the website will be available by the first of the calendar year.

The website is going to be great looking and easy to use.

Mark Schneider, President

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Attachment :

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 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