[TR] Triumphs Across America 2009 Charity Run announcement at Triumphest

[Glenn A. Merrell]

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!