<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>So it has happened. Spitfire>6 magazine has announced that I will be taking over as Editor after this next issue (#45). Howard Baugues has been editor for 10 years and is stepping down as editor but will still be a content contributor and consultant. The announcement was made tonight via Facebook. I hated that I couldn't say anything all weekend, but thought it best to let Howard announce it in his own time. I have a lot of writing to do, but know that I will be a Friends of Triumph member for the duration of each article, each event, and every pic.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">It was an absolute pleasure and privilege to meet most of you this weekend. I had more fun
than I can express. It seemed to go so quickly and was a pleasant whirlwind of action through the whole experience. This weekend had so much significance for me and my beautiful wife. We will remember and talk about the weekend many years into the future.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I will be wanting to talk to some of you about your Spitfires and the stories behind them. Without the stories, they are just cars. All of our cars have stories, and that is what interests me most. If you have any stories or pics that you think other Spitfire & GT6 people would be interested in hearing about, submit said stories to me at shawn@triumphspitfire.com or
email them to me at my71spit13@yahoo.com which is my personal email.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Thank you all so much for the warm reception, the outstretched hands, and the views of enthusiasts such as ourselves. We were honored to meet legends like Kas Kastner, Bob Johns, and Dan Fowler. We were privileged to rub elbows with the greats like Joe Alexander, Bill Dentinger, Tony Drews, Chris Marx, Ken Knight (congratulations, btw!!!), Jerry Barker, on and on...A life altering experience for me. Thank you all for that! Onward and upward towards whatever the future brings.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new
roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Honored and humbled...</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Shawn Frank</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Spitfire>6 Magazine-editor</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;">Drive Away Cancer Iowa-driver</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Friends of Triumph/North American Spitfire Squadron#746/Iowa British Car Club</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Continued Legacy (facebook and twitter)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">71 Spitfire MKIV (Gertrude)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">80 Spitfire 1500 (Bradley)</div></div></body></html>