Morty
Eli getting out of Morty.
was Eli Goldsworthy's vintage hearse. Eli crashed Morty in an attempt to keep Clare Edwards from leaving him. This action failed, scaring Clare off.
Trivia[]
- Mortimer "Morty" Goldsworthy is a 1962 Miller Meteor-bodied Cadillac hearse and was driven by Eli.
- It has fake generic plates in early episodes. Later on, it has fake Ontario ones.
- Eli meets Clare and Alli when he runs over Clare's glasses with Morty in Breakaway (2).
- This is where Clare learns about Julia (Eli's dead ex-girlfriend).
- Eli told Clare about Julia after driving her, in Morty, to the spot where Julia's death took place.
- Morty is one of the reasons why other students thinks Eli is obsessed with death.
- The rivalry between Fitz and Eli starts when Fitz tears off Morty's hood ornament during Try Honesty (1).
- Morty breaks down constantly, making Eli a pretty good mechanic.
- Because Morty breaks down often, Eli and Adam needed a ride to the Dead Hand concert, and encouraged Sav to "borrow" his dad's truck.
- There is a smiley face hanging from the rearview mirror and a skull hanging in the back window.
- Eli is seen working on him a lot, which helps keeps his mind off of Clare and how much he really does like her, as seen in Still Fighting It (1).
- Stephen Stohn has tweeted that the actors "are not particularly fond of shooting [scenes] in Morty."
- On "Ten on Top," Luke, who plays Drew, and Munro, who plays Eli, said "Aislinn Paul hates this thing."
- When Eli is teaching Clare how to drive Morty, she almost runs over Fitz in Jesus, Etc. (1).
- Eli crashed Morty in Drop the World (2) as a desperate act to keep Clare from leaving him.
- Morty's owner is from Newfoundland. Epitome rented or leased it from the owner and returned the car after it was written out of the show; this explains both the fake plates and the offscreen crash.
- Morty was the much hyped "death" in Drop the World (2).
- Morty is the second car to be vandalized, the first being Spinner Mason's car The Love Mobile.
- The crash occurred offscreen, so the actual car was not demolished.
- In-series, Morty did not get repaired and was likely totaled completely, its front sheetmetal being unique to the professional-car chassis; even if a normal 1962 Cadillac sedan, coupe or convertible could be found as a donor car the needed parts wouldn't fit.
