Chuck and Will:
I have enjoyed the discourse on the 4/4. I have tried to maintain my role
as a bystander (or maybe backslider since I too own a 4/4), but am unable to
do so. It is my observation that your comments to the cause of the 4/4 may
bring to you the title of "4/4 evangelists."
I would encourage you though to not allow yourselves to be compromised as so
many other folks that have worn the mantle of evangelist. I know Chuck to
be fully committed to the cause since Mitilda, I understand, only has wipers
and bumpers on the occasion of long trips. This, of course could be the
beginnings of a disturbing trend. Time will tell.
All I can say is as those committed to the longest production 4 wheel Morgan
we must keep the faith. I am encouraged by your example, so I went out, put
the top down and took a long drive in your honor.
Steve Bauserman (fellow believer)
67 Morgan 4/4 Competition
83 Mercedes 300SD
96 Cherokee Country
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles A Harris <harris_simmons@juno.com>
To: LanceKL@aol.com <LanceKL@aol.com>
Cc: harris_simmons@juno.com <harris_simmons@juno.com>; FPS3@aol.com
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Date: Saturday, November 01, 1997 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: Religious War?... Help for a neophyte
>Lance,
>As the 4/4 is the longest existing evolutionary Morgan line, and as the
>+4+ demonstrates, not all branches survive the rigors of change due to
>their lack of adaptability, it(the nobile 4/4) may indeed be the survivor
>of the Morgans. As a creationist, it is repugnant to argue in terms of
>dubious evolutionary theory, particular when it comes to such a scoundrel
>as Whitworth, who is well known to me, having just found that his 3/8
>w(available from Dowidat, and given at TexMog as door prizes) is in
>reality, little more than a poorly made and ill-fitting 11/16th S. A. E.
>I do believe that the Great, but pointless, Morgan debate is in fact
>religious in nature, but if argument is to be made on scientific ground
>then the first problem is that although Leakey may find that there are
>cess pools around Malvern, I do not think there are any Peat boggs. If
>indeed this is the case then there is a possibility that, like Whitworth,
>he may have been further north, thus he may have been looking at a B. S.
>A. and a GN and is making the same Piltdown error. With the aquisition
>of Rover by a European blight, the +8 may not survive. The 4/4 is immune
>to this blight and will be placed at risk only if a rupture takes place
>with the blue oval or some other 4 cylinder germinator. Whether or not
>this is a religious or scientific argument, the survival of any
>recognizable British vehicles is perhaps in question, due to the European
>and Asian pressures placed on the U. K., which has perhaps lost it grip
>on things since it went decimal and again has gone Labour(the folks who
>insured the collapse of the Motor Cycle industry). All of our views
>should be tempered with the thought that the Brits will abandoned their
>individuality to become part of the mass blank face of Europe, from whom,
>at their parliament, even state that English chocolate is not. Thus
>environment may be more of a factor than heredity. Proof of 4/4's not
>being the Neanderthal is that they, and their fine bone structure and
>looks, did not evolve in a cave in France, but rather near some hills in
>Worcester.
>Chuck Harris,Peace unto all Morganist
>
>On Sat, 1 Nov 1997 10:09:34 -0500 (EST) LanceKL@aol.com writes:
>>In a message dated 97-10-31 08:20:32 EST, harris_simmons@juno.com
>>writes:
>>
>><< Yes Fred, it is a religious issue. And as a born again,
>>evangelical 4/4
>> follower, I am aware that a study of the old religion is necessary to
>> understand how things got to the glory that Morganist find themselves
>>in
>> at the present time. >>
>>
>>As we get into this debate and study of "creationism" in regard to the
>>presence of the three wheeler, the 4/4, the Plus 4 and the + Plus 8 on
>>this
>>planet, It would be wise to study the recent research of Dr. Leaky (we
>>are
>>talking English cars here).
>>
>>Dr. Leaky based upon his archeological digs in the area around Malvern
>>, has
>>found evidence that supports the theories of Dr. Whitworth Darwin in
>>that
>>the Morgan was not created, but was an evolutionary process begining
>>when the
>>first three wheeler climbed out of the peat bogs and developed a 4th
>>wheel to
>>aid in its survival on paved roads. Further evolution is evidenced in
>>this
>>line by the Plus 4 and then finally "modern" Morgan, the Plus 8.
>>
>>For a while the experts in evolution had surmised that they had found
>>the
>>missing link between the +4 and Modern Mogan in the rare +4+. Further
>>research showed that while the bone structure of the +4+ did show a
>>lineage
>>between the +4 and the +8, the body stucture was deformed and the
>>species was
>>doomed to extiction.
>>
>>I am sorry to throw some scientific thought into this raging and
>>pointless
>>theological debate, but science is science, facts are facts, and the
>>4/4 is
>>the neandrethal of the bunch.
>>
>>Lance K. Lipscomb
>>1981 Plus 8 - (Currently being born again)
>>
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