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Written by David Spurling   
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
The Morgan is entered for the Classic Rally Association’s 22nd Classic Marathon in June This year the start is in Beaune and goes through the Pyrenees to finish at Biarritz. (for further details see www.classicrally.org.uk)

The driver is accompanied as co-pilote by Ros, survivor of many other rallies in more far flung regions. The faithful Morgan was given the once over, and a few items proved to be in need of attention. The last significant outing of the Morgan was to World Cup Rally event at Gaydon, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the London Mexico rally.
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The event well deserved the excellent attendance. Many renowned rally drivers/navigators were present, as well as Jim Gavin, who was heavily involved in the organisation of many of the rallies of the period.
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We also met up with Gerard Brown, the ace photographer and provider of several of the photos used on this web site It was good to see that had largely recovered from his injuries of the London Casablanca rally. He was accompanied by his family and the younger members enjoyed sitting in the Morgan. It was good to meet up with Gerard again and meet his lovely family.
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The Navigator, apart from being good looking and good at navigation, is also observant, and noticed a vibration from the front suspension. Subsequent investigation showed that one of the wheels was seriously out of balance, and wear in the king pins.This was hardly surprising in view of the amount of hard driving done since the last replacement (including two rallies with many desert stages). The downside of the sliding pillar suspension is that the job entails dismantling the front suspension, pressing out the old bushes, pressing in the new ones and then reaming them to fit the 1” kingpin.

Successfully accomplished this merely left the non-functioning speedometer and rev counter to be attended to.
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