We own two 1976 Triumph Spitfire sportscars. We drove our yellow one on this trip.
Highway travel was kept to a minimal. We took mainly scenic country roads. Our trip along Ridge Road from Stoney Creek ON to Niagara Falls provided a beautiful view of the area, especially of many of the wineries in the area.
We spent 4 days based at a hotel in Bath NY. The first evening we enjoyed dinner at the Bath Golf and Country Club.
Saturday June 23rd we spent most of the morning visiting the Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport at the south end of Keuka Lake.
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| Statue of the "June Bug" on the lawn of the Curtiss Museum |
From there we drove to the Corning Museum in Corning where we met some of our fellow club members for lunch before touring the museum for the afternoon. At 5 pm we drove to Branchport to board the Esperanza Rose for a dinner cruise of Keuka Lake.
Sunday June 24th we drove to the Ventosa Winery near Geneva for a winery tour, wine tasting and a buffet lunch. The building for the winery was located on the top of a hill with beautiful views of the vineyard and Seneca Lake.
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| View of Seneca lake from the Ventosa Winery |
Our car show was held on the lawn of the winery with judging by fellow participants.
In the afternoon we drove to Watkins Glen to shop around town, then we drove to the Watkins Glen International Speedway. We drove our cars for 3 laps around the speedway. Unlike our drive on the Mosport International Raceway track were we drove at a slow pace in parade style, at Watkins Glen we followed the pace car at speeds up to 80 mph!
The following are links to a video of the cars lined up to enter the Watkins Glen race track and a video taken by Bev of our first 2 laps around the track!
Lining Up Before Lapping
Watkins Glen Lapping
Our awards dinner was held at the Watkins Glen International Raceway. Vic won first place in the Spitfire Class. All the ladies received a beautiful piece of fused glass artwork from the gift store at Corning Museum.
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| High Relief Fused Glass artwork by Anne Nye -- perfect decoration for our RV! |
Monday June 25th we drove home via a different route to enjoy more of the scenic countryside in the Finger Lakes area.
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