Kip Nienaber has been a member for many, many years and only moved to Texas (for his job) 4 years ago. I know folks will be happy to see him and his beautiful car at one of their Club events, which was a trip to a collector airplane museum near Dallas, Texas.

Skip

Earl Yarnal
40143 Deerhorn Rd.
Springfield, Or. 97478

541-741-3834

Earl has a 1968 Sprite MK IV

Don and Sharon Slaybaugh

9400 SW 130th Av.

Beaverton, Or. 97008

The Slaybaughs own a 1965 Mk 3

The day started out very brisk-read “cold”. A new member, John Meyer, had agreed to put his life in my hands and accompany me on the tour. Not knowing how John would feel about the cold, I put my top up but didn’t install the side curtains (wouldn’t want to spoil him). We arrived at the starting point at 9:00 A.M. to be greeted by an empty parking lot. Hmmm, maybe no one would show, what an easy deal that would be! However, five minutes later, the Clemensons, Maguires, Carol Trenko and friend, Bob Wallace and sister, Glen Enright with gracious wife Jan arrived. Off we went at full tilt over Cornelius Pass and onto Hwy 30, straight through to the Longview bridge and into Washington.

Tom's Healey with the top up!

Brave healey owners with the tops down

Cornelius Pass road

After lunch we headed west along the beautiful Willapa Bay and then South onto Hwy 101. Staying within the speed limit for a change, we were met by Chuck Gowan and navigator, Jerry Baron – coming up from the south. After they pulled in behind, we took off to continue our journey. We went past the Longbeach Peninsula, thru Chinook, across the Astoria bridge and onto Hwy 202. From Astoria we led the group to Seaside on the back curvy roads that you can only find after looking for many years. Bob Wallace, right behind me, did a great job of staying close to my tail end. He almost caught me a few times. I had to slow it down a bit when I noticed my passenger trying to rip the grab handle out of my dash.

Lunch break

Tom Monaco

Carol Trenko

Upon arriving at our beach house in Seaside, we were greeted by all those folks who wished they had driven their Healeys on such a tour as this. I won’t mention any names but you know who you are! The great cooking of Skip Monaco and Iva Curry made for a great dinner. Spicy pasta, great Italian salad and dessert; wow, what a meal!

The Jag made it.

Healey's at Tom and Skip's house in Seaside

All the Healeys made it home with no issues ( over 300 miles). If you couldn’t make it, I’m sorry. You missed the last great tour of the year. My co-pilot and I braved the trip home on Sunday night after a great day of fishing. It was about 38 degrees in the Coast Range at seven that night. You just don’t know cold until you try that trip. T.M.

Jim and Gail Smalley

P.O. Box 848

Wauna, WA 98395

The Smalleys are proud owners of a 1956 100-M

Nikk White

25285 SW Rainbow Ln.

Hillsboro, OR 97123

Nikk has a 1960 Sprite MK 1

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Friday morning, August 28, found four Healeys and their people ready to leave for the LeMay tour in Tacoma. John and Judy Carter led Jan and Gary Jackson, Jan Whittlesey and Glen Enright and Allan and Mary Gross on a very relaxing trip on mostly back roads and with great weather. We stopped for lunch at the Bean Tree in Morton, then headed for Tacoma.

The motel was easy to find as it was right next to the Tacoma Dome. Dennis Saxon met us there and we went to Famous Dave’s for dinner. We met people in the parking lot and on the trip back to the motel who all seemed to know about the LeMay event and who assumed we would be going. We had a reminder of Seattle area traffic on our way – no accident, just stop and go for the heck of it.

During the night on Friday we could hear the unmistakable sound of raindrops. It was still raining when we left to meet the group from the Washington Cascade Club and it kept raining for a good part of the morning. It is true if you go faster in the rain , it tends to blow over you. However, we never approached that speed so we were a little soggy when we arrived at Marymount, one of two sites for the show. Our group managed to arrive together and we were early enough that we all got to park in the second row of collector cars.

Still raining, most of us got on shuttle buses to go over to the LeMay Grounds where the LeMay’s house is. That isn’t all that is there. There was a whole tour set up to take you through a number of buildings, filled with cars and trucks and collections on both floors of the buildings. Mr. LeMay at one time had over 3100 cars in his collection- many fully restored, others sitting under the trees. Now the collection has about 2400 vehicles, 1000 on display and 1400 stored elsewhere. One of Mr. LeMay’s sons is carrying on buying more. It is hard to describe just what it was like. Everywhere you turned there were cars- almost all beautifully restored.

Some of the rooms were named after the cars in them like the Ford room. Amidst all the cars were car related toys, posters, gas pumps, wheels, parts and pictures. There were other collections of dolls, meat grinders, salt and pepper shakers, and brass hose nozzles, and an old general store, a soda fountain. There was an old schoolhouse, train cars, tractors- it went on and on.

After the tour at the house, a shuttle took us back to Marymount. Marymount was a boys Academy that Mr. LeMay bought. Here the buildings still look as they did on the outside, but inside they also are filled with cars. There were so many beautiful ones that it would be hard to pick a favorite. The featured car this year was the 1937 Chrysler Airflow. There were about 10 of these and a few beautifully restored and even one in the original state. One came all the way from Maryland.

Inside of the schools gym was a wide array of cars. Some were even mounted on the bleachers The focus was on four impeccably restored cars, a Cord, a Tucker, a Daimler and a Duesenberg. It was the most extensive collect of cars we have ever seen. I recommend it as a must see for any car enthusiast. Be warned however, be prepared for an overdose of cars. Check it out at www.lemaymuseum.org

This being a Healey trip, there were a few glitches. Gary Jackson’s car wouldn’t start after it was parked in the hotel garage. He needed a push out of the garage and down a small hill to get it going the next morning. Steve Day helped out on that one. Then, on the way home the Gross’ car stopped on the main street of Yelm. There we were, three Healeys, almost on the side of the road. We had a lot of help from the local people. One told us he thought he had seen water coming out under the car. Another told us about a mechanic he knew and another told us about a place where we could get off the road. The most helpful was a tow truck driver who pulled in behind us with his lights on so we wouldn’t get hit. He also followed us as we pushed the car to the vacant lot. Luckily for us, Gary had Steve Day’s phone number. He had the knowledge and we had the parts, but it was still two hours before we finally got it fixed. I think Steve must feel a little like a doctor at a party – ” I just have this little ache here.”  He and the Jacksons and the Carters were patient to say the least. Once the car was going, the rest of the trip was really pleasant.

Thanks to Dennis Saxon and the Carters for making the arrangements for the trip.

Submitted by Mary and Allan Gross

ORP held their first public opening on Saturday 9/28. Having neglected my ‘65 BJ8 street car during the vintage racing season it was a nice opportunity to stretch it’s legs on the 2 1/2 hour drive to the Grass Valley track. I was impressed with the group that is behind this very ambitious endeavor, they appear to have a good long range plan for this wonderful new NW road race course. Though it’s a little out of the way, any die hard racer will have no problem camping on site for any event planned for this venue.  I enjoyed the 2 parade laps even if I couldn’t open her up too much.  http://www.oregonraceway.com/track_sched_news.php

This is a 7 minute  edited video of Richard Mayor racing in the rain at last years All British Field  Meet. Actually, it was the “Battle of Britain” handicap race put on by  the Canadians.

From Austin Colcord:

I’m looking for a 100-4 drivetrain for my bn2, and thought it would be best to start my search with club members.  You never know what someone might have in their garage!

If you can help him send him an email at austin.colcord at lifelock.com

Healeys were well represented at this years Portland Historic Vintage Races. The economy doesn’t seem to affect the hard core racer with over 200 cars in attendance. This event is part car show part vintage car race with some very rare and well resorted makes. It draws competitors from all over the west coast and Canada which provides the spectator with a great diversity of cars to watch.

Read more and see the video of Doug Escriva racing.

AHCO own Doug Escriva won the HMSA award for the best prepared and presented vintage race car. His 1957 100-6 MM in the rare original Florida Green and OEW hardtop was quite a crowd pleaser.. The recently rebuilt race motor features three 2″ SI HUD 8 carburetors mounted on a rare period correct Ruddspeed high performance manifold. It also sports a full carpeted interior with light weight leather upholstered racing bucket seats.

Race Video from Doug’s car, Sunday’s Final Group # 7