How one couple went 3,500 miles in a Morgan 3 Wheeler coast to coast
(Britain’s Morgan Motor Co. still builds cars much as it did a century ago — by hand, with wood and metal frames. To promote the revived Morgan 3 Wheeler — a open-air, $40,000 tricycle based on a 1911 design but powered by a modern 80-hp V-Twin engine — company chief and grandson of the founder Charles Morgan, along with his wife Kiera drove a Morgan 3 Wheeler across America last month in the Gumball 3000 rally. This is their story of open roads, gawkers and Death Valley droptop driving. — Ed.)Â
The experiment was to prove that a Morgan 3 Wheeler can cross the United States with ease, a journey of some 3,500 miles in all. To follow a process I take a Morgan 3 Wheeler after final inspection, just as it would leave the factory before being sent to a dealer or a customer. This is deliberate — I do not want to drive a specially prepared car … Pictures and more