[Healeys] Long road trip

[Bob Spidell]

I'm too lazy to count my earthly rotations, but I look at my life to 
date as: BAH and AAH* (roughly evenly split). When I bought my BJ8 I 
rediscovered my love of cars--dormant since my teenage years--and with 
my father's tutelage began to acquire my (meager) mechanical skills. 
After my dad started helping me with my car--and drove it 600 miles over 
two days to 'break in the engine'--he decided he didn't dislike 'foreign 
cars' after all and, all on his own found and bought our BN2/100M, which 
we restored together over 10 years (while he fought two bouts with 
cancer). My son--who just finished a 260-day tour on a Navy cruiser on 
the South China Sea--helped a little, but hasn't yet 'caught the bug,' 
but enjoyed taking a couple long road trips with his old man. My annual 
road trips with my BFF were usually the highlights of my solar orbits.

We lost Dad two years ago this December at 87 years-old, he'd hoped to 
make it to 90 because "It's a nice round number." You'll have to excuse 
me, I seem to have gotten some wildfire smoke in my eyes.

Bob


* 'Before Austin-Healey' and 'After Austin-Healey'


On 11/19/2020 8:08 AM, i erbs via Healeys wrote:
> 23464 days
> Bought my Healey in 1975.
> Many other LBCs as well, but the Healey is along for the full ride and 
> then on to my kids.
> I am happy that so many of you have been riding with me these many days.
> Good health to us all
> And happy Birthday Perry.
>
> Ira Erbs
> 1959 AH 100-6
> 1967 MGB
> Milwaukie, OR
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 11:46 AM James Richmond via Healeys 
> <healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>> wrote:
>
>     Congratulations Perry.  I have past 30,000 trips around the sun -
>     specially 30223.  My first Healey was purchased used in 1966.  It
>     was a 1964 Sprite.
>
>     Jim
>
>

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