Nat'l VTR Conv Richmond, VA

[BevCox]

Are any of ya'll planning on being in Richmond?

 

[vagt6]

I'm heading down to Richmond at the Air Museum and will be there at about 10am Saturday. The Concours deElegance (French for "car show") runs from 10-3pm, then judging. I won't be showing my Triumph, though.

Should be a good show, especially considering the $130 car entry fee. At that price, I assume many of the wealthy owners will show their cars!

 

[bigbadbluetr6]

well I was at the event and just put on a post to see if anyone else was at the show. It was a pretty good show I thought. Everything went real well.
Eric
73 TR6

 

[BevCox]

I was also there. Picked up a few bits and pieces at the vendors display, and learned alot from folks I met. Put the TR6 in the Participants Choice show, but left before any awards. It was a good show, lots of cars and lots of knowledge/experience networking.

 

[Bruce Bowker]

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considering the $130 car entry fee.

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And I thought $15 to show a car was a lot!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[BevCox]

/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/iagree.gif entry fee was stiff. $30 was for VTR membership

 

[vagt6]

The National VTR show in Richmond last Saturday was memorable, and an all-Triumph show. There were too many beautiful Triumph cars to count. The show was held outdoors on a perfect day at the VA Aviation Museum, near the Richmond Int'l Airport. It's an impressive museum with lots of antique and historic planes including a Spad WWI fighter; a Wright Flyer replica; a '27 Bellanca; a Curtiss "Jenny", a SR7 Blackbird supersonic fighter; Richard Byrd's 1927 Antarctic expedition plane, etc.

Among the galaxy of Triumphs: 6 GT6s, including a pristine '73 MK III GT6 from Texas that looked like it had never been driven. Also: 4 Triumph Italias, all perfect and lovely; a like-new, black Sports Six convertible, very sexy & rare; TONS of Spitfires; scores of TR2s, TR3s, TR4s and TR250s; a zillion TR6s, many TR7s and 8s; a Triumph 2000; an immaculate, red Jaguar XK120 (to die for!); a few
Heralds, a perfect 1948 Triumph sedan, and much, much more.

The Richmond VTR Chapter deserves tremendous credit for a highly organized and exciting show. Everything went smoothly and the highlight was a fly-in by a 1940 MK XII Supermarine Spitfire fighter. The mighty roar of its smooth and powerful Rolls Royce Merlin V-12 was a real thrill.

A few of my photos are posted here. Thanks to Jim Holmgren for the host site: https://www.littlebluespitfire.com/gallery/vtr04