Vol 45, No. 12 December 2018 Tigers on the field at Hilton Head May you enjoy this end of the year holiday in your garage! Or wherever feels right to you! IN THIS ISSUE: President's Message ................................ 3 Sunbeams at Hilton Head ...................... 4-7 Concours Judging Update ........................ 8 Tigers on the field at Hilton Head Island Other Favorite Car Magazines ................. 9 Rare Rootes: Venezia ............................ 10 n November 3 and 4, 2018 there was a gathering of Sunbeam Tigers on Hilton Head Island, SC New Members ....................................... 11 O that I believe to be unprecedented in North Member Spotlight ................................... 12 America. Continued on Page 4 Tool Tip .................................................. 14 2018 OFFICERS PRES ENT Upcoming Events Joe Parlanti 240-632-0649 [email protected] August 15-18, 2019: Rootes United VICE PRES ENT La Crosse, WI James Lindner 703-329-1763 Details at teae.org/united-38 [email protected] SECRETARY Jackie Parlanti 240-632-0649 [email protected] TREASURER Robert Harter 202-986-3680 [email protected] REGALIA Eric Gibeaut 803-408-0206 [email protected] SUBSCR TION RATES US International 1yr 2yr 1yr 2yr Printed $39 $69 $42 $76 Electronic $34 $60 $34 $60 What’s this? Robert Jaarsma’s Venezia in his basement garage. Membership Information and Read more on page 10 address changes: Joe McConlogue [email protected] Checks payable to TEAE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mail to: Joe McConlogue 820 Fishing Creek Valley Rd Tom Calvert Tom Ehrhart David Reina Sy Block Harrisburg, PA 17112 410-255-8964 717-832-1116 718-599-1237 516-532-3154 [email protected] [email protected] Reinadesigns seymourblock Newsletter Submissions: @aol.com @gmail.com Kerch McConlogue Eric Gibeaut Bill Bulpitt Street address above 803-408-0206 770-329-5263 Joe McConlogue [email protected] sunbeams bill.bulpitt 717-474-8311 Publication Guidelines: @sc.rr.com @urs.com baltoalpine teae.org/guidelines/ @gmail.com REGIONAL REPS Carolinas: New Jersey: Chesapeake: (DelMarVa) Midwest: New England: Eric Gibeaut Tom Hillmann Joe Parlanti Curt Bowland David Kellogg 803-408-0206 201-315-3696 240-632-0649 630-455-6697 781-424-9254 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] NewEngland Pennsylvania: Deep South: Canada: Florida: @teae.org Tom Ehrhart Bill Bulpitt Gary Corbett Mike Schreiner Ohio: 717-832-1116 770-329-5263 819-561-2959 561-222-8547 Doug Jennings [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 937-252-3317 2 President’s message As I mentioned last month, I had just finished the inaugural Mille Miglia Warm Up USA. This event is to prepare future Mille Miglia (http://1000miglia.it/?lang=en) entrants for the big event in Italy. My role was course and road book designer along with timing and scoring. Jackie and several of our friends were on hand braving the miserable weather to handle the timing duties. The event started at the Westfields Marriot Center near Dulles airport and covered over 150 miles along some of the most scenic areas in Virginia, Finalizing the results with good friend, and 13 time Maryland and Washington D.C. North American Rally champion, Mark Williams before finally crossing the finish line on Italian-soil at Villa Firenze, the official residence of the Italian Ambassador to the United States. There were some really great cars and all had a wonderful time. My personal favorite was a beautiful 1954 Carozzeria Touring Alfa Romeo 1900 Super Sprint. 1954 Carozzeria Touring Alfa Romeo 1900 Super Jackie handling the scoring duties Sprint. The event promises to be bigger and better next year. For more information, check out the article and photos from Sports Car Digest (https://bit.ly/2DWeL3q) New TAC Inspectors Tom Calvert organized a Tiger Authentication Committee (TAC) training weekend at the home of Clyde and Valeri McLaughlin. Prospective TAC inspectors are Rob Harter, Clyde McLaughlin, Wayne Pierzga and Jim Lindner. Saturday was spent in the classroom with cars on a lift, followed by a comprehensive test. On Sunday, we gathered again and TAC’d two Tigers adding them to the registry. Special thanks goes out to Tom Calvert, our regional senior inspector, for putting this all together. This month in Rootes Review This month’s issue features the first in a new series about Rare Rootes and their special owners in our club. Bill Bulpitt organized a fantastic gathering of Tigers at this year’s Hilton Head Concours and has a report. Jim Lindner has an update on the Concours judging effort that we’ve been working on with the west coast clubs. Our member spotlight this month is the new Canadian Regional Rep, Gary Corbett. Finally, I’d like to welcome 29 new members to our club! See if somebody lives near you and say hello! Happy Holidays. See you in the New Year! 3 ► Continued from Page 1 Sunbeams at Hilton Head Bill Bulpitt/ Deep South TEAE Rep In 2014 we tried to get significantly historical Tiger racecars at Amelia Island and almost succeeded but things fell apart at the eleventh hour. In 2014 some 40 Tigers were assembled at Laguna Seca, CA for some great photographs at the Monterey Historics, but that was not a judged show. My friend David Kirkman is a longtime judge at the Hilton Head Concours, now in its eighteenth year, and he assured me we could “Get Tigers on the Field at Hilton Head” so I started working on that goal in Tigers in Sunday Concours at Hilton Head December 2017. My partner in this activity was Kim involved in the Car Club Showcase assembled at the Barnes of Pylesville, Maryland who is a multiple Hampton Inn to drive enmasse to the nearby Port Tiger owner and also a judge at Hilton Head. We Royal Golf Club for the Show. A pop-up tent was reached out to a number of owners we knew with erected for coffee and donuts. cars that we considered significant. Some committed immediately and The array of cars for the Saturday others later dropped out. show looked quite impressive, both from the air and on the ground. An The Hilton Head show weekend is aerial view is on Page 1 of this really two events – the Saturday issue. show is known as the “Car Club Showcase” which some consider For the Car Club Showcase several akin to a “cars and coffee” where awards were made including the driver quality cars assemble for a Chairman’s Award to Nick relatively low key event. The Kintner (his car was the Designer Sunday show is a judged concours Panel favorite and he participated Tigers line up for the trip the show field where high quality stock cars are in the Chairman’s Parade). invited and judged. For this gathering of Tigers, 15 The Tiger Owners’ Choice was presented to Bill were included in the Showcase and 12 in the Bulpitt. Concours, with an overlap of four cars. Several of the cars were display cars, so only eight cars actually After the show was over for the day approximately got judged. 25 of the Tiger enthusiasts joined up again for dinner at Hudson’s Dockside on the Island. Most participants arrived at Hilton Head on Thursday and Friday. On Friday night 32 Tiger people gathered at the Poseidon Restaurant on the Island. It was a good opportunity to get re -acquainted with old friends and make some new ones. Saturday Activities Early Saturday 32 Tiger friends at Poseidon morning the Tigers Eric Gibeaut’s Tiger at the end of the line of many cars in Restaurant, Hilton Head Island Tiger Group at Hilton Concours November 2018 4 Sunday On Sunday morning the Concours cars were admitted to the field starting about 7 AM. This group of twelve cars were in contention for Best of Class and two Palmetto Awards, based on a rigorous Nick Kintner with his award and Tiger Jim Weddle’s Harrington Tiger judging process. The winners of the Tiger class were announced in early afternoon. The best in class was presented to Jim Weddle with the 1 of 1 Harrington Tiger. The Palmetto awards were presented to Bill Bulpitt’s Tiger with an Allard Brad Phillips in the Hagerty Tiger and Jim Lindner Palmetto Jim Lindner and Award winners Brad Phillips. Unfortunately a heavy “The Spirit of Tigering” Award rainstorm came up in A special award was to be given in memory of the middle of the Gordon Stennes, a longtime Shelby and Tiger owner awards ceremony and and racer. This award was designed by TEAE the presentations had member Ed Gullett and was to be chosen from to be truncated. among the Sunday cars by Gordon’s son Darek. The Award was entitled “The Spirit of Tigering” and was to be given to someone active in the hobby who has done a lot of hands on work on the cars. Bill Freeman, TEAE member, was chosen by Darek to receive this award. Due to the inclement Bill Freeman picks up his award in the weather the rain Concours exhibitors started leaving the show field about 2:30- Cars in contention for top awards 3:00 PM, or at least an hour ahead of schedule. ► 5 ► Thus ended a big event in the history of Tigering. The Best in Show was selected to be a Stutz DV32 In the Concours there were approximately 230 Convertible, and the show also included classic cars of all types and all classes. A total of 23 Tigers speedboats and airplanes. I believe we made a very were involved in the two show days, most of which positive impression on show attendees and belonged to people active in TEAE.