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.

June 12th Tour and Meeting will be hosted by Wanda and Micheal Hartfield.

We will meet at the G.I. Joes parking lot in Sherwood (kind of behind the McDonald’s just off Hwy. 99) at 10:00 a.m. and plan to leave at 10:30.

The tour will be approximately 60 miles long and will be around the Parrot Mountain, Yamhill, Lafayette, Dundee, Amity and Dayton area with a stop at the Amity Vineyard Winery where we will enjoy a sampling of their wines. (There is a $5.00 charge for the wine tasting).

We will continue the tour on to the Hartfield’s home for lunch and the meeting.

Lunch will be around 2:00 so you may want to pack a light snack which can be enjoyed at a viewpoint picnic table at the vineyard.

The meeting is planned for about 3:15.

Please notify the Hartfield’s if you plan to attend so they can plan the food.

Michael &amp; Wanda Hartfield 503-476-3202 or e-mail <a href=”mailto:hartfiel@alumni.princeton.edu”>hartfiel@alumni.princeton.edu</a>

Written by Jaci and George Koeber

This annual rally takes place August 5-8. Visit the website for all the details-

www.classicrallies.com

We are getting ready for the 34th annual Portland Historic Races at PIR and would like to have the participation of as many Healey club members as possible. The number of members coming has been decreasing the last few years. Let’s get those cars out and active! With your Corral fee you will be able to park together in the race infield to enjoy the fun. Some may even want to autocross for a $5 donation to charity. At lunchtime you get to take a lap or two around the track just for fun. There are lots of races and vendors and hundreds of cars to look at.

The Corral fee must be collected in advance. Please send the $45 fee to John Carter at 16173 SW Dekalb St.,Portland,OR 97224. I have to send all of the money in together before the June 1 deadline so send it to me at least several days before that . If you have any questions please call me at 503-579-6599.

So let’s get those cars out and gather for some fun at the races. We need the Austin Healey marque represented. Last year there were more MG’s than Healeys!

The Columbia River Concours and 51^st Northwest Antique Aircraft Fly-In  2010

To register as an entrant, for the August 22 Columbia River Concours d’Elegance please go to our website and download and print the PDF file (registration) and send it and a check for the appropriate fees to the address shown below. Be sure to do this before the closing date of June 15, 2010 with the photos as requested on the form to assure inclusion in the Concours Program. Entrants will be informed of their selection by the Founders Committee.

To:

Columbia River Concours d’Elegance

P.O. Box 1494

Longview, WA 98632

The Founders Committee will be accepting entries of no newer than 1974 vehicles of show quality. Determination of inclusion is solely based on merit and quality of the entrant.

Awards for Best in Show, Best in Class, Second and Third in Class. Some “Specialty Awards” may also be awarded by the Senior or Special Judge.

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To attend the “Columbia River Concours d’Elegance please follow these simple steps. Send $8 per ticket, (children 12 and under free) to the address below for advance ticket sales.

Columbia River Concours d’Elegance

P.O. Box 1494

Longview, WA 98632

Or

Go to either of the entrance gates at the event on Saturday August, 22, 2010 and buy your tickets there for $10 each (children 12 and under free) . Directions to The Reserve can be found by pressing the Guide button above . Food vendors will be on site and fine dinning is available at the Grant House, formerly known as the Restaurant at the Historic Reserve.

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The 51st Anniversary of the Northwest Antique Aircraft Club Fly-In will be held at Pearson Field Airport which is the oldest operating airpark in the USA! Thanks to the wonderful Vancouver community, our 2009 Fly-In was a super success. Therefore, we’re coming back! The following are times & public admission costs:

Friday, August 20 – noon – 5 pm

Saturday, August 21 – 8 am – 5 pm

Sunday, August 22 – 8 am – noon

Adults – $8?         Seniors – $7?           Ages – 6 – 12 – $5?            Under 6 are FREE

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An email was received this week from Mike Scroggie of the Austin-Healey Association of Southern California.  In his email Mike spells out some of the details of an event the Southern Healey club is hosting from May 19 through 23, 2010 in Temecula, CA.  The event appears to plan hosting all of the usual Healey meet events, eg, tours, Funkanas, tech sessions, car show and a banquet.  For more information or to follow the plans as they develop you can go to their Club website at www.austin-healey.org.  Also take a look at the attached pdf file.

As 2009 winds down and I conclude my term as Club President, I’d like to thank the Club’s 2009 officers, all you Club  members who volunteered for one job or another over the course of the year, and all you members who participated in our activities.  Collectively, you made the Club’s 2009 activities happen, you made them fun, and you made them successful.  Without your efforts, we wouldn’t be able to continue conducting or participating in the activities we do.   The Club’s officers work throughout the year on the responsibilities they have agreed to shepard.  However, we also rely on other members volunteering for a wide range of jobs, including obtaining charity auction item donations, organizing and hosting monthly activities and meeting places, helping to put on the Portland All British Field Meet, organizing amd producing Northwest Meet and Rendezvous events, producing artwork for Club events and donations, posting items of interest on the Club web site, etc., etc.  The larger events we host periodically, such as the Northwest Meet and the Rendezvous, require many people and many months of concerted commitment and work to successfully complete.

The Club had a very busy and successful year year in 2009.  We began planning for the 2010 Rendezvous to be held in Eugene next June.  Healey was the featured marque at the Portland All British Field Meet, where we staged a successful, if wet, central display that included the first North American showing of Steve Pike’s two Healey Bonneville Replicas and a 100S, along with all the other fine Healey specimens folks loaned us.  We also handled our normal ABFM responsibilities of managing participant registrations and counting the Peoples’ Choice votes in a timely fashion for nearly 50 different car and motorcycle categories.  We also hosted the 2009 Northwest Meet, which was extremely well attended and was enjoyed by everyone who attended.  We raised funds and provided charitable donations to several worthy Oregon organizations.  Finally, we were able to experience a wonderful variety of activities and trips during the year.  

I hope you found our 2009 activities as enjoyable as I did.  A club like the AHCO is only as good as the participation of its members in its activities.  Since I became a member of the Club, a scant five years ago, my participation and volunteer efforts have resulted in great fun, good friendships and technical contacts, wonderful tours of some of Oregon’s best sports car roads, and many opportunities to learn about a wide variety of subjects, often well beyond DMH and his vehicles.

For those of you already active in the Club’s activities, thank you for your time and efforts this year.  I encourage your continued help in supporting the Club’s activities.  For those of you who haven’t participated or volunteered in the Club’s activities, I encourage you to try it if possible.  The Club can’t continue to do the things we do without the participation of its members and we can always use more help in keeping our club running and continuing to do interesting things.

Thank you all for your help and support during my term as your President.

Wishing you all a happy holiday season and looking forward to 2010.

 Jeff

The meeting on Jan.9th will be at the Carter’s house at 16173 SW Dekalb St. on Bull Mountain. Tom Monaco will lead a hands-on tech session entitled “The Proper Way To Replace a Rear Axel Seal”. It will begin at 11:00 and last to about 1:45. We will then go to Max’s Grill and Pub in Old Town Tigard for lunch at 2:00.(12562 SW Main St.) Following lunch our meeting will convene in the private room at Max’s.

I have found that belonging to the email list, ” healeys@autox.team.net” helpful if not entertaining from time to time.  Today there was an entry that I think may be valuable to club members and I urge taking a look at the following web address, http://www.healey6.com/bulletin.htm.  This address will take you to a new addition to John Sims very useful wevsite.  The new item is a copy of original Lucas training material for multiple electrical items on our Healeys.  I haven’t yet fully explored it myself but according to the email lister providing the item the course is VERY helpful.  It has excellent step by step procedures for diagnosing faults with everything from horns, control heads, wipers, starters to OD circuitry and equipment.  The OD electrics section is particularly useful to help owners understand what all the various relays and switches do (esp. for 100 owners).  The distributor, horns, wiper, lighting and wiring sections are also exceptionally useful as
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A black BJ8 was for sale at the Silver Auction held in Portland this past weekend.  The car did not sell.  The reserve price on the vehicle was $50.0 K.  The highest bid was $34.0 K.  If anyone is looking for a 1965 BJ8 it may be worth investigating through Silver Auctions.  Pictures of the car are posted on the auction house’s website (www.silverauctions.com) as item “160″.  Based on what can be observed from the pictures the car has new wire wheels and big tires.  It may also have a relatively new exhaust.  The interior appears to have been redone and the engine block has fresh engine green paint.  Otherwise the car appears to be a “driver”.