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To: "derekp62@surfnetc.com" <derekp62@surfnetc.com>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] My BN2 has ...
From: "E.A. Driver" <edriver@sasktel.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:56:30 -0600
Well  Derek as  one still in the homeland it is -33 C with a wind
of -45 C, at least it is nice and sunny ;-)
Regards
Ed
Saskatoon
'53 BN1 '65 BJ8 '89 Morgan 4/4
Historian, AHCUSA

derekp62@surfnetc.com wrote:

> Ah! this brings back memories.
> As a Canadian transplant from Barrie, Ont. to San
> Jose, California, I don't get to cruise in the snow
> much anymore.
> I was on a business trip in Kista, Sweden some years
> ago when a very kind local Healey Club member
> by the name of Magnus Melin came over in his Healey
> an picked me up at my hotel.  He'd brought a big
> bomber jacket and a leather cap and goggles.  It was
> winter.  We looked like a bunch of WWII kite flyers
> cruising
> with the top down in the snow.  At one point he even
> jumped out at a light to put some wood baffles in front
> of the radiator to help keep the engine temp up. 
> That's cold!  I got a tour of his shop, and a great
> home cooked
> meal.  I'd just come of from Italy, so I brought a
> nice Grappa!  You can find great Healey friends all
> over the
> world.  I've come to realize, I've become a big woose
> in California! :-)
> 
> Thanks for the memories,
> 
> Derek
> Los Gatos, CA
> 
> 
> Alan Seigrist wrote:
> 
>>Tadek -
>>
>>Send us pictures of you driving in the snow!
>>
>>I might be in Slovakia near Kosice later this year,
> 
> if you want to go for a
> 
>>drive down, let me know!  We can go for a spin in
> 
> the High Tatrys!
> 
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Alan
>>
>>
>>On 1/26/08, Tadeusz Malkiewicz
> 
> <tadeusz.malkiewicz@plusnet.pl> wrote:
> 
>>>And I took it for a drive. This was not too wise
> 
> (I have a flu) and
> 
>>>driving
>>>with the top off in the middle of winter with snow
> 
> around is may be a
> 
>>>little
>>>crazy...
>>>
>>>BUT THE CAR IS SOOOO much fun to drive!!!
>>>
>>>I finally understand why it is so hard to buy it!
> 
> Anyone who has it is not
> 
>>>going to be out of his mind to sell it!...
>>>
>>>
>>>Tadek
>>>
>>>PS. I never imagined it is sooo small inside. I
> 
> have no idea what to do
> 
>>>with
>>>my feet....
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