[Healeys] Healey related gathering

[Freese, Ken]

All Jensen built cars including Austin Healey's are invited to the
Jensen West meet in October.
The organizers wanted to be sure and let you know.

http://theblandgroup.com/j2009_home.htm

Ken Freese
65 BJ8
74 Interceptor


-----Original Message-----
From: jensen-cars at british-steel.org
[mailto:jensen-cars at british-steel.org] On Behalf Of Steve Brenneman
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 7:52 PM
To: jensen-cars at british-steel.org
Subject: [Jensen-cars] Jensen West Event for 2009 is getting close, very
close

Hi all,

Sorry for the delays in getting the Jensen West 2009 web site activated,
but it should be up within a few hours, with registration forms and lots
of photos and links to various local sights and sites in the Carson
City, Reno, and Lake Tahoe  areas of northern Nevada and California.

The event will be held from 8-11 October 2009, with its headquarters in
Carson City, NV, but featuring some nice mountain and mountain lake
drives through the Sierra Nevada mountains over to Lake Tahoe and a high
desert drive to a historic mining town, Virginia City.  It's in Virginia
City where Mark Twain originally developed his newspapering and
authoring talents in the mid-1860s, after he left Hannibal, Missouri.

The event headquarters will be at a historic mansion (Nevada Historical
Marker 70), that was built and occupied in 1879 in the historic district
of Carson City by one of the eras's land, lumber, steamboat and railroad
barons, Duane L. Bliss.  The Bliss Mansion is located directly across
the street from the much newer (1909) Nevada State Governor's Mansion.
Bliss himself was responsible for much of the lumber used in the first
transcontinental railroad and for the timber shoring used to support the
booming regional silver and gold mining industry of the 1860s-1880s.

As an event first, we'll have two catered banquets included for all
attendees.  The first banquet will be on Friday night at the National
Auto Museum in Reno, Nevada, where we will be surrounded by a number of
exotic and/or one of a kind vehicles from Bill Harrah's original
collection.  For example, the museum hosts the 1907 Thomas Flyer, the
winner of the first ever around the world car race (a 22,000 mile race
held back in 1908).  We'll have the museum to ourselves from 530PM to
9PM and everyone's admission to the museum is included in our event
package.

We will have the normal Saturday night awards, prize auction and raffle
dinner  in a banquet room located in Carson City's Nugget
Casino.   This casino is a very easy walk from the Event HQs at Bliss
Mansion, as are many other restaurants, bars, casinos and the State
Capitol Building and the former US Mint in downtown Carson City.

We are inviting all Jensen-made vehicles this year, which includes
Sunbeam Tigers, Early Volvo P1800s, and early Austin-Healeys.

Despite the two banquets and the entry to the National Auto Museum, we
have held (I hope) the event costs down to $120/person and $205/couple.
Room rates in Carson City are pleasantly affordable, even for a nice
hotel, where we are lodging this year's attendees.

The hotel headquarters for this year's event is Carson City's Hardman
House, which has some great room rates for us, at $69/room, even
including a daily free happy hour social at the hotel, in case the 1
minute drive or 5 minute walk from the hotel to Bliss Mansion is too
daunting.  As in past years, everyone will be responsible for their own
hotel reservations, but we have a block of rooms reserved at the Hardman
House and special rates for event attendees.  Please register with the
hotel before September 8th, even if you are not positive about attending
this year's event, as there is no charge for a
cancellation 24 hours prior to your room reservation.   Hardman House
even has underground parking, so you don't absolutely need to bring
those bulky car covers along on this Jensen trip.

For you early birds, here is a link to a site with Hardman House Hotel
information and phone numbers.  Call the hotel directly at
775-882-7744 and mention the Jensen 2009 West event to get our event
rate:

http://hotels.uptake.com/nevada/carson_city/hardman_house_carson_7132268
.html

We'll also have a hotel deal for one or more nights at a beautiful
hotel/casino that is located in Reno, Nevada, on the banks of the
Truckee River, as it flows through downtown Reno.  Some people might
want to stay in Reno on Friday night, to avoid any night driving and any
taunting of the various Lucas Electrical Demons.

I'll notify everyone when the web site has been activated by our
Webmeister, David Miller, but I expect that will be later tonight or
tomorrow morning.  Somehow, I tricked David into doing this year's web
site, even though he was the organizer of last year's very nice Jensen
West 2008 held at Bass Lake, California.  A big thanks to David for his
work again this year!

I have listed my cell number below, but please hold your questions for a
few hours more, when we have an active Jensen 2009 West web site.



best regards to all and hope to see all of you Jensen diehards here in
Carson City this year,


Steve and Cyndy Brenneman
J2009 West Event Coordinators
608 Elizabeth Street
Carson City, Nevada  89703 (Event HQs Address for your mapquest.com
inquiries)
cell 858-829-7126
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