Volume 6 Issue 9 October Jag Wyre

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1 Jag Wyre Sacramento Jaguar Club October 17 Meeting The October 17 meeting will be held at the California Automobile Museum, 2200 Front St, Sacramento. Members are welcome to arrive any time they wish in the afternoon. SJC members are entitled to one free admission a year (wearing your name badge would be helpful) but we will provide the Museum with an updated list in advance. There will be a guided tour led by SJC member Jerry Reynolds starting about 5:00 PM. At 6:00 PM we will What s Inside Pg. 1 October Meeting Pg 2 President s Musings Pg 3 October Agenda Pg 4 AGM Video Pg 5 & 6 Jaguar Project have a short business meeting in the staff lunch room. After the meeting, we will caravan to dinner for a 7:00 PM reservation at RIVERSIDE CLUBHOUSE, 2633 Riverside Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95818, (916) It s about a 5 minute drive. We will be ordering from the standard menu which has a reasonable selection. See riversideclubhouse@yahoo.com for details. We will be seated together but not in a private room, which is fine since we will have had our business meeting. We will have separate checks. PLEASE CONTACT NATALIE BY roa2@comcast.net Or CALL (916) FOR RESTAURANT RESERVATIONs BY OCT 14TH. Directions to the museum: If coming west on I-80, take I-5 south to Hwy 50 east near downtown Sacramento and then turn right on 5th St. and then right on Broadway to Front St. Turn right and the Museum will be on the left. If coming west on Hwy 50, exit at 5th St. and follow above instructions. If coming from I-5 south, take the Broadway exit and proceed as above to Front Street. Thanks everyone and see you there! Natalie 1

2 PRESIDENT S MUSINGS I was pleased to see so many of you at the September meeting. A big thanks to Franca and Ron Lingren for hosting the evening. I m sure all who attended would agree it was a great success. I would encourage you to plan on attending the October 17 th meeting at the California Auto Museum. If you haven t visited the museum recently, it is well worth doing. I m very pleased to announce Kevin Nelson, author of Lunches with Mr. Q has agreed to make a guest appearance at our November 21 st meeting. Mr. Q is the 92 year old Kjell Qvale who started importing sports cars, including Jaguars, into the USA back in the '50s! The book has won a number of awards and Kevin has a lot of photos of the early days of Sports Cars in the San Francisco Bay Area. Congratulations to Paul Petach and his XJS on receiving Our Hands Across the Border Award at the Jaguars on the Island weekend in July. Well done! The November issue of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Cars has a very interesting pair of articles on a barn find SS 100. Interestingly, the car had been extensively modified at an unknown time by parties unknown. The most obvious change is full fenders replacing the original cycle fenders. The owner decided to restore it in the modified state making some corrections to the previous work. Since it was not going to be original, the owner decided to add some things of his own with the most interesting being alligator upholstery on the seats. For further information and a couple pictures without buying the magazine go to: current_issue.html? publication=hsx&showall=1. The November Road & Track has a short article on the top of the line Jaguar 2014 XFR- S which they translate as X-tra Freaking Raucous? Splendid. From their brief description, it indeed is a marvelous automobile with a price of $99,985. In July I commented about the price new of an original E-Type being roughly $6000; when inflation is taken into account it is in the same range as a new F-Type at $69,895. Today that same E-type-- depending on model-- restored to factory original is probably worth 10 to 20 times the original cost. This got me to thinking, in 50 years will today s Jaguars be one to two million dollar cars? Perhaps an even more interesting question is: will it be possible to maintain these cars to factory original when they are 50 years old? In particular, who is going to be able to maintain the electronics in them? I assume there are people who actually repair the engine control modules in 20 year old XJSs but I would guess the more common practice is to simply replace it with one that works. Given the complexity of today s automobiles, one has to wonder if even the few operational devices needed by car collectors will exist? Andy Note to Readers I have been given the task of publishing the Jag Wyre for now. This is my first attempt. Please forgive my errors of commission and omission. If you see something that needs to be corrected please let me know. I ask one favor of each person Please send me a picture of your own personal Jaguar and a brief description so I can add that feature to future publications. Thank you Ron 2

3 REGULAR BUSINESS: Opening Remarks October Agenda Minutes of the September 6 th Meeting (Linda Banta) Treasurer s Report and donations for the Sacramento Zoo (Steve Veirs) Activities report (Michael Hunter) November 21 meeting and guest speaker (Andy Banta) December 15 th Holiday Season Party (Natalie Olson) Membership report & 2014 dues motions (Bob Olson) Jag Wyre report (Ron Lingren) Webmaster report (Jim Collipriest) Project car report {Jim Collipriest) OLD BUSINESS: Nominating Committee report (Steve Veirs) Dealer relations (Bob Olson) NEW BUSINESS: Other items: NEXT MEETING: November 21 st, Place TBA Ron and Franca s 1997 XK8 Purchased from Richard and Sue Starch 3

4 Volume 6 Issue 9 October AGM Below you will find a link to a short video on the 2014 AGM in Boston. Let us know if you need more info. Chuck Centore Anacon Power & Controls An Anacon Electronics Sales, Inc. Company Relay Assembly and Heat Sink Specialists 2254 Main St. Concord, MA TEL: FAX: Web: C:\Users\Ines\Documents\Jag Wyre October\HalfPageClubNo4_2013 (1).jpg 4

5 THE JAGUAR RECOVERY TEAM REPORT 1953 XK120 FHC (Howie), Project VII. Report I In late August, Mary Snyder brought the cylinder head from her XK120 project to Loomis and the Crew helped separate the carburetors so they could be sent to Vancouver, BC for rebuilding. Note the boat in the background of the first picture. A short time later, the boat owner removed the boat and Mary jumped at the chance to occupy the second space in our workplace. Steel shelving was added and Howie was trailered from Sacramento to Loomis. Removing carburetors. Wow, look at all that room. We are getting organized? Howie arrives at Loomis. The engine block and transmission were then removed and separated. The block was stripped and transported to Del s Automotive Machine Shop for measuring and machining. During disassembly it was noted that the main bearing caps had been installed out of sequence. 5

6 . Howie is unloaded. Engine and transmission coming out. Preparing to separate transmission from engine. Unlocking the main bearing cap bolts. 6