Hey Bill,
Going through my current Harbor Freight Tools catalog, I see a "portable
garage" listed at $159.99 (reg $279.99). Check it out, might be what you
are looking for, www.harborfreightusa.com item #42211 "Portable Garage"
There is a Harbor Freight Store approx three miles from you.
I have a 15% OFF coupon I can send you.
Kirk Kvam
San Bernardino, CA,
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Moyer" <William.Moyer@millersville.edu>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 8:01 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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