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Newsletter of the St Louis Triumph Owners Association

Www.SLTOA.org Vol 19, Issue 5 May 2017

Forest Park Victory! See pg 5

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Calendar

16-18 Jun 17—15th

Kastner Cup, Blackhawk Farms Raceway, South Beloit, IL. In association with VSCDA’s Blackhawk Classic; see pg 3.

20 Jun 17—SLTOA Monthly meeting, details/location TBA.

Jun 17—SLTOA overnight drive to Hannibal, MO. In development, stay tuned for details.

21-24 Jun 17—Triumph Register of America Nation-al Meet, Columbus, IN. Events include a tour of the Indi-anapolis 500 Speedway Museum. Additional info at http://triumphregister.com/tra-national-meet/, email ton-da@macysgarage.com.

16-20 Aug 17—VTR 2017, Princeton, NJ, “Every Battle Has a Triumph.” Hosted by the New Jersey Triumph As-sociation and Delaware Valley Triumphs, convention headquarters at the Weston Princeton at Forrestal Vil-lage, 201 Village Blvd, Princeton. Info at vtr2017.org/about or email info@vtr2017.org.

21-24 Sept 17—Triumphest 2017, Flagstaff, Arizona, at the Little America. Hosted by Desert Centre TRA, plan-ning underway, info at www.triumphest.com or contact Bo Shaw (760)977-6612.

20 May 17—Cars & Coffee. Westport Plaza off I-270, 8-10:30 AM.

20 May 17—Annual JAGSL Veteran’s Home Show, at the Missouri Veteran’s Home, 10600 Lewis & Clark Blvd, St Louis. Starts at 8:30 AM, followed by a driving tour of historic Alton and lunch. Monitor www.jagstl.com and the online Growl.

21 May 17— St Louis Region SCCA Autocross No. 2, Gateway Motorsports Park. Info at www.stlsolo.org.

25 May 17—MG Club of St Louis monthly RUBCO break-fast, 9:30 AM at JJ Restaurant, 1215 S Duchesne, St Charles. Please RSVP to uca57mga@aol.com.

25 May 17—Gateway Healey Association monthly RUMP lunch. Tentative, monitor the GHA web page at http://clubs.hemmings.com/gateway/healey.

27 May 17—Gateway Cars & Coffee, at Gateway Classic Cars, 1237 Central Park Dr, O’Fallon, IL, 9 AM-12 noon, pastries and coffee provided by Dunkin’ Donuts. For infor-mation call (618)589-9952 or call up www.gatewayclassicars.com.

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Sunday, 19 February 2017

Maximum Road Trip!

2017 Kastner Cup Race In association with the

Vintage Sports Car Drivers Association Blackhawk Classic XXV

Blackhawk Farms Raceway

South Beloit, IL

16-18 June 2017

SLTOA’s sending a contingent, will convoy up Thursday in association with members of the Jaguar Association of Greater St Louis who are heading up to support Phil Taxman and his ‘64 E-Type FHC racer.

Meet location/departure time TBA

Camp at the racetrack or stay at the “official” SLTOA motel, The Garden Hotel & Conference Center, 200 Dear-born Ave, South Beloit 61080 (815)525-3600

Weekend will include vintage racing—including the Vintage Vee Series, Trans Am B-Sedan race and Sprite-Midget Race Series—plus the Kastner Cup race for Triumphs. Expect opportunities to get on the track for a couple of laps, BBQ and other activities. Return on Sunday.

To join the procession north, get information and for latest planning updates, contact Steve Moore, myredtr6@sbcglobal.net, Ed Kaizer at ekaizer@yahoo.com or Mark Morgan at rangermk@sbcglobal.net.

www.kaskastner.com/kastnercup.html/

On Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/2017-Kastner-Cup-412465015590721

Photo: Classic Motorsports

2-3 Jun 17—British National Meet, in Blytheville, AR. For more information, contact Event Chairman Barry Harrison, barrett10@sbcglobal.net or (870)780-5871. Web page at www.britishnationalmeet.com/.

4 Jun 17—Annual St Louis European Auto Show, Taub-man Prestige Outlets, 17057 N Outer 40 Rd (north side of I-64/US 40 in the Valley), 11 AM-2 PM. Online registration at www.eventbrite.com/e/st-louis-european-auto-show-2017-presented-by-stl-motorcars-registration-33031525181.

4 Jun 17—Champagne British Car Festival, in Blooming-ton. Featured marque is the DeLorean, info at www.cbcf-bloomington.com.

9-10 Jun 17—Tulips By Night I/Tulips By Night II Monte Carlo-style rally, presented by the St Louis Region SCCA. Friday night/9 June start point: Wild Country, 17 Gateway Drive, Collinsville; Saturday night/10 June start point: City Hall parking lot, 208 S Rapp Ave, Columbia. Registration for each event 7-7:45 PM, drivers meeting 7:45 PM, first car departs 8:01 PM. Entry fee $20 per rally, early registration available online at http://motorsportreg.com, have your credit card handy. You need a driver, navigator, car, clipboard, calculator, pencils and paper, a flashlight or other in-car device to read route instructions and a happy inclination to take an evening drive. Info at http://stlscca.org or call (314)922-6120.

11 Jun 17—JAGSL drive to Crown Valley Winery and

Crown Valley Tiger Sanctuary in Ste Genevieve. Meet at St Louis BreadCo at Tesson Ferry/MO Hwy 21 and Ken-nerly, 9:30 AM departure. Cost for tiger tour and wine tast-ing is $20, please RSVP to Thomas Loew at big-cat92@hotmail.com NLT 5 June.

11 Jun 17—St Louis Region SCCA As Time Goes By Rally. Do-it-yourself introduction (with some help) to classic Time-Speed-Distance Rallying. Meet at the City Hall Parking Lot, 208 S Rapp Ave, Columbia, IL, registra-tion 12 noon-12:45, rally school 12:45-1:15 PM, first car departs at 1:30 PM. $10 entry fee, bring a car, driver, navigator, clipboard, calculator, watch or clock, pencils/pens. For info contact Rallymaster Jim Heine, Rallymas-ter, editorialsolutions@sbcglobal.net or (314)922-6120.

11 Jun 17—BSCC Autocross No. 3. Family Arena, show around 9:30 AM, six runs for $35. Contact Racer Steve at sshab@yahoo.com for info or to get on the emailing list.

17 Jun 17—Annual Hazelwood Baptist Car Show, 6161 Howdershell Rd. For vehicles 30 years and older, food, beverages and music all day, display your car for free, People’s Choice Award. Car owners sign in be-tween 8 AM and 1 PM, Info (314)731-2244 or call up www.hazelwoodbaptist.com, pre-registration highly en-couraged.

18 Jun 17—Annual Father’s Day Car Show, Museum of Transportation, 2933 Barrett Station Rd, 11 AM-3:30 PM, sponsored by the Horseless Carriage Club of Mis-souri.

18 Jun 17— St Louis Region SCCA Autocross No. 3, Gateway Motorsports Park. Info at www.stlsolo.org.

9 Jul 17—BSCC Autocross No. 4. Family Arena, show around 9:30 AM, six runs for $35. Contact Racer Steve at sshab@yahoo.com for info or to get on the emailing list.

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Meeting Notes—18 April 2017

By Steve Moore

My Thoughts

Something of a light turnout for April’s meeting at Llewelyn’s in Webster Groves, with 22 members participating and three Triumphs in the parking lot out back (ah, but the weather was perfect for arriving in a British convertible). Still, those gathered immediately started ordering chow while engaging in the usual small talk (for exam-ple, “Does the manager know that when the piper arrives, we’ll have to close the doors?”; “You’ve gotta realize, you’re dealing with the GSA;” and “If you can get your mouth open wide enough to eat that sandwich, I want a picture”).

The meeting commenced promptly at 1900 with raucous applause for the club’s victory at the 8th annual Triumph-MG Challenge at Forest Park and equally raucous phhfffftts for MG owners…delivered with a measure of class and grace, naturally. Yeah, a bit stormy at the start of the event, but in the end the club reclaimed the trav-eling trophy.

Following a couple of quick True Karl Schmitt stories, el Presidente por Vida Steve introduced Bill McAlester, owner of 1959 TR3A. Bill was one of SLTOA’s earliest members, had noticed announcement of the upcoming 35th anniversary proceedings (“Damn, has it been that long?”) and decided to rejoin the group. We also had a pro-spective member in attendance, Bob Rhodes, currently restoring a ’76 TR6. Back during the 1970s-1980s, Bob owned a shop in Hollywood, Florida, which specialized in LBCs; he’s now retired locally and has a house with a four car garage (question from the floor: “When it gets colder, could you give us your address?”).

Le President de Vice SLP provided an update on the 35th anniversary celebration, which will include a drive to the party venue, a photo booth, 80s music and a group/member photo session in the clubhouse parking lot. Stephen reminded everyone to bring their wives and significant others (preferably not at the same time) and puhleeze RSVP; only $15 per person, checks to treasurer Andy and oh by the way, Kenrick’s Meats was doing the catering (rsp from the floor: “OOOOOH, AAAAH”). The Veep also advised Chilly the SLTOA bear would be at the party. He apologized for the bear’s non-appearance at February’s Polar Bear Run; apparently Chilly was out in San Diego with Steve playing golf.

Concerning upcoming events, the group received the gouge on the MG Club of St Louis’ upcoming/annual Missouri Endurance Run, hopefully no flambéed Morris Gar-ages products at this year’s drive. Karl Schmitt received rave reviews for his recent weeknight pop-up drive/dinner. As for the upcoming Kastner Cup at Blackhawk Farms, communications continued with the Jaguar Association of Greater St Louis over a possible group drive north to the track. As of meeting time, Prez Steve, Jim Dooley, Yr Fthfl Ed and Creig Houghtaling planned to attend the weekend event.

Rich Etz announced the Pierce- Arrow Society would hold its annual convention 6-10 June at the Sheraton Westport; no, they most definitely aren’t LBCs but they are neat cars. As an aside, someone mentioned the Studebaker Drivers Club held their annual confab in St Louis two years ago. Finally, 6Pack’s holding this year’s TRials in Indiana; SLTOA will continue to study sponsoring the 2019 event in the Gateway City.

Next, a pronouncement by Treasurer Andy: “We have money.” More applause/relief…He stated a club balance of $2485.89 with only one major expenditure, the club’s payment of the $250 event insurance fee. Andy also tacked on another prospective event for the Triumph and MG clubs at the Richmond Heights Menard’s (1700 S Han-ley), on 7 October, which could provide an opportunity to partici-pate in a community activity. More info to follow.

Prez Steve then opened the floor to up-dates on vehicular pro-

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Congratulations to all of you who braved the weather and brought your car to the Easter Car Show, in Forest Park. It was-n’t the best of weather in the beginning, but it turned out to be a very nice day.

As you know we have an annual com-petition between our club and the MG club, for which club has the most cars at the car show. The past two years went to the MG club, which is a little disap-pointing, however this year we were vic-torious, in spite of the weather condi-tions.

As tradition would have it, we need to come up with a winning slogan to have printed on the brass plaque that will be attached to the trophy. So think about something appropriate, but not too ex-treme that we can have engraved on the plaque. Again thank you for you effort, it was worth it.

The drive to Hannibal, with an over-night stay is planned for the last weekend in June, Saturday the 24th and 25th. We are finalizing the drive’s activities for the trip as well as the overnight accommoda-tions. If you are interested in going on this overnight drive, please let me know via e-mail or telephone

- Steve (314) 249-7401 Myredtr6@sbcglobal.net

Welcome Returning Member!

Bill McAlster

1959 TR3A

Ballwin

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Photo by John Moore

8th Annual Triumph-MG Challenge—16 April 2017

To set the proper tone for this year’s Forest Park Concours d’Elegance, one probably could’ve cued-up Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries.” During the run-up to the event, the 56th iteration hosted by the Horseless Carriage club of Missouri, the weather guessers consistently forecast a high threat of rain and thunderstorms for Easter Sunday.

They were right. The skies opened up as the LBCs and other cars and their owners arrived, elevating the prospect of a total wash-out of the proceedings.

Still, local car enthusiasts including members of SLTOA and the MG Club of St Louis persisted. Jesse Lowe had his orange TR7 on the lot early, followed by Yr Fthfl Ed in the High-Speed Doorstop (’80 TR8). Then the First Family (club President Steve Moore, Ma-ria and Notes Chief Photographer John) arrived, bringing donuts and, thankfully, plenty of coffee. Heavy weather gear was donned and they maintained their posts, welcoming others as they arrived for the soggy festivities.

Overall, we’re not sure how many looked at the early threatening skies and decided to leave their LBC in the garage. In the end, thanks to the efforts of event organizer Prez Steve and the mem-bership, enough Triumph owners laughed in the face of the ele-ments and put a winning number of cars on the field, thus reclaim-ing the traveling British Leyland Participation Trophy.

SLTOA went into the concours with 26 Triumphs signed up, plus the two Morgans of Mike and Sonja Poropat and a Jaguar XJ-S (!); a total of 21 actually went on display. The total number of Morris Garages products, emplaced by our esteemed colleagues with the MG Club of St Louis? 19. The trophy, signifying victory in the an-nual Triumph-MG Challenge, went to SLTOA; the win marked the club’s fourth in eight years of competition and the first in three years.

Fortunately, as the day progressed, the clouds passed, the sun came out and everything dried out. According to HCCMO, about 400 vehicles made the field this year; the Chevrolet Camaro served as the featured model, in recognition of the pony car’s 50th anniver-sary. Appropriately, the first Camaro to show was a 1967 Z28; by early afternoon, there was a pretty good lineup of the Chevrolets.

As per usual at this event, several other vehicles stood out, scat-tered between the club parking and the individual vehicles. They included a Moon, Gardner, two (count ‘em, two!) Crossleys, plus a particular rarity: an immaculate 1953 Kaiser Darrin. Elsewhere on the lot, in full gull-wing glory, a ’74 Bricklin SV-1 and DeLorean DMC-12 sat side-by-side.

Above and beyond SLTOA’s retrieval of the trophy, all in all the day turned out pretty well, with good crowds. Many of the at-tendees spent a good amount of time talking True Triumph Tales

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Despite the early bad weather, the Concours judges arrived in good order, ready to take charge (artwork by Jose Luis Muñoz Luque).

Watching for the next arrival (Photo by Darren Frazier)

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with club members, taking photos and generally enjoying the opportunities presented by the Concours. As always, we extend our thanks to the HCCMO for putting on a good show.

And for our friends over at the MG Club: see you next year.

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Two Moons: a 1925 Series A and 1924 Touring. Bricklin SV-1 and DeLorean DMC-12 Car Dog, one each...

MG Club of St Louis Chairman Bob Bentzinger offers congratulations to SLTOA President Steve Moore.

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More concerning the upcoming SLTOA 35th Anniversary Party… Mike Peters, “Mother Goose & Grimm”

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Works In Progress Completed!

SLTOA 35th: Rules for Collecting Triumphs

Congrats to Chris and Kathy Kresser on finishing their 1955 TR3; the restoration took just about six years. Also, Mike Poropat recently wrapped up the repairs to Sonja’s ‘68 Morgan +4. Nice work, eh?

One of the benefits of club membership is the incredible amount of guidance, recommendations and advisories provid-ed by fellow Triumph/LBC owners. For example, see the fol-lowing, which appeared in the September 1994 edition of Ex-haust Notes during Larry Snyder’s tenure as editor. The ad-vice remains relevant…and any resemblance to particular members of SLTOA is purely coincidental.

Rules for Collecting Triumphs

By Rob and Bob Wiley

This article was first writ-ten in regard to antique tractors by Robert Welch who lives out in Nebraska. However, the similarity be-tween collecting tractors and Triumphs was too good to miss so we borrowed his rules and changed a few words!

Rule 1: Collect only one model of Triumph, nothing but Spitfires or early TRs, for example. When all your Triumphs are the same color and shape, it’s harder if not impossible for anyone to figure out how many Tri-

umphs you actually have.

Rule 2: Never line up your Triumphs, ever! Nothing dis-tresses a difficult spouse more than seeing 2 old Triumphs lined up, looking for all the world like a pile of burning hundred dollar bills. Scatter the Triumphs around, a couple behind the garage, one or two in the garage, another beside the garage, another beside the garage, maybe a couple at a friend’s house, so that it is not possible for anyone (if you know who I mean) to see more than two or three from any one perspec-tive. Your hobby will be less “irritating” that way.

Rule 3: For pretty much the same reason, don ’t number your Triumphs, give them names. You’d be surprised how

much less trouble you will have if you talk about “Scarlet Spit” rather than “CC4-12345.”

Rule 4: Early in your collecting, buy a Triumph you don ’t want. Then sell it as quickly as you can. Don’t worry about making any money on the transaction, the main thing is to buy a Triumph and get rid of it. Then you can say, “Yes my sweet, I do have six Triumphs in the garage while our car is out in the weather. That doesn’t mean I will always have six Triumphs. Remember the one I got rid of? I’m thinking of selling another one any day now, so we can put our car in the garage.” If you have a friend who collects Triumphs, make arrangements for him to drop off a Triumph now and again. That way you can say, if anyone asks, you bought it. Then have him haul it off again and say you sold it. With this system you establish your reputation for moderation.

Rule 5: Pay for your Triumphs with cashier ’s checks or postal money orders or cash, which leaves far less evidence than checks drawn on the family account. Once you have got-ten possession of another Triumph and paid for it, eat the stubs, carbon copies and receipts immediately. Such things have a way of becoming an embarrassment later, take it from me!

Rule 6: Now and then buy a wreck for “parts,” even if you don’t need parts. In fact, you might consider hauling a wreck or two on the same trailer or truck, whenever you haul home a good Triumph. This is called “liability averaging.” If your signif-icant other says something about having enough money for yet another Triumph, but not enough for the new refrigerator, point indignantly to the Triumphs on the trailer: the beautiful one, solid and in running condition for which you paid $1,500 and the rusted hulks which you got for $50 each. Then huff, “Snookums, I got those for a little more than $500.00 each and the one in back is easily worth $2,000. That’s a tidy profit of $400.” Doesn’t that make you sound like an investment wiz-ard?

Rule 7: When things get critical, consider dragging home a Triumph without transmission or real wheels. If there’s a com-plaint you say, “Triumph? What Triumph? That’s not a Tri-umph! That’ s only a front end, not even close to a Triumph.” Then a couple of weeks later bring home a rear end minus the radiator, engine and front wheels. “Triumph? What Triumph?

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Photos by Chris Kresser and Mike Poropat

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Report From Scotland

In a recent email swap between our Scottish correspondent Andrew Milne and Craig Ingra-ham, Andrew noted the publication of a poll by London’s Daily Mail which rated the best British cars of all time. He wrote,

Craig – Just received this from number 2 son. 50 top cars built in UK when Britain was "Great." Note the Triumphs Herald and Stag made it as did the Austin 7, the first car I ever owned. Interesting to see that the GT40 and AC Cobra are classed as British built and designed – Andrew

According to the article (Rob Hull, “What is the best British car of all time?”, 20 April 2017), “…a panel of motor industry big-wigs named their top 50.” The group including the leadership of Aston Martin, BMW and McLaren; the top 10 came in as fol-lows:

1. Mini, 1959-2000 (“There was never any doubting, was

there?”)

2. Jaguar E-Type, 1961-1975 (“Get one today and it’s

destined to be worth a small fortune”)

3. Land Rover Series/Defender, 1948-2016 (“…once the

ultimate utilitarian vehicle”)

4. Aston Martin DB5, 1963-1965 (“…one of the most ach-

ingly good looking cars ever created”)

5. McLaren F1, 1992-1998 (“The McLaren F1 set stand-

ards that were previously unseen…”)

6. Ranger Rover Mk1, 1970-1966 (“…Land Rover re-

cently decided to refurbish a bunch of the original cars

to sell for £135,000, which is £133,000 more than they

cost some 47 years ago”).

7. Ford GT40, 1964-1969 (“…the endurance machine…

was originally created by a crack team of British engi-

neers…”).

8. Caterham/Lotus 7, 1957-present (“It’s a testament to

how good a car is when you see it’s been on sale for

60 years”)

9. Ford Escort Mk1, 1967-1975 (“…it’s fondly remem-

bered for being one of the original Fast Fords”)

10. Lotus Elise, 1996-2001 (“…the Elise defined the brand

as a forward thinker”)

The two Triumphs on the list are the Stag at number 34 and Herald at 50 (for the record, the MGB landed at number 28, immediately ahead of the Austin-Healey 3000). You can call up the origi-nal article at http://dailym.ai/2oY6BiE.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Andrew review Royal Air Force Buccaneer S.2Bs of No. 237 Operational Conver-sion Unit at RAF Honington, Suffolk, in 1979.

The first week of May, Yr Fthfl Ed was out in the Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA vicinity for a history conference (go figure).

On Monday, 1 May, while on the drive down to Lincoln City on the Oregon Coast for a visit with one of the daughters and three of the grandnippers, I passed through the town of Lafayette, on OR 99W (old US 99). And what LBC organization is just south of Lafa-yette? British Parts Northwest, well worth a stop and quick tour.

Greg Sherick (who owns a TR8) and his staff provided a friendly greeting and Greg gave me the quick tour of the facilities; no surprise, every building stacked to the ceiling with LBC parts, pallets of parts coming in and other pallets heading out.

Quite an operation and a truly friendly group of people. If you find yourself heading southwest out of Portland some time, by all means drop by and say hello.

Second (right), Commonwealth Classics, purveyor of LBC restorations and repairs, is adjacent to Vancouver Barracks/Fort Vancouver National Historic Site off I-5 on the north side of the Columbia. Quite a shop, including three Triumphs (only TRs seen on the trip) and a bunch of other vehicles. The address is 1613 E 4th Street, Vancouver, WA 98661.

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BSCC Autocross No. 2

Slow Roller

Racing Team

Results –

7 May 2017

Family Arena, St Charles

Driver Car Class Overall Indexed Time Finish

Houghtaling Corvette C4 BS 42nd 45.300

Maneke Corvette C6 AS 45th 45.613

Moore TR6 FS-Prepared 51st 49.324

Morgan TR8 HS 52nd 50.122

Standings (Total Events: 2)

1 – Maneke 18

Houghtaling 18

3 – Moore 14

4 – Fox 10

5– A Paur 7

Morgan 7

Summary: Outstanding weather and another excellent course design by the Boeing Sports Car Club gang. This month’s layout featured a lot of straights and the Slow Roller battle pretty much came down to the two big bore cars. Still, great fun for all participants PLUS a guest appearance by President Emeritus Jesse.

SCCA Majors Racing

Photo by Darren Frazier Photo by Darren Frazier

In other racing news, over 22-23 April, the St Louis and Southern Illinois Regions of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) hosted the “Luau in the Lou” Majors and IT races at Gateway Motorsports Park (aka “Circuit of St Louis”). Happy to say, two Triumphs took part in the festivities.

Steve Sargis, Frankfort, Illi-nois, driving a Grand Touring-Light class Triumph Spitfire, finished first both days in the com-bined E-Production/F Prod/GTL races. He’s built quite a rec-ord over the past 20 years, winning the SCCA’s national cham-pionship six times in three different production classes (F, G and H). The GT cars feature tube frame chassis; local/regional drivers who competed in the class included Peter Ze-kert of Maryland Heights and Brad Lewis, St Louis, both in Nis-sans.

Morey Doyle of Indianapolis, finished 11th in Saturday’s E Production race driving his TR8 and finished the weekend with a 10th place finish on Sunday. Mark Weber of St Louis (Miata) and Rick Sisk of Washington (Porsche 944) also competed; Jesse Prather of Topeka, Kansas took the EP class in Satur-day’s run (34, third overall) with Bill Miller of Weston, Missouri, gaining the honors (47, also third overall) on Sunday.

Sargis and his Spitfire at the far left. Photos by Darren Frazier.

Morey Doyle in the TR8. Trailing Aaron Kelley, GTL MG Midget Whoops...

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jects. Chris and Kathy Kresser’s 1955 TR3 is complete, follow-ing five to six years of restoration. Chris commented, “It’s been a challenge but it should be a good car.” Iggy’s TR6 isn’t finished yet, but Johnny Williams did complete the engine re-build. Mike Poropat finished the repairs to Sonja’s ’68 Morgan +4; he added they decided not to attend the Forest Park show due to the weather, but hoped everyone enjoyed the boat show.

Concerning membership, only eight of last year’s members declined to renew and were dropped from the SLTOA roster. That put the club at 89 members total, not counting spouses/family members.

The club continues to push for at least one driving event per month, generally under the guise of the Retired Old Geezers (ROG…as distinguished from GHA’s RUMP and MGCStL’s RUBCO). Watch for web page and email alerts of events as well as more information on a possible/probable club over-nighter to Hannibal in late June. The president also formally asked Ed Kaizer to set up the now annual fall drive, possibly with a slightly different route this year. Ed agreed.

The last item of business concerned club apparel sales and availability. In talks with MG Club Chairman Bob Benzinger, we have a lead on a trophy shop which produces plastic name-tags (Andy: “They’re not that expensive and they look really nice”). Club ball caps are still available and the t-shirt shop is still taking orders.

The meeting concluded at 1933.

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49 2000 Roadster—Unique resto mod, 1949 Triumph Tour-ing Roadster with rumble seat and second tilt up rear wind-shield. All aluminum body except front fenders, very light, will be fast! Partially finished and has a small lock Ford and 5spd installed. Easy to change to your desired power output and includes a $1,100 custom built new radiator for the car. I have all the original body parts so no searching for parts. Just build it the way you want it. This will make a great resto mod worth big dollars at a great price, only $6,950. In Joplin, email sw9nk-6100102672@sale.craigslist.org (Craigslist) (1705)

That’s no Triumph, that’s only a rear end, not even close to a Triumph!” However, don’t try this more than once every couple of years!

Rule 8: Have a dealer or friend call you now and then whey you’re not at home and tell your spouse, “Bob told me to keep an eye on the Triumph going at the auction Saturday but it sold for $5,000, and I know there’s no way a financially cautious and responsible guy like Bob would pay that much, so I didn’t even make a bid on it for him.” Not only will this make you look real good, but the next time you buy a Triumph say something like, “Luvi-bear, this beauty only cost me $1,000, which means we are $4,000 ahead of where we’d have been if I’d gotten this one before. If I keep saving money like this, we’ll be able to afford to go on that Caribbean cruise next winter.” If you say it fast enough, it might work!

Rule 9: If your mate insults your work calling it “rustoration,” laugh a lighthearted laugh, making it clear that Triumphs are not to you what shoes were to Imelda Marcos.

Rule 10: If your situation worsens to the point where your mate asks, “Who do you love more, me or your Triumphs?”, whatever you do, don’t ask for time to think it over!

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SLTOA Classifieds

62 TR3—In Florissant, good driver, needs to go to a good home! Asking $15,000, for more details contact David Bentley at bent-leyusa@earthlink.net, call (314)991-2502 or check out his Face-book page (1705).

74 Spitfire 1500—New tires, wire wheels, carpet, recently reupholstered, new convertible top. Always garaged, selling as part of an estate sale, 70,955 miles. Asking $7000, in Mar-shall, MO, call Tracy (660)815-0661 (Craigslist) (1705)

76 Spitfire 1500—W/hardtop, tonneau cover; new brakes, brake lines, clutch, engine rebuilt and has a Weber carb, new tires. $4200, in Festus, Call Tom (636)524-9787 (Craigslist) (1704)

76 Spitfire 1500—New paint, tires, other new parts; nice little car, runs and

drives good, shows 79K miles. In Decatur, IL, $3300, call Steve (217)853-0803 (Craigslist) (1705)

79 TR7—5sp, air conditioning (serviced Jul 16), very good con-dition, runs great, have owned for 10 years. In Kimberling City (Lake of the Ozarks, west of Branson), $5250, email sb3jm-6060042197@sale.craigslist.org (Craigslist) (1704)

79 Spitfire 1500—Has over-drive, Nardi steering wheel, no other details given. In central

Illinois, call August (217)730-1434 (Craigslist) (1705)

79 Spitfire 1500—New interi-or, convertible top, tires, Holley electric fuel pump. Has custom front bumper, roll pan rear, cus-tom bodywork; I have the origi-nal bumpers, luggage rack, etc

in case you want to put the car back to original. $5900 OBO, in Lebanon, MO, call Mike (417)3225929 (Craigslist) (1705)

80 Spitfire 1500—Fun project, restored, new $3000 paint job, no rust. Too many new parts to list, manual transmission with overdrive, 52,253 miles. Have $9300 invested but would like to sell before winter, needs someone who enjoys tinkering with cars and wants a winter project. $7300, call Mike Charman (618)918-0249, cash only, no trades, in Centralia (1611).

For Sale—Tonneau for TR4/TR4A, NOS, not used since its purchase in 1980, heavy duty construction, ready to use. $250, call Tom (314)422-7149 (1705)

For Sale—Triumph parts, including 1961-1967 Herald LR quarter panel, NOS, genuine StanPart No. 902318; NOS 1962-1967 Spitfire front bumper; NOS 1962-1967 Spitfire hood, off-center nose, sticker on but unreadable; NOS 1963-1970 Spit-fire RF fender, part No. 903089; NOS TR4 hood, part No. 903178; TR4 trunk lid, used; plus Karman Ghia, VW, Mer-cedes, Ford and Datsun parts. Call Monti between 8:30-4:30 Eastern at (631)423-8151 or write to 1959 New York Ave, Hun-tington, NY 11746 (1705)

For Sale—Original steel disc wheel and tire off a 1971 TR6 (spare tire), asking $200 OBO. Contact Darold Johnson (314)835-8522 or at dlcejohnson@gmail.com for more information and additional photos (1705).

For Sale—TR4/4A tonneau, NOS, never used since purchase in 1980. Heavy duty construction, $250. Call Tom at (314)422-7149 (1705)

For Sale—Triumph parts: NOS 1961-1967 Herald left rear quarter panel; NOS 1962-1967 Spitfire front bumper; NOS 1962-1967 Spitfire hood (off-center nose, sticker on but

unreadable); NOS 1963-1970 Spitfire right front fender; NOS TR4 hood; TR trunk lid, used; plus VW, Mercedes and Datsun parts and others. Call Monti 8:30 AM-4:30 PM eastern, (631)423-8151 or write him at 1959 New York Ave, Huntington, NY 11746 (1705)

For Sale—TR6 parts, for sale or giveaway, includes a differ-ential, transmission and doors. Call Dennis at 440-9074 if in-terested (1705)

For Sale—Back on the market: four TR8 wheels suitable for use on a TR7 or Spitfire, three have usable rubber and one might serve you well at the drag strip or for inadvertent skid/loss of control training. $150 OBO, contact Mark Morgan (314)607-1507 or rangermk@sbcglobal.net (1705)

For Sale—Wide variety of TR3/4 used OEM parts, primarily from the completion of my TR3B in 1968. Call/email for the entire four page list, specifics and questions. Larry Brown (618)971-0056 or larryb1703@hotmail.com (1312)

80 TR8—Don Huber’s Wedge, low mileage, original car. Acquired by Don in February 2000, only 18,987 miles. One of the finest if not the finest Wedges in the club; an identical TR8 recently sold at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Flagstaff, Ari-zona, for $15,400. Let’s keep Don’s car local, $14,000 nego-tiable. For more info or to see the car, contact Creig Hough-taling at (314)401-7817 or email creig55@live.com (1702)

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Next Meeting:

Sunday

21 May 2017

SLTOA 35th Anniversary Party! Hickory Ridge Clubhouse

100 S Willow Grove Court

St Peters

10 AM start time at the Lewis & Clark Boathouse for a scenic drive, then to the clubhouse for a buffet meal, story

telling, SLTOA artifacts, 80s music and other fun

And Finally...

...for your listening pleasure at the gala SLTOA 35th

Anniversary party, 80s music selected by

JP Martini, former bassist/vocalist for The Young Stags,

Norfolk, VA’s most famous unknown punk/New Wave band!