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I’ve had a couple of requests for an update on the restoration of the RHD BN2.  I guess someone actually reads this blog after all! Things are progressing nicely.  We picked up the repaired and painted chassis last Tuesday (January … Continue reading →

… and other times, I’m sure. I’ve been involved with Healey clubs as a club officer and magazine editor since 1984.  During that time I’ve spent a lot of time analyzing the membership, trying to understand what they want in … Continue reading →

The Austin-Healey Club of Oregon’s 2021 activities schedule – tentative, so very tentative – is posted on the club website.  Several familiar activities and a couple of new ones comprise the annual schedule with an activity scheduled – generally – … Continue reading →

I “attended” two Zoom car club meetings, and skipped another, and Zoomed in on the AHCA Fall Delegates Meeting last weekend (total of nine hours Zoomed in over two days) all within the past seven days.  I’m nearly Zoomed Out. … Continue reading →

Most events were canceled this year, but one that has continued – with an interruption, yes, and a change of venue, yes – is the Monday Breakfast in Vancouver.  This regular weekly breakfast is something I started in 2015 when … Continue reading →

Last week I got an email asking if I would sell my Portland-based Bugeye.   I don’t drive it much (although that applies to all my cars this year) and I own a second Bugeye garaged in Louisville, Kentucky, and I … Continue reading →

The 48-page November 2020 issue of HEALEY MARQUE magazine is in the mail and you will soon receive yours… … assuming you’re a member of the Austin-Healey Club of America.  And what Healey enthusiast could resist this line-up of fresh … Continue reading →

The Austin-Healey Club of Oregon conducts an annual beach trip in October, and we had one even in this most unusual year.  That said, the event was a little different in being smaller and we didn’t reserve a suite at … Continue reading →

Among the many BMC/Austin factory publications I have collected over the decades there are some binders with technical service bulletins issued by BMC and/or Austin and/or Hambro, the US distributor. Some include solutions to recurring problems and some provide company … Continue reading →

One of the more fun duties of being editor of HEALEY MARQUE magazine is producing the annual Austin-Healey wall calendar.  You may not yet be thinking about a 2021 calendar, but I’ve been working on the Austin-Healey version of one … Continue reading →