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From: fred cohen <cohenf@home.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 21:39:25 -0400


> 
> Three glorious days of sunshine and temperature in the high seventies
> greeted the Morganeers for Autumn Mog.  New York State was alight with
> trees in their Autumn colors --- perfect Morgan weather.
> 
> Each year the 3/4 Group takes on the challenge of a Fall event.  Weather
> in the northeast can easily be at frost level all three days.  It takes
> the most devoted Morganeers to make the time and financial commitment
> for an early winter event.
> 
> Autumn Mog 2000 was tee shirts instead of sweatshirts.  Saturday
> reached a near record eighty degrees.  The Mog began Friday evening with
> drinks, finger food and a chance to meet and greet old friends.
> 
> As the forty five Morgans started to line up for the Concours on
> Saturday
> morning it was obvious that the cars were outstanding.
> A number of people noted that the level of car maintenance and
> restoration is such that many cars on the field that took third or
> fourth place
> might have been class winners a few years ago.   The cars
> keep getting younger!  The downside is that some owners of nice Morgans
> choose not to enter their cars.
> 
> Again this year the predominate model was the Plus 4 followed by the
> Plus 8's and 4/4's.   There were also four Trikes on the field.
> Best of Show went to the wonderful 1966 Super Sport of Mary and Burt
> Hunter.   See the side chart for the complete list of Concours class
> winners and
> runner-ups.  Great cars.
> 
> The afternoon rally/tour was the work of Jim Nichol and a driving
> challenge through the mountains of the first order.  It was also a
> breathtaking display of falling leaves and New England homes and farms.
> The winners were Scott Willoughby and Cathryn Kaufman.  They were
> followed in second place by Mark and Amy Bergman.  Larry Eckler and Jim
> Perman were next followed by Reny and Bill Willoughby.  Steve and Fran
> Kramer were fifth and John Bigler and Iris Knight were sixth.   Well
> planned event and the first six finishers were really at the top of
> their game.
> 
> Saturday night was reserved for the Awards Banquet and Mog Auction.  An
> interesting change this year was a result of an award given by our
> Canadian friends.   Cathy and Greg Kaufman and Audrey and Lorne Goldman
> and Edward Burman drove their Morgans down from Ontario (seven hours
> each
> way!) and had an award for the outstanding Morgan person at the event.
> Lorne
> is the webmaster of GoMog the best Morgan website in the world.   Greg
> is editor
> of Morganizer (the Ontario Morgan Newsletter) also on GoMog.  The
> Canadian award
> went to Jim Nichol -  a very deserving winner.
> 
> No Autumn Mog would be complete without the auction and our first class
> auctioner Scott Willoughby.  As usual Scott used his skill to turn auto
> related
> donations into cash for the 3/4 Group treasury.
> 
> After Sunday morning breakfast we all gathered in the sunshine for the
> gymkhana.  For the second year in a row the winner was Paul Fredricks
> (this year with Angel).  The  runnerups were Larry and Linda Eckler.
> Third place
> went to Larry and Nancy Krueger.
> 
> The success of Autumn Mog XII is a tribute to our President - Joe
> DeLuca.   Joe did a fantastic job of making it all happen;  and we all
> liked his new 4/4 !
> 
> After the gymkhana awards presentation the Morgan group drove off in all
> directions still enjoying the warm air and sunshine.  Some over the
> ridge in the direction of Woodstock, of 1960's music fame, just a few
> miles
> away -- crowded as always with art galleries and coffee shops and now
> period looking cars.   A fitting end to Glorious Autumn Mog XII.
> 
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