>From: "Vandergraaf, Chuck" <vandergraaft@aecl.ca>
>Reply-To: "Vandergraaf, Chuck" <vandergraaft@aecl.ca>
>To: "'Lannis'" <ottoflick@netzero.net>
>CC: morgans@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: Moggie Xmas wreath
>Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 16:28:13 -0500
>
>Lannis
>
>
> > The old professor who used to own Elton's Morgan used to make a point,
>on
> > snowy days, of riding around Lynchburg with the top down, a leather cap,
> > goggles and a long "duster", and spreading joy and good cheer (not to
> > mention adding to the legends of his eccentricity) with snow blowing all
> > around and a white frosting on the car. Of course, Elton is paying for
> > that
> > now, payment being in the form of new ash and steel to replace the wet,
> > rusty stuff....
> >
> My thesis advisor at Penn State used to do that as well, back in the
>'60s. He owned a red TR2 that he always drove with the top down. When I
>got my '52+4, I had no choice but to emulate him. However, I could fold the
>windshield down, and he could not (although he could take the windshield
>off
>quite easily). I remember meeting him once on a snowy day on campus, he in
>his TR2 with the top down, I in the +4 with the top down and the windshield
>folded down. " Of course, [I am] paying for that now, payment being in the
>form of new ash and steel to replace the wet, rusty stuff...."
>
>Chuck Vandergraaf
>Pinawa, MB
*******
This nice little story reminds me when I was in Den Haag(Netherlands) one
X'mas on the 1st day of Snowfall. I was top down with only aero-screens up
c/w WW2 RAF pilot's helmet and flying jacket with snowflakes bouncing off
the old snozzola! On the sidewalk were about 10-15 cyclists. One of them
pointed out the comical site of Moi & MOGS puttering along (you CAN imagine
a Plus 8 puttering in a snowstorm, can't you? Good!). Result: everyone burst
out laughing and then they all collided ending up on the side walk in a
cursing jesticulating heap of bikes and bodies! Morgan's revenge!
Happy yuletide Mogging all,
Kit & MOGS
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