The weather turned out great and the moon was full and bright. Thirty-two members and seven guests attended and there was lots of good food and good socializing.
About 8:30 we went for a drive through the adjacent neighborhoods with Gordon driving the Triumph 1800 at the lead car.
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Some of the cars lined up in front of the garage There were ten Triumphs and two Jaguars at the event |
Kathryn climbed into the Dicky seat of the Kenney's TD 1800 for the evening drive. With the rear windshield fully up she could ride in (relative) comfort. These seats are best for agile young people. |
Les Stern and his wife get ready for the drive home. Although it was after 9 PM and the moon was full, members still needed their trusty Lucas systems to light their way home. |
Andys drove his Herald as his TR-6 was recently totaled in an accident which occured during the highway pickup event. |
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Luckily the wreck didn�t catch fire or it could have been a much more serious accident. They both are OK but each have several bruises and sore spots.
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This is the second year that Silvio has arranged for the club to come to Winter Park to display their cars, enjoy the mountains and do a cookout.
The location is the development called the "Rendezvous". He arranged for all the food. The site is along the main highway and usually attracts some visitor traffic.
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At left Scott talks about one of his two MG-C's that he is planning on restoring some day. We had invited the MG club to join us again this year and they were a welcome addition to the group
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The club returned to this locale again for the Spring Car show and it worked well as usual. Something about the busy street/sidewalk traffic and the river and trees along the back makes for a great car show location.
The beautiful TR-250 shown by Paul Fallico received a very well earned recognition as "Best of Show" in this annual show. His TR-250 was the only car in the TR-4/TR-250 so a class win was easy but there was stiff competition for the Best of Show. Not only a great car but also a nice board display about the TR 250's.
This group contained four TR-3's and was parked alongside the highway running through town. These unusual fish-eye photos were made by Dennis Line of "Colorado360". He specializes in taking and producing these unusual panoramic photos. See is work at www.colorado.360.net. Thanks Dennis for photographing our event and sharing the photos.
The club has been going to this annual car show for several years. This year there were 8 Triumphs on display. Bob and JoAnn Klie always add to the event by hosting a cook-out on Saturday evening, having several members sleep in their house and by doing "farm things" on Sunday morning.
This year Ken Kalin has great luck at the car show by winning the pot, worth over $250, in the Chicken s_ _ t bingo.
In spite of a bad weather forecast, the weather turned out nice and about 18 people showed up for this annual event. There were at least eight Triumphs and most of the owners did some work on their cars. Bob Klie was on hand as our Triumph expert and helped several with their cars. Some came for the event even though they weren't driving Triumphs. About noon several drove to the Brewery Bar IV for lunch.
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Here Brooks starts to work on the ignition of his TR3 Several other members were watching, learning something and drinking coffee. |
Vince Lane had driven his TR-6 down from Evergreen and did a compression check, (both dry and wet), checked ignition timing , carb. synchronization and mixture adjustment. He was looking for more power at cruising speeds. |
Bob Klie and Rick Peterson discuss the problem with his TR-4. Bob certainly adds a lot to this event with his extensive of Triumph tuning and repair. |
Brooks Turner installed a electronic ignition unit in his TR-3. It was supposed to be a 20 minute project but some of the parts didn't quite fit his distributor. Bob used a cut-off wheel to eliminate the offending part. But it ran well when finished. |
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At left Bob and Mark talk about the various displays at the museum.
The Daytona coupe sits to the left. |
The lead vehicle is a 15 mph backhoe! |
This is the second year Silvio and his family have hosted this event. There were 25 members present sampling
from about 10 different chilis. Others had brought items such as cornbread, sopapillas and Judi had provided cupcakes, drinks of various sorts and other items.
This year, after the votes for the favorite chili had been counted, it was determined that we had
co-winners, the Altmans and the Tomkins. Both recipes will be published in the newsletter. Everyone had a good time
and nobody dropped a bowl of chili on the carpet.!
Our club visits this great collection of cars every year or so and this year we had
14 members show up on a rather cold and snowy day.
This year we went drove up together, visited the 300+ cars on display, then
went to a brewpub for lunch.
This was the first year for this event; it was was organized by Ralph. There were 19 people in the 14 cars and the late winter weather was delightful with 50 degree temperatures. We drove through Golden, Boulder, Lyons and ended up in Longmont. Lunch was at the Pumphouse Brewery.
The raffle prize was a paid lunch; Ken Kalin celebrates his win.
This was the first time our club had visited this shop which is located just west of SantaFe Blvd. on Union St. south of Belleview. The MG and Healy club were also there for the morning visit.
We looked at the various cars undergoing restoration and listened as Tony told of the many details that make up a successful project. There were two Porsche 356's, a Jaguar XKE, a beautiful AH nearly done, an Alpha and some other vehicles on the floor.
Afterward several of us went to the OLD MILL in Littleton for lunch.
This was the third year for this event that just gets better each year.
The car show on Saturday had about 75 English cars on display. RMTC members Farrells, Firewick, Stoughs and Kenneys all attended the car show (but none of us had a Triumph to show). Gordon and Shirley Kenney entered the event with a rented Ford Mustang convertible and did the Friday 200 mile drive in it.
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