Late June saw the Mossmobile wending its way to Mid-Ohio raceway where a celebration of 40 years of Triumph sports cars took place during the United Telephone Vintage Grand Prix weekend. Over 450 competitors and their classics registered to take part in a full vintage race program, who were then joined by what seemed to…
In our last issue, we gave you some idea of what to try and see should you be able to travel to England this past spring, and we received many inquiries for further information on visiting the U.K. However, there’s nothing like actually being there, and I was fortunate enough to experience British hospitality first…
So we enter another year, another season, and one which (if current indications are anything to go by) is rather uncertain at best. The down turn in the economy, the changes taking place in the world at large… nothing is for certain any more it seems, except the overwhelming accepted premise that all will work out…
As Steve Earle, mentor of vintage racing’s greatest show, called the 20th Annual Monterey Historic Race prize giving to order (this is difficult because vintage racers are, by and large, an unruly lot) he pointed out, as he does each year, that the philosophy of the event has not changed. To paraphrase, cars are the…
The Event Rallye Alaska Highway ’92 -To mark the 50th Anniversary of the building of the Highway. The Competitors Several classes, from Competition to Motorhomes, with the whole range in between. To me the most interesting cars were a 1915 Cadillac, a 1935 Aston Martin, a 1937 BMW Coupe, and 1965 Lotus Elan and my…
Lots to get through this issue, but first I’ll update you on the progress of some of your colleagues In adversity – the British sports car owners within the Moss crew! Our esteemed Editor is currently driving her MG TF, due to her TR6 undergoing an extensive facelift in the metal department, but rumor has…
To paraphrase Monday Night Football, “Are we ready for some meetings”?! The golden Summer of 1994 stretches invitingly ahead of US with a myriad of spectacular events which ate just waiting for us to attend. If you doubt this, take a look at the page opposite, the Moss Motoring Events calendar, and if you can’t…
Recently I was driving around Los Angeles on one of the myriad freeways that criss cross the City of Angels, although there was nothing at all angelic about this particular day! Raining, six lanes of backed up traffic, accidents all over the place, rowing up and down through the gearbox, stop and start, stop and…
Triumphest here I come! The TR6 has a full tank of gas, a trunk full of clothes, and the requisite number of spares and tools: I’m off! First stop out of Santa Barbara is Lompoc to meet Eric Wilhelm with the Moss TR3 and then it’s open road to the Harris Ranch along I-5. Here we…
“Hi de Ho good neighbors”- as Wilson would say! And if you don’t know what I’m talking about you probably don’t watch one of the funniest shows on television – Home Improvement on ABC. In this series Tim Allen plays a do-it-yourself type of guy who has his own TV show on the subject. Hence…
