Exhaust Notes Newsletter of the St Louis Triumph Owners Association Vol 14, Issue 4 April 2012
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Exhaust Notes Newsletter of the St Louis Triumph Owners Association Www.SLTOA.org Vol 14, Issue 4 April 2012 51st Annual Forest Park Concours See page 4 Gear Shift By Tony Panchot Hello all and Thank you (I think! ) for this honour to serve as club leadership. Addition- ally I believe that Creig, Joe and I form a great team. With that said let’s get this episode rolling. I would like to en- courage, challenge the group to think along the lines of promoting the SLTOA. Adding to the member base is a must and a good method is attending events out- side the group, promot- ing the brand, people always ask “what is that” so when we let (Continued on page 8) In Memoriam Peter Gethin goes wild! goes Details onDetails pg 6 1940-2011 BRM/Embassy-Hill crowd election, McLaren F1/CanAm annual holds SLTOA 1 Calendar [email protected]. SLTOA’s Slow Roller Racing Team will be 17 Apr 2012—SLTOA Monthly meeting, there (as will the former First Daughter and her howling Toyota Chuck-A-Burger, 9025 St Charles Rock Rd, St Yaris). John. 27-29 Apr 2012—Speedfest at the Classic Mo- 26-29 Apr 2012—South Central VTR Regional, in torsports Mitty. Road Atlanta, Braselton, GA. Featured Tulsa, OK, hosted by Green Country Triumphs. See pg 3. marquee is Triumph, commemorating 60 years of Triumph 15 May 2012—SLTOA Monthly meeting. sports cars and 50 years of the Spitfire; the legendary R.W. “Kas” Kastner will serve as Grand Marshall. Information at Jun 2012—SLTOA Annual Drive/Picnic, date and loca- http://classicmotorsports.net/events/Mitty12/. tion TBA. 5 May 2012—St Louis Roadsters, Spyders & Deuces 20-23 June 2012—TRA National Meet, Little Switzer- Drive to Cahokia Mounds. 10 AM departure from the land, NC. Host hotel is the Switzerland Inn on the Blue Ridge Kemp Auto Museum, Chesterfield. Contact Doug at Parkway, events include a reception, tour of The Biltmore, [email protected] for additional info. concours, breakfast run plus other activities. More details to follow, monitor www.triumphregister.com/. 19 May 2012—Classic Cars & Coffee, Starbucks at Man- chester & McKnight, Rock Hill Plaza (9616 Manchester), 8:30- 27-30 Sept 2012—Triumphest 2012, hosted by Desert 11:30 AM. Centre TRA in Flagstaff, AZ. Host hotel is the Little America, th participating clubs include Southern California Triumph Own- 20 May 2012—5 Annual Concours d’Elegance, ers Association, Triumph Register of Southern California, Tri- Kemp Auto Museum, 16955 Chesterfield Airport Rd, 10 AM umph Sports Car Club of San Diego and Triumph Travelers to 3 PM. Sports Car Club. More information including registration ma- 21-23 May 2012— terials at www.triumphest.com. British V8 2012, in 6-9 Sept 2012—2012 TRials, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Can- Palestine, TX. Sixteenth annual meet with rally/poker run, tour ada, sponsored by 6-Pack, www.6-pack.org/j15/. of the Texas State Railroad Museum, tech/dyno sessions, autocross and more. For information, monitor 21-25 Oct 2012—VTR National Convention, Galves- www.britishv8.org/British-V8-Meetings.htm or call Wayne Kube ton, TX. The Texas Triumph Register is hosting, event hotel at cell (214)236-0232. is the San Luis Resort. Info at http://kingswayrc.com/txtr/ th index.shtml. 26 May-3 Jun 2012—13 Annual British Car Week. Watch here for regional events, for information/nationwide events contact Scott Helms at [email protected]. 14 Apr 2012—LBC gathering at Missouri Tartan Days (13-15 Apr), The English Shop, 703 S Main, St Charles. Arrive 27 May 2012—Boeing Sports Car Club Autocross No. about 10:30, cars on display until 3:30. Please RSVP to Eileen 2, Family Arena, St Charles. For info or to sign up, contact or Scott Kerivan, [email protected] or (636)946-2245. Racer Steve at [email protected]. 15 Apr 2012—St Louis Region SCCA Autocross No. 27 May 2012—Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis Motor 2, Gateway International, info at http://stlsolo.org/info. Speedway, www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com. 15 Apr 2012—St Louis Roadsters, Spyders & Deuces 30 May 2012—British National Car Week Welcome/ Drive to Hermann Winery. 10 AM departure from the Kick-Off Event, William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Mu- Kemp Auto Museum, Chesterfield. Drives open to anyone with seum, Little Rock, AR. Event hosted by the St Louis LBC a two-seat convertible/retractable hardtop. Contact Doug at clubs, participating SLTOA owners/cars to caravan down to [email protected] for additional info. Little Rock on the 29th. More details to follow including updates at SLTOA monthly meeting. 21 Apr 2012—First Classic Cars & Coffee of the season, Starbucks at Manchester & McKnight, Rock Hill Plaza (9616 30 May-3 Jun 2012—British National Car Week Na- Manchester), 8:30-11:30 AM. tional Meet, Hot Springs National Park, AR. Planned 21-22 Apr 2012— first-ever national meeting of all Brit cars and clubs, events include local drives, marque-specific dinners, a riverboat Missouri Endurance cruise, concours and popular vote show. For more info includ- Rally & Mini Endur- ing the latest updates and full list of events and activities, keep ance Trial. See page an eye on: www.britishcarweeknationalmeet.org. 3. 1-2 Jun 2012—23rd Annual Heartland MG Regional 22 Apr 2012—Boeing Car Show & Swap Meet, Historic Square, Independence, Sports Car Club Auto- MO. Primarily MG related, but show classes established for cross No. 1, Family Triumphs and Austin Healeys. Information available at Arena, St Charles. For www.heartlandmgregional.com. info or to sign up, contact Racer Steve at 2 1-3 Jun 2012—21st An- nual Champagne British Car Festival, on the lawn of the David Davis Mansion VTR South State Historic Site, 1000 Monroe Dr, Bloomington, IL. Aston- Martin is the featured marque; contact Dave Hauman (309) Central 838-4707 or [email protected] for more information. 3 Jun 2012—25th Annual St Louis European Auto Regional Show, presented by Bentley of St Louis. Plaza Frontenac, $25 per car in advance, $35 day of show, call up Convention www.stleuropeanautoshow.com/euroshow/default.aspx. 15 Sept 2012—31st Annual All British Car & Cycle 26-28 April 2008 Show, Creve Coeur Lake Park, http://allbritishcarshow.com/ default.aspx. Green Country Triumphs of Tulsa, Oklahoma will host Full listing at www.sltoa.org/events/2012/events12.htm this year’s regional confab in Broken Arrow, OK. Headquarters and sign-in for the event are: Missouri Endurance Rally & Mini Endurance Trial Holiday Inn Express & Suites 21– 22 April 2201 N Stone Wood Circle (918)355-3200 Open to all British vehicles built before 1982, $25 entry fee per car/team. Thursday: Check-in/registration, welcome reception Start point is the Hooters of Maryland Heights Friday: Autocross, driving tours, rallye, funkhana (11835 Lackland Rd) at , teams will 6:30 AM Saturday: Concours, Participants’ Car Show, Banquet & have until 8:00 AM Sunday to hit all of the man- Awards datory locations, answer the questions and re- turn to the Hooters parking lot. The team cover- Registration form at www.greencountrytriumphs.com/ ing the least distance wins; teams which return VTR-Registration2012.pdf. to base after 8:00 AM will be disqualified. Awards ceremony at 8:30 AM. Teams competing in the Mini Endurance Trial will have to return by midnight Saturday. Registration and details at: www.stlouismgclub.com/files/MER/MER_2012.pdf http://www.britishcarweeknationalmeet.org/ Regular updates! St Louis Triumph Owners Association Member, St Louis Sports Car Council Www.stlscc.org 3 51 st Annual Forest Park Concours/ 4th Annual StLouis Triumph-MG Challenge Saturday afternoon preparatory session with the Gateway Healey Association at Keith Bester’s garage: it lives! It runs! The Massey’s short-door 1957 TR3. Now before you protest, Eric Broadley and Lola Cars International of Huntingdon, England, did the design, fabrication and development of the Ford GT40s. Therefore, this is an LBC...or more accurately, IFLBC. This continuation GT40 is marked for the 1968 le Mans winner, entered by JW Automotive Engineering and driven by Pedro Rodriguez and Lucien Bianchi. The lineup of cars heading into Forest Park Sunday morning is typically electic... Later in the day...the hard core 4 Well, it is yellow like Andy Stark’s Spit. The 1981 HM Freeway, 100 mpg if you can find one… Uh-Oh… The unofficial tally towards the end of the day put the MG Club of St Louis at 28 cars and St Louis Triumph Owners Association at 23. Thus, our congratulations to MGCStL for taking the MG-Triumph Challenge Travel- ing Trophy Our thanks also to our good friends with the Gateway Healey Association for the invitation to Saturday’s tune-up/wash-up. More details on Forest Park next month. 5 Meeting Notes—21 March 2012 Short-timer SLTOA President Creig planning on attending all or part of the Houghtaling called the March gathering at events, including the opening day activities Nicoletti’s to order at 7:36 PM. In advance in Little Rock. While event organizer Barrett of the formal club elections—the main event “Sleep? I Don’t Need Any Sleep!” Harrison of the night—he apologized for his failure to has requested the St Louis LBC clubs take bring the president’s trappings of power and charge of the opener, no word yet on cars authority, such as the bullhorn, but said he’d and participants from the other groups in provide them to his relief at April’s meeting. town. SLTOA members taking part in the festivities will caravan to Little Rock via US The treasury gained $196 over February’s 67 Tuesday morning, 29 April.