[Healeys] Just one club? In this Country?

Ray Donovan ahstc at live.com
Tue Mar 22 08:57:31 MST 2011


There are actually three Austin-Healey Clubs in the US.

The Austin-Healey Sports & Touring Club is sort of the Rodney Dangerfield of
the group (no respect).

Check out our new web site at, and download information about this years
Encounter:
http://austin-healey-stc.org/.

Ray Donovan
President
The Austin-Healey Sports & Touring Club

> From: Editorgary at aol.com
> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:58:22 -0400
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Just one club? In this Country?
>
> In a message dated 3/21/11 12:29:03 PM, healeys-request at autox.team.net
> writes:
>
>
> >
> > Then comes the 2012 meet as well that should have been the 60th
> > anniversary International Meet which would have been a joint meet
> > between both clubs, not happening. Now what do we have AHCUSA having
> > their meet in Canada and AHCA having their meet in Kentucky and both
> > will probably call them the 60th anniversary meet. I hope that this
> > don't mean an end to these national meets in the US.
> >
> > This is one more reason the I think there should only be one National
> > US Club. They could have several large regional meets and then one
> > large meet every 5 years and come together. The meets could be spread
> > out from April to September and then you may have to opportunity to
> > attend meets in other regions. If you look at the calendar right now
> > you have this happening all across the US.
> >
> I take just the opposite viewpoint -- there should be two Austin-Healey
> Clubs, one to cater for Rockies and West, and one to cater for East and
> Midwest. Face it. My bet is you won't see 50 cars in Colorado Springs next
> year
> from anywhere east of the Mississippi. The biggest challenge to all of this
is
> the feeling on the part of AHCA that they should conquer the entire
country,
> even though it can't be served when 75 percent of the club's drivers won't
> drive more than 150 miles to a meet.
>
> If we'd just acknowledge that we should have two clubs on this huge
> continent, with its great emptiness in the middle, then we could (and we
> should)
> happily call the two meets in 2012 celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of
> the Healey and give a welcoming reception to the 20 or so long-distance
> enthusiasts who will actually drive cross-country in that year to attend
the
> opposite club's meet.
>
> Gary
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