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—————————————– Columbia Gorge MG Club http://www.columbiagorgemgclub.org Volume 43, Issue #8 August 2017 Member Appreciation Picnic— August 19 By Joan Shelby This year our Picnic will be at the home of Ken and Joan Shelby in Vancouver. We have a mini farm with chickens and llamas. The picnic will start at Noon and run to about 4PM. Our address is 8216 NE 159th St Vancou- ver. Please park at the back of the property on 82nd Avenue. There will be signs and balloons to guide you. We will be serving brauts, burgers, salads and desserts. Bring your own beer/wine. Join us for games, food and fun. Hope to see you there. #38—Next Chapter Closed Course Rally & Potluck— By Steve Woodyard August 26 #38, the sole remaining 1960 Sebring World Champi- By Roger and Carol Wilson onship MGA Twin Cam residing in the USA is moving to a On August 26th Saturday we will put on a Closed new chapter in her life with a new owner. Sad to see what Course Rally in the Canby area. We will meet at 9:30 AM has really become part of the Woodyard famiily move on, at the Oregon City Shipping Center (on McLaughlin, just but it was “time”. Cars such as this are part of the history of north of I-205 and downtown Oregon City) and all drive the MG, and owners such as me are only caretakers for a out together. We will have a course laid out with cones for short part of their lives. It was certainly a blast driving the all to do a low-speed driving exercise through them. After car and I loved just turning on the garage lights and view- the Course has been completed by all, we will have a BBQ ing its flawless British Racing Green shape in the overhead of hot dogs furnished by the club. Please bring a beverage lights, but driving it was the most fun. of your choice and a pot luck item to share. My ownership involved two purchases and now, two Come join us to participate in something a little differ- sales to deserving caretakers. I first purchased the car in ent for a Saturday. Look forward to seeing you all. Louisville, Kentucky in 1977 while in the Army. I owned my black twin cam, which I had restored from the frame up at the time, and apparently this guy had contacted someone at NAMGAR, who informed him I owned one of the rela- tively rare twin cams. He called me, and said he had one as well, and when I arranged to see the car, my jaw dropped when I saw it was one of the “missing” 1960 Sebring cars. I purchased it soon thereafter, in 1977 and essentially placed it in storage untiil I was reassigned overseas in 1984. Forced to sell the car, I sold it to Tony Simms, who subse- quently successfully campaigned the car in vintage racing on the East coast, even winning the Collier Cup one year before retiring the car again. I repurchased the car in April, 2006 and then undertook the task of a full restoration, com- pleting the restoration in time to show the newly restored car and secure a first place at the local Forest Grove 2007 Concours d' Elegance. The real highlight of its display ca- reer, however, was when Continued on page 5 Page 1 Columbia Gorge MG Club OFFICERS – 2017 President Donna McNabb 503-936-6137 (cell) [email protected] Vice President Reid Trummel 503-753-3700 [email protected] Secretary Joan Shelby 360-281-6677 [email protected] Treasurer Carol Wilson 503/502-7448 (cell) [email protected] Activities Debbie Haroun 503-754-1486 [email protected] Sue Stose 360-601-7002 [email protected] Member at George Wiggins 503-704-0852 cell Large [email protected] IMPORTANT VOLUNTEERS We want to recognize the volunteers without whom our club would not run as smoothly as it does. Thank You! ABFM Reps John Dutra 503-786-0851 [email protected] Ed Mullowney 360-607-4928 cell [email protected] Regalia Sales Ed Mullowney 360-607-4928 cell [email protected] Storage Locker George Wiggins 360-666-1788 Monitor [email protected] Nametags Peggy Oliver 503-709-3616 [email protected] Membership Steffi Rollins 360-576-7973 Database [email protected] The MG Announcer The MG Announcer is the official publication for and pub- Newsletter Debbie Haroun 503-754-1486 lished by the Columbia Gorge MG Club. A mailed subscription is Mailing [email protected] included in the club’s yearly dues. Electronic distribution (PDF by e-mail) is available—contact the editor. Mailbox Carol Wilson 503/502-7448 (cell) Permission is hereby granted to reproduce any material pro- [email protected] vided credit is given to the author and to the Columbia Gorge MG Club or the original publisher if applicable. Contents, Webmaster Donna McNabb 503-645-9302 including technical advice, are the views of the author and do not [email protected] necessarily reflect the views of the organization. Application of this advice is at your own risk. Wants and disposal advertising is free to members and $5 insertion for non-members per month. Commercial advertising is Membership $100 per year for a large ad; $50 for a small (business card size) The Columbia Gorge MG Club was formed for and is ad. Send ads to the editor by the publication deadline below. active in the promotion and driving enjoyment of MGs. Copy and advertising deadlines are the third Friday of the All MG enthusiasts are welcome to join and share infor- month preceding publication; in other words, one week after the mation and fun. The Columbia Gorge MG Club is affiliat- Club meeting. ed with the North American MGA Register, and the Editor: Donna McNabb — 503-645-9302 North American MGB Register. Membership dues are [email protected] $25 per year, $12.50 after July 1st. See the Vice President. 17658 NW Rolling Hill Lane Beaverton, OR 97006 Page 2 —————————————– Columbia Gorge MG Club A Message from the President... lights up. We had the pleasure of talking to Vickie By Donna McNabb Mendenhall, Jack Mendenhall’s daughter-in-law who lives Bob & I really love owning there and tends the museum. You should look it up online: MGs because they are fun to http://www.mendenhallmuseum.com/. drive. And it is more fun to drive I had another commitment in Portland for Friday, Sat- with a group of people who are of urday and Sunday so I flew back from Santa Barbara and like mind. That is why we are ac- then flew to San Diego to meet Bob for the next leg of our tive in 4 car clubs. We love to go vacation (but that is another story). do things in our cars. Bob can tell you more about the banquet, awards, and For example, we just returned from the long driving sendoff. He had some time to use up, so he got to find (no vacation to attend both the NAMGAR and NAMGBR na- easy task) and enjoy the Peterson Automotive Museum in tional conventions held back to back weeks in June in LA, housing 150 cars in a 300,000 sq. ft. museum. And, southern California. You just couldn’t get a more perfect there are more than 150 more cars in the collection in the schedule (we couldn’t resist). I don’t know if our physiques vault which is off-limits to viewing. Really cool! Ask him are better built for it, or we just have a lot of practice, or we about it. have the MGA seats set just right, or what makes it so that Stay tuned for the next installment of the story next driving for long distances is comfortable. We just love the month, and maybe the month after. The trip home was an road trip. adventure too! We took off a day later than planned because, well, We love to take road trips. Won’t you join in too? The things just came up that we needed to do on Saturday. So driving event doesn’t have to take a week, or even over- we chose to blast down I-5 intending to stay the night with night. The Columbia Gorge MG Club is famous for having a friend in Santa Clara and move on to Solvang on Monday a driving event nearly every single month. There is great morning. Fate said no, I want to close I-5 just before Wil- joy in driving your car with friends. You are invited to lows in the blistering triple-digit heat of mid-afternoon and come along! make a 5-mile backup to overheat a car that NEVER over- Take care, heats and Donna too. After a 3-hour wait in what shade Donna there was, we stayed in Willows instead and got to Solvang very late on Monday. What a fabulous town! It really was settled long ago by Danish people—it is not just a marketing ploy. The pastries make wonderful breakfasts. They had a great gimmick rally. You followed the writ- ten course and answered questions based on pictures of signs that had the important work blocked out. They were really clever questions! The route took us through Los Olivos twice, and out to the gate of Neverland, Michael Jackson’s ranch. We saw horse ranches and learned a lot of local history. The car show was on the Mission grounds, 1/4 mile walking distance from the hotel.