I rejoined the MSCC this year after a four year lapse so I do appreciated the comments.
For what it's worth, here's my take. I've owned Morgans for many, many years and have modified, sprinted, raced, toured, pulled apart, put back together as well as other things in younger days that will remain undisclosed.
I have great friends in the Northern Centre as others in the area some of whom I have the pleasure of calling friends for over 30 years. I count Dave Rutherford as a close friend too. Without the MSCC and Norcemog I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting such an eclectic, interesting, idiosyncratic, supportive, argumentative but endearing bunch of people. Many won't know that Harvey Postlethwaite (yes Tyrrell Formula One and Honda Formula One chief designer) was a Morgan owner/racer and a founder member of Norcemog. Stan Thorpe (3 wheeler expert) was another.
Last week I was at Dunham Massey with the Norcemog friends, a few weeks before I was playing at the MSCC organised taster at their Curborough sprint meeting. A few weeks before that I was out sailing with members in Cardigan Bay. Without the MSCC, the two Curborough events wouldn't be there to participate in and enjoy.
Yes the MSCC has its failings, it won't suit everybody but its unpaid volunteers do their best and the result is a club of different individuals with a common interest.
I don't long for Miscellany to arrive in the post; I'm not particularly interested in what's happening in other centres and there's little for me in the technical articles. But you know what, I meet members who have rare Morgans who say, come and visit and crawl all over my car or, fancy jumping into my +4 that you last saw when father took it to France in 1986. The MSCC offers me serendipity and for those wonderful moments it gives me great value for money.
