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.

Healey Racing Report from Doug Escriva

The Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival attracts some of the most prestigious vintage race cars from all of North American with 400 entered for the 2011 enent. My race group included ’55-’62 production GT cars of all makes and models: http://www.generalracing.com/attachments/193_SatGrps4Web.pdf The warm California weather I was expecting didn’t materialized as it rained all 4 days of the event. Racing in this field with some of best vintage drivers in the game I felt some what at home on the wet Sears Point track qualifying 2nd out of 30 cars. On Sunday’s main our group was the first out as it start to rain once again. As the green flag dropped and I climbed the hill entering the very technical sweeping off-camber turn # 2 I was passed by an incredibility fast ’59 Morgan (the eventual race winner) and the ’59 Sebring Sprite of Seattle billionaire Bruce McCaw. I re-passed McCaw in the Sprite on the following lap and started to settle in on making consistent laps while holding down solid 3rd place. With one lap to go while over taking 3 slower cars I moved off the dry race line and started to brake to set-up my turn-in for the up coming hairpin turn. My car suddenly hydroplaned and at that point I was merely a passenger as my car and I were no longer racing that day.

Video of Saturdays Qualifing race: http://youtube/wwP7UyjvUMY

Editor’s Note: Be sure you check out the website pdf file Doug identifies in the first sentence above.  It includes some great dshots of race machinery including Doug’sd Healey, # 414.  Then check out the youtube video of the rainey conditions at Sonoma.  Once you get on the youtube site it should also provide you with a string of other clips of racing activities.  Sone are with Doug and others are just cool racing videos and sounds.  If you are a gearhead it will be well worth the time spent to watch a few of the videos.  If the gearhead title is you, turn up you speakers.

Activities

June 27th – July 1st: Healey Rendezvous 2011.   Rockin 50′s & 60′spresented by Cascade Austin Healey Club of Washington.  Headquarters for the Rendezvous is the Heathman Lodge in Vancover, WA.  See the Cascade Club website for details and registration form.

http://cascadeahc.homestead.com/Rendezvous.html.

July 8-11th:

Portland HIstoric Races – Registration for the event includes a corral parking pass, two packets of admission tickets for the three eays.  AHCO point of contact is Nikk White.  (503) 936-5313.  You can check out details for the weekend at the Historic Race website at: http://www.portlandhistorics.com/

July 2nd – 8th

Colorado Springs, CO – The Austin-Healey Club of Americaa Conclave, portions of which will be held at the Air Force Academy.  Marilynne and I are going to attend so we will be leaving the Rendezvous early Thursday evening after the Rendezvous banquette.  I will report on the results of the Conclave in my Jusy Mark’sMemo and in the Austin-Healey Club USA magazine.  At last count I hear that the America Club has 270 registrations.  Should be a fantastic show.

July 17th

Forest Grove Concours d’Elegance – The Austin-Healey Club of Oregon has received a very interesting request.  The organizers of this prestigious charitable event have asked our Club to organize a special showing of the Austin-Healey marque at the July 17, 2011 event. These Healeys will not be judged in the concours competition but will be there for static display and viewing only.  Fourteen Healey owners, most of them AHCO members volunteered to show their cars.  The goal in arranging this show has been to display as wide a variety of Healey models as possible.  Final notification, registration form and directions to the volunteers went out earlier this week.   If you would like more information please call Mark Schneider at 503-643-7208.  You may also find information at: http://www.forestgroveconcours.org/

August 13 – 15, 2011

Joint meeting with the Cascade Club in Wesport, WA

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

September 21 – 24th

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.

October 8th

Overnight Trip to Yachats

We will meet at the McDonalds in Philomath at 10:00 A.M. We will be staying at the Adobe Resort, 1555 Hwy. 101, Yachats, OR. Call to make your own reservations at 1-800-522-3623. You will need to mention the AHCO to receive a special rate of $92.40 plus tax. John and Joan Wilson are planning this event and they have a short tour of the area planned for Saturday afternoon. For those of us going from the Portland area we will plan to leave from the old G.I. Joes parking lot in Sherwood at 8:00 a.m. Our monthly meeting will be at the Resort after breakfast on Sunday morning.

PLEASE REVIEW all of the AHCO upcoming Activities and make you reservations for any you are planning to attend. Any questions on upcoming activities call George Koeber @ 503-244-3731 or John Carter @ 503-579-6599.

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.
Austin-Healey Club of Oregon Activities Calendar for 2011
February 12 Tech Session and Meeting:  We will meet at Loyning’s Engine Service (9125 – SE 64th Ave. Portland, OR) at 09:30 AM.  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 dynomometer.  John Carter will have his Bugeye there on the chasis dyno for Loyning’s techician, 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 sbout the posibilities. John Carter’s 3000 has never run as good as after Doug finished tuning it.  Afterward we will go to the Macroni Grill at the Clackamas Town Center (9073 – SE Sunnyside Road) in Clackamas for lunch and thr monthly business meeting.

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

April 9  -  Sports Car Shop in Eugene.  Technical Session (C .Frazer)

May 14 -  Maryhill Museum tour (K.Lambert)

June 11 -  Sherwood car show in Sherwood Old Town (M.Hartfietd)

June 27 – July1 Rendezvous in Vancouver at Heathman Lodge

July 3 – 8  -  Conclave 2011 in Colorado Springs, CO

July8 -10  -  Portland Historic Races at  PIR

August 13-14  -  Joint tour with Cascade Club to westport (Koeber/Buhmon)

August 21  -  Columbia River Concours d ‘ Elegance in Fort Vancouver (D.Soxon)

September  -  Labor Day Weekend  -  ABFM at PIR

September 23-24  -  NW Meet in Canada

October 8  -  Yachats tour to the Adobe Hotel (J.Witson)

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

AHCO Business
Saturday morning January 8, 2011 the AHCO Coard of Directors met for a productive meeting.  The purpose of the meeting was to work through a number of “beginning of the year” topics, eg., the 2011 Activities Calendar,  discuss projects and Board member assignments, etc.  The meeting generated a couple of jobs for which the Board of Directors seeks member assistance:

Sunshine Person -  The Board was seeking a volunteer to take on this job for the 2011 calendar year.

I am pleased to annouce that Judy Carter has volunteered to becomeour new Sunshine Lady.  Thank you, Judy.

Jan  Whittlesey has filled the Sunshine Lady position for quite awhile and decided to step down.   Thank you, Jan.  We have appreciated your help.

The two All British Field Meet (ABFM) positions are also appointed.  Dick Lenahan has agreed to continue with the job as the event Registrar for 2011.  We are asking for a member to step up and take the other position, i.e., the vote counter/scorer of the Popular Car Show ballots on the Saturday of ABFM weekend.  The job entails recording the votes on the Excel spreadsheets developed by Jeff Mach and reporting the results to the ABFM leaders.  Thanks to Jeff I now have the Excel program and Jeff has offered to train the appointee.

Please contact any one of the Board members to volunteer to take on these jobs.

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

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.

Forthcoming Activities

Club members who participated in the Rendezvous and have been attending meetings have already heard about and experienced a high level and quality of activities due to the efforts of our Activities Directors, John Carter and George Koeber.  The next couple of months are not to be missed.  Check out the following:

All British Field Meet

Sept. 3-7

The Meet is held on Labor Day Weekend. That will be Friday through Monday of Labor Day Weekend. Starting Friday evening and continuing for the next three days there will be plenty of fun activities: Meet and Greet Parties, Vintage Races, Land Rover Adventure rides, and photo competition, vendors, plus over 800 vehicles!  We have enough volunteers to count popular car show votes but we can always use more.

NW Meet, Lake Chelan, WA

Sept. 16-18

Meet at the site of the Parker House (now closed) in Washougal, WA, Exit 7 @8:30 a.m.  The tour  will depart at 9:00.  Please have your tank full.  We will tour east on Hwy 14 to Hwy. 97 – then North to Yakima where we willl spend the night.  Make your own reservations @ Oxford Suites (509)457-9000 $105.00 Includes a big breakfast, evening hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine. River views. Mention the Austin Healey Club of Oregon. The rooms will be held until Sept. 6. Thursday morning we will meet with members of the Cascade Club in Cle Elum and tour the rest of the way to Lake Chelan with them.  If you have not made your reservations for the NWMeet the phone number for the Hotel is Best Western Lakeside Lodge, (509) 682-4396.  If you have any questions regarding the Meet contact Lois Buhman neilandlois@comcast.net .  Sunday, Sept. 18^th we will return to Portland.

October Meeting October 9^th

A tour  to Fern Ridge Reservoir is planned.  We will meet at the Shari’s Restaurant at the corner of Hwy 213 and Beavercreek Road in Oregon City @9:00 and depart at 9:30.  We will tour back roads to Eugene where Bob and Carla Bollinger will host us for a BBQ at their Yacht Club.  The general meeting will be held at approximately 2:30.  We will return to Portland Saturday evening.  Please let us know if you are planning to attend so there will be enough food for all.  Please call John Carter (503) 579-6599 or George Koeber (503)244-3731.

November Meeting, November 13^th

Tech Session and Meeting at John Wilson’s in Marcola, OR

John Wilson will have a tech session at his shop at 37141 Parsons Creek Road, Marcola, Oregon (if you are using a GPS you will need to put in Springfield instead of Marcola)

The tech session will start @10 a.m. and will involve tearing down and reassembling a transmission.  The general meeting is scheduled for 3:30.  No tour will be scheduled due to the chance of inclement weather.  John has informed us that he will have a pot of  chili on for us.  Please let us know if you are planning to attend so there will be enough food for all.  Call John Carter 503-579-6599 or George Koeber 503-244-3731.

December 4^th Christmas Party

The  party will be held at the Mountain Park  Recreation Center, 2 Mount Jefferson Terrace, Lake Oswego, OR, 97035.

The fun will start at 5:30.  There will be a social time between 5:30 and 7:00 at which time there will be a silent auction  to benefit charities.   After dinner  activities are planned including a gift exchange for those wanting to participate.  We are also asking for donations for the auction.  Please contact us if you have something you wish to donate (it doesn’t have to be  Healey related).  The club has approved that each member will pay $10 per person with the balance of the  cost to be paid for by the  AHCO.  Feel free to bring your own libation for the social time and during dinner.  If you are planning  to attend send your check to John Carter(16173 SW Dekalb St.,Portland,OR 97224).  You can also pay at any club activity.  The cut off date for notification is November 24^th (so we can give the caterer the count). Live music and other entertainment is being planned.

Other Unofficial Goings-On:

August 31st  A TV Shoot for the ABFM.  Your chance to have your Healey on television.

Bill Hawkins, owner of the British Auto Works has asked the AHCO to participate in an early morning television shoot which will be used to promote the ABFM.  The filming crew will be at BAW about 05:30 AM and will be filming for a couple of hours.  There will be coffee and doughnuts as fortifications.

September 11.

Open House at Hanger 26 at the Aurora Airport.

The event will feature hot airplanes and hot rods.  And if any Healeys want to show up there might be a cool British Car or two. We have been personally invited by Lonnie Gilbertson of Gilbertson’s Machine Shop in SE Portland.  There will be free hot dogs until they run out and a live band, the Jim Mesi Band.  BYOB.  Starts at 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM.  Address is 23055 Airport Road NE. Hanger 26. Aurora, OR 972002.  Directions: From i-5South Bound, Take Exit 282A to first stop light, left, tonext stop light, right , 1/4 mile . Right into “orange gate” follow guides to parking @ north end ot airport.   Turn left.

Plans for this year’s All British Field Meet are proceeding apace and it’s now time to start signing up volunteers to count the Popular Choice votes on Saturday.  We need about 20 people for the task, which will occur between 10:30am and 2:00pm.  This year, it’s especially important to volunteer if you attend the Meet, because unfortunately, I’m expecting we’ll be without several members who have volunteered in the past.  If you haven’t actively worked for the Club lately, this is a good opportunity to do so without a lot of pain or stress.  And, for your efforts, we’ll provide you with lunch and cold drinks, and a coveted ABFM Worker Bee t-shirt.  If the weather is like it was last year (heaven forbid), you’ll have a dry spot to hang out, and if it’s broiling outside, you’ll be in the shade.  How can you lose?  The ABFM is one of the Club’s largest annual income sources, but it depends on us doing our jobs to make the ABFM happen.  Please sign up to volunteer by leaving a comment to this post, at the Club meeting on Saturday, or email or call Jeff Mach (details in the Club directory).  Don’t forget to tell me what size t-shirt you want.  Remember, ABFM registrations are being posted on the website, so I know whether you plan to attend.  Don’ make me send Guido over to visit you next month if you don’t also sign up to volunteer.  Thanks.

Mark your social calendar for a Healey Club event on Saturday, July 17  for a tour and picnic. Details will follow.

On Saturday, August  7th we are planning a joint event with the Cascade Club for a BBQ and tour in Morton,WA. Staying overnight will be optional. Details will follow.