That said, I really wish they kept the headlight as a single off-center affair because the front end looks a bit like a cartoon clam now. As part of the launch, Morgan teamed up with Selfridges and nine other British companies to create a limited edition called "UK1909." So you not only get the car, you get customized luggage from Globetrotter, driving goggles from Linda Farrow, a white scarf from Alexander McQueen, and a shearling helmet from Karl Donoghue, and other similarly preposterous accouterments.
Here's an interview with Jon Wells, Morgan's head of design, explaining the project. I must warn you that Mr. Wells's youth will only exacerbate any preexisting inferiority complex you might have.
You should check out the photos of the cool styling details here. The reverse-neutral-drive selection knob absolutely kills me, it looks like something from a mad scientist's laboratory. The switchgear is marvelously steampunk too.
Don't start writing a check--only nine copies of this version will be made and all will be sold in the UK, which makes sense given the theme. Hopefully I'll be able to get the goggles, helmet and scarf separately.
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what's with the ominous music during the interview? and jon wells claims that the car "won't have any impact on the environment at all." how does he think we make electricity? and the two headlights really do make the car look very silly. i am giving it two big thumbs down, and will not be purchasing one.
Because you live in the UK now?
You know, corn gets all the attention as the vegetable that makes a big impact on the appearance of one's feces, but don't sleep on the impact of eating excessive amounts of beets. Kinda fun to be surprised by a maroon log. I recently started boiling beets and chilling them for consumption. Good times from entry to exit.
#thoughtsfromthetoilet
Just get a Can-Am. Same thing essentially.
Cheerio!
the is the first worldliest of first world problems, but i know i can come to g:tb to bitch about things my wife would punch me for mentioning: i've taken over as team manager for our travel soccer team-- one manager moved and then i just lost another because of the age change-- and the paperwork, birth certificates, photos, uniform ordering, language barriers, contact info, etc. etc. is overwhelming, and none of it is online! wtf? it's summertime and i'm trying to relax, and i hate depending on other people to get things done . . . some people will get their shit done right away and others will have to be coerced, there's got to be a better way.
Birth certificates? Are they running for president or playing soccer?
Dave, do you have to maintain the hot moms spreadsheet as well? There are a couple of travel hockey teams up here, Northeast, where they actually keep kids on the team based on how hot the mother is.
that story may be apocryphal, squeak
i actually got confirmation on the "hot mom" spreadsheet from a guy we call "gus." the sport was pop warner football. so it's not apocryphal. and i wish i had that problem, but the hottest mom on my team lives at the same address as me (and it didn't take a spreadsheet to figure that out).
and zman, you are so naive. there was nearly a fistfight over the purported age of one of my players. we are a mid-tier mid-new jersey travel soccer team and this is serious stuff! god knows what happens in the more competitive leagues . . . and maybe if we had more hot moms, the parents would pay attention to them and not the game
Did you explain that your kids are hairy because they're Hungarian, not because they're old?
I do not look forward to youth sports.
Keep practicing, Z, you'll make the team someday.
Hey y'all, is it as HOT in Florida as it is in Tidewater VA right now? Holy crap! Also, the guys who own the joint Clarence mentioned before opened a place within walking distance of our house in our neighborhood a few months ago, which is delicious and proves detrimental to our family budget. And because some of you are into cars, I learned today that the dad of my high school best pal just bought a Tesla. !
You just had to use "apocryphal" heh Rob?
i drop that shit on the regular, danimal. and i don't believe dave.
Rob, I've seen the spreadsheet.
i had a prolonged discussion with gus about this topic at the sevens rugby tournament in beautiful chester, pa. then he commandeered a school bus, which took us back to center city, philadelphia and we played the "there's no reason for that" game until they kicked us out of the bar. it is most definitely not apocryphal. there's also kids in the pop warner football draft that go into something called "the flower pot." they are not the most skilled kids (and often get separated and selected by the hotness of the moms).
Apocryphal is a great word. It almost looks like it's made up. Very cromulent.
and there's the 2nd new word learned today
squeaky says hockey, dave says football. you're both full of shit and you suck at getting your stories straight.
My kids have recently started watching Crashletes, a Nickelodeon production hosted by Gronk and a couple of other youngsters. It's a less awkward, somewhat funnier version of America's Funniest Videos. Gronk is a natural (for this audience). He's going to be around on the telly long after his football career.
If tonight's units are what Chris Sale lost his shit over then he's a an bigger idiot than I suspected.
My 8 y/o son LOVES LOVES LOVES Crashletes. It's essentially a lame sports bloopers show. The young blond studio girl seems nice (and barely legal...awkward).
Jacoby Ellsbury just got caught stealing 3rd with no outs and a lefty-hitting Beltran up. The announcers were immediately apoplectic (but not apocryphal). YOU CAN'T DO THAT. YOU CAN'T MAKE THE FIRST OUT OF THE INNING AT THIRD BASE.
Baseball is insufferable.
Madeleine Albright is wearing one helluva broach on her left shoulder. It's gonna topple her over.
Is it awful to say her waddle looks like a vajayjay?
Nancy Cordes appears to have smuggled two honeydew melons into the convention center.
McFadden and Whitehead?
If Hillary loses this election she will be the Marcia Clark of politics ...which I guess means Trump would be OJ.
Mike Pence is Bob Kardashian.
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