About Tough to crack car puzzle #178: 1964 EB Morgan

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You guys are really getting a feel for this. Last week’s pretty tough car puzzle not only called for an unexpected high number of answers – the majority of them was really strong, too. Yes, this was indeed the one-off EB Morgan, built by the Edwards Brothers (EB) for Peter Morgan in 1964. Most of you made the link to the Morgan +4+ of which the fibreglass body shells were also made by John and Wilf Edwards. As John Hameleers wrote: “Peter Morgan decided to take the closed coupé GRP body of the +4+ in to production instead of the open 2 seater GRP version, which was in the end not a great succes, in 4 years time only 26 Morgan +4+ cars were built.”

Right so. But there was a link to another, perhaps slightly less obvious, car that we thought about ourselves: the pretty EB Debonair. Another EB product and the one that brought Morgan to the Edwards Brothers in the first place. Gerd Klioba and Fritz Hegemann knew it, just like Henk Visscher, who perfectly described it: “Impressed by the EB Debonair GT, Peter Morgan of Morgan Motor Co. commissioned the design of a similar body shell that could modernize their Morgan +4.”

Best entry for this week, however, was from Alan Spencer. His complete answer: “1964 ‘EB Morgan’ one-of-a-kind prototype roadster built on a 4/4 Series V chassis, and first registered in the UK as ELG 428B. Despite the concerns of his father, ‘HFS’, Peter Morgan seriously studied the potential of all-enveloping fiberglass bodies as a way to modernize the Morgan range. Impressed by the Debonair S1 GT body produced by EB Plastics of Stoke-on-Trent, he contacted them to request design proposals. To the horror of Morgan purists, EB’s closed coupe proposal was put into limited production (just 26) as the ‘Morgan Plus Four Plus,’ but this unique open two-seater remained at the prototype stage.” There's simply nothing to add to that. Congratulations to you again Alan!

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