{"id":624,"date":"2018-03-15T21:34:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T21:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intermarque.org\/?p=624"},"modified":"2018-03-15T22:20:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T22:20:41","slug":"624","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/2018\/03\/15\/624\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin-Healey Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-626\" src=\"http:\/\/intermarque.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/clock600x600-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/clock600x600-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/intermarque.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/clock600x600-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/intermarque.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/clock600x600-585x585.jpg 585w, https:\/\/intermarque.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/clock600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/strong><strong>A slightly different \u201cChristmas Story\u201d by Dan Powell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the Christmas season approached I decided to buy my son yet another Austin-Healey related gift\u2026 no, not a car, but a clock. Not just any clock, but a clock that appears to be a Healey speedometer!<\/p>\n<p>I ordered the clock from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronosclocks.com\">Chronosclocks.com<\/a> which I found out about from their ad in<em> Classic &amp; Sports Car<\/em> magazine. They are located not too far from Stonehenge in England\u2026 they may time the clocks using the stones there\u2026 don\u2019t know for sure, but in England just about anything can happen.<\/p>\n<p>The clock I chose had a speedo that looked like the one my Healey (BT7) had before it was swapped out for race gauges, with a \u201cnumber plate\u201d and two other small gauges. It\u2019s about eleven inches square. Looking at their website it\u2019s obvious that they offer something for everyone, from Alvis to Wolesley, plus some aircraft gauges.<\/p>\n<p>I placed my order on November 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, and about three weeks later it hadn\u2019t arrived (misdirected mail, porch pirate, etc).\u00a0 Since he sends the packages Royal mail (then USPS) I didn\u2019t have any way to track the package so I contacted Chris at Chronosclocks.\u00a0 He confirmed it had been sent and should have been received within ten days or so\u2026 then, without my broaching the subject, said he would send me a replacement at no cost, but it would arrive after Christmas\u2026 once I picked myself up off the floor I thanked him and waited for the replacement to arrive. It did, and my son has it proudly displayed on his office wall along the some other Healey memorabilia<\/p>\n<p>The point of this story is that there are interesting Healey bits out there if you look for them AND there are vendors like Chris who deserve to be recognized and patronized .\u00a0 Give the website a look\u2026 you will likely want to buy something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slightly different \u201cChristmas Story\u201d by Dan Powell As the Christmas season approached I decided to buy my son yet another Austin-Healey related gift\u2026 no,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-out-and-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}