This is always a great tour through one of the most scenic areas of Massachusetts. Detailed information is now available on our calendar. Alex's contact information is in the Members Only area. The rain date for this tour is Sunday May 20th.
Our April 2012 newsletter is available in the Members Only area. This photo is from the cover of the newsletter but it looks so much better in color, we thought we should post it here. It's from last year's Southern New Hampshire Tour and demonstrates that April showers do indeed bring Mayflowers! (Unfortunately this year they just brought rain, see below.)
It's time to renew your membership! The form is available here on our website. You will also be receiving a copy of the form in the April 2012 newsletter, coming soon. We've added a new question to the form this year. In order to save the club some printing and mailing costs, we would like to provide the option to opt out of receiving the paper copy of the newsletter. (We also realize there haven't been many newsletters lately but with everyone's help we can improve on that in the future.) If you choose that option, you will be notified via email when the electronic copy of the latest newsletter is uploaded to the Member's Only section of the website. We do not yet have the infrastructure in place to do this so for now everyone will continue to receive a paper copy of the newsletter. It's going to take a few months to get this going but we figured that while you were filling out your membership renewal form, it was a good time to ask if you want to opt out when the time comes.
Due to the cold rainy weather the tour was cancelled and an informal tech session was scheduled in its place. John opened the doors to his shop on Sunday morning to anyone who wanted to stop by and talk Triumphs. (I'm told at least one group photo was taken. When I get it, I'll post it here.) Afterwards they all piled into Stan's new truck and talked Ford F-150s on their way to lunch.
We held our annual planning meeting on Sunday April 1, 2012. The report is posted here....
Pam Delis wrote a wonderful trip report that your webmaster has finally posted
here. I hope it inspires you to attend
this year's tour!
A small but hardy group braved the elements and completed the Covered Bridge Tour despite the rain. Bob and Linda
did an excellent job locating so many surviving bridges and mapping out a beautiful route through 11 towns in central
Massachusetts. Our dinner at Bub's BBQ was enjoyable with lots of extras available on the hot bar.
We were about 50/50 Triumphs and daily drivers. Our (Triumph) windscreen defogger was not up to the task so we had to rely on the manual method (shop towel) which hampered the view somewhat. I hope that Bob and Linda will consider offering this same tour again next year in hopes of better weather so I can see what we missed along the way!
The concensus was that when it comes to scenic drives, central Massachusetts has a lot to offer!
Several club members attended this event and we had
such a good time! But what are Hugh and Caroline Cockrill doing out on the track?
Find out here...
We had a great Day of Triumph event at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, MA on July 31st. A report will
be coming later here and/or in the next newsletter. In the meantime, take a look at these
lovely photos.