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$45,000.00
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| Exterior Color: White | |
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| Car Class: RACING | |
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In its fiftieth year, this competition prepared Plus Four Morgan has spent virtually all of its life in the hands of active sports racers. Its history as traced by the current owner places its earliest racing days in Holland in the early 1970s. Then, it was owned by Michael Lucassen, a well-known Dutch sports car racer and prepared to Morgan Super Sport specs with a Lawerencetune head, exhaust, and throaty Weber 42 DCOE carburetors., After some notable success in Continental European races and in the UK it was purchased by another Dutchman, Peter Ecury in the early 1980s. Ecury campaigned it extensively at all the major tracks in Europe, England, and even Russia and North Africa. In his hands it won the 1983 FIA Benelux Historic GT Championship, and the 1984 FIA European Overall Historic GT Championship., In 1985, the current owner discovered the car when Ecury responded to his ‘Wanted, Four Seater Morgan' advertisement in Classic and Sportscar. His intention had been to buy a sports car that would accommodate his family of five children. Ecury's sales pitch was that the car could easily be converted from two to four seats and so he bought it. However, once the car was in the driveway, its racing provenance prevailed and he decided to leave the kids at home and go racing., After several SCCA driver's schools, the present owner took to the track later in the 1980s and has competed regularly ever since. By his own admission the car is faster than its owner, but that has never stopped him enjoying it. ‘Old Mog' has been frequently raced in SCCA and vintage events at most venues east of the Mississippi and in Canada. It is a regular competitor in the SCCA D.C. Region's Middle Atlantic Road Race Series (MARRS) and over the last several years has ranged from third to seventh in E Production annual championship points. The car has more than 100 race log book stamps in this country alone, which must make it one of the most raced of its breed, particularly when you add its European history to the tally., The car has been continuously maintained by noted specialist Jim McHenry of Reading, Pennsylvania, a former senior Aston Martin and Penske mechanic: this has included two comprehensive engine rebuilds, and a reframing roughly a decade ago after a significant shunt at the Philadelphia Grand Prix. It currently runs a Toyota Supra five-speed gearbox, which affords it the convenience of synchromesh on first, slightly longer legs on the road as well as better gas mileage, but no alteration was made to the chassis and its period Moss unit is with the car and could be returned to it should a buyer wish., In addition, the car is registered, insured, and state-inspected for road use, and the owner has driven it to work, in club events, and on vacations. It comes with full weather equipment including folding windscreen, hood, side screens, tonneau, and lighting., This illustrious Morgan racer wears its rich history well and, notwithstanding the occasional minor cosmetic battle scar, it is sufficiently tidy to have been displayed at Philadelphia's Simeone Automotive Museum's Best of Britain show in 2010., With its 2012 SCCA tech inspection it is ready to race in SCCA E Production or vintage events, and it is most likely the only current SCCA production car to have an FIA Historic GT certificate., Buy it today, race it this Sunday, and drive it to work on Monday (after spending the night installing the road equipment)., $45,000
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