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.

Saturday……….. Heat #1……….Finished 2nd

#2……………………4th

Sunday……………Heat #1……………………3rd

#2…………………….1st

Monday…………..Heat #1…………………….1st

#2…………………….1st

The two racing pictures above were taken during the second heat on Sunday. My camera was on the outside of Turn 2 at the chicane. The left-most picture was taken well into the race. The red car had been leading the pack up to this point. As can be seen in the shot, Doug is all over the red car. Doug had worked hard and raced smart to get to this position. The middle picture was taken the next lap. Doug had passed the red car and was now leading the pack and finished the race that way. The red car then retired with a serious brake problem. The problem was likely caused by the severe pressure Doug and his 210 hp Healey with 220 ft lbs of torque were applying. The 2nd and 3rd place cars in this heat were also Healeys. Oh! BTW, if you hadn’t noticed, the red car is a Ferrari!!! Good on ya, Doug. That was one of the most exciting races I have seen at PIR. It is too bad Doug couldn’t hear the cheers and whistles from the grandstands when he was flying, hair on fire, sliding through the chicane after passing the Ferrari. Forthcoming Acrtivities

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, for Wednesday night, Sept 15th. The room rent 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, Sept. 16th, 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.

Annual Club Elections

The Nomination Committee will consist of:

Past President Jeff Mach

Executive Board Member Jack Jakobsen

General Member Allan Gross

Jeff will arrange meetings of the Committee as necessary to generate a slate of nominees to fill the Club offices. Nominations for officers will also be accepted from the floor during the October general meeting, providing those nominated agree to serve prior to the nomination. The Secretary will post the slate of candidates on the website and develop a ballot when the Nominations Committee completes its task. The President will appoint a Club member as an election official. At least two weeks prior to the November Club meeting the election official shall postal mail a ballot to each Club member with instruction to return the completed ballot to the official by a specified date. Ballots will be counted only if received by postal mail prior to the deadline or delivered in person to the official at the Club November meeting. Ballots will be opened and votes tallied by the election official at the meeting.

Historically, the annual efforts of the Nominations Committee can be a bit of a struggle. Their challenge is to find Club members willing to dedicate time and effort to supporting Club direction, decisions, planning, activities, etc. If you have given some thought to helping your club I encourage you to contact one of the three members of the Committee. You can find their telephone numbers in the Club Directory.

President                                 Vice President 

Secretary                                  Treasurer

Activities Director                      Regalia Director

Membership Director                 Advertising Director

 The responsibilities of these positions are described in the Club’s Bylaws, which is available online here.  There are no prerequisites for holding an AHCO office, except that the President must have previously been a member of the Club’s Executive Board.  The position of Advertising Director may or may not be continued in 2011.  The Club’s Executive Board recently decided to suspend the activities of the Advertising Director pending a review of whether their  position should be continued and if not, membership approval of  such a change to the Club’s bylaws.

 The Club bylaws encourage regular changes in members serving as Club officers and a club like ours survives and prospers through the active participation of its members.  I encourage all Club members to consider running for one of the Club officer positions to help guide the Club and keep it vital in 2011.  For all you members who have served as officers in the past, thank you, but please consider becoming a officer candidate again also.

 If you wish to nominate yourself or someone else (with their concurrence, please), contact Jack, Allan, or I.  You can find telephone and email contact information for us in your membership directory.  In addition, nominations for office will be solicited at the October general membership meeting.  Voting will occur in November.

 Thank you for your consideration of this request.

Activities
Portland Historic Races, July 9-12
The 2010 Baxter Auto Part Portland Historic Races, July 9 – 12, 2010 held at Portland International Raceway, features an annual entry list of more than 250 prestigious historic race cars, representing a wide variety of manufacturers. The restored cars are divided into groups according to make, age and horsepower, where they are raced at high speeds close to or at their full potential.  This year the featured marque is Alfa Romeo.  Boasting an open paddock, the Portland Historic Races allow enthusiasts the opportunity to see race cars up close and interact with the drivers and crew. The event also features a display of more than 700 collector cars and hot rods, a food and wine pavilion, a kid zone, an autocross, and a vendor midway. 

In past years the Austin-Healey Club of Oregon has had 15 or more member cars in the car club static display corrals.  These numbers have dwindled in recent years to less than a half dozen last year.  I believe this is partially due to the cost of $45.00 for registration.  Certainly that is a sizeable amount of money to spend just to park your car on the grass and be part of the show.  On the other hand it provides you with two tickets for each of the event days, total access to the pits, concessions, food vendors, and grandstands.

A final reason to attend the Historics is the car club parade laps.  The picture is the Schneider Healey coming out of the corner and onto the front straight.  Another factor seems to be concerns for locating the car club corrals inside the race course. Many participants complained the first year the corrals were moved to this location. We all felt trapped until the race day ended and the race course could again be crossed.  The PIR officials heard many complaints about this and now allow passage between race  heats.  About every 20 minutes throughout the day the race course is closed, the gates are opened and collector cars can freely pass in or out of the corral area.   I encourage the AHCO membership to join me at the Historic Races this summer.  I don’t think I have missed the event in over twenty years and have grown to love vintage racing.  Additionally, we have several AHCO members that will be racing their Healeys and will appreciate our cheering them on.  If I have convinced you to join me please send a check for $45.00 to the AHCO Activities Director John Carter in the next week to ten days.  John needs to file the registrations and fees with the PIR event by June 1, 2010.  The mailing address to use is 16173 – SW Dekalb Street, Portland, OR  97224.
June12, – The tour and AHCO members meeting will be hosted by Wanda and Michael Hartfield. We will meet at the former Sherwood  GI Joes parking lot  on Hwy 99 (sort of behind the McDonalds).  Meeting time is 10:00 AM.  The tour will depart at 10:30.  The tour will be approximately 60 miles in length and pass through the Dundee, Amity, Dayton vicinity with a stop at the Amity Vineyard Winery where we will enjoy a sampling of the wines.  There is a $5.00 charge for the wine tasting.  We will continue the tour on to the Hartfields home for lunch and the meeting  There will be a short Executive Board meeting prior to the general membership meeting.  the later meeting will start at 3:15 PM.   Please notify the Hartfields if you plan to attend so they can plan the food.  Michael and Wanda Hartfield may be reached by phone at 503-476-3202 or by email at hartfiel@alumni.princeton.edu.
June 28-July 2, Rendezvous  – The registrations for the Austin-Healey Club USA Rendezvous hosted by the AHCO have now reached a total of 87.  If you are planning to attend and have not yet registered please do so very soon.

July and August Events
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.

Also here is a Youtube link of the actual auction- for those watching it on Speed Channel it was interrupted by a commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92VZK0_6YuE

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‘Nestled in the heart of Oregon’s beautiful wine country, McMinnville is Oregon at its best. There are numerous scenic roads and beautiful vistas as well as the charming downtown area. You can enjoy delicious wine tasting, explore downtown shops or just have fun on the meandering Healey roads.’ I could not come up with a better description than John Carter’s of the site of the 2009 Austin Healey Northwest Meet. We arrived Thursday afternoon after a beautiful trip down Hwy 99 from Portland. The sky was blue, and the temperature was a perfect 75 degrees. Registration and socializing took place in the parking lot reserved for us, and at 5:45 we lined up the Healey’s for our first planned event, dinner at Golden Valley Pub and Brewery. Located in McMinnville’s historic downtown district, Golden Valley is well known for their outstanding beers, premium local wines, comfortable environment and delicious food. There were 44 of us seated in our own room where we enjoyed fabulous beer, wine and repast. We returned to the motel after dinner and continued to socialize in the Hospitality Room provided by the Red Lion Inn.
Friday was a ‘free’ day to explore on your own or pal up with others and go wine tasting, stroll through the Historic Downtown area, visit the beautiful campus of Linfield College or tour the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum. More Healeys arrived over night and more came in the morning, so we knew we would make quite an impression as we all ventured about the area. Larry and I opted to go to the Museum, knowing there was a new building recently opened totally dedicated to Space Flight and Exploration. We spent the morning touring the Aviation Museum, including a tour of a B-17 bomber and of course, the world’s largest wooden airplane, the ‘Spruce Goose’. After lunch and a glass of Spruce Goose Pinot Gris, we continued our tour of the Space Museum. There we were able to visit the Titan II Launch Room and view a 5 minute launch simulation. We returned to the motel to socialize in the parking lot again (the weather could not be finer), and learn where everyone else had gone and what they had seen. We were still getting new arrivals around 3:30 which marked the beginning of the Slot Car Races. Denis and Jan Saxon hosted this event with help and the round robin began! 36 cars raced, 4 at a time. With expert guidance from Denis, we all had a grand time with 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winning a bottle of local wine and a ‘medal’. John Carter and his ‘Idleometer’ started making the rounds at 4:00 and with the help of George Koeber, tested the idles on any Healey whose owner was brave and confident. John Carter created this ‘Rube Goldberg’ like machine which records the roughness or smoothness of your idle. We had quite a few test but the results won’t be in until tomorrow night to allow more testing in the afternoon. We all convened in the Hospitality Room for a buffet of appetizers including fruit, veggies, cold cuts, cheeses, meatballs and dessert. It was a great spread and while you were in line, you could check out the Healey-Feely bags.
On Saturday, after our daily continental breakfast provided complimentary by Red Lion, we all assembled in the parking lot. Jan Whittlesey and Glen Enright were our guides on a road tour of the surrounding area. What an incredible drive! Through farmland, foothills, vineyard and nurseries, we wound around, arriving in Carlton at 11:00 to roam around the shops, taste wine if you were inclined, or just sit on a bench and watch rest of us take a break. We saddled back up at 11:45 to caravan to Laurel Ridge Winery where we tasted wine and ate our picnic lunches overlooking vineyards. Our hosts did their best to accommodate such a large crowd and all had a good time. After lunch, some of us headed back to MAC, some continued wine tasting at Willakenzie Winery up the road. We all gathered back at the parking lot at 4:00 for socializing, testing your idle with John Carter’s Idleometer and general relaxing after a Healey tour day. At 5:45 we saddled up again for our Authentic Texan Barbeque at the McMinnville Senior Center. The theme was Western and quite a few brave souls dressed accordingly. It was fun to see the cowboy hats and boots, skirts and turquoise! We had an excellent dinner catered by Buster’s Authentic Texan Barbeque! After dinner, we returned to the motel for awards for ‘games’, raffle and door prize drawings, and socializing in the Hospitality Room. I think the first awards were given for ‘Oil Stains’. A sheet of brown paper was placed under your Healey for a period of ½ to 1 hour. Then Gary and Jan Jackson announced the winners; ‘Most Oil’ went to Phil Daniels, ‘Least Oil’ went to Michael DeWilds and ‘Most Artistic’ Oil Stain went to Dennis Saxon. The next awards were given for the Idleometer test. Tom Magnuson(45pts.) won a run away first place, John Stevens(70pts.) won second place and Michael Hartfield took third with 74pts.. And the two winners of the Questions to the Answer were Bruce and Sue Jackson for first place and Susan White for second place. Final awards going to winners of the Slot Races were Michael Hartfield with first, Bob Poague with second, and Doris Johnson won third. The Healey-Feely contest was won by Lynn Martin. Then we learned the raffle winners. We had an amazing array of items for raffle and all were very pleased with their winnings. A good time was had by all. We had a total of 108 people registered from Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Idaho and even one couple, Terry and Patricia Bancroft from Sydney, Australia (they were driving the beautiful metallic green Cougar!). We had about 40 Healeys of various makes. All that were left were the good-byes in the parking lot on Sunday morning and promises to ‘See you next year!’ at the 2010 Austin Healey Northwest Meet at Lake Chelan!

Thanks to all who helped make this a wonderful event, especially John and Judy Carter, George and Jackie Koeber, and Glen Enright and Jan Whittlesey.
Also, many thanks to Kym Randolph for writing this article.

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