Easter is here already, the year seems to be going so fast, lots of great quality events so far, and especially with all the events fast approaching also I think the year is going to be one to remember.

I see the TSOA WA have already pencilled in an agenda and dates for the 2014 National Rally so if you are a long term planner, check their website for more details.

I also have some long term plans for our club. I want to keep it fun and exciting and grow it however we can. At the latest meeting I mentioned there are Triumphs for sale, over 70 across the internet in Australia, so encourage your friends and family to turn off the TV then consider filling that void in their life with a classic car and some wonderful social events and the best group of south Aussies they will ever meet. They can then show us their new pride and joy on stage at an upcoming meeting.

At the last meeting a member put forth a suggestion of what he would like to see in the magazine , don’t be shy. Especially those members who for what ever reason can’t attend meetings, please feel welcome to pass on ideas and suggestions for perhaps your only communication with the club.

We are also seeking a new Magazine Editor this year, if you would love to learn the ropes and some new computer skills, or already have skills in that area, we would love to hear from you.

Until next time , safe and happy travels.
Duane

Long standing TSOA member Peter Leibich is always happy to be out and about in his TR6, complete with
loud music and blonde . . . naturally!

Hi and welcome to another month of Sporting Triumphs.

Our Triumph sporting calendar commences with the MSCA Supersprint series on Sunday 24th of March. I wish all of our Triumph competitors good fortune for the coming season.

The MSCA picnic presentation day was held in extremely hot conditions. Combined with the fact that the All British Day was held the week earlier possibly explains the poor attendance by our club. Hopefully next year with some extra notice and some pleasant weather we can again have a display of Triumphs at next year’s event.

The Sporting Car Club is hosting the National Historic race meeting over Easter. Saturday and Sunday is circuit racing at Mallala. Clubs are welcome to participate in a display day on Saturday to be held on the lawns behind the control tower with parade laps around the circuit during the lunch break. If you wish to display your car you can find details and entry forms on the Sporting Club website . . .  http://www.sportingcarclubsa.org.au/documents/2013%20Mallala%20Events%20Calendar.doc

Easter Monday hillclimb at Collingrove    great day to have a picnic.

Until Next Month,

Rick Staehr

Coming Events

9th -10th        March          National Historics Phillip Island Vic

14th – 17th March     Australian F1 Grand Prix

24th –  March MSCA Supersprint Rd 1 Mallala

30th March – 1st April National Historic Races – Mallala

6th & 7th April  – Mt. Alma Mile Mt. Alma

Annual Weekender

Saturday May 25th and Sunday May 26th

Come along and visit the Fleurieu Peninsula

Meet: Saturday 25th May 9.00am Burnside Town Hall

Saturday run will travel through the Adelaide Hills with morning tea at Callington at the Old Police Station, then through to Langhorne Creek, to Lunch at the Old railway station at Milang, then continuing the run through the beautiful Inman Valley to afternoon tea at Glazier Rock Café and into Victor Harbor to the Beachfront Holiday Park for the overnight stay in their magnificent Studio apartments.

BBQ tea on site in the camp kitchen allowing the usual fun and frivolities without having to drive anywhere!

Sunday breakfast onsite in the camp kitchen, then free to spend the morning in Victor Harbor visiting the markets, Granite Island, the Whale centre, the wooden toy factory and other places of interest and finishing off with Lunch at the Victor Harbor Golf Club with its magnificent views of the coast line, before heading back to Adelaide.

Bring: Drinks (glasses) and nibbles for Saturday night

Cost:  still only $200.00 per couple/twin share $140.00 single Payment due April meeting -17th April

Bookings with Bill/Margie 0438836837

All British Day at the Echunga Oval was a great day for all. With 880 British Cars to look at, food and fairs to be enjoyed by all. Great new venue and beaut weather all added to the day. A huge thank you to Arrand Ellery and those who assisted in any way to set up our club display.

Bob Cini has volunteered to join me on the ABD Committee next year to keep our club presence and involvement strong.

Ladies lunch held on the 12th February at the new venue Adelina’s Café at Burnside Civic Centre was also a good move. Numbers were up and a good time was had by all.  Next meeting will be at the same venue on 9th April.

Next mid week run is an afternoon run on 6th March followed by Sunday 17th March to Tenafeate Creek winery at One Tree Hill where we have enjoyed good food and fellowship before – my son Dean and wife Tammy have set this run – their very first attempt at setting a club run.

April 21st is a must diary date for our Annual Breakfast run which this year will be Brunch.

Margie and I have been busy organising this year’s annual weekender and have put together what we believe to be a fabulous program for this year. Some very interesting places to visit and great accommodation are just some of the highlights. Look for flyer this edition of Trak and book early!

Birthday greetings to Tricia Lill, Bob Cini, Angela Williams, Rory Gibson, Bryan Young, Bill Smith, Aaron Maynard and Vicki Langdon.

’til next time

Bill Berlemon

Congratulations to Naomi and Darren on the birth of baby Lily.  Naomi, Darren and Lily joined us for the Technical Lunch which was great to welcome our newest member into the club!

Congratulations also to Pete and Nat Berlemon on the very early arrival of their baby son Samuel at 29 weeks, (grandparents Bill and Margie very excited) and I am pleased to report Samuel is doing very well although still in hospital.

Also Peter & Julie Davidge who became grandparents to a little boy.

The Ladies lunch tried out the new venue of Adeline’s Café at Burnside and it worked well with a varied menu, good facilities and more members attended.  We even had a couple of men join us which was great, and yes we did talk about cars!

Thanks to the ladies who have put their name on the Supper Roster – we still have a couple of spaces, so if you can help us out, please let Sue/Margie know.

Thought for the Month: The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.  ~Author Unknown

Margie Berlemon.

Firstly, thank you to all for your well wishes, encouragement and support as I step into the role of President of this amazing Club. I know with the support of these great people around me, I will be able to draw on many numerous years of experience, and inject a new energy into the committee, keeping the TSOA alive, vibrant and a great club to be a part of for many years to come.
Secondly, a big congratulations to Mike Temby for taking on board the Vice President role. We now have a full committee again, and I know that Mike is very enthusiastic about the year we have ahead also.
Would we have the lowest combined age of an executive committee since the clubs inception?
The months are flying by already, and there are many events coming up on the TSOA calendar, both social and competition. I am personally excited about getting my TR7 V8 back on the race track again, the break between MSCA events seems like an eternity. But I am also as keen to keep the Spitfire cruising and discovering new coffee stops and spending great time with TSOA friends on the social runs.
I truly enjoy the general meetings also, meeting new members, the focus on a couple of cars on stage and a delicious supper afterwards. I think we have a great regular routine, and I sincerely hope to just make each of these just a but more fresh and interesting as time goes by with the new committee.
As always, the committee welcomes any ideas and feedback from the members, we represent you.
Hope to see you all at an event soon . . . .
Duane Kaak

I trust everyone has had a terrific Christmas and New Year break. The weather has been wonderful, and the general public seem to be in great spirits throughout this time of year.

The club has held several events throughout this period, the annual Christmas dinner, the “after Christmas” mid week run and the annual Ice Cream run which all were a great time to get out and about in your triumph with other club members.

We had a good crowd to the January informal meeting, and I’m sure we will again have a full group at our first formal meeting this month. Remember we will have an election this month for a new president, and any other vacant positions, so please take another moment to consider a chance to join the committee and to contribute to our club.

The year ahead looks like another full calendar of social and competition events, and I’m keen to see what amazing vehicles we can get on the stage for display. Even though we have all thoroughly enjoyed some other Marques recently, if you have a Triumph we haven’t seen on stage, done some major work to your Triumph, or have a new purchase, we’d love to see it, so please contact John from the details inside the cover. I know several members have plans for rewiring and minor rebuilds, so we’d love to see and hear your story.

The committee also has plans to review the constitution this year also, to keep up with the times, and will have a small sub committee work on this over the coming months. If you have any strong thoughts in this area, I encourage you to express this, in writing only, for consideration.

I’m starting to hear a bit of chatter about the Queensland National Rally already, and it is exciting to hear that many are already getting cars ready for the journey and booking holidays, I’m sure it will be a wonderful event.

The All British Day is also here again, and I’d like to ask all members to make themselves ambassadors for the club on this day that we are on display. This day, and the Day of Triumph seem to both be days that we attract new members, and I’m hoping to have a simple handout available to be distributed on the day. Hope to see you soon, Duane

This is how TRak was produced in the early 1990s.  It seems incredible to me that was half the lifetime of
TSOA ago.

This was before the era of the internet, universal mobile phones, texting etc. Younger readers should ask
their grandparents how we survived.This was also a period when TSOA was transitioning from the boozy
Old Boys culture of the 1960s and 1970s to the more inclusive, responsible and Politically Correct club of
today. (Did someone say “boring”?)

I think I can claim responsibility for TRak becoming a regular monthly.  Previously it would appear
irregularly, maybe 6 or 8 times a year. I became the Editor of TRak in 1990 or about then.This was before
the appearance of small shopfront printers like Kwik-Print. Commercial printers were not interested in small
jobs and were quite expensive.

TSOA owned a second-hand Konica photocopier which arrived into my Summertown shed shortly after the
AGM.  This machine was used to produce the magazine.  Typically it would be 15-20 A4 sheets printed both
sides, with a print run of about 80 copies (today’s print run is about 250 copies.)After a while Konica would
no longer service the old photocopier, so we upgraded to a newer (still secondhand) photocopier, leased
from Konica with a service contract.

This technical marvel could print double sided from single side originals, and also collate up to 10 complete
documents.  I could load 20 originals then come back after several minutes to find 10 complete 20-page
magazines ready to staple.  At least that was the theory.Unfortunately the cold damp climate of
Summertown in winter meant the stored paper was never perfectly dry, so misfeeds and paper jams were
frequent.  Other breakdowns meant I became quite friendly with the Konica service guy.Sometimes the
machine would be out of action for a few days and I would discreetly do a few hundred photocopies early
in the morning when no supervisors were around in the offices where I worked.

Each month some of the TSOA committee members would come to my home to help with final collating
and stapling the magazine.  It was then folded into a pre-addresses wrapper and fastened with sticky
tape.These evenings were quite enjoyable and also served as informal TSOA Committee meetings.  The
late Tony Esau and the late Eddie Knight would always come to help and many others too during those
years.

Finally the 80 copies were sorted by postcode and bundled, then into a large box for delivery by me to
Adelaide GPO next morning.  We got a hefty discount for pre-sorting, and I think we even got a discount
for delivery to the GPO before 8.00am.  I would pay cash at the counter and claim it back at the next
TSOA meeting.

Apart from regular monthly issues, I introduced a different cover picture each month, usually my own
photo of a member’s car, sometimes in colour (wow.)  I think Richard Sutherland is reproducing some of
these old photos this year.  Also I did away with reproducing old test reports and articles from commercial
magazines, in favour of original content from members.  It’s pleasing to see this continues today.
Finally I congratulate Richard on today’s TRak magazine; still very much at the heart of all that TSOA
does.The technology and production methods have changed greatly since 1990, but I bet Richard still
spends many hours each month to produce such a high quality magazine.Long may it continue!

Tom Long

Welcome to 2013!

The January informal meeting was held and the girls headed off for gelato and coffee and a chin wag….guess what we talked about? Cars! . . . . wow! What will happen next? It was great to have Barb Sampson with us for the evening but we were sorry Lorraine was not able to join us.

The Ice Cream run was great with many families joining in and the weather was kind to us.

The next ladies technical Lunch will be on Tuesday 12th February at Adelina’s Café at the Library, rear of Burnside Civic Centre at 12.00noon. (In the car park where we meet for Sunday runs)

Quote for the month: Don’t let anyone EVER dull your Sparkle!

Margie Berlemon