Dear all;
Well, the good news was that it WAS the voltage regulator, so Me and Me mog
('67 4/4, the thinking man's mog) were back on the road this weekend. As
those of you in the 'tri-state' area already know, we had a great weekend
and a perfect one for bombing around in one's mog. Between these cheerful
junkets, however, I was drafted (I certainly didn't volunteer) into
transplanting two rather large evergreens, and digging up for dispoal three
other evergreens, along with the usual battle with the mower and the weed
eater. It seems my wife has a restless nature when it comes to evergreens.
Anyway, the point of this is that I had the mog out in the driveway so I
could have something cheerful to look at while I hacked away at 20 year old
root systems and dug holes in our (NJ's) charmingly rocky soil (not to
mention moving the two square yard flag stone by rolling it on logs (like
the Egyptians did)). The whole point of this message is that I had two
full days to admire the aesthetics of the car. I managed to make a few
observations:
--It continues to impress me how well the lines of this car 'work
together.' The way they blend and echo each other, as you view the car
from several different angles, is really a fine thing. There doesn't seem
to be an angle from which viewing the car throws off the way the contours
of the car work together to create the overall shape of a smooth and snappy
sports car. QUESTION: Who designed the car? Was it Papa Morgan himself?
Whom ever... he was a genius!
However...
--I have one problem with the design, and I mention it knowing that some
may view this as a sign of less than total devotion to the marque,
sunstroke, or both, but wotheheck: it nags me, but to my eye, viewing the
car from dead on flat front, the headlights are too big. That's all; just
that the dang headlights are too big. If they were, say, one or two inches
smaller in diameter, I think they'd be more in proportion to the rest of
the front end. Now, I realize that headlight diameter was set several
hundred years ago, and cannot be changed, even by Charles Morgan, but
that's still my reaction.
Okay, that's it. Or, _DID_ I get too much sun this weekend?
Anyway,
I remain,
Will Zehring
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