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 Potomac and Patuxent Rivers (hoo-hah, what great country).

There, host and CTR member Bill Goodwin had his three Triumph Heralds lined up: a 1964 red Fixed-Head, ’65 blue FHC and the really entertaining model, the ’65 Estate. First one I’d seen; Bill said that according to Herald historian/statistician Andy Mace, it was one of only four running Herald “station wagons” in North America. AND, it’s all original: 23,000 miles and never restored. Incredible.

It was a great afternoon with a great bunch of people. More info and photos in the October issue of “Exhaust Notes.”