In the final installment of this episode of “The Triumphs Of Our Lives,” Saturday 21 March, another great turnout and challenging route. For this drive, which started in Washington and wound up in north St Charles, with a total of 16 cars and about 30 participants. The procession included five TR6s, two TR7s (including Creig

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Moving right along, on 15 February SLTOA opened it’s 2026 driving season with the annual Polar Bear Run. The drive’s the longest-running major event with the club, dating to the first Polar Bear in early 1983. This year we had about 42 participants in 25 or so cars, the usual mix of Triumphs, MGs, an

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Once again, attempting to get caught up on the blog, following two computer crashes (the second resulting in the purchase of a new laptop). Throw in the end-of-year holidays and a couple of snowfalls and things just got a tad crazy (in the words of Bill Murray, “dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”). Anyway,

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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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