The website for the Austin-Healey Club of Oregon is currently under total redesign and construction.

the website will be available by the first of the calendar year.

The website is going to be great looking and easy to use.

Mark Schneider, President

This addendum is for those planning to attend the open house at Kent Lambert’s new Car Park Rental facility on June 25th.  Please join a caravan of Healeys and travel together up the Columbia gorge.   We will meet at the Lewis and Clark State Park located on the Sandy River and immediately adjacent to Highway 84.  Lewis and Clark Park can be accessed by taking Exit 18 as you head east on Highway 84, the Columbia Gorge Highway.  We will meet there at 11:15 AM and depart the L&C Park at 11:30 AM.  The drive from Troutdale to Odell is approximately 60 miles.  That should put us into Kent’s place around 1:00 PM.

Special Invitation

June 25, 2001 – The last Saturday of June Kent Lambert is holding an open house at his  new building in Odell, OR near Hood River, OR.  The building is two stories tall.  The ground floor is configured as single and double car garage/storage areas.  The upper floor is the new home of the Weaving groups that Judy was so active with.  The open house will run from 1:30-4:00 PM but Kent said anyone driving up from the Healey Club may come early and grab a good parking sport.  The address of the building in Odell (south of Hood River) is: 3399 – Odell Highway.  The new building is located directly behind Gehrig’s Chevron, 3387 – Odell Highway.

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March 12th activity is a tour of Portland Community College’s Rock Creek Campus. We will tour the automotive facilities.

Meet at the Campus, 17705 N.W. Springville Road, at 9:45. The tour will start at 10:00. If weather permits, we will have a driving tour which will end up at McMenamins Road House, 4245 N.W. Cornelious Pass Road for lunch and meeting, arriving there at 2:00 p.m.

If the weather isn’t condusive to a driving tour we will go directly to the Road House from PCC for lunch and the meeting at 12:00 noon. For questions contact Gale Nelson (503) 939-9575.

August Meeting: The August meeting and tour with the Cascade Club:

This is an overnighter. To make your reservations call The Chateau Westport – (360)268-9101, mention the Austin Healey Club to receive a rate of $107.00 per night. Try to get the top floor for a better view.

NW Meet – Squamish BC, Canada.

We will leave Portland on Sept. 21st and tour north on Hwy. 101 on the West side of the Olympic Mountains to Port Angeles. We will ferry to Victoria BC then drive to Nanaimo and ferry to Vancouver. We will be staying at the

Executive Suites Garibaldi Springs Resort, 40900 Tantalous Road, Squamish, BC. Phone number is 1-877-815-0048. You will need to call to make your reservations for Thursday Sept. 22, 23 & 24th. Room rates are $119 per night for a studio and $129 for a one bedroom.

Ferry information and lodging for the 21st has not been finalized yet.

Special Activities  -  Rendezvous and Conclave.
June 27 – July 1, 2011    Austin-Healey Club USA Rendezvous at the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver, WA.  Hard to imagine two Rendezvous meets in our own backyard in consecutive years.  You can get the details of the schedule and plans on the Cascade Club website at: Cascadeahc.homestead.com.

July 3 – 8, 2011   Austin-Healey Club of America Conclave at Colorado Springs, CO.
Why not make 2011 a double header?  After attending Rendezvous in Vancouver
let’s go on to Conclave in Colorado Springs. Picture the Conclave car show at
the Air Force Academy on the 4th of July!  Dwight Jones of the Cascade Club has developed information on shipping Healeys from Vancouver to Colorado Springs via Passport Transport (see Gary Anderson’s article on page 33 in the October-November issue of Austin Healey Magazine).  The cost is not cheap but you have to figure that it’s going to cost $200.00 a day to drive anyway and it will be a brutal three day drive to get there on July 3.  And there are some pretty cheap airfares to be had to Denver.  Shipping cost is $5500.00 each way for a full load of 6 cars.  That’s $916.67 per car each way.  If the group wants to do a more leisurely drive back west the cost is only one way.  Cars would be delivered back to Vancouver.

If interested, please contact Dwight Jones at:  dwightbj8@msn.com<mailto:dwightbj8@msn.com> or 509-545-9735.
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AUSTIN HEALEY CLUB OF OREGON

Activities 2011

February  12          Loyning’s Engine Service(J.Carter)  9:30                        9125 SE 64^th Ave          Macaroni Grill  1:00   

March 12                PCC Rock Creek Campus tour(G.Nelson)                                                       McMenamin”s            

April  9                     Sports Car Shop in Eugene tech session(C.Frazer)

May  14                    Maryhill Museum tour(K.Lambert)

June  11                    Sherwood Car Show in Sherwood Old Town(M.Hartfield)

June 27-July 1         Rendezvous in Vancouver at Heathman Lodge

July  3-8                    Conclave 2011 in Colorado Springs,CO

July 8-10                    Portland Historic Races at PIR

August 7                 Columbia River Concours d’ Elegance in Fort Vancouver(D.Saxon)

August 13-14            Joint tour with WA Club to Westport(Koeber/Buhman)

                                        Château Westport      $107 for 2 queens or 1 king

                                        1-360-268-9101          Ask for one of the Cascade Austin Healey Club room.  September 3            ABFM

September 23-24     NW Meet in Canada         

October 8                  Yachats tour to the Adobe Motel(J.Wilson)

November 12            Barrel Tasting and bottling in Eugene(C.Frazer)

December 10            Christmas party at Mountain Park Community Center(Carter/Koeber)

*activities In bold are overnight

**activities are subject to change

February 12 Tech Session and Meeting: We will meet at Loyning’s Engine Service(9125 SE 64^th Ave.) at 9:30AM. Arnie Loyning will give us a tour of his race engine rebuilding facility explaining what his business does. He will also demonstrate the operation and function of the engine dynamometer. John Carter will have his Bugeye there on the chassis dyno for Doug to demonstrate how it is used to tune an engine. If you have never seen these operations we are sure you will enjoy learning about its possibilities. My 3000 has never run so good after Doug finished tuning it.  At 1:00 we will meet at  the Macaroni Grill at the Clackamas Town Center(9073 SE Sunnyside Road) in Clackamas for lunch and the business meeting.

AHCO Christmas Party, December 4th
Now that was a party!!!! The theme for the night was “Puttin On the Ritz”.  Believe me.  If we had held that party at the Ritz the management would have thrown the lot of us out the door.  We were greeted at the door with name tags, seating assignments for our dinner table, numbered tags for our turn in the gift exchange, flutes of champagne (frequently refilled as the evening wore on), fed a great dinner, enjoyed live music and danced, more champagne, received awards for best dressed, opened and shared Christmas gifts, more shampain, told many lies to our table-mates,  held the shortest AHCO business meeting on record, and raised a good deal of money through the “silent auction” in support of the Club’s new automotive scholarship fund.  Read more »

The ballot envelopes were opened and the votes counted at the November 13, 2010 AHCO meeting held at John Wilson’s shop in Marcola, OR.  There was  good number of completed ballots received with a total count of 80.  A similar number of ballots were received the election last year and in response to amended By-Laws earlier this year.  All votes received and counted at the meeting were in favor of the full nomination slate generated by the Nominations Committee and previously published on the website.

The officers for the 2011 calendar year are:

President…………………Mark Schneider            Membership………Dennis Saxon

Vice President …………John Wilson                  Activities…………..John Carter & George Koeber

Secretary…………………Michael Hartfield         Regalia…………….Jan Saxon & Jaci Koeber

Treasurer……………….. .Gary Jackson

I am grateful to the Nominations Committee (Jeff Mach,  Jack Jakobsen and Allan Gross) and to Election Official Bob Bollinger for their efforts .  Thanks are also due to Jim Averill for helping Bob in distributing  ballots to the membership and counting the ballots  at the November meeting.

Mark Schneider

Our February tech session will be at Loyning’s Engine Service at 9125 SE 64th Ave.,Portland,OR 97206.Arnie Loyning  is restoring a BN2 like the first Healey of his youth. Sound familiar? He is opening his shop for us on a Saturday to give us an idea of the services they have been providing for many years especially to the racing community. They take in and rebuild engines from all over the US mostly from race teams and individuals who race. Richard Mayor and Doug Escriva our two Healey competitors have both used Loyning’s. They have several guys who just rebuild engines and do machining. Another person, Doug, handles working on whole cars and doing the chassis dyno runs. Doug said he could do one or two cars on the dyno for us. We will tour the facility and see the engine dyno and learn all about the advantages of these tests. If you have never seen a dyno run you should not miss this opportunity. My car has never run so good since I had it done. Further details will follow.