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Knowing the dancer from the dance was not only a problem for WB Yeats, but for Morgan in 2000 when it first unveiled the Aero 8 at that year’s Geneva Motor Show. Having gained years of hard-won motorsport experience, then-chairman Charles Morgan, grandson of founder HFS, knew that there was a new demographic of customer who wanted an altogether more modern car, one that dispensed with sliding-pillar suspension and a separate steel ladder chassis.

Commissioned in the middle of Series 1 production (2002), this Aero 8 at Allon White Sports Cars

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