pkmh
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Now that my Healey has been elevated to a "Driver" instead of just being on floorjacks, I get to drive it around, albeit more local than highway (still not quite confident to take it on the open road just yet). The sounding off of my muffler in low tone seems to cause heads to turn as I approach for sure.
Other times, I had a mother with her daughter follow me just so I would stop and then ask me what kind of car I was driving.
Today, I had a woman walking by come up to me in my driveway and tell me a story of how she and her boyfriend drove their Healey to the Woodstock Concert in 1969 but in attempts to making it back home, they broke down in Monticello, NY, due to a bad fuel pump. They hitchhiked home to New Jersey, then got a new fuel pump and hitchhiked back to Monticello and waited till a mechanic replaced the old with new. She also said theirs was white with a black cove (don't really recall seeing any in that color combination, do you?!). Anyway, she went into melancholy lane seeing mine there.
Wow, to imagine going to Woodstock in a Healey! I was too young for that concert but old enough to go to the 1973 Watkins Glen Concert in my 1970 Opel GT. And yes, I made there and back without breaking down. Go figure.
I have a feeling I am going to learn other little interesting stories as I go. Be curious to learn more, if worth sharing.
Paul
Other times, I had a mother with her daughter follow me just so I would stop and then ask me what kind of car I was driving.
Today, I had a woman walking by come up to me in my driveway and tell me a story of how she and her boyfriend drove their Healey to the Woodstock Concert in 1969 but in attempts to making it back home, they broke down in Monticello, NY, due to a bad fuel pump. They hitchhiked home to New Jersey, then got a new fuel pump and hitchhiked back to Monticello and waited till a mechanic replaced the old with new. She also said theirs was white with a black cove (don't really recall seeing any in that color combination, do you?!). Anyway, she went into melancholy lane seeing mine there.
Wow, to imagine going to Woodstock in a Healey! I was too young for that concert but old enough to go to the 1973 Watkins Glen Concert in my 1970 Opel GT. And yes, I made there and back without breaking down. Go figure.
I have a feeling I am going to learn other little interesting stories as I go. Be curious to learn more, if worth sharing.
Paul