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SUNDAY 25th April 2010
Trebah Garden would like to invite the Healey Drivers Club, Cornwall & Devon Section to participate in an open day for all club members and their cars, as part of the ‘National Drive It’ day celebrations.
Trebah Garden was once the home of Sir Donald Healey and family.
Meeting at 12pm at Trebah Garden.
12.30pm – a pasty lunch at the award-winning Planters Café at Trebah.
1.30pm – a short welcome by Nigel Burnett, Director of Trebah and introduction by Bic Healey.
From 2pm - free entry to the gardens and an opportunity to see the recently dedicated Healey Boathouse on the beach.
RSVP by 14th April 2010
Dear Members We have been invited and are planning a run to Trebah Gardens, on the Helford River near Mawnan Smith, Cornwall. This will take place on Sunday 25th April and that date coincides with the FBHVC National Drive-it Day, so two good reasons to go!
Trebah are offering us entry and a pasty or (vegetarian) quiche or similar lunch, and a cuppa, for no charge. Following lunch we will be welcomed by the Director of the Trust that runs Trebah and Bic has kindly offered to respond. We will then be free to roam the extensive and very interesting gardens. Many of you will know of the involvement of Donald Healey with Trebah and when he owned it he built the boathouse, recently re-commissioned, and also Healeys Hill, which he constructed from concrete blocks from the beach.
Trebah is one of the greatest Cornish gardens originally created and laid out in the Victorian era, inspired by the wish of landowners of the time to beautify the landscape. It is very kind of the Trebah people to invite us and I do not wish to let them down. So I would like you all to consider this a maximum effort and I need to know names as soon as possible please.
So, Trebah Gardens (grid ref SW 0769 0275), Sunday 25th April, arrive 1200, free entry and lunch, tour the gardens. Other clubs are keen to join us on this one but first call must go to HDC members so I look forward to hearing from you very soon.
Best regards Pete French 01326 378994
For the Dutch Austin Healey Club 2010 means our 35th anniversary and our 7th lustrum. We decided to have our meeting in Bitburg in the hills of the Eifel in Germany. It is a 4 day Meeting from Thursday June 24th until Sunday 27th. We have contracted quite a large hotel on the shores of an artificial lake. We would like to extend our invitation to the members of the Healey Drivers Club. We would appreciate it if you could notify your members of our Lustrum plans by means of your website and club magazine. All information regarding the meeting is available via our club website: www.healey.nl. A direct link to the English side of our Lustrum meeting website is this: http://web.me.com/klipart/Lustrum_Bitburg_2010_english/Welcome.html We have arranged a special deal for British entrants with Stena Line. When booking via the Stena Line link on the lustrum site they’re able to get 15% discount on the normal fee. As an attachment you’ll find a newsletter in English. We would appreciate it for you to pass this information on to your members. Regular updates about the meeting will be published on our Lustrum website.
Best regards,
Erik van de Klippe Chairman AHOCN
Launch of the UK Registered Mk1 Sprite Photographic Database I must emphasize that this is not a commercial venture, just an extension of my hobby. The web site with the first 600 (or so) cars can be seen here www.frogeye.fotopic.net and there about another 400 cars still to go on. The database would welcome any additional images of Mk1 Sprites not already listed from members of the Healey Drivers Club
Healey's head for the salt flats of Bonneville Steve Pike says "we packed the cars for Bonneville on Wednesday [29th July], its been a big task over the past few weeks to get them finished. Nutting out all the supercharger fitting and getting them engineered to be able to meet the safety requirements of today. Anyhow we are on the way ,it will be quite a task to get to 200mph."
Check out
www.healeysreturntobonneville.blogspot.com
There's a New Kid in Town! The Healey Drivers Club are pleased to advise members of a new company specialising in the supply of parts and services for Healeys. Also, Members can benefit from an additional 10% discount if you confirm your membership when ordering.
Click here to visit the website where you can buy online and view the complete list of parts available.
Hi
Gentlemen---How about a day at the Races???? & Knowing your interest in
Classic Le Mans.
Having
just rec’d the Castle Combe Circuit 2009 Programme ---- on the Monday 25th
May 2009 is the British Sportscar Raceday in which the MG Car Club appears to
be involved with its Thoroughbred Sportscar Championship, involving MGA’s,
MGB’s, V8’s and Midgets. Also appearing is the Morgan Motor Company Challenge
supplemented with Astons, TVR’s, Healey’s, D type replicas, Lotus Elans and
TR’s. For further details check on www.castlecombecircuit.co.uk
Just to let you know that the third edition of Daniel Stapleton's Sprite tuning manual is just a few weeks away now! Please see - Kind regards, Rod Grainger, Publisher
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