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800 Miles Home • Triumphest/VTR • Triumph Distributors the Parts You Need to T HE M AGAZINE O F T HE T O R O N to T RIU M PH C LUB W IN T ER 2 0 1 3 / 2 0 1 4 Final Three Framed TRs 800 Miles Home • Triumphest/VTR • Triumph Distributors The Parts You Need To " " ® contents Keep’em on the Road Winter 2013/14 ® 14 18 22 28 Member Pages From the Editor......................5 From the President ..................7 Club Hub............................9 Event Calendar .....................10 25 Owner’s Manual . 13 39 Features Ye g 50 ars o TR Tales: tin f S ra p b it 800 Miles Home ................... 14 f T HE M AGAZINE O F T HE T O R O N TO T RIU M PH C LUB W IN T ER 2 0 1 3 / 2 0 1 4 le r e e ! C Events: Triumphfest VTR 2013 ............. 18 TR Travels: Adventures in the UK .............. 22 FREE Parts & Accessories Catalogs for: On the Cover TR250, TR4a & TR6 were the Vendor Visit: TR2, TR3, TR4, TR4A, TR250, last TRs produced on framed chas- Moss Motors ...................... 25 TR6, TR7, TR8, GT6, Spitfire sis. We compare them on page 28. Photo by Dave Sims Historically Speaking: Fast Service, Simple Ordering and Quick Delivery. Final Three TR4a 250 & 6 Comparison . 28 Framed TRs Triumph Distributors .............. 39 www.VictoriaBritish.com 1-800-255-0088 Tail Lites: 800 miles in an 8 • Triumphest/VTR • Triumph Distributors Bits and Pieces .................... 46 FREE Parts & Accessories Catalogs 14 Ragtop.04.05.indd 1 14-02-27 2:45 PM Also Available For: RAGTOP I WINTER I 2013/2014 www.TorontoTriumph.com 3 ©2012 Long Motor Corporation, PO Box 14991, Lenexa, Kansas 66285-4991 LANT INSURANCE BROKERS from the editor (A Division of Wayfarer Insurance Brokers Limited) SUBMISSIONS Format: MS Word files are preferred. Send via Canada’s Leader In Classic Vehicle Insurance Since 1978 email or on CD, 10Mb limit on email files. Send photos separately, do NOT embed in the text file. Hard copy submissions are acceptable, but not Enough already! preferred. Graphics must be in major graphics for- mats, jpeg, tiff or Photoshop files. In Person: To the editor at the monthly meetings. Canadians wear winter like a badge of honour. Cold? What cold? We’re Mail: 2421 Poplar Crescent, used to it, we cope well with it, some even enjoy and look forward to it! Mississauga, Ontario L5J 4H2 We scoff when ‘down south’ places like Atlanta grind to a halt with barely E-mail: [email protected] 12mm of snow on the roads (that’s a half inch in US currency) and our conversations are monopolized by it. But... enough already! ADVERTISING This ex-pat Brit gets it... Canada gets really cold in winter, so ma nature, Contact the Club’s advertising representative for details of dates and submissions. Submit ads as no need to belabour the point, Eh? high resolution (min 300 ppi) PDF files, saved for My crazy younger sister just visited me from “o’er t’pond” (that’s how print in CMYK format, fonts embedded, by E-mail we Lancashire lads say it). I say crazy, because of all the places to go for a “fortneet’s” (sic) to [email protected] The advertising year is from Mar. 1 to Feb. 28. vacation, she chose to come here in February. Even accounting for her understandable A copy of Ragtop is sent to all paid advertisers. love for her brother, the Mediterranean is only a thirty quid Ryanair flight away from where she lives and I could’ve met her there! She came here last February too, for my 2014 ADVERTISING RATES youngest son’s wedding... but that was positively balmy compared to this year’s Polar Rear Cover ....................... $500 per year Vortex of a winter. She was shocked... then went home to gale force winds and floods, Inside Front Cover .........................$475 Inside Back Cover ..........................$450 maybe she’s not so crazy after all. Full Page Inside ............................$305 Rosie, my poor, long suffering 1969 TR-6, remains on jack stands, bereft of wheels and Half Page..................................$185 half shafts. With only a small heater and a battery tender for life support. I think she’s dis- Offering The Quarter Page ..............................$115 Business Cards .............................$70 owned me. The good news is, Philip Allen has worked his magic with her rear hubs & drive Full colour ...........................$115 extra shafts and they’re ready for me to pick up. So Rosie should be back on her feet by the end Second colour ........................ $75 extra of March when, hopefully, the weather will be showing some signs of spring in the air. Antique, Classic, Special Interest Flyer Inserts ..............$190/issue (max 4 pgs) (All rates are for 4 issues, except flyers) Which brings me nicely to the subject of the upcoming driving season. Please take and Modified/Street Rod [email protected] a look at our event calendar in this issue and on our website, we have a lot of really great events, monthly meetings and socials lined up for everyone this year; not least Automobile Insurance 2014 SCHEDULE of which, our very own Canadian Classic and British Car Day. Please support as many of Program Issue Deadline Mailed these events as you can. Our volunteers work hard to organize them on your behalf and Spring..............April 1..........End of April Summer/BCD .......July 30 ..... Mid September they deserve your attendance and support. Don’t forget, if you have any suggestions, Fall.................October 11 ......November constructive comments (positive or negative), we want to hear from you. If our venues Winter..............December 6 ..January 2015 or locations aren’t to your liking, tell us. If we’re not giving you the value you expect from General Enquiries your membership, we need to know so we can fix it. This is your club and the executive [email protected] want to continue to make it the best it can possibly be. We’re fully committed to this and Ragtop is published quarterly by the Toronto Tri- need your input and support. umph Club Inc. (“TTC”) and is distributed to its Finally, congratulations to the newly appointed executives and officers voted in at our members as part of their annual dues. The TTC or AGM last November. We appreciate you stepping up to the plate. Now, please enjoy this the Editors cannot accept responsibility for the safe return of any submitted material. We will do issue of Ragtop and let’s all look forward to lots of amazing drives and experiences with our our best, but accidents do occur. beloved Triumphs and friends in 2014. We accept no responsibility for errors or omis- sions. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the TTC Ex- — David Fidler ecutive or Membership. Copyright © 2014 by the TTC. Non-profit groups may reprint articles from this publication, where the author has not reserved rights, provided we get credited and both the au- thor and TTC receive a copy of the publication in its entirety. Distribution by Pillar Direct Marketing Services. 37 Sandiford Drive, Suite 100, Stouffville, ON L4A 7X5 Tel: (905) 640-4111 • Fax: (905) 640-4450 Printed by Printwell Offset for the Toronto Triumph www.lant-ins.ca Club. Canada Post Publications # 40022175 RAGTOP I WINTER I 2013/2014 www.TorontoTriumph.com 5 Obsolete Auto_MG&TRIUMPH AD2.pdf 19/02/2009 8:22:06 PM from the president Toll Free Order Line: ............................................. 1-800-265-7437 Customer Service / Technical Advice: ............ 1-519-337-3232 Executives 24 Hour Fax Line: ................................................... 1-519-336-5936 President . David Tushingham 905 .830 .9124 Website: ............................................................www.obsoleteauto.com Vice President . David Fidler 905 .829 .9340 Are you tired of winter yet? Secretary . Alistair Wallace 905 .627 .2941 Business Hours: ........................... Monday to Friday - 8 AM to 5 PM Treasurer . John Morton 905 .823 .8154 Director of Communications . David Fidler 905 .829 .9340 It has most certainly been a Director at Large . .Wayne McGill 905 .847 .5532 Director at Large . Scott Douglas 905 .334 .4020 harsh one with record breaking 142 Kendall Street, Point Edward, Ontario CANADA N7V 4G5 Past President . Johan Aaltink 705 .456 .4276 cold snaps, snowfalls and de- Ragtop Magazine structive ice storms, all thrown Editor & Publisher . David Fidler 905 .829 .9340 into the mix. I am hoping that as Assistant Editor . Terence McKillen 647 .202 .8243 a reward for suffering through Distribution . .Rod . Jones - Pillar Direct 416 .755 .9494 Art Director . Michael Cleland 905 .873 .7704 this, we will be graced with Advertising Sales . David Fidler 905 .829 .9340 magnificent weather through Larry Llewellyn 416 .245 .9217 MG & TRIUMPH Specialists the 2014 driving season. Website One can always hope! Web Manager . David Copping 905 .827 .6970 I can tell you that the Execu- Browse the website Website Classifieds . David Copping 905 .827 .6970 Vic Whitmore 905 .889 .7261 tive and Committee Members www.obsoleteauto.com for of your Toronto Triumph Club have not been hibernating through the off season. Patrick Club Coordinators updates on stocked parts and secure Membership Chairman . Wayne. McGill 905 .847 .5532 Caria, our monthly meeting co-coordinator has been working hard to find new and inter- Meeting Coordinators . Patrick Caria 416 .562 .1642 esting venues and events for you to participate in. The “Winter Blues/Valentine’s Dinner” for access to online ordering. The parts Clive Huizinga 905 .884 .2091 C Interclub Coordinator . Tony Fox Sr. 905 .632 .0479 our February monthly meeting was a great success and I hope that you were able to join us you need, any time or day. Ambassador at Large . Wayne McGill 905 .847 .5532 M for an evening of great food and fun.
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