REGIONAL RUMBLIN S. Newsle:er of the South Texas Aus!n-Healey Club February 2017

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1 REGIONAL RUMBLIN S Volume 2017, Issue 2 Newsle:er of the South Texas Aus!n-Healey Club February 2017 SOUTH TEXAS AUSTIN-HEALEY CLUB (STAHC) is an area club of the Aus!n-Healey Club of America, the largest Aus!n- Healey club in the world. STAHC is one of 47 independent area clubs and was sanc-!oned by AHCA in STAHC covers the Aus!n, 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 informa!on please contact Bob or Tina Adkins at (512) , membership is available at: stahcmembeship@icloud.com STAHC is on Facebook: h:ps:// southtexasaus!nhealeyclub You can join online at: January Ac!vi!es Recap Conclave 2017 Master Planning Commi:ee Mee!ng, Jan see below Club Planning Mee!ng, January 21 - page 2 The Big Healeys (Album 1: The 100 Models) was posted on Facebook by Jaime Molina STAHC.ORG website updated IN THIS ISSUE: Conclave 2017 Master Planning Commi:ee Mee!ng The mee!ng convened at noon, January 14, at the Waco Hilton. STAHC members in a:endance were: Bonnie (commi:ee chairperson) and David Ayer Karen and Jim Richmond Julie and Bre: Miller Lera and Ron Borden February Happenings Annual Daytona 500 Party, February 26 - pages 5 & 9 Expanded Events Calendars - pages 10 & 11 Looking Ahead to March Highway Pickup & Lunch, 3-4, and Tech Session, 3-25 GeHng to Know You series starts in the Rumblin s Current and past issues of Rumblins, as well as other informa!on about our club, can be found at the STAHC web site: (Connued on Page 2)

2 Club Officers, Board Members, and Appointed Posi!ons President & AHCA Delegate: Jim Richmond (830) Vice President: Michael & Joy Escriva Membership: Tina Adkins (512) Treasurer: Bob Adkins (512) Newsle6er Editor & Webmaster: Ron Borden (830) Highway Cleanup: Jeff & Denene Whitmore (210) South Texas All Brish Car Day Representave: Lynn McKinnie (210) Facebook Administrator: Jaime Molina Conclave 2017 Planning Mee!ng (connued) Good progress has been made so far, but much remains to be done. The most pressing issue in a need for volunteers. Page 3 has a lisng of all areas where you can help. As you see many of the areas need a chairperson/ coordinator. To help please Bonnie at: (bonnieayer@swbell.net) Club Planning Mee!ng held January 21 Healeys at the mee!ng: Following a very tasty lunch provided by hosts Bob and Pam Chamberlain, club president Jim Richmond opened this year s meeng by announcing the club goals for the year are: Conclave 2017 South Texas All Brish Car Days (we are this year s host club) A6racng new club members Reacvang inacve members We proceeded to go month by month and established events and the associated dates for the club s acvies. A full list is available the Events Calendar on page 11. ADer the planning poron of the meeng concluded the final event was a tech session to install a new tonneau cover on Bob Chamberlain s 100. (Connued on Page 4) 2

3 (From Page 2) Your help is needed for Conclave 2017 in these areas: 3

4 RUMBLIN S ROAD MAP Page Club Officers & Appointees 2 ADer marking and punching the appropriate holes the hardware was installed. Club News 1-4 President s Ramblin s 5 Editor s Ramblin s 6 Healey Driving Contest Rules 7,8 Daytona Party and Direcons 5 & 9 Tech Sessions 4 & 9 Events Calendars 10,11 THR-37 Registraon Form 12 Conclave Registraon Form 13,14 The end result was a very nice fihng cover and a very happy Healey owner. Looking good, Bob! (The tonneau, Bob, the tonneau!) Tool Box & El Mercado 15 January 21 Tech Session The locaon of where the various snaps for Bob Chamberlain s Healey 100 tonneau cover were determined. 4

5 President s Ramblin s By Jim Richmond Many days in January were perfect for driving our Healeys. These were interrupted by a few very cold days (at least for South Texas). STAHC acvi- es during January consisted of meengs to layout our acvies for the rest of the year. Although it was mostly business we did have some Healey fun. The Ayers, Bordens, Millers and Richmonds travelled to the Hilton Waco in cool, rainy and foggy weather for a Conclave 2017 planning meeng. We met with representaves of the other two Texas Healey clubs to move forward with plans for this July 9 14 gathering of Healeys and Healey enthusiasts from all over North America. Conclave Chairperson Bonnie Ayer conducted the meeng. Many STAHC members are already involved with Conclave events including tech sessions. Mike Manser will conduct one tled Integrang Our Classic Cars into a World of Automated and Connected Vehicles and Lera Borden will lead another called T-Shirt Quilts. We need for all STAHC members to get involved. You can read more about these STAHC members and their tech sessions in the February Healey Marque. I am in charge of the Monday morning popularity car show in Waco and I will need volunteers to help park cars and count ballots, so let me know if you are willing to help. These tasks will not take much of your me. Bob! You can see the results of our planning else where in this Rumblins. We have provided a variety of events for you to parcipate in most months of the year. These events are for you so please parcipate in as many as you can. Remember, you do not need to drive a Healey to parcipate. If you would like to host an event such as a tour or rally that is not scheduled, please let me know. In other acon at this meeng, members approved the expenditure of $150 for prizes in the On the Road Again & Again in Your Healey driving contest. You can parcipate in this contest by yourself or with other members. Lynn McKinnie and Bob and Tina Adkins drove their Healeys to the Chamberlains home. The rest of us had to se6le for fun by installing the new tonneau cover on Bob Chamberlain s Healey. As in the last several years, Karen and I will host a Daytona 500 party on February 26 at our home (see page 9 for direc!ons). The party will feature the three Bs (Barbeque Beer and Beans) supplied by us, and snacks, sides and desserts supplied by you. Oh yes, the race will be on the TV and we will have the tradional drawing for win, place and show (each draw will cost $1). Many of us will watch the first and last lap and spend the rest of the me in the garage drinking beer and talking Healeys. So come whether or not you are a big NASCAR fan. Hope to see everyone on the 26th. Jim A week later, under a sunny sky with balmy temperatures, STAHC had its annual planning meeng for all of 2017 at the Wimberley home of the Chamberlains. Pam and Bob provided a delicious lunch before the meeng. Thank you Pam and 5

6 Editor s Ramblin s By Ron Borden A series begins next month tled: GeHng to Know You. We know each other s names, what kind of Healey(s) they have, whether it is running or not, and have a general idea of where they live. But for the most part that s about it. It would be nice to know a li6le bit more about each other such as where they were raised, profession, history with Healeys, etc. And what more fihng a start than to feature El Presidente, Jim Richmond! In the April issue we will get to know the Escrivas, Joy and Michael. ADer that... It may be you! Winter is upon us! And this month s Rumblin s is decorated in a winter mof. I know, it is hard to think about winter when the highs are in the 60 s and 70 s with a day or two of record high temperatures in the 80s. But we ve had a few morning lows in the teens, too. Otherwise the weather has terrific. Keep those fingers crossed that we connue with moderate temperatures unl spring is here to stay. As menoned in last month s Rumblin s I asked for winter related stories and/or pictures for this issue. Apparently most Healeys are put away for the winter (understandable). Since there were no other submissions I will relate a couple of my winter encounters while driving my 67 Sprite. (I had to look very deep in my old slides to come up with the picture at the top of the next column. And it is the only one I found.) In November of 1968 I was reassigned from a navy base in San Diego to one in Washington State. At the me I was a bachelor and the Sprite was my only car (and carried all of my worldly possessions). Enroute I drove through the Sequoia Naonal Park where this winter scene was photographed. Another winter memory driving my Sprite occurred in January While living in North Texas I had to drive to the D/FW airport very early one morning. The previous night we had had one of the area s infamous ice storms. To get to the airport I had to drive on a Farm-to-Market road. The roadway was so slick that I had to concentrate on staying exactly in the center of the road or, due to the crown, the car would start to slide toward the shoulder. Fortunately there was no traffic so I was able to creep along driving down the middle of the road and arrived safely but with jangled nerves. Stay warm and whenever possible, drop-the-top! Ron Healeys at the Club Planning Meeng 6

7 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 interesng places while parcipang. Contest Rules: PLACES TO VISIT IN YOUR HEALEY 30 cies, unincorporated areas, census-designated places in Texas with like named areas in other States are eligible to be visited via an Ausn-Healey and are listed on page are within 100 miles of the center of Ausn or San Antonio and will be awarded 1 point. 8 are more than 100 miles from these centers and will be awarded 2 points. Twin locaons for these places in other states are also listed. If you also visit these out of state loca- ons 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 locaons listed above, you will earn a whopping extra 5 points! 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) Second Place - Your choice of a $50 gid cerficate 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 gid cerficate from one of the following or a case of beer with a value up to $40. (You choose the brand) Moss Motors GiN cer!ficate choices: Victoria Brish Walmart Amazon Starbucks A chart showing the eligible contest locaons and their point value is found on the following page. 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 locaon in one of the designated places such as a sign with the name of the place (road sign as you enter the place, Post 7

8 (Connued from page 8) ELIGIBLE PLACES TO VISIT IN YOUR HEALEY TEXAS LOCATIONS TWIN LOCATIONS PLACE IN TEXAS TEXAS COUNTY POINTS OTHER STATE OTHER COUNTY POINTS Ausn Travis 1 Arkansas Lonoke 2 Bastrop Bastrop 1 Louisiana Morehouse (Parish) 2 Charlo6e 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 O6awa/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 Palesne Anderson 2 Arkansas St. Francis 2 8

9 DAYTONA 500 PARTY DIRECTIONS & INFO The STAHC party to celebrate the beginning of the 2017 NASCAR racing season will be at Richmond s home at 331 Wild Turkey Blvd. in Tapa!o Springs near Boerne. The race will begin at 1:00 PM on Sunday February 26. We will again have a $1 per driver drawing with the pot to be divided by those that draw the winners (win, place and show). Plan to arrive by noon so we can complete the drawing before the race starts. A light lunch will be served around noon and ader the race we will have barbecued brisket with home cooked beans supplied by Richmonds plus other food that members bring. Please bring snacks, side dishes or desserts. Jim and Karen will supply beer and sod drinks during the race. From San Antonio take Interstate 10 to Boerne Exit 539 and exit onto Johns Road west bound (led off the exit ramp). Connue on Johns Road. Follow the signs to Tapa!o Springs for about 4 miles where you will turn right onto Wild Turkey Blvd. Con!nue straight on Wild Turkey Blvd. and over the hill for a li6le over a mile. You will see our house on the led. It is the last house before White Tail Drive and it is across from the community mailbox. Weather permihng, we will fly the Bri!sh flag. If you are coming from the Aus!n area from I- 35 in New Braunfels or from US 281 you can take SR 46 to Boerne. Connue on SR 46 through Boerne to I-10. Turn right onto I-10 and take the next exit (Exit 539) and follow the direc!ons above. Call if you have any ques- ons. 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 meeng where a member, or non-member, with some par- cular skill or experse demonstrates how to accomplish a parcular task. Tech Session a6endees may be helpers, teachers, learners, tool suppliers or any combinaon of the above. Tech session hosts usually supply light refreshments. Beer is recommended. If you would like to host a tech session please nofy me (Rumblins 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 Rumblins list as soon as possible. Please supply the following informaon: Date, me and locaon with direcons. The task(s) that you hope to accomplish. Descripon of problems, if any, that you have encountered. Tools required that you do not have. Model and year of your Healey, e.g., BJ8 Phase II, Other informaon that you would like to include in your noce. Please RSVP to Jim or Karen by phone: (830) or jkrich@gvtc.com 9

10 STAHC 2017 EVENTS CALENDAR WHAT WHERE WHEN HOSTS Daytona 500 Party Richmonds Wild Turkey Blvd., Boerne (Direcons on Page 10) Feb. 26, Noon - the end of the race Richmonds Highway Pickup & Lunch at Redbud Café in Blanco FM 1623 at McKinney Loop, 2.6 mi. west of Blanco Mar. 4, 10 A.M. Whitmores Tech Session: Adkins - Stagecoach Ranch Rd., Install Tonneau covers on Dripping Springs (Direcons will Mar. 25, 10 A.M. Adkins Adkins & Miller s cars be furnished in the March issue) Tx. Healey Roundup 37 Waco, Texas April North Texas AHC Hill Country Driving Tour Beginning in San Marcos (details forthcoming) May 13 Jim Richmond Highway Pickup & Lunch at Redbud Café in Blanco FM 1623 at McKinney Loop, 2.6 mi. west of Blanco June 17, 9 A.M. Whitmores Conclave 2017 Hilton Waco & Courtyard by Marrio6, Waco, Texas July 9-14, 2017 Three Texas Ausn Healey Clubs Ice Cream Social Amy s, Wimberley, Texas August 12, 2 P.M. Adkins Texas All Bri!sh Car Days Round Rock, Texas Sept. TBA 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 Bri!sh Car Day Boerne Main Plaza, Boerne Oct. 28, 2017, 10 A.M.-2 P.M. STAHC Host Club, Lynn McKinnie AHCA Fall Delegates Mee!ng Indianapolis, Indiana November 11 & 12 AHCA Yellow Rose Driving Tour TBA Nov. 18, me TBA D J Stamp Christmas Party Dick s Classic Garage Car Museum, San Marcos, Tx. Dec. 3, 1-5 P.M. Millers Other Tech Sessions Where arranged As Requested STAHC Members 10

11 FEBRUARY AREA EVENTS CALENDAR WHAT WHERE WHEN WHO Burnet Friday Night Fever (monthly, first Friday) 220 South Pierce St., Burnet (on the Historic Courthouse Square) Feb. 3, 5/6 P.M. l?? Hot Rods and Ha:ers Lockhart Car Show 301 South Colorado St. Lockhart Texas, Feb. 3, 7-10 P.M. Feb. 4, 8 A.M. - 4 P.M. Hot Rod Drive In Night (monthly, first Saturday) Top Notch Hamburgers 7525 Burnet Road, Ausn78757 Sat., Feb. 4, 6 P.M. (See Facebook) Coffee & Cars San Antonio (monthly, 2nd Sat.) Oak Hills Church, IH-10, San Antonio Sat., Feb. 11, 8-10 A.M. Cars and Coffee Aus!n at Oasis (monthly, 2nd Sunday) The Oasis on Lake Travis 6550 Comanche Trail Ausn, Texas Sun. Feb. 12, 9 A.M. - 1 P.M. Pistons on the Square (monthly, 3rd Saturday) Town Square, Georgetown, Texas, Sat., Feb. 18, 8 A.M A.M. Round Rock Car Show (monthly, 3rd Sunday) Centennial Plaza, Round Rock, Texas Sun., Feb. 19, 10 A.M. - 1 P.M. 6th Annual Georgetown Airport Classic Car, Vintage Georgetown Municipal Airport 500 Terminal Drive Sat., Feb. 25, 9:30 A.M - 2:30 P.M. UPCOMING NATIONAL EVENTS CALENDAR WHAT WHERE WHEN WHO Aus!n-Healey Northwest Meet The Dalles, Oregon May Ausn Healey Club of Ore. - Open to Public Moss Motorfest Simpson Road Petersburg, VA Saturday, June 3, 2017 from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM (EDT) Moss Motors, Ltd. Monterey Int l Healey Week Monterey, California September Golden Gate Healey Club - Open to Public 11

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15 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 restoraon and/or maintenance of Healeys. In general, such tools will be those that are too expensive for an individual member to acquire for one me, or infrequent use. Currently, the STAHC Tool Box contains the following: LiD-the-Dot Hand Punch. (Punches center hole and prong holes for installaon of LiD-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 adversing secon. If you have Healeys, Healey parts, Healey stuff or even other Brish 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. All arcles appearing in Rumblins represent the opinions of the writers and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Rumblins, South Texas Ausn-Healey Club, or the Ausn Healey Club of America. Neither Rumblins, STAHC, nor AHCA is responsible for the accuracy or safety of technical informaon presented herein. If you choose to use such technical informaon, you do so at your own risk. 15