I have a 1992 wide body 4/4 in indigo blue. I took delivery of "wee
beastie" Oct 20, 1992. This was the realisation of a drean that
started in 1968.
It was a hot summer sunday, the school was released from chapel (I
went to an English boarding school) and was waiting, along with Dave
Foster for our respective families to pick us up for a sunday at home.
I heard, then saw Dave's brother driving a +4, all race tuned,
speeding up to the main school gates. Dave, knowing he had an
audience, stepped over the door and they were off. I promised myself I
would get a new Morgan by my 40th birthday.
Years went on, I emigrated to Canada and got married. My wife, now
ex-wife appreciated my dream but the nearer to the 40 year dead line,
it became more and more of a problem, to the point were, it was "over
my dead body". I got divorced, put in my order and the rest is
history. It was worth the wait, wee beastie is everything I ever hoped
it would be and more. I liken the sound of the engine to mobile
poetry.
Well thats the story of wee beastie.
Cheers and happy motoring .......Jonathan Russell
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Subject: Re: Lets keep Will Happy
Author: William Zehring <zehrinwa@UMDNJ.EDU> at ~Internet
Date: 5/21/97 12:21 PM
At 09:58 AM 5/21/97 -0500, you wrote:
>-- [ From: Bob Nogueira * EMC.Ver #3.1a ] --
>
>Gee, all the Morgans must be running great, since no posts = no problems.
>
>If this keeps up we're all going to get one of those withdrawal notes from
>Will .
>
>So here's the start of a thread which everyone can participate.
>
>How I Came to Find my Morgan
>
>1964, I'm in high school and a friends sister is dating a sailor who has a
>Morgan . He leaves it at her house when out to sea and l swear I will some
>day own one of these fine looking autos.
> Fast forward five years.............
Bless you, Bob! You made my week. I am humbled at your devotion to the
marque--virtually lifelong! And thanks for the general concern for me.
If it werent for some recent significant bonding with my own 'umble 4/4,
I'd be in a delerium. The mog list has been very very quiet.
My story is quite a bit different from yours. I only 'came into' mogs in
the past four or five years, tho I'd been pretty sure I wanted to get into
brit cars since I was ten or maybe even younger (after the strong influence
of my oldest brother and his '58 MGA), and had been "messing around" with
MGs for about 10 years. My car popped up in the Detroit paper's want ad
section four summers ago. I wasn't really actively hunting for a Morgan,
tho I'd researched them and spoken of them quite a bit and admired the mog
(friends warned me to avoid the MGTD like the plague--I owe them for that
one!). It was really my wife who pushed the event (BLESS HER, TOO!!). Its
an older restoration by the PO... good but not great job; plenty
presentable and drivable, tho it urped up a quart of coolant on the
driveway when I first brought it home (just overfull; its behaved well in
that regard since). My wife gets a lot of pleasure out of this car, more
so than my '63 B, which makes the whole thing alot easier (sly grin).
Cheers, and have a good holiday,
Will
p.s. regarding your Alaska trip: will the list get updates as they happen
or must we wait until you have returned home? I sort of hope for the
latter. There's some incongruence to emailing us on the fly in a
Mog-journey to Alaska. Keep the high-tech clutter at home, but don't
forget your witworths (sp?).
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