T HE M AGAZINE O F T HE T O R O N to T RIU M PH C LUB S U MM ER 2 0 1 2 Three Models Celebrate 50 Years Souvenir Programme 29th ANNUAL Sponsored by: The Parts You Need To CONTENTS " " ® Keep’em on the Road BCD14 ® BCD8 From the Editor . BCD5 From the Chairman . BCD7 Featured Anniversary Marques BCD20 MGB, 50 Years . BCD8 Triumph Spitfire, 50 Years . BCD14 Lotus Elan, 50 Years . BCD20 Other Featured Marques BMC 1100/1300 . BCD28 Ford Cortina . BCD34 Vauxhall . BCD38 Member’s Pages Club Hub . 3-7. T HE M AGAZINE O F T HE T ORONTO T RIUMPH C LUB S UMMER 2 0 1 2 Ye g 50 ars o Speke Easy . .34 tin f S a p Spring r i b tf le r e e Features ! REVIEW C Fling Club Events: Spring Fling 2012 . 8-11 FREE Parts & Accessories Catalogs for: Marque My Words: Ode to the GT6 . 13-15 TR2, TR3, TR4, TR4A, TR250, On the Cover Quest for that Triumph Smell . 17-19 Scott Douglas in his TR6, TR7, TR8, GT6, Spitfire 1976 unrestored A Pair of Sixty-Sixes . 20-22 Fast Service, Simple Ordering and Quick Delivery. ‘survivor’ TR6 drives Fuel Injection for the Spitfire . .24-26 away from Fern Resort during Spring Fling . Spitfire PI • The “Other” 6 • Time to Shine Bits & Pieces: www.VictoriaBritish.com 1-800-255-0088 Photo by Fern Resort 12 Ragtop.02.06a.indd 1 12-09-05 10:52 AM FREE Parts & Accessories Catalogs Time to Shine . 28-32 Also Available For: British Car Day Programme • September 16, 2012 www.BritishCarDay.com BCD 3 ©2012 Long Motor Corporation, PO Box 14991, Lenexa, Kansas 66285-4991 from the editor SUBMISSIONS Format: MS Word files are preferred. Send via So Many 50ths, So Little Space! email or on CD, 10Mb limit on email files. Send photos separately, do NOT embed in the text file. Welcome to British Car Day and your programme. I hope you find it enhances your show expe- Hard copy submissions are acceptable, but not preferred. Graphics must be in major graphics for- rience and provides some interesting reading. New for this year is an extra large fold-up map of mats, jpeg, tiff or Photoshop files. In Person: To the the show, which you should have received with this programme. Please use it to locate the cars editor at the monthly meetings. and classes for your Participant’s Choice Car Show voting. The ballot box is Mail: 2421 Poplar Crescent, Mississauga, Ontario L5J 4H2 in the Registration area and your votes are very important. E-mail: [email protected] Also new this year are large location maps situated around the park, to find important facilities and key areas of the show and a Lost & Found has ADVERTISING been set up at the TTC tent, beside Registration. Celebrating Over 105 Years in Business Contact the Club’s advertising representative for It must be my age, so many of the cars I remember from growing up in details of dates and submissions. Submit ads as high resolution (min 300 ppi) PDF files, saved for Great Britain are having their 50th Anniversaries in 2012. MGB, Triumph print in CMYK format, fonts embedded, by E-mail Spitfire, Lotus Elan, BMC 1100 and Ford Cortina have all hit the half cen- to [email protected] tury mark. At British Car Day we are highlighting the MGB and Spitfire The advertising year is from Jan.1 to Dec. 31. A copy of Ragtop is sent to all paid advertisers. models with special displays and expect 150 MGBs and over 50 Spitfires, including examples CRESCENT OIL FEATURES of each model year produced. We hope to have several Elans, a few 1100s and a Cortina or 2012 ADVERTISING RATES two for you to enjoy (these models are much rarer and we never know until showtime how Rear Cover ....................... $500 per year many will turn up!) Inside Front Cover .........................$475 In the Ragtop section of this issue starting on page 1 (after the BCD programme), you will Inside Back Cover ..........................$450 Full Page Inside ............................$305 notice a distinctly GT6 flavour. The “Other” 6 is often overlooked and, after Assistant Editor Half Page..................................$185 Terence McKillen had requested submissions from our marque coordinators, we received a Quarter Page ..............................$115 great response from our owner members. Business Cards .............................$70 Full colour ...........................$115 extra British Car Day is the largest British car show in North America and it gets bigger every year. Kendall GT-1 High Performance 20W-50 Motor Oil is Second colour ........................ $75 extra The TTC is a small club and we couldn’t achieve such a large event without the help of other car Flyer Inserts ..............$190/issue (max 4 pgs) clubs, hundreds of volunteers and of course, our corporate sponsors. This year on behalf of the fortified with additional zinc dialkyldithiophosphate (All rates are for 4 issues, except flyers) [email protected] TTC, I’d like say a special thank you to the MG Car Club of Toronto for their Tour de force dis- (ZDDP) additive to provide enhanced wear play of MGBs, closely followed by my colleagues at the TTC for the Spitfire collection and a big protection and oxidation resistance. It is particularly 2012 SCHEDULE shout out to our new Gold sponsor - Autoglym - who have joined Crescent Oil, Budd’s Imported effective in turbocharged engines and in high- Issue Deadline Mailed Cars and Lant Insurance/Hagerty in providing their valuable support. Last but not least, I want Spring..............April 1..........End of April to thank Exotic Car Tours and the British Car Council for their generous draw prize donations. performance engines with flat-tappet camshafts, Summer ............June 10 .........End of July Fall/BCD Program . .August 12 .. Mid September Have an amazing British Car Day! especially during the critical break-in period. The Winter..............Nov. 18......Mid December David Fidler, Editor newly formulated oil now contains Liquid Titanium General Enquiries which improves fuel economy and provides extra [email protected] Thanks to Our Sponsors Ragtop is published quarterly by the Toronto Tri- protection against engine wear. umph Club Inc. (“TTC”) and is distributed to its members as part of their annual dues. The TTC or the Editors cannot accept responsibility for the safe return of any submitted material. We will do our best, but accidents do occur. British Car Day Committee British Car Day Programme We accept no responsibility for errors or omis- Chairman: David Sims Editor & Publisher: David Fidler 905 .829 .9340 sions. Opinions expressed are those of the authors Secretary: Andrew Grace and do not necessarily reflect those of the TTC Ex- Art Director: Michael Cleland ecutive or Membership. Volunteer Coordinator: Chris Lindsay Copyright © 2012 by the TTC. Advertising Sales: Ian Parkhill 905 .317 .3784 Sponsorship: Frank Manning David Fidler Non-profit groups may reprint articles from this Frank Manning publication, where the author has not reserved Vendors: Ian Parkhill & Alistair Wallace rights, provided we get credited and both the au- “British Car Day” ® is the registered trademark of the Toronto Triumph thor and TTC receive a copy of the publication in Park Liaison: Wayne McGill Club Inc . This programme and its contents may not be reproduced or distributed by any means without permission of the TTC . Most articles and Computer Services: Vic Whitmore its entirety. photography contained herein have been supplied by various car clubs Distribution by Pillar Direct Marketing Services. Dave Copping and are credited as such, where appropriate . This material remains their property and reproduction is expressly forbidden, except by permission Printed by Printwell Offset for the Toronto Triumph Director of Communications: David Fidler from them and the TTC . 136 Cannon Street West, Hamilton Club. Event Photographer: Larry Llewellyn Printed by Printwell Offset, Brampton, Ontario . Canada Post Publications # 40022175 Field Layout: Johan Aaltink Copyright © 2012 by the TTC . 905 527 2432 • Free Delivery • 1 800 263 6483 British Car Day Programme • September 16, 2012 www.BritishCarDay.com BCD 5 from the chairman Executives A Day to Remember President . David Tushingham 905 .830 .9124 Vice President . .Ian Parkhill 905 .637 .2034 When David Tushingham, TTC President, Secretary . Andrew Grace 416 .763 .3824 asked for a volunteer to chair this year’s Brit- Treasurer . .Chris Lindsay 416 .233 .7360 ish Car Day I said, “sure” ... then he fixed me Director of Communications . David Fidler 905 .829 .9340 Director at Large . Wa. yne McGill 905 .847 .5532 with his beady eye and said “Of course it’s Director at Large . Scott Douglas 905 .334 .4020 The Toronto Triumph Club’s 29th year of put- ting on this highly successful show and it’s Past President . Johan Aaltink 705 .456 .4276 THE largest LBC event in North America” … in other words don’t screw this up, Sims! Ragtop Magazine Fast forward to today … it’s been a ton of fun and a pleasure to work with a bunch of such Editor & Publisher . David Fidler 905 .829 .9340 dedicated volunteers to bring you this year’s offering which will be bigger and better than Assistant Editor . Terrence McKillen 647 .202 .8243 Distribution . .Ro . d Jones - Pillar Direct 416 .755 .9494 ever, including two exciting draws; win a day with an Aston Martin courtesy of GTA Exot- Art Director . Michael Cleland 905 .873 .7704 ics and win your classic car insurance for a year courtesy of The British Car Council. I’d Advertising Sales . .Ian Parkhill 905 .637 .2034 like to take this opportunity to say a special thank you to David Freeman who has driven all David Fidler 905 .829 .9340 Club Photographer .