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> 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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