Fall color? Plenty of it, although the effect was muted somewhat by the solid overcast. Still, a good-sized, hearty crew made the run. The cars included two TR6s, one TR7/V8, one TR8, one Spitfire, plus one each MGB and MIdget, a reeally nice Austin-Healey 3000 and a number of other vehicles. Which one drew the

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Yup, running late again BUT, hopefully on 20 September you had an opportunity to go by Creve Coeur Lake Park for the 43rd edition of the All British Car & Cycle Show. According to the organizing club, the MG Club of St Louis, a total of 154 cars were on display, including close to 20

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St Louis is a great place for sports/special interest car ownership and driving. A lot of our club drives take place to the west and southwest of the city or across the Mississippi in the Illinois bluffs, where the twisty roads are. Ah, but the flatlands of north St Louis and St Charles Counties provide

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Oh by the way, in and around the run-up to our typical full slate of driving and other vehicular events during the spring and summer, members of SLTOA took part in the annual Forest Park Easter Concours, on 20 April (yeah, we’re running that late). The region had some typically rough spring weather the previous

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Here you go: a 1959 TR3, for sale at Affordable Classics on McLoughlin Blvd in Gladstone, Oregon, south of Portland.

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Spied onboard Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on 20 March. Shameless plug: if you’re planning a trip to the greater DC-Baltimore area, take the time to call up the web pages of the Capital Triumph Register (https://www.capitaltriumphregister.org) and Triumphs Around the Chesapeake (https://www.tracltd.org) and proceed to the calendar section to see if there’s a drive or

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Sunday, 2 March, near perfect weather (okay, it was a tad chilly at the starting point in Westport, but tops still went down. We had about 50 participants in 36 vehicles; as per usual with this event, the turnout included a good assortment of non-Triumphs with a few truly unique cars. The drive ended at

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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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