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Submitted by @healeygal - Sharon Tanihara
Twenty-six years ago, right after I first got my Healey Hundred, I attended the WestCoast Meet in Eureka, California and had my picture taken with Donald Healey. At the time, Ifigured that experience would last me a lifetime and was content to spend the next couple ofdecades using the car around town or venturing out on short jaunts up and down the coast. Itwas only in the last couple of years (realizing that time is slipping by and the car was beginningto deteriorate to the point of being unsafe to drive) that I became active in a club, had workdone on the car to make her roadworthy, and gained a better understanding of what makes hertick.
Me, my Healey and my shirt with picture of Donald Healey
This year, after a stern lecture from a friend warning me how disappointed I would feelonce the 50th anniversary celebration was over if I did not go, I decided to attend Open Roads2002 at Lake Tahoe, which can only be described as amazing in event aspect - the cars, thepeople, the location, and the varied activities throughout the week. (For a great recap andpictures, get a copy of Issue #100 of British Car Magazine, on the stands until January 15.)
On a personal level, it was a special event for me because I made the trip in my Healey,took the long, scenic route, Highway 101, doing it, joined a caravan over some great Healeyback roads into Tahoe with Gerry and Marian Coker and the Andersons of British CarMagazine fame, and on the way home, took the ride I’d been wanting to do for over 20 years -Highway 1 between Big Sur and San Luis Obispo.
Even the momentary lapse suffered by my car was blessed with good luck - as weheaded for home Thursday morning, two blocks out of the host hotel parking lot, she rolled to adead stop. With 400 or so of the Healeys in attendance out on the around-the-lake tour, whoshould we find after a trek back to the parking lot but club members Kirk Kvam, with his RV carrying all the tools one could need and Lou Galper, with his knowledge of the BN1 wiringsystem, and who would have thought a loose, slightly corroded nut securing a contact could shutdown the whole car? I hate to picture our dilemma had we been 100 miles down the road.
Reviewing the events of Open Roads 2002 and daydreaming a bit in the months sinceTahoe, it occurred to me that at the current rate of one major Healey event every 25 years, mynext big Healey celebration will be in the year 2027, when I’m the ripe old age of...well, nevermind! Let’s just say that so far, I’ve got two fantastic Healey events to remember for a lifetime!
Will all this stuff really fit in this little car?
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