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This Morgan is most likely the most famous and successful
Morgan Race car in the United States.

I believe I actually saw this car race at least
twice at SCCA races in Oregon. One time while I was racing my
Sprite At Newport, Oregon and the other time at Oregon Int.
I remember listening to someboby talk about the Corvettes
and how they were going to stomp al over these little sporty cars.
At the Newport race Shelby brought three of his then new 289 Cobra's.
Also there racing were My friend Bill Pendleton in a Triumph TR4, Ron Bucknum in
an MGB from Hollywood Sports Cars and Lew Spencer in his Morgan +4.
I made the comment that the Cobras would be 1,2,3, then the three cars
mentioned and and then the Corvettes would follow. I was right on.

I found this information on the Morgan Car company web site.

The Morgan Plus 4 Super Sports model was introduced late in 1961, offering arguably the best price-for-performance value available at that time. Its lightweight aluminum body provided crisp handling in a design reminiscent of the great, fully fendered sports cars of the 1930s.

Between 1961 and 1968, only 104 of the English-made, aluminium-bodied Super Sports were produced with Triumph TR4A-engines. Of the 95 two-seat cars built for sports car competition in the U.S. and abroad, 50 carried the low-bodied roadster coachwork.

The original Baby Doll V is famous in Morgan circles. It was ordered from the factory in the spring of 1962 by Lew Spencer, a well-known Southern California Sports Car Club of America member and local Morgan dealer. The car was to be his ultimate Morgan racecar; a sleek, low-body successor to Baby Doll IV, the car with which he won the 1962 SCCA C-production National Championship.

The amazing Morgan Baby Dolls are accomplished "giant killers" in historic circles, where they have regularly beaten small-block Corvettes, Porsches, Abarths and Jaguar E-types, despite their smaller-displacement engines."