Little British Cars At The Mystic Seaport

The Austin Healey Club of North America – New England‘s annual meet called the Summit —this year titled “Sun and Sand Summit “in honor of its first-ever incarnation in Southeastern Connecticut—will bring over fifty Big Healeys and Sprites to the roads of New London and Middlesex Counties of Connecticut and towns in Western Rhode Island from July 20^th to the 24^th.

A major highlight of the get-together is the public car show on the green at Mystic Seaport on Saturday, July 23^rd from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. Visitors to Mystic Seaport will be invited to vote for their favorite cars. Displays will explain the different types of cars. Owners will be with their cars to answer questions and help with photo ops.

Other events include: the “Parking Lot Gymkhana”—a kind of low-speed obstacle race—held at the Holiday Inn in Norwich (10 Laura Blvd; call 800-718-8466 for directions) on Thursday, July 21^st from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm; a Clam Bake in Weekapaug, RI the evening of Wednesday, July 20^th; and a Road Rally from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm on Friday, July 22^nd with lunch at the Gelston House in East Haddam, an earlier stop at the Essex Steam Train and a later visit to Gillette Castle, also in East Haddam.

Austin-Healeys were built in England from 1953 to 1971. At the time, the Big Healeys were the most affordable 100-mile-an-hour sports cars available to the American market and the Sprites—especially the early Bugeye or Frogeye (as they were called in England) —were among the most sought after entry-level sports cars.  Today Austin-Healey cars are easily the most attractively styled classic “everyman’s” (or woman’s) sports cars of the era.

And Healey people are the friendliest old car people you will ever meet.

For more information call:  George M Greider 860-873-8785