Hello All:
We have arrived back home after traveling 1940 miles round trip from
Colorado to Triumphest in Laughlin Nevada. The Stag performed
flawlessly, carrying us in comfort, style, grace and performance to many
spectacular places out and back including Wolf Creek Pass on the
Continental Divide, Monument Valley, the South Rim of the Grand Canyon,
Historic Route US 66.
Say, how do you go from "85 to 35" in 24 hours?? Depart Laughlin
Nevada travel through Las Vegas, and 24 hours later be crossing the
Rocky Mountains at 10,600 feet - Vail Pass with a foot of snow on the
surrounding mountain peaks!! 85 degrees F in Laughlin and Las Vegas, 35
degrees F at the top of Vail Pass on I-70.
My thanks to DCTRA for a great show. I think the final tally was
somewhere around 113 Triumphs, one Saab, and one Corvair. =-O
I would like to hear thoughts and comments on the presentation for
Triumphs Across America 2009 Charity Run I made at Triumphest's Awards
Dinner.
This is quite the undertaking by John Macartney and many volunteers on
both sides of the pond.
So your comments, good, bad, indifferent, wanting to participate,
wanting to sponsor, wanting to contribute, wanting to volunteer are all
welcome, but we would really like to hear and read overwhelming support
for this endeavor. I will let John respond to the thoughts and comments
directly.
Look for more information in the upcoming The Vintage Triumph magazine
due out sometime in late October. I imagine the event will also be in
the other Classic Car publications before year end, with interviews with
John himself.
Also the web site for this event is to be connected soon. This will
have all the details on how to participate, including PDF copies of the
Power Point presentation you saw at Triumphest 007 if you were there.
For a heads up, we are planning to attend Triumphest in Lake Tahoe in
2008. Master event planner Richard Gibbons is the event chair, so it
will be a great celebration covering 50 years of one of the oldest
Triumph Clubs around. Our trip from Colorado will be on US Highway 50,
one of the original Coast -to-Coast roads before interstates, also
known as "The loneliest road in America" US 50 goes from Baltimore
Maryland to San Francisco California. US 50 goes right to Lake Tahoe
through great scenic areas of the South West.
And don't forget, VTR SE Regional Convention is at Jekyll Island in 4
days, then the North American Triumph Challenge VTR National Convention
in Michigan for 2008, and - history in the making - the North American
Triumph Challenge VTR National Convention to coincide with Triumphest
2009 in San Luis Obispo California in October 2009.
Cheers!*__*
--
Glenn A. Merrell
Chairman, Triumph Stag Club USA (2007-2009)
The best trophies are miles on the odometer, stone chips in the paint, dead
bugs on the windshield!
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