{"id":65641,"date":"2012-06-17T08:19:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65641"},"modified":"2012-06-17T08:19:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T15:19:08","slug":"3500-miles-in-a-morgan-3-wheeler-coast-to-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65641","title":{"rendered":"3,500 miles in a Morgan 3 Wheeler coast to coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\" style=\"text-align: left;\">How one couple went 3,500 miles in a Morgan 3 Wheeler coast to coast<\/p>\n<p class=\"first\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>(Britain&#8217;s Morgan Motor Co. still builds cars much as it did a century ago &#8212; by hand, with wood and metal frames. To promote the revived Morgan 3 Wheeler &#8212; a open-air, $40,000 tricycle based on a 1911 design but powered by a modern 80-hp V-Twin engine &#8212; 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. &#8212; Ed.)\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"first\" style=\"text-align: left;\">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 &#8212; I do not want to drive a specially prepared car\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/autos.yahoo.com\/blogs\/motoramic\/one-couple-went-3-500-miles-morgan-3-212630495.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"first\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How one couple went 3,500 miles in a Morgan 3 Wheeler coast to coast (Britain&#8217;s Morgan Motor Co. still builds cars much as it did a century ago &#8212; by hand, with wood and metal frames. To promote the revived Morgan 3 Wheeler &#8212; a open-air, $40,000 tricycle based on a 1911 design but powered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,25,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-motorcycle","category-sports-car","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65643,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65641\/revisions\/65643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}