Morgan Plus 4 Buyer's Guide
Three tracked Plus 4 sales, £6,500 to £40,500, median £13,500, none live as we write. Read the headline carefully: our £40,500 top result was an exceptional car with provenance, and it is an outlier, not a benchmark. The working Plus 4 market lives between our other two figures, where the four-cylinder Morgan trades as the accessible end of a marque that changes as little as any in motoring.
What to pay
£6,500 buys the entry point: a usable car with needs, most likely in the ash frame or the cosmetics. Around our £13,500 median sits the honest, sorted Plus 4, and that is the number to carry into a negotiation. Our £40,500 ceiling was provenance money for an exceptional example and should not anchor expectations for ordinary cars; the gap between median and ceiling in our records is history and documentation, not metal. With no live lots at present, the figures above are the map.
What goes wrong
The ash frame first, as with every traditional Morgan: the wooden body frame rots at the sills, door posts and anywhere water lingers, and sagging doors or shifting shut lines are the early warning. The steel chassis corrodes visibly and repairs conventionally. The sliding-pillar front suspension wants greasing on a schedule; ignored, the pillars wear, and greased, they last indefinitely. The four-cylinder engines fitted across the model's long life are simple, understood units with good support, and the Morgan specialist network covers frame, chassis and mechanicals alike.
Our view
The Plus 4 is the sensible Morgan: lighter of nose than the V8 cars, cheaper to buy and feed, and built around the same repairable wood-and-steel logic. Buy on frame condition and greasing history at our median and the car will hold its money with typical Morgan stubbornness. Leave the £40,500 cars to the buyers who know exactly why they are paying it.
