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How's this, Sweetie?OFFICIAL Shall NEWSLETTER I call you now? OF THE DESERT CENTRE - TRIUMPH REGISTER of AMERICA PROMOTING TRIUMPHS AROUND THE WORLD WITH OUR SISTER CLUB, THE ISLE OF WIGHT TRIUMPH CLUB, U.K AUGUST 2004 VOL. 25 Issue 8 VTR 2004 CONVENTION 1 PREZ SEZ 2 MINUTES 3 LETTER TO THE EDITOR 3 TECH TALK 4, 6 CLUB MEMBERS AND CARS 5 ISLE OF WIGHT TRIUMPH CLUB 8 JULY BREAKFAST RUN 9 By Clay & Pam Rineholt CALENDAR 9-10 VTR 2004 featured the Triumph Italia on its 45th Anniversary and ADS 10 celebrated the 35th Anniversary of the TR6. The event was HUMOR 10 hosted by the extremely hospitable Richmond Triumph Register in beautiful, historic Richmond, Virginia July 14th -17th. RTR managed to pack the week with activities for everyone, from an COMING EVENTS extensive focus on history in the tour events to the details and CLUB MEETING: how-to advice in the tech sessions, the excitement of the autocross, fun ride through beautiful countryside, and bargains in AUGUST 10 - 7:00 PM the Friday night auction with a professional auctioneer. F1 RACE FACTORY 317 S. 48TH STREET The event got under way Wednesday afternoon with the Fun COME EARLY - Rallye, Funkhana, and Welcome Reception. Tech Sessions on HAVE DINNER - Thursday and Friday included “Inspection and Repair of the STAY FOR RACING - Differential,” “Auto Finishes - Quality Starts at the Sheet Metal,” “Powder Coating 101 and Overdrive Solenoid Repair,” and SUPPORT OUR “Triumphs - The Good, the Bad and the Fixable.” (See this BENEFACTORS! month’s tech article on page 4 for more on powder coating.) Moving events included the Funkhana, TSD Rallye, Fun Rallye, Desert Stages Autocross, Scenic Tour, Battlefield Tours, Ice Cream Run and July 31, 2004 Restaurant Choice Caravan. In addition, there was a Craft, Model and Photo Contest, Scenic Tours to Berkeley Plantation, DCTRA Breakfast Run Richmond Battlefields, Petersburg Battlefield, Agecroft Hall and August 15, 2004 Virginia House Tour, Pre-Auction BBQ Dinner, Auction, Vendor’s Room, Hospitality Suite, Panoramic Photo, Concours d’elegance, Participant’s Choice Show, Cocktail Reception and Awards Banquet. Saturday morning’s events were held at the Virginia Aviation Museum, where a number of vintage British aircraft added to the excitement of the day. (VTR 2004, continued on page 7.) 2 THE PREZ THESEZ PREZ SEZ I was looking over my collection of spitfires the other day. No, collection is not the right word. To me, “collection” implies some CLUB OFFICERS thought given to acquiring things: the first, last, PRESIDENT: John Nuss 480-983-3945 some uncommon variation. What I have is V.P. & Events: Rich Aubert 480-225-4906 inventory acquired over several years- just Secretary: Deta Hampsch 623-434-1999 pieces of cars that, maybe some day, Treasurer: Jim Bartels 480-963-1842 something will come in handy. Of course, Newsletter: Clay Rineholt 480-983-5605 having the cars means having receipts that I’ll Tech Advisors: Armand LaCasse never total (Who really wants to know?) tools, 602-870-8585/Roy Stoney 602-231-0706 catalogues, and magazines. Historians: Mike and Joyce Bayne Well, it did happen. Trevor broke on the BEAT 602-938-1282 last April and since the last meeting we finally Membership: Ron Gurnee 480-816-0836 started to look into the problem. The third piston AAHC Rep: John Horton 602-843-1399 moves up and down separate from the crank shaft- oops! Here’s where having inventory EDITOR'S E-MAIL: [email protected] pays off. Among the inventory is a 1296 engine that works. Pull one engine and replace it with DCTRA WEB SITE: http://www.dctra.org the other and on the road again. Sounds simple doesn’t it? Meetings are held on the Second Tuesday of each month. (Including January) Hey we’ve got activities coming up so read the Dues are $18.00 per year newsletter and wash the car and drive the For membership information, contact Ron Triumph! Gurnee at 480-816-0836 John C. Nuss Permission to reproduce anything in this news- letter is granted provided proper credit is given. CONTRIBUTORS We would like to encourage every member to help with newsletter submissions, we welcome all TR stories, articles, and photos. A Best Regards and thank you to the following Contributors and Advertisers who supported our August newsletter: Rich Aubert, Jim Bartels, Jim Bauder, Jim Coleman, Delta Motorsports, F1 Race Factory, Deta Hampsch, Beth & John Horton, Import Car Parts, Stu Lasswell, MicroWorks Computer Networking and Maintenance, Moss Motors, Ltd., Thomas Nicoud, John Nuss, Tom Pennell, The Phoenix Flower Shop, Roy Stoney, Dave Riddle, Pamela Rineholt, Richmond Triumph Register, The Roadster Factory, Ken Schmidt, Harlan Schufeldt, John Truttman, Arthur Wallis, and anyone we missed. Photo by John Nuss 3 MINUTES OF THE JULY MEETING Rich Aubert opened the meeting since John Nuss was at school. There were 18 present. We had one new member, Randy Roush who has a TR250. The Secretary’s report was accepted as printed. The Treasurer reported that, in response to last month’s question of having any money in his absence, we have checks in the check book so we must have money! He also stated that we are still solvent. Art Wallis filled in for Clay & Pam as newsletter editor. Clay & Pam are out of town, but will be back soon. Art made a request for “personal car stories;” also mentioned that the deadline for articles was July 26th. On July 31st, a group of us will attend the Desert Stages Theatre to see “Best Little Whore House in Texas.” In August, there will be a pool party at the Aubert’s with a Hawaiian theme. August 15th, John Truttman will be in charge of the Breakfast Run & will be planning a route somewhere in the western part of Phoenix. Don’t forget Triumphest coming up this September 30th - October 3rd. Jim Bauder and his brother will be laying out a gymkahna in August and he will lead a contingent starting out on Wednesday. Also this fall, October 2nd - 3rd will be the “British Vintage Voyage.” It was suggested that we take part in the Toys for Tots Drive to Wickenberg in December. Rich is still working on the list of suppliers for repairs for our TRs. Letter To the Editor In tech talk, hazard switches in Spitfires were dis- Letter To the Editor cussed by Armand LaCasse. He also spoke about Most of you know that I had a 5-way coronary bypass the rocker switches for the lights. Joe Glover had a 9 years ago due to the ineptness of a doctor beautiful chrome bumper to show. The work was done attempting to perform an angioplasty and mostly by a company in Tucson, which did a great job for survived the experience. Two weeks ago I underwent a only $180 with a very short turn around time. “bilateral Angiogram” at our local hospital. The doctor discovered that both my Aortic and Ventral heart A picture was donated by Virgil Cole, titled “Poverty valves are now damaged and must be replaced. The Sucks.” It was auctioned off for $24, the winner being operation is scheduled on August 2 (probably at Art Wallis. The meeting adjourned at 7:50. Scottsdale North), and will be performed by the same guy who did my big bypasses 9 years ago, Michael Deta Caskey. If all goes well, I may be able to entertain visitors on the 8th or 9th. I would be pleased to see you all at your convenience. We have made arrangements for Gracie to stay at Brent Baker’s house in Carefree for the duration of my hospital stay. Owners Brent and Judy Baker are in Idaho for the summer. The number at the Baker house is 480-488- 9029 but don’t expect Gracie to answer all of the incoming calls. Baker has caller ID, so she may not recognize the names. Naturally, I’m a little apprehensive about this, so the Doctor has prescribed me some “feel-good” pills to take until August 1. So far they work pretty good. They really should be described as “don’t give a shit” pills. “Life is a series of adventures - some good, some bad” - quote by Tom Pennell (unless I stole it from somebody else). Tom Photo by John Nuss TECH TALK Here are some of the powder coated products During the National you see: Antennas, Anti-chip primer, Ashtrays, Convention for the Auto bodies, Brake assemblies, Bumpers, Vintage Triumph Carburator exteriors, Door handles, Engine Register in blocks, License plate frames, Luggage racks, Richmond, Virginia Mirror brackets, Oil/air/gas filters, Radiators, in July, 2004, Shock absorbers, Steering wheels, Trailers and master powder hitches, seat frames, Springs, Valve covers, coater Fred Wheels, Window trim, and Windshield wipers. Thomas, who So you have the ’58 TR3 almost completely helped open the restored and want to get some parts powder first major Sears coated by the coating shop down the street. auto repair shop in STOP! Before you turn over your trusted parts to 1960, and engineer just anyone there are some key things you can Ronnie Babbitt do to reduce the cost of the job, and more conducted the importantly some basic things you should ask technical session reviewing the finer points of Joe Schmoo before you contract him to do the powder coating from which this article was job. Keep in mind these pointers are good for gleaned. anything you may want powder coated or you It’s tough. It looks great. And it lasts a long, long may want to powder coat yourself.