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[Roger Dowding]

Found a couple more pictures from the day - they appeared in the Austin Healey Club New Zealand's magazine -
" Healey - Torque ", in early 1989 and were still attached to the draft sheets for the magazine, which were returned to me some time later
Richard " Dick on Wheels " Mayor was indeed there in a very stripped down Healey, no headlights, screen, only a rollbar for protection, not a cage.



Getting to the track that day was a mission, Wayne Browns Healey 3000, ran out of fuel, fortunately we were travelling with others and a friend in the Aston Martin [ I think a guy called John Lowsley, from Vancouver, Washington - the twin city to Portland over the border - helped by pumping fuel from his carbs into a beer can - several times, to get the Healey going again, we got to the track, obviously and all was well.
here is the scene as it happened.



As mentioned as well as the hospitality of the Oregon Healey people, there was also the loan of a car, here is that Healey at the rear, with an NZ number plate on the front, and the Oregon plate on the rear. We never got stopped and I guess the funny accents, of foreigners, and in an old car, we would probably have been OK.
The car in front is the Wayne and Sylvia Brown 3000 that broke down, the John Wilson [ rear car ] was a barn find in Arizona, which John had purchased to restore, but was such a good runner, just used it.