T HE M AGAZINE O F T HE T O R O N to T RIU M PH C LUB S PRING 2 0 1 3 Anniversary Models Down East Adventure • Standard Vanguard • Craig Hill The Parts You Need To " " ® contents Keep’em on the Road Spring 2013 24 ® 14 30 Member Pages From the Editor......................5 From the President ..................7 Club Hub........................9/10 Event Calendar .....................11 Owner’s Manual . 13 21 Features 34 TR Travels: It Isn’t My Fault .................14-19 Marque My Words: 40 Standard Vanguards & Triumphs 21/22 Ye Cover Story: g 50 ars o tin f S ra p Triumph Anniversaries..........24-29 b it f T HE M AGAZINE O F T HE T ORONTO T RIUMPH C LUB S PRING 2 0 1 3 le r e e Historically Speaking: ! C Anniversary Triumph TR2 Reaches 60 ........30-32 Models Obituary: Craig Hill .......................34/35 FREE Parts & Accessories Catalogs for: On the Cover Restoration: The Triumph 10/20 was the TR2, TR3, TR4, TR4A, TR250, 6 & 2 3s, Part 10.................36-38 first production Triumph and 2013 The 72 Day Project..............40/41 TR6, TR7, TR8, GT6, Spitfire marks the 90th year since it first rolled off the Triumph production Maintenance: Fast Service, Simple Ordering and Quick Delivery. line. This very rare example was photographed outside the Heritage Dashpot Seal Fix................43-45 www.VictoriaBritish.com 1-800-255-0088 Motor Centre, Gaydon UK. Tail Lites: Photo by Derek Graham, Down East Adventure • Standard Vanguard • Craig Hill FREE Parts & Accessories Catalogs historian for the UK TR Register. Bits and Pieces .................... 46 Also Available For: RAGTOP I SPRING I 2013 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 Drive Your Triumph preferred. Graphics must be in major graphics for- mats, jpeg, tiff or Photoshop files. In Person: To the editor at the monthly meetings. Remember that list of jobs I had to do on Rosie? Mail: 2421 Poplar Crescent, Well, at the time of writing, I’m enjoying my warmth and the garage Mississauga, Ontario L5J 4H2 hasn’t really been a hospitable place. I did try to make a start a couple of E-mail: [email protected] weeks ago, on one of those warmer days they sent just to tease us. I fired her up to back her out while I moved some of my son’s junk, which had ADVERTISING been piled up around her over the winter – junk I’d asked him to clear out Contact the Club’s advertising representative for details of dates and submissions. Submit ads as of the basement, I guess he missed the part where I said, “... and take it to high resolution (min 300 ppi) PDF files, saved for the dump” – anyway, I hit the brakes and... nothing, the pedal went to the print in CMYK format, fonts embedded, by E-mail floor. So that’s another thing to add to the list. to [email protected] The advertising year is from Jan.1 to Dec. 31. A I’m delighted to say that we’ve reinstated some of your regular monthly meetings, which copy of Ragtop is sent to all paid advertisers. in recent years were preempted by other events. To explain, in a month where we had say Ancaster Flea Market or Spring Fling, we would substitute them for our monthly meeting. 2013 ADVERTISING RATES This will still happen for British Car Day in September, where we’re all too busy to a hold a Rear Cover ....................... $500 per year separate meet, but your meeting coordinator(s) and I have agreed that we will try to have a Inside Front Cover .........................$475 Inside Back Cover ..........................$450 club meeting scheduled every month from now on. To this end, we had tech sessions lined Full Page Inside ............................$305 up for April and May and are looking into some other new things for our summer meet- Half Page..................................$185 ings. We want everyone to be involved with the club and realize that not all of you can go Offering The Quarter Page ..............................$115 Business Cards .............................$70 to Ancaster, Spring Fling or the Canadian Classic etc. Full colour ...........................$115 extra To assist with this, please send any ideas or possible locations for our meetings to one Second colour ........................ $75 extra of our meeting coordinators (Patrick or Clive), or myself. Ideally we would like to meet in Antique, Classic, Special Interest Flyer Inserts ..............$190/issue (max 4 pgs) (All rates are for 4 issues, except flyers) different areas, east, west and north of Toronto, so everyone can have an opportunity to and Modified/Street Rod [email protected] participate in their local area. We’re having a great year (mine in particular, as I’ve just found out I’m going to be a Automobile Insurance 2013 SCHEDULE granddad for the first time in November!), with great meetings, drives and events, includ- Program Issue Deadline Mailed ing our 30th British Car Day. So, once you’ve read this packed issue of Ragtop, plan to par- Spring..............April 1..........End of April Summer/BCD .......July 30 ..... Mid September ticipate in as many things as you can and most importantly – drive your Triumph! Fall.................October 11 ......November Winter..............December 6 ..January 2014 General Enquiries [email protected] — David Fidler Ragtop is published quarterly by the Toronto Tri- 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. We accept no responsibility for errors or omissions. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the TTC Execu- tive or Membership. Copyright © 2013 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 SPRING I 2013 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 Great Events Secretary . .Alistair Wallace 905 .627 .2941 Business Hours: ........................... Monday to Friday - 8 AM to 5 PM Treasurer . .Chris Lindsay 416 .233 .7360 Director of Communications . David Fidler 905 .829 .9340 Last year, Spring arrived early. Director at Large . W. ayne McGill 905 .847 .5532 March temperatures were in the Director at Large . Scott Douglas 905 .334 .4020 high teens and many members 142 Kendall Street, Point Edward, Ontario CANADA N7V 4G5 Past President . Johan Aaltink 705 .456 .4276 took advantage of this warm Ragtop Magazine weather to get their cars out of Editor & Publisher . David Fidler 905 .829 .9340 storage early. I even joined sev- Assistant Editor . Terence McKillen 647 .202 .8243 Distribution . .Rod . Jones - Pillar Direct 416 .755 .9494 eral other TTC members for a Art Director . Michael Cleland 905 .873 .7704 quick west end drive. This year MG & TRIUMPH Specialists Advertising Sales . David Fidler 905 .829 .9340 Spring was quite the contrast, Club Photographer . .Larry Llewellyn 416 .245 .9217 with a lingering threat of snow Browse the website Website and temperatures struggling to Web Manager . David Copping 905 .827 .6970 reach the mid, single digits. Website Classifieds . David Copping 905 .827 .6970 www.obsoleteauto.com for We were commenting on this at the March monthly meeting, where we enjoyed a updates on stocked parts and secure Club Coordinators talk and product demonstration by Auto Glym representative, Dave Lambert. However, Membership . Scott Douglas 905 .332 .5602 the uncertain weather didn’t stop a great turnout and thankfully, this seems to be the access to online ordering. The parts Meeting Coordinators . Patrick Caria 416 .562 .1642 C trend for 2013. you need, any time or day. Clive Huizinga 905 .884 .2091 M Interclub Coordinator . Tony Fox Sr. 905 .632 .0479 As I write this, Spring Fling, being held in beautiful Peterborough, Ontario, is only a few Ambassador at Large . W. ayne McGill 905 .847 .5532 weeks away. I have to tell you how encouraged I am with the overwhelming amount of pre- Y Regalia . Dion Widrich 416 .464 .6057 registrants for this great event, being organized this year by TTC members Alex and Sharon CM Historians . .Wayne McGill 905 .847 .5532 Frank Manning 905 .643 .2359 McLeod. It is definitely unprecedented to have a completely sold out event, almost three MY Volunteer Coordinator . .Ron Etty 905 .547 .2419 months in advance... 72 cars and 138 people are confirmed and raring to go. BCD Sponsors . Frank Manning 905 .643 .2359 CY We have a full schedule of great events planned throughout the 2013 driving season, Motorsports . Simon Rasmussen 905 .853 .2514 CMY more monthly meetings, tech sessions and drives.