Lest you haven’t heard, what with expected snow and questionable road conditions, SLTOA rescheduled its annual Polar Bear Run for Sunday, 2 March. Event details remain the same: drivers will meet at the Westport parking lot along Westport Plaza Drive between the Fee Fee Rd and Progress Parkway entrances around 10:30am. There will be a…

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Also seen at the museum annex at Gillespie Field: a somewhat modified Citroen 2CV. . .any budding test pilots out there?

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Nice MGB GT seen at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, CA, Saturday, 15 February. The Mercedes-Benz 450 SL’s in pretty good shape, save for faded paint. Gillespie Field served as a Marine Corps auxiliary during World War II and has all sorts of interesting aircraft scattered about. The highlight’s probably the San Diego Air &…

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Welcome to 2025 and our traditional first drive of the year, Polar Bear. This event goes back about 43 years to the founding of the St Louis Triumph Owners Association; being in mid-February, you’re guaranteed wildly variable weather. We’ll provide details and photos on the event in about a month. In the meantime, if you’re…

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Man oh man, talk about being AWOL…2.5 months since the annual SLTOA Veterans Run, 3.5 months since the last post here, time to get caught up. We had good weather again this year and an excellent turnout of 28 folks in 18 cars, including 10 Triumphs. This year’s standout? The Police Interceptor, driven by the…

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Something else you wouldn’t normally expect to see in the LBC world. (Pulled from LinkedIn, posted by gtepete at Motorhome Chat)

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A vehicle you normally wouldn’t expect to see in Piggott, Arkansas. Saw the Jag yesterday (Mon 14 Oct) on a drive from west Tennessee back to St Louis.

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Holy cow, what a day…THE long-standing big event for the local British car faithful, held at Creve Coeur Lake Park on Saturday, 21 September. According to one of my contacts with the MG Club of St Louis (the event organizing club), they had 121 pre-registrations and I figure we wound up with about 130 on…

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Incredibly nice Saturday in St Louis and traffic on Manchester was a mess, due to the big annual Manchester Homecoming Celebration. That event apparently included a parade with some really nice cars…which, of course, I missed (rats). However, I did stumble across this immaculate 1970 Pontiac Le Mans with 455 ci V8 (whuf!), which served…

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St Louis’ Triumph faithful got out again Thursday evening, 29 August, with a drive from Gravois Bluffs south to Johnny’s Hideout in High Ridge. The participants enjoyed an incredible assortment of scenic and winding (and narrow!) roads; all agreed it was a great drive. Next major event for the club? Possibly another drive in mid-September…

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