(Photo by S. Moore) Doggone, another nice one a couple of days back and as the temperature rose to the vicinity of 40 degrees, I came THIS CLOSE to getting the HSD (my ’80 TR8) out of the garage and out for a romp. Back when I had the WFRRPC, the lower temp limit for…

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Originally the plan involved one (probable) final drive of the TR8 for the season today, Veterans Day. BUT, last evening, still warm, clear skies and sunset beckoning, I went ahead and took The Doorstop out. Enjoyed a delightful 40-or-so-minute local patrol and knocked off a couple of errands to boot. In retrospect, good thing I…

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SLTOA did something of a split-squad thing today, with several members running in the last Boeing Sports Car Club autocross of the season and the others heading out on the 2nd Annual Veteran’s Day Drive. We’ll have to wait a few days to get the results from the autocross, which’ll determine this season’s “champion” of…

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  Helluva good weekend, to use technical terms. Yesterday YFE managed to get up in a biplane for the first time, a birthday present from Bride of Morganstein; had an absolute ball, particularly the aerobatics. First time I’ve done them since, oh, an 1V1 ACM hop over Mobile Bay in a TA-4J back in late…

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Another entry in the “If you show up with these on your car, you’ll lose your Triumph card” category (and if you must, www.tansywheels.com).

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Just got back from an 11-hour, out-and-back to Kansas City to check out a TR8…and as anyone in the Midwest knows, the rain has now continued for three days, with major thunderstorms and downpours particularly evident today. Which resulted in one of those meaning of life moments… Outside of Columbia, MO, this morning, westbound, visibility…

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Temperatures plummeting, leaves turning (and, if my front yard is any indication, also plummeting), like I said, hope every TR owner’s heater works!  Out on patrol briefly today, the one standout was a Ford Mustang Boss 302 in proper Schoolbus Yellow, the same color used by the Bud Moore team in the ’70 TransAm series. …

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Which is MilSpeak for “Return to Base;” after 2.5 weeks manning a watch in Annapolis, I’m heading back to St Louis later this afternoon. I won’t add an “MMC” (“Mission Complete”) following my return home tonight as I fully expect I’ll be coming back here within a week or two. In the meantime, spied a…

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About halfway through the current extended tour in the vicinity of the Chesapeake and I fell in with one of the local Triumph clubs, the Capital Triumph Register. They extended an invitation to participate in a Saturday afternoon backyard BBQ at the home of a member down by La Plata, on the peninsula between the…

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End of the day yesterday, on the drive back to my sister’s place in Bowie from Annapolis, took the back road (MD 214) and holy cow, FINALLY saw an LBC! (trust me, they’re all over, I just hadn’t been in the right place at the right time up ’til now).  Unfortunately, I didn’t have my…

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