From editor at healeyclub.org Mon Aug 9 13:00:26 2021 From: editor at healeyclub.org (Reid Trummel) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 12:00:26 -0700 Subject: [cahc] Classified Ads for the next Cascade Magazine Message-ID: Hello Cascaders (Cascadians?), The deadline for getting classified ads to me for the next issue of *Cascade* magazine is this Friday. Here are the specs: Ads are free for members. Ads are $50 for two issues for non-members (or join and the ad is free). Word limit is 35, image limit is 2. We may edit ads for length or content. Items advertised must be British car-related, whether cars, parts or collectibles. Ads must state the price of items, or at least the ?asking price.? Send ads to Reid Trummel at reid.trummel at gmail.com Thanks. RT Reid Trummel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From editor at healeyclub.org Mon Aug 16 12:04:51 2021 From: editor at healeyclub.org (Reid Trummel) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 11:04:51 -0700 Subject: [cahc] *** The (Unofficial) Austin-Healey Northwest Meet is ON *** Message-ID: *BREAKING NEWS* In case you haven't heard, the board of the Austin-Healey Club of Oregon just cancelled their hosting of the annual Austin-Healey Northwest Meet that they were scheduled to host in Pendleton, Oregon, August 27-29. However, just because the board bowed out, that's no reason to cancel plans. No one closed Pendleton. I checked with the hotel. They're open for business. I checked a couple of gas stations in Pendleton, and they're operating as usual. I checked a couple of restaurants in Pendleton. They're open as usual (except the Governor is again requiring us to wear masks when we walk into a restaurant, but only until we get seated at our table). I just don't see any show-stoppers there. *In fact, Gary Feldman, president of the Austin-Healey Club of America, is flying out from Ohio and we're going to drive my Road Warrior Bugeye from Portland to Pendleton. * That's the car I drove round trip to Deadwood, South Dakota, for Conclave a couple of years ago. That was about 10 days on the road as I recall - five days each way. *The show goes on.* We are still going to Pendleton on the planned dates. We're still going to tour, enjoy local restaurants, and see the sights, so basically we're going to have the Northwest Meet with *all the features of a Northwest Meet* except for the name "Northwest Meet." I guess you can spend the rest of your life waiting for someone to give you permission to live your life, spooked every time you hear of an uptick in virus cases, or you can choose not to live in fear and get out and live your life while you still have some life remaining. Or maybe you're planning to live forever, and so your plans for travel and for driving your Healey and for some fun can keep getting put off year after year and it is not an issue for you. You can always do it next year, or five years from now, or 10 years from now *when conditions will certainly be just perfect*. Right? You know, the Northwest Meet has long been a very simple event; virtually unstructured. In a Northwest Meet we come together at the host hotel. We socialize. We go to dinner at various places in various groups. During the day we go touring on the roads in the region, and there are some *great* seldom-seen touring roads in that part of the state. In a Northwest Meet there's not even a car show or any trophies, and I'm just not seeing any reasons to stay home. *We can still do everything that had been planned, we just won't call it "the Northwest Meet."* And we're going. If you would like to join us there, we're staying at the *Red Lion Hotel Pendleton, 304 SE Nye Avenue, Pendleton 97801, (541) 276-6111,* the originally planned venue. It's only a three-hour drive from Portland, so we'll hit the road on Thursday the 26th and plan to arrive at the hotel in Pendleton about 4-5 p.m. That gives us all day Friday the 27th and all day Saturday the 28th for local area touring and sightseeing and visiting area attractions, etc., etc. Saturday night we'll wrap it up with dinner out somewhere in Pendleton. Sunday we'll return to Portland, reinvigorated by having driven a Healey on some terrific roads, and just by getting out of Dodge for a while. And we're going. And by the way, the weather in Pendleton in late August is typically sunny with temps in the 70s and 80s most of the day, and lows in the early morning hours in the high 50s or low 60s. Sounds like perfect Healey Driving Weather to me. And we're going. You know, you can always find a reason not to do something, or you can choose to live your life. Or maybe you're going to live forever and there will always, always, always be next year, and if you postpone living just a little longer, just another year or two or three, everything will be just perfect. Or will it? "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." * - Samuel Johnson* It's the Northwest Meet in everything but name, and it's ON. *And we're going. * See you there? RT Mobile 503.753.3700 Reid Trummel Editor, HEALEY MARQUE MAGAZINE *Official Publication of the * *Austin-Healey Club of America* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From editor at healeyclub.org Tue Aug 31 14:00:00 2021 From: editor at healeyclub.org (Reid Trummel) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 13:00:00 -0700 Subject: [cahc] Pendleton Trip Report Message-ID: On Sunday I returned from Pendleton and here's a recap of the "Unofficial Austin-Healey Northwest Meet'' held there on the dates planned for the official one, which was cancelled. Funny thing about that though ... despite being canceled, Pendleton was still there. All of the hotels, restaurants, shops, and tourist attractions and *wonderful* touring roads were all still there, and all still open. The morning view from our room at the Red Lion Pendleton was like a Renaissance painting with rolling, grain-covered hills and the sun hitting a couple of passing clouds. But first, a few words about getting there... We left Portland on Thursday, August 26. We stopped in Hood River so that my traveling companion, Gary Feldman, president of the Austin-Healey Club of America , could visit Kent Lambert's place for the deluxe tour of Kent's shops, cars and parts. Then we all went over to John Stanley's shop, also in Hood River, and ordered pizza for lunch and then hit the road again in mid-afternoon. We headed east to The Dalles, gassed up there and then crossed over the Columbia River to the Washington side and made our way into Pendleton, arriving about 6 p.m. Some friends were already there and had made dinner reservations at Virgil's in downtown Pendleton. We met them there and enjoyed local cuisine - that would be beef! Nice place, and a nice way to kick off the Pendleton visit. We got up Friday morning to a spectacular view of a sunny morning and headed out for breakfast at Rooster's. After a hearty breakfast we headed north to Walla Walla, stopping at a Chase Bank branch there so I could wire funds to complete the purchase of a special Bugeye Sprite that is currently located in Hawaii. More on that later. Then we proceeded to the Fort Walla Walla Museum which was open as usual, and met Dwight and Connie Jones from the Tri-Cities, already there. The museum consists of several buildings and some preserved old buildings and is very well done. We saw old farming equipment including an enormous rig that was pulled by no less than 36 horses and of course there was also lots of memorabilia from the history of the area. It was really worthwhile - a very nice facility with 50,000 artifacts, four exhibit halls and a pioneer village. We then returned to Pendleton for an afternoon snack of beer and nachos at the Rainbow Cafe, a downtown old-time bar/cafe that is a favorite from previous visits, and with lots of Pendleton Roundup atmosphere. By the way, the famous Pendleton Roundup is coming right up - it's the second whole week of September, and it is ON. After refreshing at the Rainbow we then visited the famous Hamley Western Store and Saddle Shop . It's a real mecca for Western Wear, and a young woman who works there told us the history of the store, the Hamley family and saddle-making in the region. She was like a tour guide with exhaustive knowledge of all those subjects, and typical of the friendly, welcoming people we met through the visit. Then we continued the downtown focus by meeting friends for dinner at the Hamley Steakhouse next door! So that was Friday. Saturday morning we woke up to a clear, slightly cool morning with low humidity that promised warmer temps later, and while I'm on the subject, the weather throughout the visit was a 10. Perfect is the only word for it. Cool mornings and warm afternoons just made for poking around the downtown shops and Healey touring on the area's roads. So for breakfast we toured downtown to ... you guessed it ... the Rainbow Cafe. By the way, Pendleton is not a large city and "touring to downtown" was about a five-minute drive from our hotel, if that long. After breakfast we poked around some downtown shops and then made our 10:30 a.m. appointment for The Pendleton Underground Tour . Pendleton has a really interesting history and this tour is so very well done. Our group of something like 15 people explored the underground rooms, hallways, jail, tavern, Chinese laundry and more, then wrapped it up with a tour of a downtown hotel that had been a brothel for many decades and is unrestored! Our tour guide was fun and extremely knowledgeable. After the tour of the underground it was time for an overground tour, and we headed south on US 395 on the "Battle Mountain Forest State Scenic Corridor," a road just meant for Healeys with curves and curves and more curves and climbs and descents amid great scenery - really a must-do if you ever get to that area. Then we took OR 244 into Ukiah and stopped for gas and a beverage in this slightly offbeat, fully off-the-grid remote town where we struck up a conversation with a local and got lots more local information and insights on the region. The people throughout the visit were uniformly friendly and happy to chat with visitors, even after I told them I was from Portland! (I did, however, get a couple of comments along the lines of, "Welcome to God's country.") Refreshed and enlightened at Ukiah we then continued northeast on OR 244 back to I-84, but we also took a detour off the Interstate and made our way into Pendleton the back way. We got some spectacular panoramic views from our backroads route. Arriving back into Pendleton meant that another visit to the Rainbow Cafe was in order, and after a beer and onion rings to revive us, we discovered that there was a street fair that evening, complete with live music and wagon rides, with the wagon pulled by real donkeys. We poked around downtown some more, ducked into the Pendleton Air Museum storefront where the woman was getting ready to close, but she interrupted her plans to give us a tour and discussion about the local connection to Jimmy Doolittle's Raid on Japan in 1942 (I asked if she'd mind if I told her what I know about it, and after giving my rendition of its history she said I was *mostly* correct!). This was just yet another example of the friendly people who go out of their way to accommodate you there. Then as luck would have, the underground tavern that we had visited earlier on the tour was open and serving drinks that evening. They open only once every so often (once a month?), but we hit it just right and retired under the streets of Pendleton, me for a gin and tonic, and we sat down with an over-the-road trucker and his wife and had a friendly and informative conversation over drinks, this being yet another instance of the friendly, welcoming open people there and the bustling downtown life of Pendleton. After we surfaced we weighed our dinner options and finally decided on a Mexican restaurant. The covered tables spilled out all the way into the middle of the closed-off street, and one Margarita and several combination fajitas later we continued our tour of downtown Pendleton and the street fair. One repeating feature of our trip was lots of amused attention to us two larger-than-average guys getting out of the Bugeye. It seems like everywhere we went the car was just naturally a center of attention, which is to be expected with a Bugeye, but the highlight - for the onlookers - was watching us spill out of it while trying to maintain a little dignity. We virtually became part of the downtown show in Pendleton several times! That was Saturday. Sunday morning we hit the road early and headed back to Portland, but not before a stop in Hood River to have lunch with Kent at Grace Su's China Gorge Restaurant, always a must-do in Hood River. After lunch we crossed the river into Washington and took WA 14 back to Vancouver where I garage the Bugeye. Remarkably, *this was Gary's first time ever driving a Sprite or even riding in one*, despite his having been into Healeys for almost 45 years and being president of the Austin-Healey Club of America for several years! The fact that my Bugeye had a hardtop on it made it an extra challenge for the uninitiated to get in and out of (and it's a challenge to do it gracefully even for us old Bugeye hands), and so I was really glad to get him broken in. It was a really memorable time in several ways: - *Perfect* weather. - *Lots* going on in Pendleton - nothing closed. - The Bugeye ran perfectly the entire time. - *Great* touring roads in the region. - The people were so very friendly. - We ate well, perhaps needless to say. - *There was even a Corvette club meet based at the hotel across the street from our hotel!* I liked Pendleton a lot and plan to go back again before too long. Maybe next time you'd like to join me? RT Reid Trummel Editor, HEALEY MARQUE MAGAZINE *Official Publication of the * *Austin-Healey Club of America* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: