We all arrived at Family Arena in St Charles under seriously overcast skies, had some minor spritzing of rain during the first driver’s meeting (which sent all of the convertible owners scrambling to put their tops up), but afterwards the skies cleared, leaving us the perfect day for an SBCC autocross. Several members of SLTOA

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Running into the third week of August and holy cow, the late afternoons/ evenings hereabouts constitute perfect driving weather!  And, while the calendar’s going to start thinning out in a couple of months, we still have plenty of great opportunities locally to get out for some runs. Speaking of, Greg of The Blue Spitfire Group

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According to reports, British forces quickly moved inland…

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Quite a Saturday hereabouts: another huge turnout at the monthly Cars & Coffee up in Westport, with perfect weather and the usual highly entertaining variety of vehicles.  The ’48 Packard convertible was a stunner, as was the mid-60’s Ferrari which apparently had a racing history back in Yurp.  We heard something to the effect that

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BTW, the Dodge Colt?  It has a Mopar 440 crammed into, with full roll cage…   Well, woke up early this AM to thunderstorms and a check of the weather radar revealed a second line of storms working its way towards St Louis. Sure ’nuff, got the email from Racer Steve that what with the

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How’s this?  Two blue Spits with a blue Miata and Greg in (of course) blue…   Pretty much perfect weather this AM for Cars & Coffee, about 260 cars on hand including a good contingent from SLTOA: two of the club’s three blue spits (Greg and Bob), Chairman of the Board Dave’s TR3, the TR6s

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Made the run to the Big Bend/Kirkwood Sonic again tonight and again, a good turnout with a lot of really nice cars.  This week yours truly carried the flag for the LBCs but it was still fun and the gathering even saw an Italian contingent in the form of a Ferrari Mondial convertible. On the

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No, the owner’s name was not Max Rockatansky   Seen at the Sonic Cruise earlier this evening.   A bunch of us watched him pull in and attempted to identify the various cars which, er, contributed to the project; best we could tell, he started with a ’57 Ford and added the grill and surrounds from

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I tell you, the-every-Friday night car cruise at the Big Bend & Kirkwood Sonic – organized by the Outsiders Car Club – is a royal hoot.  Not a big group, perhaps 40-50, cars but quite an eclectic collection with a lot of friendly people. Three of us carried the LBC flag tonight (four if you

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Okay, first autocross in well over a year and I’ll be the first to admit, my reflexes aren’t what they were 44 years when I first started running events like this in Tucson, AZ BUT, I can say this: I did NOT have the oldest car there (that was Dave’s ’71 TR6) and I was

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