Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Just returned from an excellent weekend at the PitStop hotel near Bishop's Stortford, Herts. We stayed in the Art Deco style room which was beautiful. The owner has a huge collection of Morgan cars which can also be hired or you can just drool over them..........
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Lovely cars there Jeane.
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Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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#3
ohhh.. i would love them.. i think drool over them is good enough for me....
#4
Wow a pink one!!!!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#5
how can anyone afford a collection of morgan cars?
i shudder to think of the value of those pictured.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I loved the pink one too Melissa, it's called The Pink Lady. Howard, Melvin Rutter the hotel owner has been in the car business for most of life. He now has a Morgan dealership, repair shop and also hires the cars out. Because he had so many Morgan people visiting him over the years he decided to open a small hotel so they could stay there and it became a 3 year labour of love to build. He even has the original 1901 windows from the Morgan factory which he had restored and incorporated into his hotel.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Beautiful cars Jeane, thank you for letting us see them.
If I was very rich I'd love one, Jean would have a problem getting in and out of them though.
When we had our guest house, we had a very secure car-park and quite often we would have Morgan Owners club members stay with us on the way to France.
It was so lovely, just looking at them - we had a three-wheeler one once, must have been very old.
We also had (on a number of occasions) a car-park full of Harley's and I remember some very old Citroens too.
Roger
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks Roger, yes they are so beautiful. Melvin Rutter may well have stayed with you!
Here's a few more.
#10
A beautiful pink car i love it.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Lovely cars you've got there, Jeane. At the Rolls Royce exhibition in Dover they had a three wheeler in Market Square which was actually made by Messerschmitt, and parked next to it was a Moris Minor 1000. The funny part was the Spitfire flying overhead.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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In the 60s I had a Messerschmitt it was so small with half a wheel to hold just like a plane but it could not go backwards but I only had it about 8weeks but it was fun and at that time I was in the army and posted in London.
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Just to help Vic reminisce further:
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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I remember them Messerschmitts well..great fun. But fab Morgan cars there Jeane. Love them all round but particularly the three wheelers. Twould be great fun dashing around dover in one of them with helmet goggles and white silk scarf blowing in the wind...ah... the good oul days! Where's Biggles when you need him!
Ive got another lot of classic cars coming up on the frontpage shortly.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Mein Gott Vic, you were in the British army and you had a messerschitt?
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Ooooooh Messerschmitts are wonderful
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I`ve always had a love for the Messerschmitt 109, Germany`s equivalent to our Spitfire/Hurricane. May get another kit one day and build another one.
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#18
I preferred the BMW Isetta:
And in Lagos we sometimes ran around in this, also from BMW:
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks Guys
Loved seeing the 3 wheelers (again) and in such perfect condition.
Is that the old "bubble-car" Sid ?
The Nigerian limo, looks much cleaner than most I've seen - did you take that photo, or are you in the back of it somewhere ?
Roger
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