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Published by the RMJC Club since 1967 Volume 53, Issue 4

Contents by page number 2 Club Information 3 Presidents Letter 4 Event Schedule 5 Dust Off 6 Concours

7 Other Events 10 Monthly Meetings 13 CCCC Report 18 Membership Application 19 Classified Ads

April 2020

Amy’s Mountaineering Report Make for a Great Meeting

The Primary story for the club in April that all Events are eitherpostponed or canceled due to the CANOV-19 Virus. Steve willkeep you posted as things develop.

I also am in the midst of a medical emergency as I was diag-nosed last Wednesday with Pancreatic Cancer, stage 3 or 4.and am working through advanced tests now.

This version of the newsletter is a shortened, roughly editedversion of the newsletter. It may be available later as a printedcopy.

Gordon Kenney, editor

Cat Tales rockymountainjaguarclub.org

The RMJC is supportive of theJaguar Club Southern Colorado - JCSC

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See the web site for leadership and event information atjagclub.org

Cat Tales is published monthly. Reproduction of articlesis welcomed if proper credit is given. Editor: Gordon Kenney, 303-766-7826 [email protected]

Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at Picco-lo’s restaurant at 3563 S. Monaco Parkway, 0.2 mile east of I-25at Hampden and 1 block south on Monaco. Meet at 6:30 pm fordrinks and dinner; meeting starts at 7:15.Meeting are held every month except July and December whenspecial meetings are arranged.Board meetings, open to all, are at a members house at 6:30pm on the 1st Tuesday of every even numbered month.

Dues are $65.00/year which includes “Cat Tales”,membership in JCNA, the national “Jaguar Journal”,eligibility to enter JCNA sanctioned Concoursd’Elegance and other national and regional events.

For new memberships there is a one-time $20 addi-tional charge covering name tags, club patch, decaland membership cards. Use the form in this newslet-ter or printed from the web site or sign-up on-line.Non-members subscriptions are $30/year; Canadianand foreign are $36/year. Membership is open to own-ers of Jaguar automobiles and to others interested infurthering the enjoyment of them.See page 19 for Commercial Advertising Rates

2020 Concours: Frank Sullivan, 970-460-03072020 Dust Off: Don L., Dwight E., & Brian R.2020 Summer Party: Ramirez’sMembership: Deanie Kennedy 303-489-3944Local Contact & Regalia: Steve Kennedy

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2020 OfficersPut title in front of @rockymountainjaguarclub.org

President Steve Kennedy 303-489-3955 [email protected] Pres. Bob Grossman 303-278-2068 vice_president@Secretary Bill Beeson 303-699-8705 secretary@Treasurer Deanie Kennedy 303-489-3944 treasurer@Newsletter Gordon Kenney 303-766-7826 newsletter@Webmaster Deanie Kennedy 303-489-3955 webmaster@Past Pres. Dwight Eisnach 303-794-6443 past_president@Chief Judge Gary George 303-477-0189 chief_judge@Facebook Mark Kintgen 720-941-2838 facebook@

The club’s purpose is to promote interest in the preservation, operation and ownership of Jaguar automobilesand to encourage safe, careful and skillful operation. To be a source of technical information, to establishrules and regulations governing Club activities and to promote good sportsmanship at all times.

The Rocky Mountain Jaguar Club - RMJCPO Box 2923 Denver, CO 80201-2923 www.rockyountainjaguarclub.org

Advertising in “Cat Tales”A members’ business card ad is $45/yearand will be in “Cat Tales” and website.

Ads run from January 1st to December 31stbut can be prorated. Must be paid in full attime of placement.

Contact: Deanie Kennedy, Treasurer at303-489-3944 or [email protected]

Board Members at Large 2020 Chris Barrington 720-201-4465 Vince Lane 303-322-8998 Brent McGibbon 303-378-4249 Frank Oakley 720-851-5708 Brian Redrupp 720-515-2454

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Presidents Letter by Steve Kennedy

Oh well, it could have been a fun AGM. TheJCNA board members did have a pseudo AGMmeeting. Everything on the agenda was goneover in a 5-hour conference call, but as it wasnot a face to face meeting, no votes were takenand no motions were passed.

here was also some discussion as to how tojudge the electric vehicles. As there is no visibleengine, what to do. My suggestion is to score itas any other Champion Division car, that beinga potential 100-point car, and have the twoJudges from the Driven Division, judge the cars,interior/exterior and include the boot, but no onelistens to me.

Tere are plans to hold a RE-AGM in August inNorth or South Carolina. Overall, way too bad.Deanie went through 2 grueling years of effortto get the hotel squared away and getting thevendors to support the event. All gone with asneeze.

As I stated in the blast Isent out in late March, allof our April events are can-celled. We are hoping ev-erything will be back tonormal for May and we canhold one Judges’ School andthe dust-off that Dwight, Brian andDon have been working on. Frank Sullivan isstill planning on the June Concours to be heldat Anderson Park, 44thd Field, 4355 Field St,Wheat Ridge, CO 80033. But for now, he isholding off doing printing any flyers. I am sureVince is having similar discussions with theACC team regarding that event.

A note from the CCCC meeting: 2020 Air &Ground Show at Rocky Mountain Metro Air-port (August 8): The Rocky Mountain Rene-gades aircraft owners will be putting on an airdemonstration during the event. Featured clubsfor the car show will be Mile High Buick and theMOPAR clubs. Volunteers are needed to assistvendor locations and non-car-show parking.

There is no hand sanitizer to be had anywherebut there is still time to stock up on Lucas Re-placement Smoke.

So, until we seeeach other:


Club Events of 2020January 14 Monthly Meeting at Piccolos Program: Deb Ramirez – Show & Tell

18 Forneys revisit

February 4 Board Meeting – Kennedys 11 Monthly Meeting at Piccolos Program: Year-In-Review - Gordon

March 10 Monthly Meeting at Piccolos Program: Guest Speaker Amy - Alpinism18-22 AGM in Las Vegas

April 4 Spring Tune Up – Cancelled 7 Board Meeting – Cancelled 14 Meeting at Piccolos - Cancelled 18 1st Judges School - Gary George - Cancelled

May 12 Monthly Meeting at Piccolos Program: Brent (McGibbon, aviation) 16 2nd Judges School - Gary George 24 Dust-Off – Don, Dwight, Brian

June 2 Board Meeting - Lanes 9 Monthly Meeting at Piccolos12-14 Glenwood Rallye 14 ACC Show - Vince Lane See page 7 for more detail 27 RMJC Concours – Frank Sullivan

July 14 No Monthly Meeting 18 Summer Party - Ramirezs

August2 Scottish Highlands Festival

4 Board Meeting – Eisnach’s 8 Bids for Kids – Brent McGibbon 8 RM Metro & CCCC Air/Car Show 11 Monthly Meeting at Piccolos

September 8 Monthly Meeting at Piccolos11-13 Vail Valley Classic 19 Ride-the-Rockies 20 British Car Conclave 27 JCSC ConcoursTBD Fall Drive – Chris Barrington

October 6 Board Meeting at Oakleys 13 Monthly Meeting at Piccolos

Oct 28-Nov 1 Int. Jag. Festival; Ft Myers, Fl See page 7 for more detail

November 10 Monthly Meeting at Piccolos

December 1 Board Meeting – Brent McGibbon 12 Holiday Party at Kennedys

Members Birthdays

In April

Wish Them Well

Jon Stroder 3 rdCyndi Mumm 8 thLinda Sullivan 11 thLinda Fegley 16 thDeanie Kennedy 18 thLynn McGlure 24 thKen Muhall 23 rd


After what has seemed like an interminable win-ter of cold and snow, and an early spring of stay-ing in place due to COVID-19, it is time to think ofmore pleasant thoughts including the annualRMJC Dust Off, the yearly rite of spring for put-ting those hibernating Cats back on the road.

This year’s Dust Off is tenta-tively planned for Sunday, May24, assuming that by thenstate and federal authoritieshave cleared to resume gath-erings of more than 10 per-sons, and that restaurants willbe open again. Should thisnot be the case, the Dust Offwill become a summer eventand be rescheduled to Sunday, July 26. Pleasenote that the original Dust Off date of May 17 hasbeen pushed back to May 24 to accommodate aplanned tour as part of the drive.

Once the snow began to recede, Don Leach, Pa-tricia Rahawi, and Brian Redrupp, went to workdesigning a route for the Dust Off that will en-compass back roads in Douglas and El Pasocounties, including some historic sites, and guar-anteed to shake the cobwebs out of the carbure-tors (for those of you driving models that stillhave carburetors.) The drive will include lunch ata restaurant still to be determined.

After lunch, as we make our way back to theMetro, the final piece of the day includes a guid-ed tour of the Scottish-style Cherokee RanchCastle near Sedalia. The ranch property dates tothe 1890s, and the 1450s-era castle was builtfrom 1924 to 1926 by then owner Charles AlfredJohnson, a prosperous real estate developerwho developed the historic Park Hill neighbor-hood in Denver. Designed by legendary Denverarchitect Burnham Hoyt, the castle was originallynamed Charlford Castle, after Johnson’s sons,Charlie and Gifford. Hoyt was well known for de-signing the Denver Public Library, an addition tothe Broadmoor Hotel, the Colorado NationalBank building, as well as several historic build-ings in Park Hill and other areas of Denver, and

some famous churches in New York. The mostwell-known owner of the Castle was MildredMontague Genevieve Kimball, also known as“Tweet,” who bought the ranch in 1954 from theJohnson family and lived there until 1999. Tweetused the ranch as a hub for her cattle breeding

operations and brought inSanta Gertrudis cattle, whichoriginally thrived on the nativegrasses of South Texas. Shewanted to prove the breedcould also thrive in a coldweather climate. The breedwas first developed in Texasby mating Brahman bulls withBeef Shorthorn cows, and itbecame in 1940 the first beef

breed formed in the United States. The breedhas proven to be a very productive one since itscattle can thrive in a variety of climates, theirthick skin makes them resistant to parasites andticks, and they reproduce without much difficulty.

Today the Cherokee property remains an activecattle ranch, while the castle has become a re-nowned event center for weddings, tours, teasand brunch. There are also guided hikes and ascience institute to study the geology and ar-chaeology of the area.

Lunch at our chosen site will be pay on your own,but there will be a Dust Off registration fee of $20per person to cover the cost of our tour. We willmeet at 9:00 am in the parking lot of AspenGrove Shopping Center, 7301 S. Santa Fe Drivein Littleton, with departure for the drive at 9:30am. A short drivers’ meeting with instructions willbe held before departure. Panera Bread andStarbuck’s both have shops at Aspen Grove, sothere will be opportunity and time for coffee anda short breakfast for those who wish.

For those wanting to get your Jag (or any othervehicle) out and participate, please send a checkin an amount equal to $20 per person to DeanieKennedy, 8137 Zang Street, Arvada, CO 80005prior to May 20, or you can also register online atthe RMJC website as with other club events

May 12th Dust-Off Opens the Driving Season by Dwight Eisnach


Be sure you mark your calendars for the

"Sweet and Easy" 2020 RMJC Concours

on Saturday, June 27th

The "EASY" part is that it will be in Wheat Ridge so it's practically in every-one's back yard.

The "SWEET" part is that it's our concours, a great celebration of all Jaguarsin our part of the country.

Even if you don't want to participate in having your car judged,

please be sure to put it on display

Plan to come to Anderson Park that day to be

with all your friends from RMJC!

Contact Frank Sullivan for details!


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Minutes of the March 10th Meeting at Piccolo’s by Bill Beeson

Steve Kennedy opened the meeting with a wel-come to everyone. We were pleased to have join-ing us Digby Kirby, a new member who owns twoXF models. A longtime resident of the Denverarea, he purchased a 2014 Black 3.0 Liter XF forhis wife. This Jaguar led him to his latest acquisi-tion, a 2015 Caviar Metallic 5 Liter V8 XF. The5.0 Liter XF is somewhat unique in that is verysimilar to the XFR model, but without the spoilerand other “R” accessories. It looks sedate andelegant, but look out! It could be described as aSleeper in street racing parlance.

March BirthdaysGordon Kenney Mar 3rd

Linda Eisnach Mar 13th

Pete Day Mar 20th

Bill Beeson Mar 25th

Gene Cookenboo Mar 26th

Membership Report - Deanie reports that theclub has 105 registered members to date.

Treasurer’s Report - Deanie reports that the clubremains on budget

CCCC Update - Gary/Don – no report this month

Newsletter - Gordon reports that there are issueswith the Cat Tales printing due to new Office De-pot policies and procedures. The Cat Tales maycost the club a little more each month as a result.

Face Book-Mark - no report this month

Old Business/Event Recap - Nothing to report

Upcoming Events/New Business

The big news is that the 2020 JCNA Annual Gen-eral Meeting (AGM) scheduled for later this monthmay be cancelled due to the Coronavirus.

Slalom-The JCNA is evaluating newSlalom insurance issues with my re-sult in each sanctioning clube beingrequired to provide ambulance on sitefor each Slalom event.

See the Cat Tales Events Calendarfor the upcoming events

Evening Presentation byAmy Gray-Smith,a distinguished mountain climber, delighted uswith her tales and pictures of her many adven-tures conquering all of the Colorado Fourteeners,mountains with heights exceeding fourteen thou-sand feet, in both summer and winter. She clearlydemonstrated that she is one tough and deter-mined lady.

Raffle: 1/2 the pot was won by Bob G, other win-ners were Amy G., Roger N., Dwight E., and newmember Gilby Kirby

Meeting adjourned at 8:35pm.

Meeting Adjourned at 8:35pm


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Collector Car Council of Colorado - known as the CCCC

Minutes of Meeting March 4, 2020

The meeting was called to order at 7:28 pm by President Dick Thompsonat the Forney Transportation Museum, 4303 Brighton Blvd., Denver CO.

Officers in attendance were Dick Thompson, president; Tom Mansfield,1st vice president; Samantha Baker, 2nd vice president; Dick Fritz, secre-tary, and Tom Kay, treasurer. 33 member clubs and two individual mem-bers were signed in.

.Legislative: Leo Boyle reported that there are no bills in the legislature affecting collector vehicles butthere have been issues with air quality in the northern Front Range area primarily targeting oil and gas drill-ing in Weld County. However, vehicle emissions could be attached to this. Leo also noted that there is abill to allow vehicle sales bypassing established dealers, which is understandably opposed by the ColoradoAuto Dealers Association.

Horseless Carriage license plates: Chrystof Kheim of the Forney Museum described problems the mu-seum has been having with the Colorado DMV regarding renewal of Horseless Carriage (HC) licenseplates. All HC plates must be renewed at the end of years ending in “4” or “9”. The DMV has told the mu-seum that many of the plates have not been renewed for 30 or 40 years, which the museum disputes.Many club representatives have also had difficulty getting renewals or confirming that in fact they had HCplates. This may require meeting with the motor vehicle officials at the Department of Revenue officessince unlike conventional plates, these cannot be renewed at county clerks’ offices. We will have to checkinto this.

Cruiz’n Havana: The event on June 20 will run from 10 am to 3 pm,ending earlier than in the past to avoid inclement weather. Due to con-struction on Havana St. the 2020 Cruise will utilize two collocated sitesonly, at the Stampede and Kaiser Permanente at 2500 So.Havana St.,Aurora. Volunteers are needed to work two-hour shifts in the followingareas: Poker Walk (at sponsor booths), Traffic, program distribution,vendor and display locations. Shirt sales will be handled by the RockyMountain Thunderbird Club. Club and individual volunteers shouldcontact Dick Thompson

2020 Air & Ground Show at Rocky Mountain Metro Airport(August 8): the Rocky Mountain Renegades aircraft owners will beputting on an air demonstration during the event. Featured clubs forthe car show will be Mile High Buick and the MOPAR clubs. Volun-teers are needed to assist vendor locations and non-car-show parking.

Cussler Museum: It was noted that Clive Cussler recentlypassed away and the future of the Cussler Automotive Muse-um is uncertain. Clubs considering visiting the museum shouldmake inquiries soon.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:52 pm.


RMJC Membership Form____________________________________Name (as you want it on your name tag)

____________________________________Spouse’s Name (as you want it on the name tag)

___________________________________________Street Address

___________________________________________City/Town/Zip Code

___________________________________________e-mail address 1

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Annual FeesCurrent Membership Renewal fee $65New Membership Fee* $85Optional Business Card Ad in Newsletter $25Optional Business Card Ad on the web site $25BOTH Newsletter & web site ad $45 Amount enclosed = $_______

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*New Membership Fees includes membership card(s),JCNA Decal, name tag(s), subscription to Cat Tales andJaguar Journal. Members joining after Sept.1st pay oneyears fee and are members throughout the following year.Mail this form (or copy) and payment (RMJC) to Deanie Kennedy, Membership Chair 8137 Zang St. Arvada, CO 80005

Membership - new and renewals


Classified Ads Members may place ads for their own personal Jaguar carsat no cost: they will run for three months unless other arrangements are made.Non-members ads are $25/month.Contact editor at [email protected] for more info or to place an ad.

FOR Sale: 2008 Jaguar XK CoupeFantastic condition, maroon red, tan leather interior, secondowner since 2010, full-service history with Sill-Terhar Broom-field, always garaged, new rear tires, 87,000 miles, Sirius ra-dio paid for life, beautiful reliable car. Asking $13,500.Colin Marshall, [email protected],

303-408-0898

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