Day of Triumph 2011

Today was the Day of Triumph car show at the Larz Anderson museum.  A group of us met up at the rest stop on 95 north just before the 495 intersection and drove up together.  Paul Rego, who has some of the nicest Triumph sports cars you'll find anywhere, unfortunately over heated just a mile from the museum.  That didn't keep him from winning first place in the TR8 category !

I drove the Wedge up, and landed a first place trophy in the TR7 category =)

Incidentally I've also put the wedge up for sale.  I'm getting close enough on the TR6 that I know when it's done, the TR7 will be neglected in my garage.  I'd rather see it go to a good home than not be driven!

TR6 restoration progress

So, I've been restoring an old Triumph TR6 sports car in my spare time.  It's been a very time consuming but educational experience.   I'm getting very close to the point where all I will have left is the body work, and then once the body work is done and the body mounted, the electrical and interior.  Here are a few progress pics.

I just got mounted the oil cooler with in-line thermostat, the chassis cross member, replaced all the hardware on the engine with new nuts and bolts, and refurbishing the rear differential.  Tomorrow I should be mounting the differential, and then measuring for a new drive-shaft.




Now, I'll have to take back off the intake manifold to get the body back on, but I wanted to get everything in place so that I can get all the hoses measured and cut to size for coolant, exhaust, fuel, etc.


The rear differential has been freshly painted, and is just waiting for paint to dry before mounting with new bushing.

What happens in Vegas... Ends up on youtube within a week!

So the EQ livequest this year had one part where to get points you had to perform the theme song for EQ with kazoos and singing, loudly and boisterously.   As part of an audition for the Gnomish Tabernacle Choir...   Well... this was too fine an opportunity to pass up for some embarasing videos!  I only got good videos of 4 of the teams, but here they are!

Some teams needed a little more instruction and help than others... not everyone knows the theme song even after 12 years!

This next team is from my play server Luclin, representing the guild Heroes, so I have to give them special crap =)  They tried twice, to get a better performance.

And finally, with some sadness, we discovered that not everyone knows how to play a kazoo... neither person on this team did, one had it backwards and the other was trying to blow it like a whistle