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Published on 02 December 2018

Part of it may have been the way we developed the Morgans suspension. Those were the days when 3 wheeling was thought to be great handling. Remember the Geoghegan's first Lotus Elite. We had developed a similar system to overcome the understeer. Still that had all the weight pushing down on the outside front wheel, so to say we were surprised at bending the things downward is putting it mildly. Yes Skylark, the old dipper was murder on wheels, even when they were strong enough for most circuits. WE had similar problems with the Monaros when we were developing the suspension. After about half an hour in the GT HOs that the general had at Lang Lang they gave me a Monaro. After 10 laps I parked the thing for a discussion on what it was doing. Out again I only got one lap before the rear linings tore off the shoes. In just 10 laps I had got the drums so hot, that the heat transfer to the linings, parked with the hand brake on had cooked the bonding material they were using. Out again I only got a couple more laps before the first wheel tore apart. They had done a magnificent job of designing & building their first real race car, but did not have the capacity to stress it high enough to find the faults. The shot is of the Morgan 3 wheeling off the causeway at Warwick Farm. The front wheel is one we knocked up practice night, using 1/4" boiler plate for the centre, to replace another that broke during practice.