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

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. 

We all owe a huge “thank you” to our Activities Directors and their wives.  Thank you John & Judy Carter and George & Jaci Koeber.  In addition, thanks are due to the small band of Christmas elves, they were, Gary & Jan Jackson, Ja Ann & Jon Hoisington and Joan Wilson.

Membership Renewal
Our effort to expedite membership renewals for the 2011 year is well underway.  At present the Membership Director has recorded 95 renewals. We would very much like to have received all membership renewal forms and dues payments  before Christmas.  Please send your input to Dennis Saxon at:
13212 – SE 336th Place
Auburn, WA 98092

The renewal form is available at: http://healey-oregon.org/Time to Renew Your Membership.

Our objective in this process is to produce a 2011 Club Directory accurately listing all current members, their correct email address and phone.  This week Dennis will be mailing a reminder letter to all members we have not heard from.  Renewal form information not reaching Dennis before the Directory and Resource Book goes to press will not be included.  Late renewals will certainly be accepted but will require subsequent hand-written entries in the Directory.  Space for this as well as for new member information will be provided in the book.

Activities
2011 Activities Calendar
As announced at the party, the 2011 activities calendar is under development.  The Activities Directors requested members help out by volunteering to help with at least one of the monthly meetings.  Many of you have heard me refer to the activities as the life blood of the AHCO.  These include meetings, tours, tech sessions, overnights, picnics, the historic races, ABFM, and the Christmas Party.  These things don’t just happen.  George Koeber and John Carter have directed the Activities for well over a year and are in pursuit of fulfilling another year of fun events. How about we step up and give the guys some relief?  I am asking each member to consider organizing, hosting, at least one meeting.  A list of potential topics and meeting locations is attached below.  Seize the opportunity and help support your Club.  John and George will be delighted to work with volunteers to facilitate the planning process.

January 8, 2011
The Activities Directors have planned this as a joint meeting with other British Car Clubs.  An invitation has been extended to several other British car clubs to joins us  in the showroom of:

Koeber’s Carpets & Furnishing, 6710 S.W. 111th Ave., Beaverton.  The showroom address is just west of Hwy 217 and Denny Road.

The doors will open to AHCO members and guests at 02:00 pm.  At approximately 02:30 pm there will be a showing of the DVD:

“Return to Bonneville:  A Tribute
to Donald Healey”

The movie is a professionally produced video record of the events of a week in September, 2009 when Steve Pike brought two Austin-Healeys from his shop in Australia to the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, UT.  Steve’s plan was to recreate and honor the events of the original Healey Team (circa 1953).  Several AHCO members traveled to Wendover to observe.  We had a ball.  Some of us even appear in the video.
The general AHCO meeting will take place following the video at about  03:45pm.  Following the meeting there will be a wine tasting.  Please bring a bottle of your favorite wine for tasting and be prepared to describe some information about your wine.  There will be snacks to enjoy with the wine.  If you have questions please call George Koeber (503) 244-3731.

February 12, 2011
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. Loyning’s 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.

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VOLUNTEERING FOR A MONTHLY ACTIVITY

We have Activities Directors for the club but we still need volunteers to head up and organize some of the monthly events. Please consider lending a hand and taking an active part in your Club by organizing an event. It is not as difficult or time-consuming as you may think. Here are the basic steps.

1. Identify the event.

2. Decide on a sort of step-by-step schedule with a route to follow considering parking and road quality, etc.

3. Think about a restaurant where the monthly meeting could be held

4. Write up a short description

5. Get another volunteer to summarize the activity afterward

HERE ARE SOME IDEAS

1. British Auto Works tech session

2. East Oregon tour

3. Sherwood Car Show(June)

4. Fort Vancouver Concours d Elegance show(Aug)

5. Historic Races at PIR(July)

6. Wildwood Recreation Site in Welches

7. Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus

8. Olympic Peninsula tour with the Washington club

9. Adobe Motel in Yachats

10. Sports Car Shop in Eugene-tech session

Your Activity Directors will be happy to help you out with organizing,scheduling and suggesting ideas

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.

AHCO 2011 Officers Election
As I am writing this memo the AHCO Election Official, Bob Bollinger, with assistance from Jim Averill is preparing an envelope to be mailed to each club member. The mailing will hold a packet of items inluding a ballot reflecting the
2011 Officers nominations slate prepared by the Nomincations Committee, a questionnaire, a membership renewal form, and a pre-addressed envelope for member’s use in returning the ballot and completed questionnaire. Please note that the ballot is to be return mailed to Bob Bollinger by Monday, November 8, 2010.  Alternatively, the ballot in the sealed envelope may be hand delivered to the November 13, 2010 AHCO meeting at John Wilson’s (see below).

The questionnaire seeks members’ input on a number of topics. The current Board is hoping for strong show of member interest by completing the questionnaire. The responses will help the 2011 Executive Board plan fun meetings and tours as well as informative technical sessions.  The membership renewal effort might seem to be starting a little earlier than in the past. However, the Membership Director hopes to expedite the renewal cycle and provide an accurate directory of current members by the end of the calendar year. To accomplish this we need to start a little earlier. We recognize that there will be new members joining us next year and perhaps a few late renewals that will
be received after the update of the database. When this occurs members will receive updates of the effected members’ information in future Memos. Completed membership renewal forms and due are to be mailed directly to:
Dennis Saxon, Membership Director
13212 – SE 336th Pl.
Auburn, WA 98902
Activities
November 13, 2010
The meeting will be held at John Wilson’s in Marcola, OR. John Wilson will  conduct a tech session at his shop at 37141 Parsons Creek Road, Marcola, Oregon.  (I will be sending out a map and directions to John’s place subsequently.) 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. John has will have a pot of chili on for us. The Activities directors reminded the meeting attendees to please let them know if you are planning to attend so there will be enough food for all. Call John Carter 503-579-6599 orGeorge Koeber 503-244-3731.

Also at the November AHCO meeting, those not involved in the tech session can participate in a jewelry session led by Kathy Frazer. She will teach a lesson in making floating (or illusion) necklaces with pearls or crystals. In order to have enough material on hand, please let her know if you are interested in this activity. The cost of materials will be $5.00 and you will go home with a completed necklace. RSVP to Kathy by Nov. 3 at 541-345-1694 or
kathleenfrazer@comcast.net.

December 4, 2010.Christmas Party
It’s almost time for the Christmas Party, Saturday, December 4th. The party will be held at the Mountain Park Recreation Hall in Lake Oswego, OR. The address is :

2 Mount Jefferson Ter, Lake Oswego, OR 97035
The theme for this years party is “Putting on the Ritz”. This years event will include a Silent Auction, a Blind Auction and a Gift Exchange, which is voluntary.  Please allow $20.00 for your gift exchange gift. All procedes from the auctions
will go to our clubs Scholarship Fund. There will be live entertainment as well.  Please bring your own beverage, beer, wine, etc. We are planning a fun event that you will not want to miss.  We are needing items for the Auctions and hope you will help us with a contribution. It does not have to be Healey related. Gift baskets or individual items are welcome. Please call George Koeber 503-244-3731 if you can make a contribution.  So that the caterer can have an accurate count, please notify John Carter, 503-579-6599 or e-mail jc9821@msn.com. If you are planning to attend, there is a $10 per person charge with the club paying the remainder. Checks can be mailed to John Carter, 16173 S.W.Dekalb, Tigard, OR 97224, made out to AHCO. You can also pay at the November meeting. We need to receive your checks by
December 1st.  If you are coming from out of town and need a contact for Saturday nights lodging we found the Holiday Inn Express on Boones Ferry Road to be a good offering. You need to make you reservation on-line at http://www.hiexpress.com/hotels/us/en/reservation#roomrate. The room rate at this time is $79 per night and
includes breakfast.  The time schedule of events for the evening:

5:00 Social time and Silent Auction and Blind Auction
6:30 Dinner
8:00 Auction tables closing
8:30 Gift Exchange

This is a joint tour with the Cascade Club.  We will meet at the Burger King at Delta Park @8:30 a.m. with departure at 9:00.  We will tour to Morton, Washington where we will meet the Cascade Club.  You will want to bring a picnic lunch for our lunch break.  We will have a short meeting during the lunch stop.  At the end of the tour we will arrive at Phil and Becky Daniel’s for a pot luck dinner.  Please bring a dinner course as shown:  Last name A-E bring Salad or Bread; F-K bring Vegetable or Appetizers; L-P bring Potato or Pasta; Q-Z bring Dessert.  Bring your own drinks.

You are invited to stay over and enjoy a train ride at Elbe, Washington on Sunday. We will be stay at the Seasons Motel in Morton. Phone (360)496-6835.   200 Westlake Drive    The rooms are $80-$90.

We will meet at John & Judy Carter’s house at 16173 S.W. Dekalb St., Tigard, at 8:30 a.m.  The tour will start at 9:00.  We will tour to Bald Peak State Park where we will enjoy the view with coffee and “sweets”.  From there we will  tour to Carlton where we will have a picnic at Wennerberg Park where we will play and compete in some “lawn games”.  The meeting will be at 2:30.  You may bring your own picnic lunch or you may purchase lunch at the nearby Deli in Carlton.  Directions to the Carter’s home – Hwy 99 to Bull Mountain Rd. to 161^st  Ave.  Turn East to Dekalb, turn right on Dekalb to address.  Call if you get lost (503) 579-6599.

I have mailed out tickets to those who prepaid for the July Historic Races at PIR. If you paid and have not received your tickets please call John at 503-579-6599.

AHCO Tour and Meeting 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

Austin-Healey Club USA 2010 Rendezvous June 28 -  July 2, 2010  – The anticipation, planning, email traffic, and phone calls amongst the Rendezvous Committee are all at an intense level these days.  The dates of this major Healey event begin in less than three weeks from today’s date.  The Rendezvous Committee is holding one last meeting in Eugene on June 14^th.  We will conduct a walk through of the Valley River Inn checking on facilities, discuss planned activities and schedules. We want to be sure we haven’t missed something.  At the present time we have received 110 registrations.  This compares with the 2009 registration of approximately 65-70.  Furthermore, we may see several more last minute registrations.  The event being hosted by our AHCO has all the ingredients for a fantastic meet.  I need to alert the members of the AHCO About something that may occur during the Rendezvous.  You may be asked to help the Committee members with the wide variety of tasks the event will present.  Also, if a visiting Healeyphile asks a question you can’t answer grab one of the Committee members for an answer.  Most of the time we’ll be easy to spot as we will be wearing a Committee shirt.  Several of us will head to Eugene on Sunday June 27 to begin set up for registration and other preparations for arrivals from three countries and 9 or 10 states.   Then let the fun begin.  It will be time to PARTAY!!

Portland Historic Races, July 9-12  – Activities Director, John Carter, tells me we have eight members registered for the Portland Historic Races.  In past years registered car owners were required to have their vehicles parked in the Club corral by 10:00 AM on the first day.  This can result in a significant line of cars waiting at the gate to cross the track into the infield. The earlier you can get there, the shorter the oine will be.  Please note that the Historic Races are scheduled for the second Saturday of July.  Therefore, the Club meeting date has been moved one week.  In the past we have tried to conduct at the race track but we found it too noisy from a meeting

AHCO Tour and Meeting July 17^th

Note that the tour is scheduled for the third Saturday due to the Historic Races, which are held on the 2^nd Saturday.  The tour will be a tour through the Tualatin Valley area.  Bring a picnic lunch for the meeting sight.  Check the website for more details.

AHCO Tour and Meeting August 7^th

This will be a joint meeting with the Cascade Club of Washington.   We will be meeting  at Delta Park Burger King off I-5 @ 9 a.m.  We will tour up to Morton, WA  where the Washington Club will lead us on a scenic tour with a picnic lunch stop.  Phil and Becky Daniels will be hosting a pot luck dinner after the tour.  All members are welcomed to join in an over night in Morton at The Season’s Motel (360-496-6835).  On Sunday we will be enjoying the train ride out of Elbe, a 2 hour scenic excursion train, cost is $23, for Seniors $20.  Check website for complete details.