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19/12/2025 10:29 pm
1937 Morgan Super Sport
I was thrilled to find this Morgan at the Cobble Beach Concours d’Elegance. It was rainy at the Concourse and the Morgan top was up. Most of my trips in Yorkshire were with the top up due to typical Yorkshire weather.
This Morgan 3 wheeler was the adventure car for me as a young child. From the age of 5 to 8, I spent most Summer Sunday afternoons as a passenger travelling the Yorkshire moors. The driver,Peter Chapman, a former Spitfire pilot (shot down in 1944 and now recovered from his wounds) and my parent’s next door neighbour, took a liking to me and spent hours many Sundays with me in his car.
Although the Morgan marque is legendary today for its four-wheeled roadster sports-cars, with that iconic Morgan silhouette that endows the vehicles with a sexy vintage look even before they are out of the factory gates, these are relative late-comers to the Morgan line: it wasn’t until nearly thirty years into the firm’s history, in 1936, that it would start producing four-wheeled cars.
H F S Morgan, the company’s founder, in 1909 built a three-wheeled vehicle to transport himself. But many a great truth – or motorcar – can be arrived at through happenstance. Using this prototype Morgan car began replete with famous sliding pillar front suspension and ash wood sub-frames, a design standard with which he would persist from 1912 to 1939.
‘The V Twin JAP engines employed in the Morgan Super Sports were simply works of art, either air-cooled or liquid cooled. Modern amenities such as starters and electric lamps found their ways onto the vehicles, but in terms of the wooden chassis, little changed.
Production of this original Super Sports ended in 1937.
Morgan chose to revive the car with a modern interpretation in 2011.
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19/12/2025 10:56 pm
David, love your story and the 3 wheeler!
John Bono
North Jersey
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19/12/2025 11:35 pm
WOW! I'd give my eye teeth to drive that car. What an amazing experience you had. Thanks, David.
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
20/12/2025 12:32 am
love the story and the car, thanks David
20/12/2025 6:39 am
That is SO ugly, it's super cool! Like a little bulldog puppy, I just want to squeeze it. Thanks for the great reading and pics on it David!!
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20/12/2025 6:40 am
WOW! I'd give my eye teeth to drive that car. What an amazing experience you had. Thanks, David.
John, never give up your eye teeth. You won't be able to see what you're saying.
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