VOLUME 2016 ISSUE 2 Newsletter of the South Texas Austin Healey Club February 2016 There is a lot going on with your South Texas Austin Healey Club. New club officers, a new newsletter editor (who is begging for material to be included in future newsletters, and getting ready for the upcoming Texas Healey Roundup. The above photo was taken a few years ago at the South Texas All British Car Show in Boerne. I can't wait to see nothing but Healeys on the square. RUMBLINS Page 1 of 7 February 2016
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STAHC Event Calendar WHAT WHERE WHEN WHO Daytona 500 Party & Tech Session Highway Pickup & Tour to Middleton Brewing Company & Planning Meeting Home of Jim & Karen Richmond in Boerne Highway Pickup in Blanco Texas Healey Roundup Ye Kendall Inn Boerne, Texas February 21, 2016 (see details in newsletter) TBA April 1-3, 2016 The Richmonds The Whitmores STAHC Club Tour TBA May, 2016 STAHC Highway Pickup Blanco, Texas TBA The Whitmores Conclave 2016 Hebron, KY June 12-17, 2016 AHCA Ice Cream Social TBD June 27 or 28, 2016 Highway Pickup & Tour to River Cottage Highway Pickup in Blanco Chamberlains River Cottage near Wimberley September Date TBA All British Car Day Roundrock, TX September 23-25, 2016 South Texas All British Car Day Fall AHCA Delegates Meeting Holiday Party Whitmores & Chamberlains Boerne, TX October 29, 2016 San Antonio Jaguar Club TBA TBA AHCA Dick's Classic Car Garage December 4, 2016 Millers Texas Healey 36: THR 36 will be hosted by STAHC on April 1, 2016 at the Ye Kendall Inn in Boerne, Texas. A registration form can be found at www.stahc.org. We encourage you to drive your Healey to STAHC events if you can. However, Healeys are never required. Your participation Is what is important. RUMBLINS Page 3 of 7 February 2016
MEMBERSHIP DUES Have you paid you dues? Dues remain $60 ($50 national, $10 local). Dues should have been paid by January 15 for your information to appear in the 2016 AHCA Directory, but you are still encouraged to send them in so you continue to receive benefits associated with being a club member. The quickest way to renew and update any information is through the national web page at https://www.healeyclub.org. Make sure you have South Texas (Austin/San Antonio) as your club. If you'd rather send a check for $60 make payable to STAHC and send to: STAHC 950 Stagecoach RdX 78620 Contact Bob & Tina Adkins if you have any questions. Editors Rumblins by Charlie O'Connors What the hell did I do? Did I really volunteer to take on the duties of newsletter editor for STAHC? Ressie tells me I did, so I will do my best to provide a newsletter worthy of the high standards Jim Richmond has set. But I can only accomplish this with your help. Please send me articles, stories, information and photos to include in our newsletter. They can be technical, historical, informative and humorous. In addition to handling editor duties, I manage the club's web site and the Facebook page. In addition to having information for the newsletter, I could also use help with information for the web site. As for the Facebook page, I encourage everyone to join and contribute to what is shared here. In addition to members of STAHC there are numerous other Healey owners and enthusiasts who have joined our page. This is a great place to share your ideas, events and photos and it's a great place to meet new friends. RUMBLINS Page 4 of 7 February 2016
2016 DAYTONA 500 PARTY & BARBEQUE The traditional party to celebrate the beginning of the 2015 NASCAR racing season and eat barbeque and other sides will be at the Richmond home in Tapatio Springs near Boerne. Television coverage begins at 12 Noon on February 21. 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 before Noon so we can complete the drawing before the race starts and hold a short business meeting. A light lunch will be served around noon and, after the race, we will have barbecued brisket with home cooked beans supplied by Richmond's plus food that other members bring. Please bring snacks, side dishes or deserts. Jim and Karen will supply beer and soft drinks during the race. From San Antonio take Interstate 10 to Boerne Exit 539 and exit onto Johns Road west bound (left off the exit ramp). Continue west on Johns Road. Follow the signs to Tapatio Springs for about 4 miles where you will turn right onto Wild Turkey Blvd. Continue on Wild Turkey Blvd. for about 1.2 miles until you see our house on the left. It is the last house before White Tail Drive and it is across from the community mailbox. Weather permitting we will fly the British flag. If you are coming from Austin you can take SR 46 to Boerne from I-35 in New Braunfels or from US 281. Continue on SR 46 through Boerne to I-10. Turn right onto I-10 and take the next exit (Exit 539) and follow the directions above. Call if you have any questions. Please RSVP to Jim or Karen by phone: (830) 537-5075 or e-mail: jkrich@gvtc.com. RUMBLINS Page 5 of 7 February 2016
EL MERCADO El Mercado is our advertising section. If you have Healeys, Healey parts, Healey stuff or even other British stuff that your spouse says has to go, send it in and we'll post it here. If you are looking for any of these things we will run that to. El Mercado is free to members; very inexpensive to others. Abed Farhan, a national AHCA member, is looking for a big Healey in good driving condition with no major issues. He would like to find a BJ8, BJ7, BN7 or BT7 that looks good and is in solid mechanical and structural condition. He would like to by from an owner, not a dealer and is willing to pay commensurate with condition. If you know of a Healey that might match Abed's desires, please contact him at (503) 481-2234 or email him at trends2012@live.com Charlie O'Connors has a pair of rubber floor mats w/ah Logo. Great condition and free. Call charlie at (210) 284-0095 or email him at charliebt7@gmail.com if you want them. 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 restoration of and/or maintenance of Healeys. In general, such tools will beat those that are too expensive for an individual member to acquire for one time or infrequent use. Currently, the STAHC Tool Box contains the following: Lift the Dot Hand Punch. (Punches center hole and prong holes for installation of Lift-the-Dot fasteners for tops and tonneau covers. (Moss Motors No. 226-105) Tenax 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 1958-1974 Engine leveler (for removing or installing an engine Carb Synchronizer Colortune 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@gvt c.com or (830) 537-5075 RUMBLINS Page 6 of 7 February 2016
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 meeting where a member, or non-member, with some particular skill or expertise demonstrates how to accomplish a particular task. Tech Session attendees may be helpers, teachers, learners, tool suppliers or any combination of the above. Tech session hosts usually supply light refreshments. Beer is recommended. If you would like to host a Tech Session please contact 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 e-mail list as soon as possible. Please supply the following information: Date, time and location with directions The task(s) that you hope to accomplish Description of the 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, 1967 Other information that you would like to include in your notice. RUMBLINS Page 7 of 7 February 2016