I READ WITH interest James Elliott’s piece in Octane 230 about the Valletta Concours d’Elegance in Malta. A planned road trip to Malta in my 40-year-owned 1980 Morgan Plus 8 would have coincided with the 2020 event had the pandemic not intervened.
I am a member of a club for cars over 25 years old (CAAR GB) and each year we run two tours, organising everything ourselves to keep costs down. During 2019, we planned a trip to the Italian Lakes and Sicily, but of course didn’t get to go. Our third attempt in May and June this year finally happened. However, I had decided to break from the group after Sicily and take a detour to Malta, then drive home through Italy. Sadly, the re-planned trip for 2022 meant I would miss the Valletta Concours by a day.
My Plus Eight hasn’t had a roof or sidescreens since 1987, just a tonneau. I have survived a hurricane in the USA in 2018, and -6°C and frostbite driving back from Kitzbühel, Austria, to Cambridge in 1998. In all those years of ownership I have covered 250,000 miles and visited 48 countries, including virtually
