54321 LIFT OFF

At last, the LIFT OFF day for Marjorie Morgan arrived and thankfully it stayed more ore less dry for the 30 plus friends, family and neighbours who turned up to watch the event. Hot dogs and cava was served to keep everybody in a good mood

I was hoping to post the video on the blog, but apparently 100mb is the maximum size and my 10 minutes worth is over 2gb, so we will have to make do with the great photos taken by my chums, but I have managed to post the video onto YouTube, the link follows, for those you haven't got anything better to do.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnCo1_SWxwM&spfreload=10
If the link fails, then search for Launch of Mac's replica Morgan three wheeler.

The lifting off the trestles and lowering with the front wheel onto ramps went very smoothly, allowing room to extract the crane legs, there was some faffing about getting the crane out of the way before the bonnet could be lifted on and fastened. It was decided it would be safer to push Marjorie off the ramps rather than start the engine and with many hands pushing, after I remembered to fit the steering wheel, she slowly rolled off them and they were removed.

It was now crunch time, typical, it had started first prod of the button whilst on the trestles, but at this lower elevation it took several prods and I was beginning to feel rather foolish when at last to a cheer the engine roared to life. I gingerly engaged 1st gear slowly lifted the clutch to ensure that I wasn't in reverse and Marjorie rather reluctantly emerged from the garage. It was only after a couple of forward and reverse runs up and down the parking area, that I realised that I had left the handbrake on, silly me. After that getting Marjorie going was much easier and made even more fun with my 5 year old step granddaughter on board and Jacquie, my wife was also persuaded to climb aboard.

All went very well, until I tried to reverse back into the garage and the back end grounded out. It had been commented that the back end was much lower than the front and on a quick check underneath it was obvious that the rear tyre needed more air, but I will also need to adjust the rear springs to level it up, not a big problem and will soon be fixed.

Finally a few more photos of Marjorie on her big day