President’s Report – March 2020
President report: March 2020.
As prior reported, I will be away for the February meeting so this is a short report on following from the last few weeks and All British day.
Once again it was a great turn out and all but one entrant turning up for the display. Alongside and with the Stag clubs 22 registered we had 27 Triumphs, a V12 E Type Jaguar, and one Mini on display.
There were several more across the field joining other clubs but at the end of the day it was our very own Noel and Cindy Schmidt who blitzed the field once again with the TR3 and took out “Best Vehicle” and was awarded the honor by Jeremy Cordeaux, so go Triumph.
As a follow up to displaying our cars I previously mentioned a vote we ran at the presentation dinner last year. The results of this are as follows after asking tthose that attended where it should be in 2020.
Semaophore : 4 votes.
Glenelg: 17 votes
Modbury: 20 votes
Other: 14 Votes 7 of these were the Birdwood Museum with a few scattered elsewhere
So this decision will now go to the committee and final acceptance before I start this year’s process.
The second part of the voting I asked for 2021 possibly having this at the “All British day” 42 voted Yes and 13 were No.
Seemed like a good idea especially for me as with the Nationals later in the year having the event early with all infrastructures taken care off, the only detail I would have discussed would be subsidizing the entry cost.
After looking over the field this time there were cars that normally go to that display missing so I’m not sure if it would be fair to do this or take the risk and go with it. That being said we got more cars on display at all British than we typically have had over the past few years for the display event. We would certainly have different winners.
This will be another committee decision based on what we have seen from the voting and the day this year.
The other detail up for review is the display day presentation dinner. We have a date set but at this stage we are negotiating a location.
Who ventured out on Monday the 10th for “drive your Triumph Day” I took the mother in law to her appointment in the morning so treat for her in the TR6 her first time in the car. Once dropped off I couldn’t resist a little run in the hills then back to our local park. Even with the car still dusty from the Sunday event I will still post up the picture.
driveyourtriumphday@gmail.com,
Best regards for now.
Ian Rigby
President
