Emily Morgan was the yellow rose of Texas,
Chuck Harris
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:31:06 -0400 Jane McDaid <Murphys@ziplink.net>
writes:
>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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