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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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