Bill: Forgot to mention; Watch out for the critters. Mice can cause a
disaster on the soft stuff, even indoors. Mothballs work, but the smell
remains for a long time
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Moyer" <William.Moyer@millersville.edu>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 11:01 PM
Subject: Healey storage
> Hi fellow enthusiasts,
>
> I got no fewer than 20 responses to my request including a couple of
very nice
> offers for storage facilities. For the good of the order, the consensus
was
> to keep it inside somewhere, and covered there for good measure. There
were
> notable suggestions that with the top up or a tonneau and some attention
a
> couple of months weren't going to mean disaster, and they're probably
right,
> it's just that after dealing with rust during the resto I'm a little
nuts
> about the prospect. I don't want to do that again. Actually I don't
think I
> could do it again.
> I'm not at all mechanically inclined and the work was a struggle for me,
but I
> did "finish" it. Just like it's ever "finished", right?
>
> Since it was out of the garage anyway my lovely wife and I took it to my
40th
> high school reunion tonight. She knew we were taking it, but for some
reason
> which men cannot understand she didn't take my recommendation to wear a
scarf
> or bring a comb with her and I was compelled to take roads where I could
go
> only 25 mph on the way there with her ducking below the windshield the
whole
> way. I more than made up for that on the way home hitting a shimmy-free
solid
> 85 on a clear section of highway, then some Stirling Moss turns on the
back
> roads on the way home. The reunion was at the local upscale "country
club"
> which many of my classmates are members of. As we walked through the
parking
> lot we saw the usual Beemers, Lincolns, Benzes, etc. but nothing
"exotic".
> During the slide show after the reunion dinner my slide came up with me
in the
> car and oohs and ahhs were heard all around. Three or four guys said,
"Yeah,
> I saw that in the parking lot." What they didn't remember was that the
same
> car had been at our 10th reunion, thirty years ago. While there were
people
> there who had come from as far as New Zealand there were no other cars
there
> older than 10 years. When we left a couple of motorheads came out with
Molly
> and I to see the car and I let them hear the Healey roar as I pulled
mightly
> out of the parking lot. Of course, out of about 100 guys there, there
were
> about 20 that had "owned one of those" in their youth. OK, I guess they
made
> about a billion more Healeys than we are aware of. Some of them gave
the
> usual set of complaints about unreliability which I tried to point out
was
> probably the result of beating the cars to death and not maintaining
them.
> Yes, I was guilty of the same, many years ago. Altogether a fine
evening and
> a good night for Healeys everywhere.
>
> Thanks to all who responded to my question.
>
> Bill Moyer, BJ7, Chimera -
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