[Fot] 50th ANNIVERSARY OF TRIUMPH MAGAZINES AVAILABLE

[n197tr4 at cs.com]

yup....40th   50th    now looking at 60th.

MID-OHIO 1992 was the first big event we ran..Sean drove. That year was a
milestone for the Alexanders......and all influenced by Wismer, Dentinger,
Brick, et. al.

MID-OHIO 2002 caused me to invite Kas, although I had never met him.  Then the
following year Kas & I initiated the Kastner Cup.   Magical Stuff.

Of course this all led to Kas writing 3 books with a 4th Book just days away
from printing...in Iowa, BTW.

Mid-Ohio 2002 in the VTR magazine is timely reading as it sets the stage for
2012. Not that far away....maybe 18 months or so.

Planning is well advanced on the 60th Anniversary of the Sports Triumph.

50 Triumphs at this event will not be an unreasonable expectation and it will
be very international.

But wait....could Laguna Seca be in our future first?  This has been announced
for June of 2011, but details are still being worked on.

Joe Alexander




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From: BillDentin at aol.com
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Subject: Re: [Fot] 50th ANNIVERSARY OF TRIUMPH MAGAZINES AVAILABLE


Joe....

I'm a VTR member back to the late 1970s, and ''I've saved that issue.

A great event that will always be near the top of my list is the 1992 Mid-Ohio
event, when there was that incredible turnout of street Triumphs.  They were
given an all-Triumph tour of the track and I remember they were bumper to
bumper, often two abreast, all the way around the circuit.  I don't know how
many were there, but it seemed like millions.

Another neat collector item important to Triumph folk was a subsequent issue
of Road & Track that included Peter Egan's article that started out, "I guess
I knew that there were that many TRIUMPHS, but who'd have thought they'd all
show up..."   And they DID!  Seems like the ALL showed up.

Kas missed that event.  If I remember correctly, he was killing Porsche race
cars up at Limerock that week end.  Later that year I took my panorama
photograph of all of the vintage race cars from the event up to Road America
for him to autograph.  It was an IMSA practice day, and Kas and I sat at a
table in his paddock and he told me stories about all of the models.  A quirk
to the story was that the only other person in the paddock at the time was
super hot shoe, Geoff Brabham, who was sitting over in the corner by himself.
I remember a quizzical look on his face that seemed to say, "What the hell's
that all about."

Bill Dentinger