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Gateway Relay Vol V, No. 2 St Louis Sports Car Council October 2015

Council News & Notes Another month, another road trip

and once again this is getting out late, our apologies. The editor’s made to trips out of town over the past two months, totaling about 21/2 weeks and both taking part in the first part of the month, which is normally when the Relay gets prepared.

In an effort to get this issue out over the coming weekend, we’re dispensing with the feature arti-cle. It will return in the December Relay (Austin-Healey’s next up) AND we fully intend to get back to our normal mid-month publication schedule.

In the meantime, it has been quite a month with plenty of activ-ities including the final Cars & Coffee off the season, the Jaguar Association of Greater St Louis’ big annual concours, plus multi-ple club drives and events. We’ll have full photo coverage of sev-eral of these late season events next month as the region segues into winter.

Typically, this is when the drives and car shows trail off and the clubs do their holiday gathering planning. What your club’s plans, please keep the Relay in the loop so we can help get the word out and possibly provide some photo coverage. And, as always, please send in photos; much obliged!

In Print Another good month, with plenty of articles available for review. Starting with the Sep-tember issue of Classic & Sports Car, articles on the MGC/MGC GT (Sebring conversion) with tips on improving handling, as well as a buyer’s guide for the BMW E21 3-series, ie, the car which re-placed the 2002. October’s

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Note: Some club events restrict participation to club members only, primarily for na-tional/chapter insurance reasons. If interested in joining in on a drive or other event, we recommend you contact the club’s event coordinator in advance for details.

Up & Coming 31 Oct 2015—Fountains of Troy Fallfest Car Cruise, sponsored by the Piston Push-

ers Classic Car Club, 11 AM-3 PM, 39 Dorothy Dr, Troy (south of IL 162, behind the Walgreens and Troy Veterinary Clinic). 50/50 drawing benefitting CHAMPS Therapy Dogs, Trunk or Treat! (bring candy in your trunk), dash plaques for the first 50 cars. For info email diacll3@aol.com.

1 Nov 2015—BSCC Autocross No. 8, Family Arena, St Charles, 9-9:30 show time. Last run of the season, for info contact Racer Steve at sshab@yahoo.com.

8 Nov 2015—3rd

Annual SLTOA Veterans Day Run, down the river to Chester with lunch in Perryville, donations requested with all proceeds benefitting The Pur-ple Heart Foundation veterans’/vet family support organization. Meet at the lot next to McDonalds in Columbia on IL 3 at 10 AM, cars roll at 10:30. Open to all LBC, sports and special interest car clubs, for more info email rangermk@sbcglobal.net.

8 Nov 2015—MG Fall Color Tour, hosted by the MG Club of St Louis. Details to follow at www.stlouismgclub.com/, watch for event alert.

14 Nov 2015—Jaguar Association of Greater St Louis Annual Meeting, Plaza Jaguar, 11830 Olive Blvd, Creve Coeur, 6-8 PM. Activities will include elec-tion of officers and development of the club event calendar for 2016. Please RSVP to Lisa Hendrix if you plan on attending, lhendrix@curtispack.com.

15 Nov 2015—Gimmick Rally, hosted by the BMWCCA St Louis Chapter in associ-ation with the Audi Club NA-St Louis. Starts at 4 PM, for information or to RSVP contact Ted Richardson at ted.richardson@stlaudiclub.com.

21 Nov 2015—Dyno Day, BMWCCA St Louis Chapter, at Franjo Speed, 615 Spirit of St Louis Blvd, Chesterfield. Monitor http://www.stlbmwcca.org/wordpress/calendar/.

3 Dec 2015—Annual Gateway VCOA Holiday Dinner. Details to follow, monitor https://sites.google.com/site/gatewayvcoa/.

4 Dec 2015—St Louis Triumph Owners Association Christmas Party, at the Missouri Athletic Club-West, 1777 Des Peres Rd, Town & Country. 6:30 PM Cash bar, 7:30 dinner, $17 per person (club subsidized). Please make your reser-vation on or before 29 November, checks only to Ann Stark, 16 Brazilian Court, Ladue 63124. Any questions, call Ann Stark (314)993-5314, Kathy Kresser (636)394-3012 or Bonnie David (314)412-0589.

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Jan 2016—Annual New Years Dinner, Jaguar Association of Greater St Louis. Location and time TBD, monitor www.jcna.com/users/sc20 or the online Growl.

28 Jan 2016—Gateway Healey Association RUMP (Retired or Unemployed Member Persons) road trip to West Alton to see the eagles at Riverlands. Lunch at Fast Eddie’s afterwards. Details to follow.

14 Feb 2016—Annual SLTOA Polar Bear Run, traditional top-down first drive of the year; what better way to spend Valen-tine’s Day than with your significant other driving around with the convertible top stowed in mid-February? With post-drive gathering and hot food. Plans are coming together, date tentative, stay tuned.

1-3 Apr 2016 – Corinthian Vintage Auto Racing (CVAR) 9th

Annual Mike Stephens Classic, Hallett Motor Racing Circuit, Hallett, OK. Info at www.corinthianvintagerace.com.

21-24 Apr 2016—2016 Speedfest at the Classic Motorsports Mitty, Road Atlanta, Braselton, GA, sponsored by Hager-ty and sanctioned by Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR). Car corrals, vendors, hospitality tent, over 300 cars expected. Ford is this year’s featured marque, the event will also feature a 50th anniversary Can Am reunion and the Concours d’LeMons Spec-tacle, live music, tech sessions. Tickets/info at www.hsrtickets.com/12-2016-the-mitty.

13-15 May 2016—SVRA Spring Vintage Festival, Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI. Info at www.svra.com.

20-22 May 2016—The Vintage: A National Gathering of Vintage BMWs. In Asheville, NC, celebrating 100 years of BMW. Activities include a rally and tours, website at www.atthevintage.com or email Festmeister Scott Sturdy at scottstur-dy@yahoo.com.

21 May-4 Jun 2016—US Coast-to-Coast Challenge, Los Angeles to Miami via St Louis and Chicago, organized by Cir-cuitdays. Event includes 14 nights luxury accommodations, helicopter rides over the Grand Canyon, attendance at the 100 th Indy 500 and tour of Daytona International Speedway. £11,000 (currently $17,128) per car/two people, info at www.circuit-days.co.uk (hey, you never know, they might roll through here…).

13-17 Jun 2016—GT-41/MG2016. Join the North American MGA Register (NAMGAR), North American MMM Register, the New England MGT Register and North American MGB Register for four days of fun in Louisville, KY. Details to follow, moni-tor www.namgar.com.

15-19 Jun 2016 – TRA 2016. The Triumph Register of America National Meet, Quail Hollow Resort, Painesville, OH. Hosted by the North Coast Triumph Association, for info monitor www.triumphregister.com or contact Beverly Floyd at tr250naviga-tor@aol.com.

18-26 Jun 2016—Hemmings Motor News Great Race 2016, San Rafael, CA to Moline, IL, along the Lincoln Highway. $150,000 in prize money, $5500 private vehicle entry fee, info at www.greatrace.com or call (800)989-7223. CPA (closest point of approach) to St Louis will be the stretch from (roughly) Iowa City to the end point, Moline.

4-7 Oct 2016—2016 VTR National Convention, hosted by the Red River Triumph Club at the Tanglewood Resort, Potts-boro, TX, on Lake Texoma. Scheduled events include an autocross, gimmick rallies, breakfast and dinner drives, Funkhana, TSD rally, dinner cruise, concours and participant’s choice car shows. For info, monitor www.redrivertriumphclub.org/index.html or contact Dave Pilcher at events@redrivertriumphclub.org.

St Louis Car Shows and Cruises: http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/lakerscarclub.

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Octane reports on the restoration of a 1957 Jaguar Mk 1 and the resumption of its racing career. In October’s Thor-oughbred & Classic Cars, market analysts rate 30 vehicles which are rapidly climbing in value; the list includes the BMW CSA and CSL, M3 and Jaguar E-Type 3.8.

In the September edition of Car, “25 British Cars to Drive Before You Die.” The list includes the Jaguar XJ220 (“The ballistic basket case”), Morgan 3-Wheeler, MGB (“The people’s sports car”), Jaguar XJ6 (“The ride of your life”), Jaguar E-Type (“Symphony of speed and style”) and Mini Cooper S (“Cute hooligan”). This issue also has a column by Gavin Green on the impact of BMW’s success on other carmakers and a road test of the new Jaguar XF as well as a back page look at “The Top 10 British cars to die before you drive” (hint: two of the member club marques have examples on the list).

Over at Classic & Sports Car for October, a feature on a Triumph TR4-based Fiberfab Jamaican, among other arti-cles including one covering the 240Z/260Z/280ZX which takes it directly to the classic Brit sports cars (“Austin-Healey, MG, Jaguar, Triumph – Your Boys Took One Hell of a Beating”). Same issue, something for those secret Citroën fans (we’re aware of two local LBC execs who admit to liking Citroëns): a comparison between a DS19, DS19 Safari, DS21 Pallas and DS21 Décopatable.

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Fulton Overnighter SLTOA—3 October 2015

BSCC Autocross 4 Oct 15

Photos by Stephen Paur and YFE

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Featured Events continued 34th Annual All British Car & Cycle Show 26 Sept 15

Photos by Stephen Paur, Heather Johnson, John Moore and Jack T. Bear

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Featured Events continued 3rd

Annual Chesterfield Community Church Cruise-In 19 Sept 15

Gateway VCOA Mid-Missouri Meet Marceline, MO 19 Sept 15

Photos: Doug Morrell/Gateway VCOA

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Featured Events Cars & Coffee 19 Sept 15

September’s candidate for “Truck of the Month”