1. First kiss in a Healey: After the test drive the day I bought it. My
wife was in the passenger's seat next to me, and she was as enthusiastic
about buying it as I was. I just had to give her a kiss.
2. First ticket (1984): Returning from picking my son up at the
hospital -- wife in the passenger's seat, my son in the rear. We stopped
behind two other cars at a stop light. When the light turned green, we all
moved off together. Police car going the other way, immediately did a
U-turn and pulled me over. When I protested and pointed out the two cars
that had been (and were still) in front of me, he gave me the stock reply
that they all learn in cop school: "You were gaining on them!" (I've heard
that exact response in another ticket situation with another car, in another
state).
Last ticket (2005): at Conclave in Winston-Salem, following the "off-site"
listers meeting among the ten or so of us who didn't get the word about the
last-minute change in venue to a pub within walking distance of the hotel.
About 10 pm, traveling back to the hotel about 3 miles away, I had just got
on the interstate. Top down, and it began to rain. Guess I was in a hurry
to make the parking garage without having to put the top up, and didn't
notice the 45 mph speed limit (4-lane, divided, interstate, remember).
What a funny coincidence that a trooper just happened to be sitting there in
the dark.....
3. If I were 21 and single, then I would still be in college in Raleigh, NC
and I guess my Healey would still be sitting on the Harmon-Rowland lot in
the same city, waiting for its first owner. I still couldn't afford to buy
it, but I could at least go look at it. That's a thought I've had
frequently over the years.
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC USA
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Allen C Miller, Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:42 AM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Value insanity
In hopes of getting everyone off the maudlin subjects of who is a
millionaire, what your car is worth, and so on, may I suggest a few new
threads to pull from the Healey coat of many colors:
1. Your first kiss in a Healey
2. Your first ticket with a Healey
3. What you'd dow with your Healey if you were 21 and single
Allen Miller
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