The Triumph Register of Southern California
TRSC Club News and Our History
TRSC club news, hot off the wire: for the history of TRSC, please scroll down.
Next Monthly Meeting: Tuesday, February 28, 2012, at Maggies Pub in Santa Fe Springs (see home page for directions)
The Valley Breakfast Club's new venue is now Bob's Big Boy. Meet at 8:30 for breakfast at 9:00.
Please send your renewal check to:
You can also bring your check to the meeting.
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For a recent copy of "The Triumph Tribune" click here: please allow for some downloading time. Anyone who wants a current or back issue as a pdf file, or would like to send it to someone considering joining the club, can drop us a line at roadstir@gmail.com and we'll send them to you right away. These are formatted so that if you print them out they will be in the 'right' order for folding and stapling in book format. Paper back issues are available as supplies permit.
Dom Stasi is our Newsletter Editor for 2011. Please send contributions to him at roadstir@gmail.com. Deadline is roughly the end of the month. Please copy Steve at srhedke@gmail.com as you have been doing to make sure the website, facebook page, and weekly e-mailer also have the same info available.
Are you on our e-mail list? We do a weekly update, and that has all the latest info: contact srhedke@gmail.com and give us the e-mails you'd like to receive them at.
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New or existing members wanting a TRSC name badge are encouraged to contact Abel Miramon Amiramon@sbcglobal.net:
626 571 2550. He will take your order information and have Carl Carlson make you a new one. Some of us have sold cars since the last one, and pasting over the model and year looks kind of tacky. This is especially helpful with new members so that we all get to know you more quickly.
We have TRSC business cards available: keep some with you in case you find a car, or you're talking to someone asking you about your car. These have contact info such as our website address and our facebook information, as well as phone numbers. Pick them up at a meeting or event where we have a booth, or request them from the Lamberts: blambert@socal.rr.com
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TRSC logo hats, t-shirts, sweatshirts: http://t-shirts.cafepress.com/trsc
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To visit the website of our sister LA Triumph club, SCTOA, click here: http://web.mac.com/sctoa/SCTOA/Welcome.html
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Herman van den Akker's 'HVDA' Transmission conversions has a slick website!
Check it out here: http://www.hvdaconversions.com/
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TRSC Club History: 34 Years and Counting
1984
Formed in 1977 by a small band of enthusiasts, TRSC has since served as a rallying point for Triumph owners from across Southern California. A list of our members' cars encompasses virtually every post-war model produced by Triumph and our roster includes some of the finest historians and technicians of the marque in America. TRSC is an official Chapter of the Vintage Triumph Register, a Center of the Triumph Register of America and an affiliate of the TR Register of Great Britain. No matter where your interest lies, concours, restoration, racing, or just keeping these wonderful cars on the road, TRSC can help.
Marty Lodawer and Kurt Oblinger came up with this new logo in 1990. The design was borrowed from that of the original front apron medallion meant to be used on the new TR sports car in 1952. This medallion was used on the 20TS (or TR-1) prototype, and on the small batch of prototype TR-2's. When it came time for the TR-2 to go into actual production, this design was dropped in favor of a variation of the Standard Motor Company's traditional "open book" or "dragon wing" badge, and passed quietly into history. If you look at photos of the prototype TR-2's, especially the famous "Jabbeke Speed Record" car, MVC 575, driven by Ken Richardson, you will see the real thing.
Our club logo is derived from the badge on this car:
37 years later, TRSC Charter Member Marty Lodawer hosts the same Sir Ken Richardson in his TR3, the year the current logo was debuted:
1990, VTR Convention, Boulder, ColoradoKen commented to Marty that they never expected the cars to last this long, they were just trying to make something they could sell.
He was nonetheless delighted that they have remained popular, and expressed his appreciation for those of us who keep them running.
That's what TRSC has always been about: having fun driving our cars. Everything else is just in the way of that.
