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For years, I have talked to other vintage car owners concerned with the less than adequate lighting on our vehicles. A few years ago, I improved some of the problem by adding relays for the headlights, and LED bulbs in the other exterior socket locations. Still, it seemed that the rear of our vehicles needed (more…)
Watkins Glen International is a 3.4 mile, 11 turn high speed race track that overlooks Lake Seneca in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Formula 1 called Watkins Glen its US home from 1961 through 1980. Now Indy car, Pirelli World Challenge, IMSA and NASCAR visit the “Glen” each year. We ran the Glen (more…)
The first weekend of June, Team Tiger made the short two-and-a-half hour trip north to Lexington, Ohio and our favorite race track…Mid Ohio. The track is set in the scenic Amish country and is one marketed as the “most competitive” in the US. This is the track where we won our GT2 National Championship in (more…)
– Tom Hillmann It was a beautiful Saturday on June 9th when the NJ Triumphs Association once again held their Touch of England all Brit show on the park like grounds of the old Victorian mansion in HoHoKus NJ known as The Hermitage. While Rick McCurdy brought his Tiger to the Bash a few weeks (more…)
The BASH has become an annual Sunbeam family reunion with old and new TEAE members attending. Lately it’s become an endurance run for Sunbeamers with rain three out of four years. But for the fourth year, Kerch and Joe McConlogue opened the TajMaGarage for fellowship, tech sessions and a mandatory rally. You WILL have fun (more…)
Scanning Rootes documents from the collection New Microfiche Scanner New toy for the Rootes Archive Centre. Thanks to another generous donation from our friend Buck Trippel in the US a new microfiche scanner. The archive includes approx 100,000 drawings on microfiche and this scanner will open that collection up. The scanner will work with batches (more…)
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Do it at the United XXXVII Hi! You all know by now that the 2018 United will be held at Glen Cove, NY on beautiful Long Island. Okay, I am a bit biased, having been born in New York City and raised on Long Island. As a native Long Islander, I want to talk about (more…)
Many people have been following the story of Tom Patton’s 2018 race experiences and have asked for a schedule. Here it is. Links are to his reports of the event… some with video!
First published TEAE Newsletter March 2018 Rootes Review As Team Tiger prepares for the upcoming season, the club has asked me to give a running account of the season in the newsletter. 2018 will mark the thirty-eighth year that we have raced the Tiger. It started with a chance invite to attend an “autocross” competition (more…)