MORGAN OWNERS GROUP NORTHWEST SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 2014 / Vol. 34, No. 5 2014 MOGNW EXECUTIVE BOARD President Kit Raetsen [email protected] Treasurer Cati Waterman [email protected] Secretary Claire Hauge [email protected] Editor/Webmaster Steve Hutchens [email protected] Historian Steve Hutchens [email protected] Regalia Garth Morgan [email protected] Island Pod Rep Jane Cowan [email protected] Midlands Pod Rep Mike Amos [email protected] Northern Pod Rep Ric MacDonald [email protected] Southern Pod Rep Heinz Stromquist [email protected] Our Executive Board meeting was Saturday, October 4. Watch for the minutes of the meeting in the next Mogazine. Saturday, July 25, 2015, is the much anticipated MOGNW 40 th Anniversary Celebration immediately after the Western Washington ABFM WHERE WILL THE MOGNW 40 th CELEBRATION BE? If you live in the Seattle metro area and would be able to host the event at your home, please contact Michael Amos, Midlands Pod Rep. 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She anticipates that she will be returned to civilization in time for October 4 Execu- tive Board Meeting and promises that she will have words of enlight- enment for the Nov/Dec Mogazine. Curious about where the Mus- koka region is? Here’s a map! at an ABFM. In conversations, guys shared EDITOR ’S M INUTE sources for Sprinter-related accessories just as car By Steve Hutchens guys would share where they had bought a unique Editor/Webmaster/Historian accessory or part. My Alcoa wheels with Mer- cedes-Benz emblems didn’t go unnoticed. I have to O N T H E R O A D W I T H Y O U R E D I T O R admit, though, that I washed the bugs from the Greetings from “on the road.” When I started front of my Sprinter just like my neighbor. writing this column we had been on our cross This wasn’t a show in the sense of an ABFM but country odyssey just over two weeks and had been guys are guys and lots of conversations started in 10 states (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, around something unique about your RV. Beyond North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indi- that, an RV rally is an opportunity to learn more ana, and Iowa) and one province (Manitoba). Now, about your RV in the workshops provided on sev- two weeks later, add to that seven more states eral topics. Mercedes-Benz had a Sprinter repre- (Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Vermont, New sentative there to answer questions and his work- Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts). We have shop had to be held twice it was so popular. arrived in New England a bit ahead of fall color but We enjoyed getting acquainted. A guy from Vir- leaves in the higher elevations of the northern most ginia noticed my Morgan shirt and expressed a lot parts of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine had of interest in Morgans and knew enough that his started to turn. Now we are pausing to visit Celia’s interest was real. It turned out that he lives in Wil- sister on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts and liamsburg, Virginia, which is on our route in Octo- ber. After we met his wife and found that her inter- two of my Air Force buddies in Virginia. We antici- 9/22, 6:54PM: Having just finished a wonderful lobster pate that by the time we continue our travels south ests overlapped with Celia’s they invited us to park dinner in Bar Harbor, Maine, I can honestly confess that if in about a week that the seasonal color will be in their driveway when we were in the Williamsburg dinner tomorrow evening were either lobster or haggis, I caught up with us. Now for a few ramblings about area. would choose haggis! some of our stops along the way. A C A R M U S E U M There are several major A N R V R A L L Y We all know what a car rally car museums in northern Indiana and southern new facility. The main floor traces Studebaker is. Some of us used to participate in rallies fre- Michigan and visiting them could be the focus of at history from the wagon and buggy era up to about quently and with substantial vigor. So what is an least a week of fascinating activity. As we passed 1920. The top floor starts with the 1920s and RV rally all about? through South Bend, Indiana, a “must stop” for me traces the history through the end of production in Leisure Travel Vans, a division of Triple E Rec- was the Studebaker National Museum in South Hamilton, Ontario, in 1966. The bottom level in- reational Vehicles and the manufacturer of our Bend. My granddad Binion, my mom’s dad, gave cluds special interest and military vehicles made by motorhome, is in Winkler, MB, and every year just our family a 1960 Studebaker Lark (2-door hard- Studebaker as well as several concept cars. One after Labor Day the factory hosts a rally for owners top, white with black interior, 283 V8, automatic, of the most fascinating was a 1959 Lark prototype of their RVs. Participation is limited to about 75 and and AC) for Christmas in 1960. That started my with a rear mounted Porsche engine. you have to register early to be assured a slot. interest in Studebakers though I’ve never actually A N R V M U S E U M An RV museum? Yes, the Since we were planning to head east about the owned one. National Motorhome and RV Museum is in Elkhart, time of the rally we decided that this would be our The museum covers three floors of a beautiful Indiana, about 50 miles east of South Bend. Re- year to attend. storing an RV is a challenge of a larger magnitude This was the first time we have done anything of than restoring a car and there are over two dozen an organized nature with RV folks. RVs came from restored RVs with historic significance on display. 25 states and 5 provinces, as far away as southern To prolong Celia’s museum tolerance, we did the California and Florida and there were four long RV museum the day after seeing Studebakers. rows with almost 20 rigs in each. Much like early cars, early RVs exhibited a great When we pulled into our assigned slot in row deal of creativity.