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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Naaah….I’d prefer the convertible with carbs (photo taken at HW Kia on Manchester).

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At some point several years ago, the Triumph faithful made a drive 40 miles south to De Soto under the title of “Targa De Soto,” incorporating a photo stop at the restored Texaco station on Main Street and lunch. Well, earlier this year, when discussions came up among the membership and leadership about drive opportunities

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…and the hits just keep on coming. Directly across US 64 and the English Ford, on the west side of Crump, Tennessee, more highly entertaining cars. The group included a ’64 Corvair Monza coupe, a mid-50s Packard Clipper, ’50 Studebaker and a few others. Our feature attraction, this late ’50s Jaguar MkIX. Yeah, it’s rough

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