{"id":401,"date":"2020-07-02T14:03:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T21:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/?p=401"},"modified":"2020-07-02T22:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T05:01:22","slug":"lewis-clark-classic-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/2020\/07\/02\/lewis-clark-classic-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"LEWIS & CLARK CLASSIC RALLY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes people ask me why no Austin-Healey Club of Oregon members do this event that I chair<\/a>.\u00a0 Actually, one does (Atif Zaman), but that still begs the question.\u00a0 Why not 10, 20, 30 or more members?<\/h2>\n

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The participants rave about it.\u00a0 The roads, the food, the camaraderie, the chance to get out of town for a summer weekend and visit a great destination.\u00a0 It’s just an ideal weekend for collector car enthusiasts, and in addition to the traditional – and very, very rare<\/em> – true Time-Speed-Distance rally, there’s also a “tour group” where no calculating or clip boards or stop watches are required.<\/h2>\n

Spare me the facile pandemic excuses.\u00a0 AHCO members didn’t enter the event before this year either.\u00a0 It makes you begin to wonder what Healey owners want from the Healey ownership.\u00a0 A warm, fuzzy feeling knowing that their Healey is all safe and sound sitting idle and unused in the garage?\u00a0 Hey, here’s an idea!\u00a0 Drive it sometime and meet other people who own other cars.<\/h2>\n

Yeah, the event costs something.\u00a0 There’s the entry fee (and if you think it’s high at $295\/person, you’ve never priced resort catering), there’s your lodging cost (one whole night at a resort hotel – will laying out $180 for a night in a resort force you into a bread line?) and some gas.\u00a0 It’s not a $20 club day tour.\u00a0 It’s also not $8,500 like you would pay for any of a number of big-name tours such as the Colorado Grand.<\/h2>\n

I’m just ruminating.\u00a0 This year’s event just concluded.\u00a0 It was wildly – wildly, I say!<\/em> – successful and fun and everyone raved about it.\u00a0 I’ve long since given up trying to talk it up among club members.\u00a0 Some of them report owning and liking Healeys.\u00a0 Can’t prove it by me.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes people ask me why no Austin-Healey Club of Oregon members do this event that I chair.\u00a0 Actually, one does (Atif Zaman), but that still begs the question.\u00a0 Why not 10, 20, 30 or more members? The participants rave about … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}