The venerable, and I do mean venerable, Morgan Motor Company of Malvern,
Warwickshire, has been making cars the old fashioned way since it was
radical and high-tech. With wing fenders, wooden-frame bodies, and
sliding-pillar front suspensions, Morgans are mailed to us direct from
1935. But in the early 1970s, new U.S. emissions and safety requirements
caused Morgan to pull out of the market. To the rescue came Bill Fink, a
San Francisco Moggie-phile and dealer who managed to get the car
certified by running its Buick/Rover V8 on propane. For years, small
numbers of these bouncy little roadsters had tanks of liquid propane
hung perilously behind the rear bumper. And people gave the Pinto grief?
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