REGIONAL RUMBLIN S. Newsleer of the South Texas Ausn-Healey Club August In Memoriam. Lt. Col. Carl Lutrick. May 27, July 10, 2017

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1 REGIONAL RUMBLIN S Volume 2017, Issue 8 Newsleer of the South Texas Ausn-Healey Club August 2017 In Memoriam Lt. Col. Carl Lutrick May 27, July 10, 2017 Carl Blake Lutrick, 47, originally of Atlanta, Texas, passed away at his home in Pflugerville, Texas. He was born in California to Don and Joy Lutrick. He lived for the Lord and to serve others, and will be remembered for his kindness and generosity. Carl was a humble man who loved his family, wanted the best for his children and did everything he could to support their dreams. Carl is survived by his wife Melissa; children, Nicholas, Bradley and Makalya; grandchildren, Kason and Colton; father, Don and Stepmother Linda; siblings, Dane2e, Robert, Bill, Gary, and Chris. Deepest sympathy is extended to Melissa, and the Lutrick and Brown families. "Fight the Fight"

2 RUMBLIN S ROAD MAP Page Club Officers & Appointees 2 President s Ramblin s 2 Conclave 2017 In Review 3-11 Events Calendars 12 Healey Driving Contest Rules/Info Ed s Ramblin s & This Just In Tool Box & El Mercado 16 President & AHCA Delegate: Jim Richmond (830) jkrich@gvtc.com Club Officers, Board Members, and Appointed Posions Vice President: Michael & Joy Escriva michael.escriva@gmail.com Membership: Tina Adkins (512) stahcmembership@icloud.com Treasurer: Bob Adkins (512) radkins@ieee.org Newsleer Editor & Webmaster: Ron Borden (830) rborden@gvtc.com Highway Cleanup: Whitmores (210) defwhit@satx.rr.com So. Tex. All Brish Car Day Representa- ve: Lynn McKinnie (210) Lmckinnie@satx.rr.com Facebook Administrator: Jaime Molina (512) tjmolina@gmail.com President s Ramblin s By Jim Richmond The most important Healey event for 2017 in North America took place last month in Waco, Texas. The North Texas AHC, Gulf Coast AHC and our club hosted Conclave STAHC members can be proud of their par8cipa8on in this very successful event. Seventeen STAHC members a2ended Conclave and most helped with one or more of the events. Many of our members helped with prepara8ons before and with ac8vi8es at the event itself. Bonnie Ayer worked very hard as chairperson for Conclave. Mike Manser, unable to a2end due to work commitments, never the less conducted a very interes8ng tech session. Lera Borden conducted a tech session on quil8ng that was of par8cular interest to the Ladies, and she contributed two very fine Healey-themed quilts to the auc8on. Ron Borden helped with many of the events both before and during Conclave and has devoted this issue of Rumblin s to post-conclave coverage. Many other STAHC members contributed to the success of Conclave in ways too numerous to men8on. STAHC did not do this alone. Several members of the other Texas Healey clubs pitched in along with members of clubs outside Texas. A special thanks goes to Neil Anderson, AHCA Vice President Conclave, for his help making Conclave 2017 a success. Next month, STAHC will celebrate Na8onal Ice Cream Social Day, along with other Healey Clubs in North America, at Amy s in Wimberley, on August 12 at 2:00 PM. Tina and Bob Adkins will host this event. We will conduct a short business mee8ng to appoint a nomina8ng commi2ee for officers in 2018, and another commi2ee to start planning for Texas Healey Roundup in We will also discuss plans for South Texas All Bri8sh Car Day on October 28 to be held in Boerne. It is our turn to host this event. I hope to see all of you in Wimberley on August 12. Jim 2

3 CONCLAVE 2017 IN REVIEW POPULARITY CAR SHOW Sunday akernoon, aker most Healeys and their owners had arrived in Waco for Conclave 2017, a storm with lightning, thunder, very high winds and torren8al rain complete with small size hail, hit central Texas and the Waco area. Fortunately, the hail was small enough not to damage the Healeys. AKer the storm the temperature dropped significantly. The welcome cooler weather, complete with a cloud cover, con8nued all Monday morning. Conclave par- 8cipants, including those that did not have Healeys to display in popularity, were the beneficiaries, as were residents and visitors of Waco that came to view our beau8ful cars. And beau8ful they were! Forty-six cars and one Healey Sport Boat were on display. Conclave a2endees cast 115 ballots for their favorite in eleven classes including the Healey Sport Boat. No diamonds in the rough showed up. Not even close. Vo8ng in many of the classes was close however, due to the high quality of the cars. Loca8on of the popularity show was ideal. The city of Waco let us close University Parks Drive, the street right in front of the Conclave hotel and conven8ons center, for all of Monday including the Party on the Bridge that evening. Across the street from the hotel is Indian Springs Park, a small sliver of land, separa8ng University Parks Drive and the Brazos River. In the center of the park stands a key part of the Chisholm trail, a suspension bridge constructed in the years following the Civil War for ca2le to cross the Brazos river on the great ca2le drives to Kansas railheads. Twenty-five head of ca2le and three cowboys, cast in Bronze now stand at the entrance to the suspension bridge. The park, the bronze ca2le and cowboys, the bridge and the river provided the perfect backdrop for the popularity car show. Many Conclave par8cipants helped make this event possible. A special thanks goes to Neil Anderson for providing very informa8ve signage for each class, and Hilary Cooper and Ed Reiss for transpor8ng the sign stands with real Healey wire wheel bases to Conclave. Thanks for all those that helped place the signs and park the Healeys. Thanks also to the City of Waco for leong us close the street and providing the barricades. A special thank you to Bri8sh Restora8on Corpora8on of Philadelphia for their sponsorship of the Popularity Car Show. Popularity Car Show winners are listed on the next page. 3

4 CONCLAVE 2017 POPULARITY SHOW WINNERS 100M: First Place Mike McPhail Gulf Coast AHC 100/6: First Place Kevin & Cynthia Livingston Southeast Michigan AHC 3000 MK. I: First Place Tom & Nancy Harrison North Texas AHC 3000 MK. II, BN7-2 BT7-2: First Place Richard & Beverly Langer Gulf Coast AHC 3000 MK. II, BJ7: First Place Charles & Janice Johnson Atlanta AHC Second Place Gary & Paule2e Lownsdale Southeast Michigan AHC 3000 Mk. III, BJ8-1 Light: First Place Mike & Anne Johnson Gulf Coast AHC Second Place Bill Ranelle North Texas AHC 3000 Mk. III, BJ8-2 Lights: First Place Pat & Janet Yoas North Texas AHC Second Place Pete & Jane Sandy Gulf Coast AHC Third Place John Saccameno Midwest AHC Bugeye Sprite, AN5: First Place Michael & Joy Escriva South Texas AHC Second Place Richard & Terry Doig Gulf Coast AHC Third Place Reid Trummel Oregon AHC Sq. Body Sprite, AN6-9: First Place Ron & Lera Borden South Texas AHC Nasty Boy: First Place John & Ashley Jacobs Ohio Valley AHC Healey Sport Boat: First Place Gary & Paule2e Lownsdale Southeast Michigan AHC Conclave 2017 Popularity Best of Show: Terry & Debbie Swonke, Gulf Coast AHC, Bugeye Sprite, AN5 4

5 SEEN AT CONCLAVE 2017 POPULARITY.... Petrol, oil, & water - Bugeye fluids Drat... A cactus caused this flat It s a bird.. it s a plane.. It s.. SUP-er Healey Texas & Britain: Howdy, Chaps! NO-NO!! Bad doggie!! 5

6 CONCLAVE 2017 GYMKHANA This year s Gymkhana was held Tuesday morning at the Texas State Technical College Airport. A number of volunteers from all 3 Texas Healey clubs were on hand to help set up the course and ready the 8ming equipment. Here is a look at the event. Ladies and Gentlemen, START YOUR ENGINES! Keeping the drivers cool while warming the engines And they re off - for a jolly good romp around ye olde aerodrome (Jaime Molina s photographs) 6

7 CONCLAVE 2017 PARTY ON THE BRIDGE Above: Julie Bubbles Miller LeK: Michael and Joy Escriva, Mike and Ann Johnson (Gulf Coast AHC), David Ayer, Jim Richmond 7

8 HEALEY MATINEE AT THE MOVIES - WACO HIPPODROME THEATER Sebring Sprites at Conclave

9 CONCLAVE 2017 TECH SESSIONS INTEGRATING OUR CLASSIC CARS INTO A WORLD OF AUTOMATED AND CONNECTED VEHICLES Presented by Dr. Michael Manser (Jaime Molina s photographs) Most Conclave tech sessions have been about the care and feeding of our Healeys with topics like Prepara8on & Development of Fast Road Healeys, Repair and Restora8on or Installa8on of a Five Speed Transmission in a Healey. So what could a tech session about automated and connected vehicles have to do with Healeys? AKer all, many Healey owners are apprehensive concerning the development of automobiles with more and more automa8on. Michael Manser, our tech session presenter, has a PhD in psychology and is a member of the South Texas Aus8n-Healey Club. He works for the Texas A&M Transporta8on Ins8tute as a Human Factors Program Manager. Michael and his wife Stacey own a beau8ful BN1 recently restored by Fourintune Garages, the sponsor of this tech session. Mike has raced Healeys and, I have it on good authority, is an excellent mechanic. Michael gave a brief recap of the development of technology based systems in modern automobiles and talked about the future when vehicles, with or without drivers, will be able to communicate with each other and react to perceived threats or dangers. This development is not something that is in the far distant future, but will happen in the next few years. So what does all this mean for our fiky or sixty plus year old English sports cars built with even older technology? The answer surprised many of us. Our Healeys (and we) will be safer! How can this be? AKer all, most of us won t retrofit our Healeys with sensors and other safety devises beyond, perhaps, seat belts. Future automobiles will be able to sense our Healeys on the road even though our cars cannot sense them. Once a Healey is iden8fied as a poten8al danger that modern automobile will be able to take defensive ac8on to avoid that hiong that Healey. Dr. Manser did a great job presen8ng informa8on about technological development of the modern automobile, both now and in the near future, and how that will affect our use of Healeys and other old cars. 9

10 PINEWOOD DERBY & VALVE COVER RACES (Jaime Molina s photographs) 10

11 T-SHIRT QUILTS TECH SESSION Presented by Lera Borden On Tuesday akernoon Lera Borden conducted a tech session on construc8ng quilts using t-shirts in place of conven8onal fabric. She began by discussing an overall layout of the quilt based on the number of shirts available. Covered next was prepara- 8ons to be made such as laundering the shirts, a2aching a stabilizer fabric to the back of each shirt, and sizing of the ini8al cut of the shirt. A number of detailed design op8ons were projected showing many possibili8es that are available to add interest to the quilt. The session was concluded with sugges8ons for baong, backing and s8tching pa2erns, and answering ques8ons from the a2endees. (Jaime Molina s photograph above) Two t-shirt quilts that Lera, and her sister, Alice Hobbs, made especially for Conclave were auc- 8oned off at the Thursday evening banquet. The first quilt was made from 6 t-shirts from Na8onal Healey Day events in Japan (below). The other auc8on quilt (right & below right) contained t- shirts donated from previous Conclaves, and Healey photos transferred to a special transfer fabric with an inkjet printer. 11

12 STAHC 2017 EVENTS CALENDAR WHAT WHERE WHEN HOSTS Ice Cream Social Amy s, Wimberley Sat., Aug. 12, 2 P.M. Adkins Texas All Brish Car Days Centennial Plaza, Round Rock September Highway Pickup & Lunch at Redbud Café in Blanco FM 1623 at McKinney Loop, 2.6 mi. west of Blanco Sept. 16, 9 A.M. Whitmores So. Tx. All Brish Car Day Boerne Main Plaza, Boerne, Oct. 28, 2017, 10 A.M.-2 P.M. STAHC Host Club, Lynn McKinnie AHCA Fall Delegates Meeng Indianapolis, Indiana November 11 & 12 AHCA Yellow Rose Driving Tour (See Rumblin s page 14) Nov. 18, 8:30 - finish D J Stamp & AACA Christmas-Holiday Party Dick s Classic Garage Car Museum, San Marcos Dec. 3, 1-5 P.M. Millers Other Tech Sessions Where arranged As Requested STAHC Members AUGUST AREA CAR EVENTS CALENDAR WHAT WHERE WHEN INFO Burnet Friday Night Fever (monthly, first Friday) 220 So. Pierce Street, Burnet Fri. August 4, 5 P.M. 8l? Open to the Public Hot Rod Drive In Night Top Notch Hamburgers Sat., August 5, Open to the Public (monthly, first Saturday) 7525 Burnet Road, Aus8n P.M. (See Facebook) Hot Rod Saturday Night at Soda Pops 103 N. Main Street, Boerne Sat., Aug. 5 & 19, 5 P.M. Open to the Public Grumpy s Classic Car Meetup (monthly, first Saturday) Grumpy s Saloon 1113 RR 620 N., Lakeway Sat., August 5, 11 A.M. - 4 P.M. Open to the Public Coffee & Cars San Antonio (monthly, 2nd Sat.) Oak Hills Church, IH-10, San Antonio Sat., August 12, 8-10 A.M. Open to the Public Cars and Coffee Ausn at Oasis (monthly, 2nd Sunday) The Oasis on Lake Travis 6550 Comanche Tr. Aus8n Sun., August 13, 10 A.M. - 1 P.M. Open to the Public Pistons on the Square (monthly, 3rd Saturday) Town Square, Georgetown, Sat., August 19, 8 A.M A.M. Open to the Public Round Rock Car Show (monthly, 3rd Sunday) Centennial Plaza, Round Rock, Sun., August 20, 10 A.M. - 1 P.M. Open to the Public Luckenrod Car Show Luckenbach, Texas Sat., August 26, 10 A.M. - 5 P.M. 12

13 ON THE ROAD AGAIN & AGAIN IN YOUR HEALEY - A Healey Driving Contest - To encourage driving your Healeys, and to add even more fun to driving them (it s a blast just to drive one around the block isn t it!) the club has come up with a contest to accomplish just this. And maybe you will see some new and interes8ng places while par8cipa8ng. ENTRIES To enter this contest and be eligible for one of these great prizes you must submit photographic proof of your visit to the designated place no later than November 15, The photo must show your Healey at a recognizable loca8on in one of the designated places such as a sign with the name of the place (road sign as you enter the place, Post Office, city hall, etc.) or other item recognizable to the judge. Send your entry to the judge at jkrich@gvtc.com PRIZES Prizes will be awarded at the 2017 Holiday Party as follows: First Place - Free membership in AHCA and STAHC for 2018 (a $60 value) Contest Rules: PLACES TO VISIT IN YOUR HEALEY 30 ci8es, unincorporated areas, census-designated places in Texas with like named areas in other States are eligible to be visited via an Aus8n- Healey. 22 are within 100 miles of the center of Aus8n or San Antonio and will be awarded 1 point. 8 are more than 100 miles from these centers and will be awarded 2 points. Second Place - Your choice of a $50 gik cer8ficate from one of the following or a case of beer with a value up to $50. (You choose the brand) Third Place - Your choice of a $40 gik cer8ficate from one of the following or a case of beer with a value up to $40. (You choose the brand) GiM cerficate choices: Moss Motors Victoria Bri8sh Walmart Amazon Starbucks A chart showing the eligible contest loca8ons and their point value is found on the next page. Twin loca8ons for these places in other states are also listed. If you also visit these out of state loca- 8ons in your Healey you can earn bonus points, 2 points if the place is in an adjacent state and 3 points if it is farther away. If you happen to be driving your Healey outside the United States and take a picture of it in a place with the same name as one of the 30 loca8ons listed above, you will earn a whopping extra 5 points! 13

14 TEXAS LOCATIONS TWIN LOCATIONS PLACE IN TEXAS TEXAS COUNTY POINTS OTHER STATE OTHER COUNTY POINTS Aus8n Travis 1 Arkansas Lonoke 2 Bastrop Bastrop 1 Louisiana Morehouse (Parish) 2 Charlo2e Atascosa 1 North Carolina Mecklenburg 3 Columbus Colorado 1 Ohio Franklin 3 Elgin Travis 1 Oklahoma Comanche 2 Center Point Kerr 1 Arkansas Howard 2 Fredericksburg Gillespie 1 Virginia Independent City 3 Georgetown Williamson 1 Louisiana Grant (Parish) 2 Holland Bell 1 Michigan O2awa/Allegan 3 Jonestown Travis 1 Pennsylvania Lebanon 3 Lockhart Caldwell 1 Mississippi Lauderdale 3 Medina Bandera 1 Ohio Medina 3 Selma Bexar/Comal/Gdlpe. 1 Alabama Dallas 3 Moore Frio 1 Oklahoma Cleveland 2 Pleasanton Atascosa 1 California Alameda 3 Round Mountain Blanco 1 Nevada Nye 3 San Antonio Bexar 1 New Mexico Socorro 2 Stonewall Gillespie 1 Colorado Las Animas 3 Taylor Williamson 1 Louisiana Bienville (Parish) 2 Temple Bell 1 Georgia Carroll 3 Victoria Victoria 1 Arkansas Mississippi 2 Waco McLennan 1 Alabama Franklin 3 Alpine Brewster 2 Utah Utah 3 Arlington Tarrant 2 Georgia Calhoun/Early 3 Athens Henderson 2 Georgia Athens 3 Cleveland Liberty 2 Tennessee Bradley 3 Flint Smith 2 Michigan Genesee 3 Florence Williamson 2 Alabama Lauderdale 3 Marshall Harrison 2 Oklahoma Logan 2 Pales8ne Anderson 2 Arkansas St. Francis 2 14

15 Editor s Ramblin s By Ron Borden As Jim men8oned in the President s Ramblin s Bonnie Ayer was the Chairperson for this year s Conclave. She put in an untold number of hours organizing the event, and s8ll is working hard as she is puong together coverage for Conclave to appear in a coming issue of Healey Marque. Conclave a2endees from all over the country and those travelling from Canada owe her a huge thank you! STAHC is proud of you! As you have seen, this issue of Rumblin s features a considerable amount of text and photos of the Waco Conclave. In order to keep the length of this issue reasonable the GeOng to Know You series will not appear this month. It will resume next month featuring a very well known and very well liked club member and his wife! Text for the Manser Tech Session & the Popularity Car Show write-ups is provided by Jim Richmond. Thank you, Jim. Ron Bonnie Ayer at Sunday evening s Welcome Recep8on (Jaime Molina s photograph) This Just In... (Press-8me Healey Status Update) Ed Dingivan reports on his Bugeye restora8on (Ed s photos): Most of the interior is in and it seems to run fine. Touching up rock chips on the bonnet then I will paint it. SOUTH TEXAS AUSTIN-HEALEY CLUB (STAHC) is an area club of the Ausn-Healey Club of America, the largest Ausn-Healey club in the world. STAHC is one of 47 independent area clubs and was sanconed by AHCA in STAHC covers the Ausn, San Antonio and surrounding areas of South Texas. Membership is open to owners and enthusiasts of all cars bearing the name HEALEY. Ownership of a Healey is not required. For membership informaon please contact Bob or Tina Adkins at: (512) Membership informaon is also available at: stahcmembeship@icloud.com You can join online at: Current and past issues of Rumblin s, as well as other informaon about our club, can be found at the STAHC web site: STAHC is on Facebook: hps:// 15

16 TECH SESSIONS Tech sessions can be a get-together of members to help a fellow club member with a specific problem or a task that requires, or is easier, with one or more helpers. A Tech session can also be a mee8ng where a member, or non-member, with some par8cular skill or exper8se demonstrates how to accomplish a par8cular task. Tech Session a2endees may be helpers, teachers, learners, tool suppliers or any combina8on of the above. Tech session hosts usually supply light refreshments. Beer is recommended. If you would like to host a tech session please no8fy me (Rumblin s editor) as far in advance as possible, but no less than one week ahead of the session date. I will forward your request to all members on the Rumblin s list. TOOL BOX The purpose of the Tool Box is to assemble, and make available for use by STAHC members, specialty tools that are used in the restora8on and/or maintenance of Healeys. In general, such tools will be those that are too expensive for an individual member to acquire for one 8me, or infrequent use. Currently, the STAHC Tool Box contains the following: LiK-the-Dot Hand Punch. (Punches center hole and prong holes for installa8on of LiK-the- Dot fasteners for tops and tonneau covers. Moss Motors No ) Texas Fastening Tool Snap Fastening tool Valve Guide Reamer size.281 for intake and exhaust standard size valve guides used on all Sprite and Midget A series engines Engine leveler (for removing or installing an engine) Carb Synchronizer Colourtune Carb Synchronizer Wire Wheel Spoke tool 1/8 OD pipe bending tool Panel & Trim Removal Tool Set CD Workshop Manuel for Sprite MK 2, 3 & 4. If you would like to borrow any of these tools, please contact Jim Richmond at jkrich@gvtc.com or (830) EL MERCADO El Mercado is our adver8sing sec8on. If you have Healeys, Healey parts, Healey stuff or even other Bri8sh stuff that your spouse says has to go, send it in and we will run it. If you are looking to purchase any items we will run that too. El Mercado is free to members; very inexpensive to others. WANTED: Looking for a big Healey in great driving condion and prefer to purchase through the club. Love TX cars and prefer to find one through the club. I am a member on the Naonal club as a well as the Oregon Healey club. I am happy to pay a fee as advised. Warm Regards, Abed Farhan, trends2012@live.com All ar8cles appearing in Rumblin s represent the opinions of the writers and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Rumblin s, South Texas Aus8n-Healey Club, or the Aus8n-Healey Club of America. Neither Rumblin s, STAHC, nor AHCA is responsible for the accuracy or safety of technical informa8on presented herein. If you choose to use such technical informa8on, you do so at your own risk. 16