[6pack] Triumph Trans-America - Latest news from the UK

[John Macartney]

Hi, Everyone

This is just to let you all know there have been recent updates to the event website at 
www.triumphtransamerica.org.uk that hopefully a goodly number of you will find interesting?

To start with, 'Stagmeister' Joe Pawlak and his loyal band of smashed knucklers at Illinois Sports 
Owners Association have made real progress with the car. The front and rear suspension is in place, 
the body is fully painted and the engine rebuild is well underway. If you haven't seen the website 
recently, there are some new pix so you can see what's going on.

Additionally, I'm now delighted to be able to confirm the route details, dates and venues (where 
known and confirmed) are now on the website as well. Click on the route on the site sidebar and 
apart from the latest map, you'll be able to see where "uncle jack" and I will be at any time or 
date. There are still a number of things to firm up regarding events but the bare bones are now in 
place. We had a major disappointment a few weeks ago when the US charity we'd hoped to work with, 
decided for reasons we're still not too sure about - to withdraw from the TTACD. The search is now 
on to identify and recruit a fully accredited and registered US 501c3 non-profit to work with us. 
Hopefully, we'll be able to reveal all when that sanction is gained.

>From now onwards, the next stages of the event are to identify which clubs close to the route want 
to join in on the Drive itself. Who wants to join a caravan and who doesn't - where each caravan 
will start and finish etc etc. I'll also soon be opening the doors for 'caravanners' to book their 
rallyboard or a seat in "uncle jack" as he makes his noble (and noisy) progress across Canada and 
the U.S.

Four months to go now = and counting

Jonmac