Ohio Valley Austin Healey Club
Serving Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky
Monthly Meetings
Meetings are the 2nd Monday of the Month unless indicated - 7:00 PM
Family, friends and guests are always welcome!
January 2025: No Meeting
February 2025: Jacobs
March 2025: Wallace's
April 2025: Lindauer's
May 2025: Conclave No meeting
June 2025: Campbell's
July 2025: Cox's
August 2025: Wolfer's
September 2025: Grabow
October 2025: Parrot's Bonfire
November 2025: Slater's
December 2025: Christmas
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Video of Grace - Drive away Cancer Take a look it is great!
Tid-Bits
How does your gasoline rate ?
The Golden Age of British Sport Cars
Green BJ8 in " Every one wants to rule the world "
Like Blackberrys, Cobbler ? Come out to Pratt's Berry Farm and get fresh Berries of all types !
PHOTOS of Conclave - Https://Dropevent.com/Conclave2019
Bellefontaine Hill Climb revival
PHOTOS at www.jlofoto.net
July 16............................................................................. Retired Old Men Eating Out 1:00 Ludlow Bromley Yacht Club
860 Elm St. Ludow, KY 41014
July 23 .......................................................................................................... Juliettes Lunch 12:45 Ruth's Parkside Cafe
1550 Blue Rock St. Cincinnati, OH 45223
September 14 ............................................................................................ British Car Day , Cincinnati ( Fairfield Commons )
Crystal River manatee Tour
at Conclave 2023
June OVAHC Meeting Minutes
Twenty-five members attended the monthly meeting on Saturday, June 28 at the Campbell house in Loveland, OH on a hot and sunny afternoon. President Scott Brown called the meeting to order about 2:15 PM and thanked Rosalee and Ken for hosting. (applause) April minutes were approved as published in the June Newsleak. He recognized our special guest, Beth Pratt who drove father-in-law Richard to the meeting so we could enjoy his company.
President Scott asked for information on the location of the missing OVAHC banner. Contact him if you know where it is. Vice President John Wallace, Secretary Dale, Newsleak Editor Mary Ann, and Historian John Parrott had no report. Web Administrator Don was away.
Treasurer Cindy reported that since the April 26 meeting at the Lindauer home, credit for split the pot $45 and we had national dues rebates for online credit card payments and that was eight folks who paid with credit card at this point and that was $120, the auto cross net is $350, and then we had one new local only member who has joined and that was for $20. Total of $535 credits. Debits to Rosalee for RP Diamond digitizing for the 50th anniversary club logo for $ 26.95, $75 for AHCA after they overpaid us for 5 previous rebates, $5 for local only insurance for the national coverage of local only members, $75 for June meeting hosts. We paid $5 for one local only insurance fee, June hosts $75. Total of $181.95 debits. Current balance is good. Tech team balance is $1793.
Membership Rosalee Campbell reported we have two new members. Tim Sisson returned to the fold as a “local only” member. He was an original 1975 founding member. Kevin Koffel from northern Kentucky joined also. He has two 100 A-Hs with one restored and one needs some transmission work. Rosalee is still taking OVAHC 50th anniversary t-shirt orders with the updated logo from RP Diamond. She mentioned the silk-screen work looks fantastic. She has one small shirt on hand for sale. Contact her for details on the offer.
Tech Director Tim reported on the last session on Skip’s white MGA named Magic. Bernie Grabow has a Tuesday 7/1 session planned for Henry the 8th. Show up at 9:30 AM to help get his eighth Healey road worthy. Richard volunteered to help the tech team including with the transmission for the A-H 100 if someone can pick him up. Jerry Cox said he may need some help with his MGB repairs.
Tim reported on the Branson caravan assistance we were able to provide to the Duffey Healey. We swapped out the bad distributor in the Paducah, KY hotel parking lot with a new PerTronix Ignition and it ran well. Contact Tim to join in, or to schedule a tech session.
The Acting Activity Activator volunteer was Jeff Porada. Nancy Bacon scheduled an ice-cream run following this meeting with 4 stops. This coincides with the AHCA request to promote our Healey cars in the USA and Canada by holding a 7-day contest to get exposure at the shops with our vehicles and take photos, too. Jeff read a list of things to do starting with today’s 6/28 meeting, Sunday July 8 for an eight stop ice cream run, Saturday July 12 OVAHC 50th anniversary meeting, Wednesday July 16 ROMEO lunch at Ludlow-Bromley Yacht Club, Wednesday July 23 Juliettes lunch at Ruth's Parkside Cafe, Saturday July 26 OVAHC drivers’ training session, Saturday August 2 for the Dayton British Car Day show. Saturday August 23 for the Bellefountain Hill Climb event (ask Jake for more info), Thursday August 28 for a trip to the Mansfield Ohio correctional Institute where Shawshank Redemption was filmed with the MINI Club and Miata Club invited too. (see Dale for more info) September 14 is the BCCGC British Car Day in Fairfield. Mid America Classic in Hocking Hills September 14 – 17, SouthEastern Classic in Franklin TN September 18-21. October 11 Kurt’s fall driving tour. Make plans to get out and about with us, please?
Business Manager/Delegate Jake said the Midwest AHC has been approved to host Conclave in Galena, IL in September 2026. Jake and Jeff Porada are members of the AHCA retention committee and they are reporting continual successes. They are looking at attracting new members, improving visibility, incorporating QR codes, and doing what it takes to be current in today’s world. “Healey Braking News” is one of their successes so far. It comes to your email inbox once a month or so. Be sure to log on frequently to see the other improvements. They are now using auto renews this fall with one-click for 2026 to make it easier to rejoin the AHCA. They are looking into making a folder which owners could keep in the Healey glove box and pass it on to the new owner to show that the AHCA is available to them, too. They are setting up a tech data base for mechanic and repair referrals.
The New England AH Club has held zoom calls with tech teams to assist in maintaining our Austin – Healeys. Jake and others are looking to replicate this effort across the country. OVAHC may be a host site soon. Mike Schneider is willing to set up the Zoom call for the area clubs. You will get an email inviting you to log on. We would need OVAHC volunteers to participate with their knowledge ready to answer live questions. You could check the AHCA web site and see if another part of the country has one in which the topic appeals to you. Free and open to all members. With “young” Ben Moore taking the President’s job, these efforts and the make-up of the committee for retention gives Jake cause for optimism towards the future.
Scott called on Rosalee for the standing committee report on the 2026 Mid America Classic. She said: “John Wallace, myself and Ken would be co-chairs for the show based in Lebanon, OH June 7-10, 2026. We have signed a contract already with the Drury Inn off of I-75 located on Route 122 in Middletown. The car show will be in Lebanon and the rallye will end in Waynesville with Scott and Dale as organizers. The awards banquet will be at The Golden Lamb.
Drury Hotels provides free hot breakfast every morning and hot food and cold beverages at the 5:30 Kickback every evening built into our special $137 hotel nightly rate. It includes a dinner, snacks, and each adult gets three adult beverage tickets every night as long as you stay at the facility. That way that it works out as it helps us with hospitality every night at the Drury. The banquet price may be higher, but it is offset by the 5:30 Kickback dinner which we will use for our Thursday welcome meal.
We will have a free, comped hospitality room as our focal point and it will also be where we do the funkhana and house the silent auction. Hopefully we will have raffle baskets again. Special parking area is to be set aside for us and an area for us to wash the cars. Security provided for us when the Middletown police drive through every once in a while just to check on our cars. We think it's an excellent package for us as it saves us a tremendous amount of money.
I've also been told that some of the people who volunteered in the past have stepped forward again. We will be contacting people and getting you started. We would like to be prepared to make an announcement in September at (M.A.C.) Hocking Hills to let people know that's what we're going to do.”
Rosalee asked for any questions and she got a hearty round of applause. President Scott said thank you very much to Rosalee for all that hard work. That's one hell of a terrific package deal so he is hoping everybody will attend and once we get the word out he’s sure our attendance will be right up there. Looks like we'll have a great event!
Old business: Tim Ross asked what we were doing to invite founding members to the July 12 50th Anniversary meeting. He said he had talked to the Cusicks and they are coming. Scott said it was publicized in the June part 2 Newsleak and he was bringing Chuck Law. Dale said he asked for and received 1975-78 membership rosters from Ken Kreuter and he mailed to 3 addresses and emailed to 4 more. We will see.
No New business.
The next meeting will be Saturday, July 12 at the Cox home near Batavia, OH. President Scott thanked Rosalee and Ken for hosting. (applause) After he adjourned the meeting, we went back to snacking, socializing, before the ice cream run started.
Submitted by Secretary Dale
July 12 .............................................................................. Meeting at Cox's ( 50th Year in AHCA ) 1:00 kick tires 2:00 meeting
( Details in Newsleak )
August 23 ............................................................................................. Bellefontaine Hill Climb Revival 7
July 26 .............................................................................................. OVAHC Drivers Training at Live Oaks ( Saturday )
September 14 - 17 ................. September RoundUp ......................... 2025 Mid America Classic at Hocking Hills State Park
August 2 ............................................................................................. British Car Day, Dayton Eastwood Metro Park
1385 Harshman Rd. Dayton
August 28 ...................................................................................... Prison Drive to Shawshank. Manfield Ohio
( Details in Newsleak )
