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The Morgan Motor Company has been building vehicles since 1909 and built its first proper car - as opposed to a three-wheeler, or cyclecar - in 1936. That was the 4/4, and although it's been joined by seven other models, it is still being made today.

The Plus 8 is one of those other models, and the Telegraph sent a crew to watch it being made. An eight-cylinder version of the Plus 4 (the Plus 4 has a larger four-cylinder engine than the 4/4), it takes 30 days to produce each sample - hand-fashioning the wooden body in the image above is just one reason why. No need to spend the month watching, though, for the Telegraph has edited the process down to two delightful minutes for your enjoyment in the video below.

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We never suspected the Brits would use boiling water for anything nobler than steeping tea, but it's full steam ahead for the British Steam Car Challenge project that is attempting to break the land-speed record for a steam-powered vehicle that has stood for over 100 years. According to a Telegraph article, a small group of would-be record breakers will head to South Africa's Northern Cape early next year where they will try to achieve 200mph in their steam-powere car, thus shattering the previous record 127.659mph that was set in 1906 by Fred Marriot's Stanley Steamer. A man named Bob Barber actually surpassed that mark in 1985 by clocking a 145.607mph pass, but then his steam-powered car burned to the ground. He was therefore unable to complete a return run, which is required by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) to qualify for a land speed record.

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[Source: The Telegraph via Jalopnik]

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