Author: Mark Braunstein
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2021 MOGSouth Noggin / Cars and Coffee at Amelia Island (21-22 May 2021)
MOGSouth will now have the Noggin on Friday evening (May 21, 2021) at the Surf Restaurant along A1A, 3199 S. Fletcher Avenue, Fernandina Beach, FL. The location for the Friday evening MOGSouth Noggin is new this year. Last year’s location had certain advantages but there were also some disadvantages. We will convene the MOGSouth Noggin…
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2021 MOGSouth Spring Meet – Little Switzerland, NC, 7-9 May – Report from the Field
It was hard to tell what sort of meet we would have given the external influences of the moment. Well, 50 people and 22 Morgans say a lot! It was grand! The weather was cool (in the 40s and 50s) and very much appreciated by those of us escaping the high 80s of Florida. The…
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Morgan Motor Company “Behind the Scenes” Virtual Factory Tour with Collecting Cars (Youtube.com 7 April 2021)
[I liked the bit . . . ‘perfect imperfections’ . . . Mark]
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Exclusive: new 2022 Morgan 3 Wheeler confirmed in testing shot (Autocar 8 April)
Retro-styled roadster looks set for a second-gen revival, and all the signs point to a heavy overhaul Morgan has begun testing a substantially overhauled second-generation version of its lightweight 3 Wheeler roadster, as it prepares to wind down production of the current car this year. Autocar has obtained an exclusive image of a prototype being put through…
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Sad News – Pat Harris has Passed Away
It is with great sorrow that I communicate the passing of Pat Harris. Pat was the ever-present partner of Gene Spainhour for as long as I can remember. I am sure it is the same for many of you, but for me a MOGSouth meet without Gene and Pat just didn’t seem right. My heartfelt…
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Morgan Plus 4 an intoxicating mix of old and new (www.irishexaminer.com, 27 March 2021)
Morgan has recently appointed a distributor for Ireland and the company, still on the go after some 111 years, has now unleashed the first in its ‘CX-Generation’ When Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan founded the Morgan Motor Company in the Malvern Hills back in 1910, I doubt very much he thought the company would be on…
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GatorMOG at TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (March 2021)
Eight spectacular cars (all GatorMOG Morgans) visited the pristine links at the famed TPC Sawgrass course in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, this past week. Golf enthusiasts will recognize this course as it was just on television, hosting the Tournament Players Championship, a PGA Tour event with a $15M purse! A purse bigger than the US…
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2021 MOGSouth Spring Meet – Little Switzerland, NC (May 7 – 9, 2021)
Folks this year is a little different from normal. The MOGSouth Noggin and Cars and Coffee event at Amelia Island, in March, is usually our first get together of the new year. However, the Covid-19 Pandemic changed things and the Concours at Amelia Island and the associated Cars and Coffee event were moved to the…
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The 2022 Morgan Plus 8 GTR Track Car Happened Because Morgan Refused to Let Unused Chassis Go to Waste
The Bristol Bullet was set to be a Morgan Plus 8-based retro drop-top powered by a BMW V8—except now we’re getting nine 2022 Plus 8 GTRs instead. Founded in 1945 primarily to keep the Bristol Aeroplane Company’s crew busy after the war, Bristol Cars went from using pre-war BMW technology to producing some of the…