Chasing the Haggis 2008
Healey Journal
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This was selected to be the February Photo for the 2009 BCF Calendar. |
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After a hiatus of a couple of years I finally got to go on the Austin-Healey Club's tour of the Highlands again. Despite not having my Big Healey up and running and the continued dis-assembly of my Jensen-Healey my Rochdale Olympic seemed healthy enough, and I could barely stretch the qualification by noting that it too had a BMC "A" engine as fitted to some of the later Sprites. But they've let MG and Jags come along in the past so qualifying wasn't that much of an issue- I had a Big Healey and was in the Club... and someone that had previously reserved a slot wasn't able to go: hence I got lucky and could join them all.
We were very fortunate and had excellent weather- it was as if the Highlands and Islands Tourist Board had ordered it especially for us and photographers to persuade people to come and visit...
Photos from the 2008 event:
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| Lined up outside the hotel where the run started alongside Loch Lomond. | The Start- waved off with the Saltire... | On the road.... |
The first stop- an unofficial tea break overlooking the old hill-climb course at Rest & be Thankful. |
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| The first official stop for Lunch. | Huh? Seem to have developed a Hic-cup needing a roadside rest... | North through the highlands with snow still on the upper hills | Parked alongside Loch Ness- not on the official itenerary but a "short cut" to the hotel... | |
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At the hotel, end of day 1
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The Skye road bridge from the mainland. |
Traveling towards Floodigary looking towards the "Old Man of Storr" |
At Floodigary for lunch on the second day, alongside a Big Healey and across from a Jag SS100 Replica. |
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It was both not so bad as it looks and far worse. The leak was very easily fixed.
But it was petrol... |
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