Topic: Another odd one from Allan L: Morgan +4 with special coupé body

[Allan L]

Well this is a bit of a puzzle - but that's what we do here, isn't it?
Make model and any information you care to dredge up, as usual please

[max]

Like nothing I remember.  But...radiator grille ex Mk1 Ford Consul, I think, therefore 1955 or later.  Standard Lucas lights.  London registration?

[Allan L]

Like nothing I remember.  But...radiator grille ex Mk1 Ford Consul, I think, therefore 1955 or later.  Standard Lucas lights.  London registration?

Yes, yes and no - it's an Essex registration (to go with the grille?!)

[Allan L]

According to the authorities the car still exists, is taxed until August 2008, is blue and has a 2088cc engine.
Some of that could be a clue!

[Allan L]

No guesses yet.
OK time for a clue: the underlying marque will celebrate its centenary in a couple of years.

[Allan L]

Time for another clue: the underlying sports car in its normal guise would still be recognisable at its factory today.

[@re]

Roy Clarkson, a Scottish dentist, leased a Ferrari which he raced, but he hated it for its unreliability, while loving its looks. He instead bought a Morgan with a Triumph TR2 engine and had a local coachbuilder build him a coupé body to look roughly like a Ferrari, running that for a short time, having the best of both worlds. On several websites this car goes by the name of the "faux-Ferrari", or fake Ferrari - and it is what is pictured here!

[Allan L]

There's a pretty comprehensive reply - anyone would think you are also a member of TNF, which is where both you and I found this one I think.
Well done

[@re]

I did my best not to make it look like a simple case of cut'n'paste, but it appears I'm busted 

Still, it was the last clue that helped me. After all, not too many English manufacturers produce cars today that are similar to the ones they made in the Fifties. And as I know that Morgan Motor Co. was established in 1909... well, then the only thing left was to find the link.

Good puzzle, though!