Hey--you should have come a little further west--to Pittsburgh. Several of
us went out to the foothills for a 5 hour jaunt. Beautiful day and still a
few good leaves to see. It got up to 60 today and going to 65 tomorrow!!!
Healey running tops!!
> [Original Message]
> From: William Moyer <William.Moyer@millersville.edu>
> To: Austin Healey list <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Date: 11/9/2006 7:47:46 PM
> Subject: November drive
>
> Folks,
>
> In my portion of the northeastern USA the leaves are changing color and
> dropping rapidly, more rapidly than usual probably due to flooding and
heat
> during the summer. Stress on the little and big plant kingdom. October
> around here and early November can be a time when the weather is bipolar,
so
> to speak,. Today it was 70 degrees (a week ago it went to 28 degrees at
night
> and the surface of my rather large pond was frozen which I've seldom seen
this
> early in the year) so it was definitely time to get out for a ride while
the
> opportunity made itself available.
>
> Luckily for me there are plenty of back roads to cruise and peruse where I
> live that also give mucho opportunity for growling exhaust notes and wind
in
> the hair, what hair nature has left to me. Off I went. This was
especially
> nuggatory since Chimera has been thoroughly packed into the garage with
stuff
> from my basement while the reconstruction was going on after my house was
> flooded. The predicted time for reconstruction was two months. If you
ever
> have work to be done on your house I definitely recommend "Money Pit" the
> movie to you for a real understanding of how long two months can actually
be,
> especially when they say "two weeks". As a general rule, double all
> expectations and I'd be willing to bet this applies to Heaely
restorations as
> well, just to make it relevant to the list. The cost also doubled what
was
> expected which I also would apply to Healey restorations.
>
> Off I go into the wilderness. Throaty roar, adjusting choke to minimum
> necessary, planning to hit the couple of places where I can slide around
> corners and get a bit of air. I know, this is a bad thing, but then
maybe I'm
> a "nasty boy" at heart. For this I offer no apologies. The car performs
as
> expected, I downshift dramatically, run rpms up carelessly, take naked
turns
> fearlessly. My blood pressure is normally high so I don't need it for the
> heart pumping, but I do it anyway. There are railroad tunnels that I go
> through at too low a gear just to hear the exhaust note growl. Bumps in
the
> road that I purposely steer towards so I can hear whatever it is that
bounces
> around in the boot.
>
> I stop for gas at what must be one of the only little single pumpers left
in
> the nation in the depths of the boonies of Lancaster County, PA. Another
> driver stops and, yes, his brother used to own "two MG's" just like
mine. My
> day was complete. Who could ask for more. Home again, home again,
jiggety
> jig.
>
> Tomorrow's weather is predicted for the same. Who knows what will happen?
>
> Yours in Healedom,
>
> Bill and Chimera (BJ7)
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