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West of Northwest<br />

Morgan season has arrived!<br />

Morgan season has arrived and once again the Vancouver<br />

ABFM at VanDusen Botanical Gardens kicks off another great season<br />

of Morganeering. As in the past, the Northern Pod did an outstanding<br />

job of providing a great lunch at the gardens and a post-<br />

VanDusen BBQ at the Sea Cadet base on Annacis Island.<br />

Coming up next will be the Southern Pod's Devil's Punch Bowl<br />

Run, a three day event that Joanne and I try to get to every year as<br />

it is one of the highlights of our MOG season.<br />

Right on Heinz's heels is the Island Pod's Father’s Day Weekend<br />

being organized by Jane Cowan. This is a two day event with a<br />

pig roast Saturday evening and the British car show in Beacon Hill<br />

Park on Sunday.<br />

These are three major events and all are happening in a four<br />

week span. What a great way to start us off! The fun continues in<br />

July with the Western Washington ABFM at Bellevue College and<br />

Michael Amos has all the information on this one (see page 4).<br />

August should prove to be a great month as well. We've got the<br />

Southern Oregon Run August 9-11, the High Desert Run August<br />

16-18, and, of course, the Portland ABFM on August 31. Check the<br />

calendar section on the MOGNW web site for more details and<br />

contact information.<br />

Your fantastic pod reps (with a little help from their friends) make<br />

all these activities possible. They really appreciate your letting them<br />

know if you are attending and<br />

also notifying them if your<br />

plans change. So, keep<br />

those Morgans dusted off<br />

and support these great<br />

events.<br />

Speaking of great events<br />

yet to come, there are two<br />

you need to mark your calendars<br />

for. The Reddington's<br />

third Rocky Mountain Rally<br />

will be held 2014 and it will<br />

be a grand tour. You can<br />

read about the 2004 Rocky<br />

Mountain Rally Revival Run<br />

in the October 2004 Mogazine<br />

at mognw.com.<br />

Our President<br />

A major milestone is also approaching as 2015 marks the 40th<br />

anniversary of MOGNW. This will definitely be worthy of a party<br />

and we will soon be soliciting suggestions. Watch for more information<br />

as it becomes available in your Mogazine. Read about the<br />

great celebration we had for our 30th anniversary in the September<br />

2005 Mogazine at mognw.com.<br />

Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business,<br />

Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t<br />

keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off<br />

to. – JRR Tolkien<br />

E DITOR’ S MINUTE<br />

By Steve Hutchens<br />

Editor & Webmaster<br />

I held this issue of the Mogazine for<br />

twelve days to include the extensive report<br />

on the Vancouver ABFM which is a bit over<br />

six pages with lots of pictures. Enjoy!<br />

MOGNW GRILLE BADGES<br />

As the Historian I am updating the information<br />

on MOGNW grille badges that we’ve<br />

You may not<br />

be able to<br />

read this but<br />

it says<br />

“1992”<br />

had over the last 38 years. At VanDusen I<br />

took photos of all the MOGNW badges I<br />

found.<br />

Of special interest at the moment is our<br />

first badge, affectionately referred to as the<br />

“Boat Anchor” because of its weight. There<br />

were several castings of this badge. Longtime<br />

member Dave Wellington has one from<br />

the original casting (with no date on the<br />

back) and one from a later casting (with 1997<br />

on the back). I have a Boat Anchor with 1992<br />

on the back, a date not included in my information<br />

on production details.<br />

My information says there were six different<br />

types. Most were brass but one may<br />

have been pewter and another aluminum. If<br />

you have a Boat Anchor badge, please look<br />

at the back and let me know what it says. If it<br />

is cast of aluminum or pewter, please take a<br />

picture of it and send it to me.<br />

ARTICLE SELECTION<br />

Some readers may wonder how articles<br />

are selected for the Mogazine. That’s a good<br />

question and this issue may give some examples.<br />

We have several members who write<br />

good technical articles. Pat Leask gave me a<br />

nice article dealing with wood repair for this<br />

issue. Cuthbert Twillie (aka Gary Bell) has<br />

given us access to a substantial volume of<br />

articles so I looked for one dealing with wood<br />

repair. It didn’t take long to find an article on<br />

reinforcing the door pillar to avoid sagging<br />

doors. In this case, it was especially appropriate<br />

as the doors of my ‘62 Plus 4 are both<br />

sagging and in<br />

need of attention.<br />

Similarly, in the<br />

January/February<br />

issue, Bill Button<br />

wrote about using<br />

penetrating oils to<br />

remove rusted<br />

bolts. I found a<br />

related article by<br />

Cuthbert about<br />

using chemicals to remove rust. Topics don’t<br />

always mesh like this but I try to find correlating<br />

topics.<br />

Then there is the issue of the order of<br />

articles in the Mogazine and here I try to be<br />

fairly consistent. The first two pages are set,<br />

then the President and I get page 3. The<br />

calendar and upcoming events start on page<br />

4. Reports on events come next, listed in<br />

chronological order. Time sensitive articles<br />

usually follow reports and then we get to the<br />

articles from regular contributors and others.<br />

Ads are interspersed as they best fit with<br />

articles. I target 20-24 pages and if I need a<br />

few filler pages I have an inventory of nice<br />

reprints that members have sent me. Finally<br />

we get to the Autojumble, membership form,<br />

and financial report.<br />

NW-Mogazine Volume 33, Number 3 <strong>May</strong> & June 2013<br />

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