CONCLAVE 2021

I believe that most of you have heard of “Conclave,” the big annual meeting of the Austin-Healey Club of America, but few of you have attended one.  That’s not surprising since Conclave is usually held “somewhere back east.”

However, last year it was in Deadwood, South Dakota, and I drove my Portland-based Bugeye (I also have one based in Louisville, Kentucky) for six days to get there, with Chad Cansler – owner-operator of British Motor Care – along for the first three days sharing driving duties.  I also took six days to drive back, taking in the Southwest Idaho All British Field Meet along the way.  But that’s another story.

Next year Conclave will be held about as close to the Pacific Northwest as it has ever been.  Our neighbors to the south (well south), the Austin-Healey Association of Southern California, will host it.  The dates are May 16-21 and the place is Big Bear Lake, California.  Not exactly our backyard, but a little less distance than Deadwood, and certainly “doable” for the road warriors among us.

Perhaps something to put on your long-range planning calendar?  It’s only 15 months from now.