- 1. [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: "Randy Dickson" <rdickson@midwestarchaeology.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:48:59 -0600
- Fellow Healeyoids, Are we all becoming soft here in our old age? I certainly would not be opposed to driving my Healey in the winter if I didn't have to worry about the salt. If the roads were dry wh
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00266.html (9,533 bytes)
- 2. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric (Rick) Wilkins" <e-wilkins@cox.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:06:21 -0800
- I used to drive a rather rustic BN6 around all year. No top. I did have a toneau cover. It was very comfortable with one side covered and the heater on. Wilko San Diego ______________________________
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00268.html (7,977 bytes)
- 3. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: Jackson Krall <jackson_krall@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:54:36 -0800 (PST)
- Yeah Randy, while it's not difficult to understand the rational for Richards comment, I too drove my first Healeys all year round back in the 60's in Wisconsin. By the time I got my first, a $600 '58
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00270.html (9,721 bytes)
- 4. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hartfield <hartfiel@alumni.princeton.edu>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:50:20 -0800
- In 1966 my new wife and I traveled from Kitchener, Ontario to Eureka, Ca via Vancouver, BC in my 1964 MGB. It was February 19th when we left Ontario. I lined the top and front area left and right of
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00274.html (11,166 bytes)
- 5. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: "BJ8Healeys" <sbyers@ec.rr.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:59:50 -0500
- "Speaking of that BJ8, I've been trying to find the vin for it. I know what the plate number was at the time but records have been purged at DMV. Just yesterday I contacted the the UW Credit Union wh
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00275.html (8,357 bytes)
- 6. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: "E.A. Driver" <edriver@sasktel.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:08:15 -0600
- Well Michael Some 140 miles north west of Regina it is -20C with a 23 kph wind takes it to -31 C at present! Amazing how things seem to never change ;-) Kind regards Ed Historian, AHCUSA '53 BN1 '65
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00277.html (8,270 bytes)
- 7. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: "Mirek Sharp" <m.g.sharp@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:49:05 -0500
- That rings a bell - I never drove my Healey all through a Canadian winter, but I recall having a duff starter one fall when I was holding down a factory job saving for University. Each night, at the
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00280.html (11,250 bytes)
- 8. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: "Quinn, Patrick" <Patrick.Quinn@det.nsw.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:56:01 +1100
- I have always driven my Austin-Healeys during winter. Down to the beach for a swim. Up into the mountains for some cool air. Some times the weather is so adverse that I have to wear a jacket. Terrib
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00281.html (9,472 bytes)
- 9. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:56:55 +0800
- Actually, alot of people don't realize that skinny ply tires (or Michelin 165s) work MUCH better in snow than modern fat low-profile tires. Used to take my BJ8 up to Tahoe for skiing all the time - z
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00282.html (11,503 bytes)
- 10. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: Healeyguy <healeyguy@aol.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:00:54 -1000
- Not nice for a somewhat tropical guy to rub it in..... chuckle, chuckle Perry I have always driven my Austin-Healeys during winter. Down to the beach for a swim. Up into the mountains for some cool a
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00288.html (10,228 bytes)
- 11. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: "F. Ronald Rader" <f.ronald.rader@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:25:13 -0800
- the weather here has been brutal. it actually dropped down ointo the high 50's. however today winter is over and it was 81. ron Playa del Rey CA _______________________________________________ Suppor
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00290.html (8,538 bytes)
- 12. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Porter" <frogeye@porterscustom.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:35:53 -0700
- ...The Global warming is causing global cooling... frogeye@porterscustom.com Porter Customs 2909 Arno NE Albuquerque, NM USA 87107 505-352-1378 1954 BN2 1959 AN5 Porter Custom Bicycles cars: www.brit
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00291.html (9,481 bytes)
- 13. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: "dwflagg@juno.com" <dwflagg@juno.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:41:05 GMT
- And I can guarantee that is exactly what they will say!!! "...The Global warming is causing global cooling..." ____________________________________________________________ Click for information on o
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00292.html (8,580 bytes)
- 14. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: "R. Price Lindsay" <price@advocateadvisors.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:58:03 -0600
- With the high her in Chicago tomorrow forecast to be -2 degrees Fahrenheit, I'm having a hard time relating. Price Lindsay BJ 8 G'day I have always driven my Austin-Healeys during winter. Down to th
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00293.html (10,337 bytes)
- 15. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: "Skip Saunders" <tfsbj7@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:22:04 -0500
- Yes, it is cold here in New England...the high temp on Friday is expected to be 5 degrees (F)....Nevertheless, I took Gladys out for a short run today...:-).... someday she is going to punish me for
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00315.html (8,750 bytes)
- 16. Re: [Healeys] driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: ahy3000@comcast.net
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:11:18 +0000
- Temps are in the negative #'s (deg F) overnight here in Massachusetts as well. We have a detached, unheated garage so not much work is getting done on my baby. Burt -- Burt Weiner '63 BJ7 HBJ7L/23582
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00325.html (8,651 bytes)
- 17. [Healeys] Driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: "Rich C" <richchrysler@quickclic.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:53:37 -0500
- Many years ago out of necessity (my only wheels) I drove a '67 BJ8 through the winter of '74/'75. I'm talking a Southern Ontario winter, with lots of snow, salt, dampness and cold. Even though the ca
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00328.html (9,244 bytes)
- 18. Re: [Healeys] Driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: Norman Nock <sjnnock@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:03:19 -0800 (PST)
- Rich C ... The winter in Toronto was a big surprise coming from England , it's cold ... 1st January 1956 we watched the Pasadena Rose Bowl Parade , three months later we where on our way to Californi
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00343.html (11,220 bytes)
- 19. Re: [Healeys] Driving Healeys in winter! (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick and Caroline Quinn" <p_cquinn@tpg.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:11:47 +1100
- G'day Norman We really liked Pasadena. It reminded us of: Ooh It's such a long, long way to Pasadena Ooh It's such a long, long way to Pasadena Where the dirt track meets the highway And there ain't
- /html/healeys/2009-01/msg00344.html (9,502 bytes)
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