Jonny Visits The Morgan Factory - Fifth Gear
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Jonny visits The Morgan Factory, where the cars are built up by people and still uses carpentry. Jonny after helping out around the factory is then lucky enough to drive the new Morgan Three Wheeler.
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I'm italian and i envy you brits so much because you have fantastic cars like these. The fun in a car is the first thing to look when you buy one, and this is the reason i would buy one of this awsome car.
@shawnoldham9098
5 жыл бұрын
Luca Maini Italy has better cars, just not affordable.
What a breath of fresh air - literally. Must be fun to drive.
I respect the traditional craftsmanship and construction of the Morgan. If they went with a tube chassis and a fiberglass body; us normal folk could afford one. Then again, that might dilute the throwback cool image.
What a wonderful car and the Malvern Hills, both are perfect for driving around.
I used to work as a sheet metal worker making these Morgan 3 wheeler body panels and building them onto the ash frame. This is done in Coventry at an engineering company called Premier Group. Some of the panels can be a real pig to fabricate and put together. Premier also make some of the panels and the rear end of Morgan's Aero Supersport. If you search here on youtube 'premier 3 wheeler' the video will come up from when Premier made the 1000th 3 wheeler.
Brilliant video thankyou. Your watch band and rings against the newly painted bonnet made me wince however.....
In Normal, Illinois USA near Illinois State University is a one-man body shop. And in that shop are two 3-wheeled Morgans out of the 40's/50's ?? IDN. The body shop owner also has the original Pratt-Whitney wood ash plugs used for sand molds for pouring the cast iron bits for radial engines for the B-17 and other era aeroplanes that use these engines.
I'd love one of these. Really, really love one.
How can anyone not like this car, buy one in a heart beat
Great video!
You're not buying a car, it's a piece of art and a real deal at current prices of about $80k.
My dreaming car, also the aero and the catherham 7
looks boss to drive..
Bellissime le Morgan
want one
It’s in Malvern I live there
3:42 haha if the owner of that pink seated 3 wheeler had seen this xD
Not a patch on Bill Tuer's engines, but not much are. Maybe Alf Hagon's engines.
Ilove morgan3whlar
i don't trust people enough to want a handmade car but it's such a neat thing indeed
No, the prop shaft does not go to a differential. It's got a single rear wheel, why would it have a differential?
I hear that he said a diff, or a differential. But there's only one powered wheel. Is there a mistake?
What's not to like about this classic?
Why do they not employ Bill Tuer as a development engineer?!!
Whats the horrible whining noise coming from, Bevel box or the belt?
@HarleyRog
3 жыл бұрын
Bevel box
I want one as well. Not for 50k quids though.
6 years later, I guarantee 100% of those three wheelers in this clip were back in at some point for warranty work. lol
@Mgold6Gaming
3 жыл бұрын
They are surprisingly reliable and have been driven in the desert
@bonesshed.
3 жыл бұрын
@@Mgold6GamingIm afraid they're not. There is always bits falling off em, breaking down or just badly manufactured. Dont get me wrong, I think they are fantastic, I would love one and I love the Morgan brand ( I own a Plus 4 ) but the three wheelers do suffer from plenty of warrantee issues, more than they should IMO
@pinkyman5155
Жыл бұрын
@@bonesshed. Have to agree with you there, bought mine with 1000 miles on the clock after another 1000 the cam belt broke ! A grand to fix it, then the brakes failed, the battery securing bar shorted across to the live teminal and melted the battery. Bits aways falling off or failing !.
God mesin
Shmee wheeler
@bicyclist2
7 жыл бұрын
He said it was the most fun car he had driven in 2016 in an interview.
Stability is four Wheels.
3:53 *Who the FUCK is KATY PRIZE? The WORLD’S YOU TUBE WATCHERS NEED TO KNOW!*
If you crash directly into something the engine would be screwed :P
@FranciscoRam
2 жыл бұрын
Well, it's not the better car to get crashed with... Just don't crash and you will be ok 😀
Yunik &indonesi promosen
Fifty thousand dollars for a V-Twin made in Wisconsin mated to a Miata transmission, a wooden frame and panel beaten alumin(i)um skin on motorcycle wheels? It's got the cool factor off the charts but I'm sorry, fifty thousand is too damn much. I'd save up and buy one for thirty but fifty? No way.
@youngypaul
10 жыл бұрын
Seems like fair value for the smile factor, head turning factor, and overall coolness and class
@XoVoX
10 жыл бұрын
yea certainly a rich mans toy, I would love one myself likewise, but simply not possible at the pricepoint. They seem to be selling them just fine though as they have waiting quite the waiting list at this point. Still, if I could have purchased this instead of my MX5 for the same pricepoint, I would own a M3W instead.
@bicyclist2
7 жыл бұрын
This is in England not Wisconsin.
@youngypaul
7 жыл бұрын
Just because it has a Harly Engine does not mean its made in Merica...
@seikibrian8641
5 жыл бұрын
@@bicyclist2 He said the ENGINE is made in Wisconsin, and he's 100% correct. The engine is made by S&S in La Crosse, WI.
But if you have an accident who is going to repair it? With all that wood I wonder.
Diff?
@shawnoldham9098
5 жыл бұрын
BurnDuration I thought the whole point of a 3 wheeler was to eliminate a diff.
@HarleyRog
3 жыл бұрын
It’s actually a bevel box to turn the drive 90 degrees and enable a belt drive/swinging arm to be fitted
@BurnDuration
3 жыл бұрын
Roger Lord thanks. I realized if the three wheeler was FWD, then a front differential would be needed, as the inside front wheel can naturally turn slower in a turn. As it’s a single RWD wheel, a differential wouldn’t be needed.
More bike, really
I am in Lust....
40 grand ? you have to be kidding me.
Jonny the very man for kids TV three times a week giving ample days free for window (tinted) licking at hi's local Das Audi Auto lifestyle emporium , Till gets the facial hair to join the Ace cafe /Tobacco dock bike shed hip kool with a "K" "biker" boyz ! Chug chug wobble wobble look mum no hands
Must have awful driving dynamics, though.
I want it 😢