I mentioned travel in the previous blog…if you’re reading this and are in the vicinity of Vancouver, Washington/Portland, Oregon, drop by Commonwealth Classics Ltd, located at 1613 E 4th Street (to the immediate east of Vancouver Barracks National Historic Site). Second Sunday of each month, the owner hosts “Classics & Coffee,” always a good turnout

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Yup, roughly six months from the last post, the result of a few technical issues and increasing, post-pandemic travel, official and otherwise. Anyway, the local clubs are getting back on the road and resuming in-person meetings (yahoo!) and we’ll make an effort to resume regular posts in this forum concerning SLTOA activities plus whatever else

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Southbound on MO 141 near St Luke’s, Saturday afternoon.

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Quite a day yesterday, as a good number of SLTOA members and their Triumphs (as well as a few other cars, including a really nice 1960 Jaguar Mk2 2.4L) turned out in great weather for the club’s first Toys for Tots delivery run. Organized by Chief Elf Bonnie (with the assistance husband Santa Jack) and

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Apparently SLTOA spans a wider area than we realized; thanks to Bob S of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, who sent in this great photo of an MGB GT. He took the photo in Prince Frederick; nice shot, eh?

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Never know what you’re going to see when you stop at a QT in Independence…

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…continues this week from the Alabama Gulf Coast, where rebuild and recovery operations continue post-Hurricane Sally. Lots of piles of debris everywhere, lots of disaster cleanup specialists working and a lot of buildings that received damage. Regret to say, in the week we’ve been down here, I haven’t seen one LBC, save for a couple

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Greetings from Garnett, Kansas, where it’s been a long day and processing photos is making for a late night. I made the trip from St Louis to attend and photograph the LGGPR, observed annually in commemoration of Lake Garnett Park’s status as the site of SCCA racing between 1958 and 1972. The turnout was incredible,

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Earlier today, SCCA Solo II/autocross event No. 6 at Family Arena in St Charles and the usual assortment of highly entertaining vehicles, fast drivers, chills, thrills and the occasional spin-out. And yeah, while I’m the owner of an LBC and proponent of competing in autocrosses in old sports cars, I have to admit: with the

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BTW, yesterday – Saturday, 19 September – would’ve brought the 39th or so rendition of the All British Car & Cycle Show, organized/hosted by the MG Club of St Louis. Ah, but with multiple restrictions still in effect in St Louis County and reasonable concerns about large groups of people in close proximity, the MG

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