Category Archive: Event Stories

Like Father, Like Daughter

Ready-to-Go

Club tours are a great opportunity for father/daughter time. I am not by nature a club-type person. I was active in sports car clubs when I was single, but now I find that work, family, and trying to keep a motley assortment of cars on the road keep me busy enough without adding club activities …

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Facial Hair Not Required

I walked around the car show feeling very out of my element. Of course I am a HUGE car fan and my family complains endlessly about my obsession of the show Top Gear (the UK version of course—the others are just lame), but I only have a brain full of facts about cars going back …

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It Can Change Your Life

I have always loved British cars, especially Jaguars. I purchased my first Jaguar when my son, Brad, was 12-years-old with the thought that it would be his first car and a solid metal one from bonnet to boot—protection if he were ever in an accident. It was not in the greatest shape but at that …

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Rallye Glenwood Springs

The oldest continually held car rally in nation turns 60! Sixty years ago, auto travel from Denver to Glenwood Springs, Colorado, was not nearly the leisurely three-hour interstate jaunt that it is today. Two-lane roads, some still only partially paved and without shoulders, took motorists over multiple high mountain passes. At that time, sports car …

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Hotlanta, Racing, and a Frozen Warbird

Glacier Girl P-38

Whether you’re referring to the racing or the weather, The Mitty, held at Road Atlanta from April 27-29 had plenty of hot to go around. Lovers of on track performance were greeted by both originals, and recreations of famous race cars from the heyday of Triumph sports car racing. If famous people are more your …

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MG2011 and Rallye to Reno – Sunburned Arms, Camaraderie and Adventure

An advantage of driving clear across the country in June with the top down—assuming you’ve managed to avoid debilitating heat exhaustion from humid, 95-plus degree afternoons—is the symmetry you get with having not one but two dry, cracked, sun-fried arms…

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