Good run last weekend

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healeyneil
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Good run last weekend

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Last weekend, we took part in a Healey club weekend, that does a Scottish tour. We started in Dumfries, and ended up at Durness, right at the top. In all 830 miles. The Baur performed well, except for breaking its accellerator cable, and trying to throw me backwards off the road on a very wet, and presumably, greasy roundabout ! Apart from its almost 100% reliability, what amazed me was its fuel consumption of over 42mpg ! It wasnt pedal to the metal driving, but not pootling about either. I suppose the combination of modern fuel efficient engine ( M42) and a light weight body - the car, not me - adds up. Even with my my E36 gearbox being 1:1 in 5th. The big Healeys probably got about 22mpg e_surprised


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Sound slike a great tour. Any pics of the contestants cars?
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Re: Good run last weekend

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Not bad at all, nice to hear. And with these oldies, always something that will break when you start pushing. Believe with our E21 weekends there was something to fix on someone's car each time! But yeah man some pics please!
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There were about 14 big Healeys, 2 MGs, 2 Mercedes, one volvo and one BMW :)
The only other mishaps involved one Healey with a tank full of diesel :screwy , and another one which just wouldnt start Sunday morning, despite everything, and had to go home ignominiously on a recovery truck :oops:
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Nice collection!
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Re: Good run last weekend

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Yeah, great. But that merc is pretty recent?
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