GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - The celebration to mark a century of Triumph cars will take place at Hartenbos, where the Garden Route Triumph Club will be hosting the event from tomorrow to Monday, 18 to 20 March.

The first Triumph motor car was made at Coventry, England, in 1923.

A hundred years later Triumph club members and enthusiastic owners are having celebrations all over the world.

Local owners and enthusiasts of these great classic cars will congregate at the ATKV resort in Hartenbos to celebrate the event.

Attendees are mainly from the Garden Route as well as the Western and Eastern Cape. A similar celebratory event will be held in Gauteng for the northern provinces at the end of April.

The local Garden Route chapter of the Triumph Sports Car Club of South Africa is looking, forward to having the majority of its members in attendance.

They will, however, be strongly supported by fellow members from the Cape Town and Port Elizabeth Triumph clubs.

The celebration will start with a welcome function late tomorrow afternoon, followed by a photo session for members and their Triumphs, culminating in a display of the cars at the ATKV, arranged in the figure 100 for the group photograph on Sunday morning at 11:00.

By 15:00 on the same day the group intends to drive in convoy along Louis Fourie Road from Hartenbos to Mossel Bay Point for a short sojourn below the Cape St Blaize cave and lighthouse parking spot before returning to Hartenbos.

On Monday the group will go on a scenic drive to Friemersheim and also visit the Halliday Car Museum near Reebok on the return trip.

The event concludes with a gala dinner on Monday night because departure for home will be the next day.

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