<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Hank--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">I'm also 82 (next week). I say that the answer is to drive them for as long as we can.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Best--Michael Oritt</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM Hank Leach via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Folks- what I think should be the topic for conversation is: <strong>"What to do with our Healeys".</strong> This year I will be 82 and I am storing 2 Austin-Healeys and one Jensen-Healey in my garage. Two are for sale, and have been for sale for sometime, with no one interested in purchasing or even inquiring about their condition. My recently departed, good friend's stable of <span style="text-decoration:underline">Concours Gold Healeys</span> have been literally given away on BAT for half of what they are worth.</div>
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<div>Our various clubs memberships are steadily declining and no younger folks are stepping up to acquire the cars left in their absence. Just look at the slew of cars sitting on ebay (some from our group member's stable) that are just not selling no matter the cheap bids and prices.</div>
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<div>Interest in old British cars has been replaced by modern day Broncos and cyber trucks or voltage vehicles. In the near future the only "pump" available at the gas station will be a charging station.</div>
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<div>So the topic above needs to be addressed with some creative thinking of what can we do to find a home for our Healeys when we can no longer bend down to change the oil. Museums won't be interested in hundreds of Austin-Healeys on their floor-maybe just one example will suffice-the rest ?. Just my take on current affairs. Hank</div>
<div><br>-------------------- <br><br>From: "John Vrugtman via Healeys" <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> <br>Reply-To: "John Vrugtman" <<a href="mailto:javrugtman@htcnet.org" target="_blank">javrugtman@htcnet.org</a>> <br>To: <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> <br>Sent: February 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM PST <br>Subject: Re: [Healeys] Hello <br>Around here it's either snowing, raining, freezing, or all at the same time.<br><br>John<br>Hightown, VA<br><br></div>
<div>On 2/16/2025 11:29 AM, Harold Manifold wrote:</div>
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<div>Hi Mike,</div>
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<div>You're right, it has been unusually quiet on the list lately. Perhaps everyone's Austin-Healey is running smoothly, or maybe they're tucked away for the winter.</div>
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<div class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM Mike Sinclair via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p>Is it me, or is the list quiet? I haven't seen anything for quite a while?</p>
<p>Mike</p>
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