I can guarantee that none of the Healey "clubs" will be involved on any
formal level with the 2008 50th Anniversary Race Series.
I admit to having a personal hard on for the way things are run in the AHCA,
and can't speak to any specifics in the other club, but I do know that in
the recent US Aussie Healey Challenge the clubs were far more of a pain in
the ass than a help to the organizers.
Clubs are supposed to promote the marque. Back in my club days, I never
understood why the racing guys weren't interested in the clubs. I then got
on the other side of the fence, and saw what they were talking about. I know
of NO ONE that races that has ever been approached by the VP of Racing for
any reason. Kind of makes ya wonder."wassupwitdat"?
Your mileage may vary.
Opinions are like ********.
That's mine.
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From midgetsprite at yahoogroups.com [mailto:midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Biff Jones
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:35 AM
To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Cc: bugeye@yahoogroups.com; midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [midgetsprite] Re: Sprite 50th Anniversery
It would be great if we could get any one of the national clubs involved,
however, from past experience I can say that the two national "Healey" clubs
will not be interested. A. it's not one of "their" events, B. it's for
Sprites(Midgets), C. no 'big' Healeys. Editor Reed should be able to
add/elaborate something here.
Can't speak for the MG club other than to say when I approached them about
advertising SS'03 they said NO. Their reasoning was it was not one of
"their" events and in their opinion was a crossbreed event.
So I think we can plan on planning and running this event on our own.
Biff Jones
'Frogarri' '59 Bugeye
'Ole Gray' '61 AH Sprite
'Freebie' '71 MG Midget
http://sprites2.homestead.com/
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