My 1981 4/4 4seater goes by the name of "MOG" and has custom license
plates the same. It gets referred to as "The MOG" or "The MOGGY". I
have a neighbour who calls his car "MILLIE" (Not sure why)
John Mott
>Jane McDaid wrote:
>
> Steve Bauserman wrote about his "Lucy" recently acquiring her name. Chuck
> Harris has waltzing "Matilda", soon to get a new set of autocross dancing
> shoes.
>
> Does your Morgie have a name?
>
> My flaming yellow (middle chrome: you know, like a caution sign) '67 Plus 4
> roadster came to us in'89 after having been sadly mistreated in her 5500
> miles. Beat to S#@t is more like it. Anyway, after I got it running and the
> paint & chrome cleaned up as best I could, I drove it for parts of three
> years, adding another 9K to the odometer. During that time, we had three
> cars in the household- Jessie the Jeep Cherokee, Bessie the Benz wagon, and
> somewhat unfairly, my little Morgie became "Messy" because of her sadly
> scarred paint.
>
> She has now gone through a five year on again, off again wings off respray
> and is once again gloriously yellow, with shiny chrome replacing the more
> badly pitted stuff. We've been having great little trips out leaf peeping
> and just knocking around in the past few weeks. She's running great, thanks
> to the helpful suggestions of many of you morganophiles. The Melvyn Rutter
> stainless exhaust is pretty much carboned up, so that the exhaust is quite
> noticeably when the loud pedal is pressed. Great noise!
>
> I think it's time for a new name. Bessie and jessie are still with us, as
> is Elizabeth, a newer Benz wagon that's much more refined than poor old
> Bessie.
>
> Anybody have any good suggestions?
>
> Regardless, please tell us about your own Morgan's name and how it came to be.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jerry Murphy
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