[Healeys] Report from Conclave

[Tom]

The roads in Maine have been in bad shape for the past few years, and it
looks like it's going to get worse:
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/newsupdate.php?updates/maine-dot-to-cancel-most-maintenance-paving

- Tom

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:26 PM, BJ8 Healeys <sbyers at ec.rr.com> wrote:

> Hello,Healeyphiles -
>
> George & Sherry Haywood and I left home in eastern North Carolina last
> Wednesday and headed north for Conclave.  We decided to deviate from a
> direct route and drive the two BJ8s around New England on the way.  The
> winter-damaged two-lanes in New Hampshire, Maine, and Quebec were very bad
> -- severely potholed and broken.  Apparently, I broke a rear spring leaf
> negotiating those roads and somewhere along the way the front edge of it
> managed to trap the hardline to my right rear brake and cut it.  I felt the
> pedal go down as I braked about a hundred miles out from Kingston.
> After peening the end of the broken line, I continued O.K. into Kingston
> with three hydraulic and one hand brake and some careful driving, aided by
> relatively light traffic on Sunday.
>
> The good news is that Bob Yule and his Autofarm crew set up to do repairs
> in the hotel parking lot during Conclave.  They made me a new brakeline on
> the spot.  I hadn't seen such a service at Conclave previously, but it's a
> great idea.  There were cars lined up four deep all day long waiting on the
> services.  Kudos to the Conclave organizers and to Bob and Autofarm for a
> great job!
>
> Longtime list members Mike Salter and Michael Oritt gave a most interesting
> presentation today on their experiences driving AHX-12 (which was on hand
> for show and tell) in the Targa Newfoundland.  The very first production
> Austin-Healey is on display in the hotel atrium.
>
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666
> BJ8 Registry
> Havelock, NC  USA
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