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Re: [Healeys] Sightints

To: John Sims <ahbn6@optonline.net>, Healey List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Sightints
From: tfsbj7@mindspring.com
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:11:43 -0400 (EDT)
Funny.... we arrived in Hershey PA on 19 Apr.   We travel via Motorhome and 
normally tow the Healey in an enclosed trailer behind the motorhome.  (We use 
the Healey for daily transport wherever we park the motorhome.)  For this trip, 
because bad weather was predicted we towed the Jeep instead.... alas, no Healey 
for the visit to Hershey.

Then, we decided to "see the sights" in Hershey and selected the Chocolate 
Factory (I wonder why?), the Zoo, and the Gardens.   We decided to pass on the 
Antique Car museum because the brochure showed cars of very early vintage and I 
figured (wrongly I guess) that there would be nothing "Healey" in the 
museum....alas, missed the Healey on the wall.

I guess we'll have to pay another visit to Hershey PA...:-)... Next time with 
the Healey (the roads would around there would be fun to drive with the top 
down.)

-skip-


-----Original Message-----
>From: John Sims <ahbn6@optonline.net>
>Sent: Aug 19, 2007 4:57 PM
>To: Healey List <healeys@autox.team.net>
>Subject: [Healeys] Sightints
>
>So here we are on vacation in Hershey, PA and we decided to go through the
>AACA Museum to see some antique cars. Lo and behold, when we got into the
>gift shop (like any attraction, you must go through it to exit the property)
>hanging up on the wall is one half of a BN2. At least I think it was because
>it had the fold down windscreen and indent on the rear quarter panel.
>Anyway, it appears that it was fiberglass EXCEPT that the wire wheels were
>48 spoke painted, and the sawed off part of windscreen looked genuine.
>
>Interestingly, there was a docent walking through the property speaking with
>people and when I expressed an interest in 50's sports cars, she mentioned
>MG. She had never heard of an Austin Healey until I told her that a piece of
>one was hanging on the wall.
>
>Moral -- docents know only what they have learned word for word from a
>brochure -- at least at this place.
>
>John Sims, BN6
>Aberdeen, NJ
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