks like a bomb release, complete with safety cover) adds to the open-cockpit flying feel.
  4. The computer-genrated concept sketches show the three-wheeler in left-hand drive - it was always the intention to make it street-legal in the US.
  5. Perhaaps the most amazing thing about this shape is how clean it is, given that HFS Morgan sketched the original more than a century ago.
  6. The car weighs only 1100kg so performance - especially when you're sitting in an open cockpit only 150mm off the deck! - is electrifying: 0-100 in 4.5sec and a top speed of 185km/h.
  7. The engine is a long-stroke, pushrod V-twin from custom builder S&S, churning out 85kW and loads of low-revving torque.
  8. This deceptively simple shape still holds a number of long-distance speed records for one-litre cars set in the 1930's.

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Kit, wrote

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11:37am on 4 March 2011
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I owned a 1932 Morgan three wheeler which had a 1100cc JAP motor. It was most probably the scariest "car" that you could ever wish to drive. I am not sure what gearbox you now use but the original car had a 3 speed box and drum brakes. I note that you have installed disc’s onto the front wheels. You obviously have linked the back wheel to this system as the original car s back drum was used for the hand brake The car was very unstable on the road due to a full steering lock that was half a turn in either direction. The S&S motor is capable of getting you to 185 kmh, but the car is too unstable to get to and maintain this speed. Very nice restoration. (How many times have you burnt your arm on the pipes)

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