Healey Trip to San Diego

The crazed Bill Sullivans are at it again. Another Healey adventure, this time a relatively short one: Albuquerque to San Diego for the 2008 Conclave.

If all goes well, we should be off on Saturday, June 28.

This trip is a lot shorter than our last one in 2007, see http://home.comcast.net/~wsullivan711/healey.htm

We are using the same 1954 BN1 and 1960 BN7 Healeys. Both have rebuilt engines this time, they did OK on the Vermont trip but all of them were pretty well worn so we spent the winter with a rebuild. Bill H. put a previously rebuilt BJ8 engine in his while Bill N. rebuilt his original engine. This required sleeving the bores back to the original size.

The rebuild took longer than expected, so we are off on this trip with just a few hundred miles on each engine. Wish us luck driving these unproven beasts.

We should leave on Saturday, June 28, so we will probably not post anything until the weekend. We are allowing two days to make this 800 mile trip, that should be no problem as long as the Healey's keep running an no one gets heat prostration.

Our wives are smart enough to pass on our ride through the hottest deserts in North America. Joyce Sullivan will meet us in San Diego. Nance is staying home to take care of the house, dogs, and also my mother who has not been well. Bill H's son John Sullivan is riding with us, so we have plenty of company.