THE PORTLAND ABFM, JOCO CONCOURS & SLALOM

A COOLER E-TYPE

THE BELLEVUE ABFM (or “Did you book?”)

The Award Winning Newsletter of

THE JAGUAR CAR CLUB OF VICTORIA

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Issue #82 September 2010

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THE JAGUAR CAR CLUB OF VICTORIA 2017 Cadboro Bay Road, Box 112

Victoria BC Canada V8R 5G4 www.jaguarcarclub.ca

jaguarcarclub@shaw.ca

The Island Growler is published monthly, and is distribut-ed by mail and digital file to members of JCCV.

Submissions are encouraged. Copy deadline is the first of each month.

All back issues are available by digital file.

All information and advice is presented in good faith, and no liability whatsoever will be assumed by JCCV.

Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of JCCV, the Directors of JCCV, or of the Editor.

Editor: John Gordon 250-477-4695 john_gordon@shaw.ca

Associate Editors: John Fitzgeorge-Parker

250-598-4626 johnjag@shaw.ca Lois Smith 250-743-2246 plosmith@telus.net

JCCV meetings take place on the fourth Tuesday of each month, except December, at 7:30 pm in the Chiefs & Pet-ty Officers Mess, CFB Esquimalt, at 1575 Lyall Street in Victoria. Our AGM is held with the November meeting.

MEETINGS

Membership in JCCV is open to anyone interested in and enthusiastic about Jaguar automobiles. There is no need to own one of these fine cars to be a member.

For information, email us at jaguarcarclub@shaw.ca or drop us a note in the mail. We’ll send complete details.

If you believe that a Jaguar is more than just a car, you are one of us!

JCNA Chief Judge: Brian Evers 250-743-6756 bswe@shaw.ca

JOTI Chair: Terry Sturgeon 250-370-2299 terrysturgeon@telus.net

This is the 1962 Mark 2, owned by John & Barbara Har-ris, which won the Mayor’s Choice award at JOTI this past August. The Mark 2 in the photo labelled “Mayor’s Choice”, on page 6 of our August issue, was not the win-ner and is not owned by John & Barbara (see the “Mea Culpa” in the “Editor’s Notes”).

John has owned this beautiful car for ten years and, pre-vious to that, it had an up-island owner for twenty three years. It is a 3.8 automatic. He has the Heritage Certifi-cate for the car and knows that it was built in February of 1962 and dispatched to Toronto later that year. It has been repainted its original colour and the headliner and carpets have been replaced. The seats are original and still in good condition. It now spends most of its time on the Island and never goes out in the rain. Photo by John Harris

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It's mid-September, it's raining, and in two weeks Mary and I are off on another marathon drive - this one to To-ronto (daughter), Maine (Stanley museum), Vermont (Bourdon boiler works), Lancaster PA (friends), Shenan-doah Valley (scenery), Kentucky (horses), Kansas (boring), Colorado, Montana, Wyoming (mountains), and home (collapse). But that's not the subject of this “Words”. I thought I'd describe firing the Stanley, now that I know what I'm doing.

1. Check water, fuel and oil levels. Fill if needed. 2 .Open the throttle wide to allow air to escape. Open

cylinder drain valve. 3. Connect garden hose to intake at the front of car,

passenger side, turn on. 4. Open fill valve, open steam to sight glass valve, close

water to sight glass valve, open sight glass drain valve. When boiler is full, water will pour out of the cylinder drain valve.

5. Check that kidney gauge valves are open. The blow off valves for the sight glass are opened just prior to running the car.

6. Close boiler fill valve, turn off and remove hose. 7. Close sight glass drain valve. 8. Open water to sight glass valve. 9. Make sure main fuel valve is closed. Open secondary

fuel valve. 10. Hand pump fuel pressure to 15 PSI on fuel pressure

gauge. 11. Add compressed air to 80 PSI on side gauge. 12. Hand pump pressure to 115 PSI. 13. Open whistle valve. 14. Turn on blower switch. Make sure spark coil buzzes. 15. Open main fuel valve. Ensure burner is operating by

sound. 16. Pump fuel pressure to maintain 110 PSI. 17. As steam pressure rises (needle off pin), close throttle

to ½. 18. At 125 PSI steam pressure, open surface blow-off

valve (driver front) for 30 seconds, until steam shows in sight glass, then close surface blow-off valve.

19. At 150 PSI open boiler fill valve and bleed water until water in sight glass is between blue line and top of gauge. Start driving with about 10 cm of space from the top of the sight glass to water level.

20. Close throttle. 21. Open water by-pass valve. Turn on alternator switch.

Turn oil crank under driver's seat two turns. 22. When steam pressure reaches 350 PSI, get in, open

throttle slight amount, drive 75 meters, stop, close drip valve, close cylinder drain valve.

WHEN PARKING

1. Turn off alternator switch. 2. Close water bypass valve under the dash.

DO NOT leave car while burner switch and main fuel valves are on.

I shouldn’t bother you, our readers, with all my trials and tribulations; but I will! After, finally, getting the August is-sue out, I started surfing the internet looking for software to create PDF files “just the way I wanted”. Nothing suited me, including the latest Adobe. Eventually, taking a break from that search, I downloaded the new 2010 version of “MS Publisher”, which I had already decided to buy, only to find that it now has a PDF creator function that is “just what I was looking for”. The problem with the new “Publisher” is that they have put many of the functions I use in different, very strange, places which were difficult to find. This caused me to recall quite a bit of some long forgotten profanity. Also, my old printers couldn’t get along with my new “Windows 7” computer, so I bought a new printer!

Then! - A JCCV Club member (who shall remain name-less) phoned to say that the Mark 2 in the photo labelled “Mayor’s Choice” on page 6 of the August Growler is not John Harris’ Mark 2, which is reported as being the win-ner of that award on page 7. In the rush of the moment, I had assumed that the only photo left, after a process of elimination of Mark 2 photos, must be of John’s car and I hadn’t properly checked! Mea Culpa!

I e-mailed John with an apology and a suggestion that I should publish a correct picture of his car on the Septem-ber cover. And then that e-mail “bounced” with the com-ment “Undeliverable! His mailbox is full!”……….and then!

In the end, we did connect and John graciously accepted my apology. And so it is that we have a black Mark 2 on this cover and a silver Mark 2 labelled incorrectly in the August issue.

On the Labour Day weekend, a significant number of JCCV members drove down to Portland to participate in the Portland ABFM and the JOCO Concours & Slalom. Apparently, it was a very successful affair, John F-P was there and wrote the story, and both he and Dorothy Mole-ski took pictures (pages 5 & 6).

Peter Conway wrote an article for the June 2005 issue of the Growler. It is good to have him back. He lives in Qualicum Beach and has been a JCCV member since January 2004. He obviously has an engineering back-ground, is doing a study on E-Type over heating problems and is looking for discussion. I hope that some of you do respond (page 7).

Dennis Brammer attended, and gives us a report on, the Bellevue ABFM, a car show we rarely hear about. As usu-al, his report is very entertaining and, this time, he gives us a cute punch line. I do enjoy his humour (page 9).

We have also given you our regular fare of car shows, Coffee Klatches, Prowls, coming events, auctions and ads. Enjoy!

EDITOR’S NOTES

John Gordon

WORDS FROM THE PRESIDENT

Ian Cameron

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We currently have 271 members from 153 households who own 237 Jaguars compared to one year ago when we had 277 members from from 156 households who collectively owned 232 Jaguars. New members who have joined us since the last issue are Terri Birch of North Saanich who has a 2007 S-Type and Shelly and Jim Burchnall of Victoria who have a 1985 XJ6 Sovereign and a 2003 XKR. Shelly is the daughter of Steve Yarmie, a long time member of our Club. Please make all of our new members welcome when you meet them.

On November 23rd

, just two meetings into the future, we will be having our Annual General meeting. We (the Board) are hoping to organize some refreshments and a good program of issues for discussion and to have a good turnout. Remember! This is your club and we all should be talking about who, including ourselves, should be taking on each of the many jobs necessary for our success and what issues are of concern to members and need to be discussed at the meeting. If you have any ide-as of people who are willing and able to be involved or issues that need to be discussed, please tell our secre-tary (Tim Leslie-Spinks), or any other Board member, and we will try to put them on the agenda.

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THE PORTLAND ABFM, JOCO CONCOURS & SLALOM by John Fitzgeorge-Parker, photos by Dorothy Moleski & John F-P

Mike Hancock mentioned that he planned to take his 1990 XJS Coupe to the Portland Show; so I suggested that we split expenses and I ride shotgun. While we were thinking about it, Bill & Kay Beat-ty asked us to stay with them. That clinched it.

They were most gracious as we arrived Thursday night, a day earli-er than expected. It was providential because, although the journey down the Hood Canal route to Shelton and the run on I-5 to the cut-off to Dallas was without incident, once it was parked on Bill's new driveway, the Jag dripped power steering fluid all over the new tiles. Fortunately, Friday morning is a regular work day and Bill was able to reach the necessary contacts to supply the hose and connec-tions. Mike had the car fixed, reassembled and ready for the Con-cours Saturday morning. Thank you Bill for having a well equipped garage.

The evening was spent enjoying a lovely salmon BBQ. Next morn-ing, on entering the Portland International Speedway, a familiar Rolls Royce loomed up heading in the wrong direction. A gap was provided so Marke and Carol could proceed onto the field. There were about 800 British cars at the Meet and they were not to be seen again. There were Morgans, MGs, Triumphs, Austin-Healeys, Austins, Morris’s Lotus's and a lone Jensen Healey. The feature car was the Land Rover and there were plenty of them. Jaguars ran from a Post War 1948 Drophead (Mark 4) to a stunning brand new XJ. A great crowd pleaser was an E-Type in Austin Powers' "Shagadelic" livery. The original 1970 "Shaguar" is listed for sale on e-Bay for $59,900. Julie & Bryan Bailey and John & Mary Braybrooks were caught looking at the fantastic display of XJS’s. There was a rather regal looking Mark 5 flanked by two XK's.

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Around noon, Winne Wakkila, hostess to Bryan & Julie, had found a well shaded picnic table where we tucked in to Kay's splendid lunch. Gregory Andrachuk and Terry Sturgeon had joined the judges. What a tough job that must have been with so many cars in top condition.

Jerry & Sue Liudahl's gorgeous 2002 XKR convertible took first place in Class D-09A with a score of 9.978. Other JCCV mem-bers with winning cars were: C-17 - First, Bryan & Julie Bailey’s 2004 S-Type (99.980); C-18 - First, Clive Townley’s 2006 X-Type Estate (99.980); D-03 - Second, Jeremy Why’s & Barbara Wade’s 1970 E-Type (9.977); D-10 - First, Gregory Andrachuk’s 2004 XJ8, (100.000); D-10 - Second, Maurice Clegg’s 2006 XJ8VDP (9.998); S-O3 - First, Terry Sturgeon’s 1968 E-Type (9.974). Former Club member, Mike Hancock, won Class C-15A, with his 1990 XJS Coupe (99.880). The slalom results are not complete. Terry took first Place in the Jags SPL category & first overall in the Giant Slalom (45.740 seconds); Julie was fourth in the GS (51.028 seconds). Clive Townley competed too.

We missed going to the Swap Meet & Slalom and, instead, visit-ed some wonderful museums in the region. Kay & Bill invited some friends, Terry & Sarah Harris, to join us for a delicious steak dinner. The Harris’s are MG collectors. They have a 1953 TD, an MGA and, for a daily driver, a "frame-up" restored 1963 MGB. After all, it was an ABFM too. A brief sojourn in the Willamette Valley would be incomplete without a wine tasting. Kay took me in the Miata to the Coelho Winery in Amity. The place was packed but I came out with some good Portuguese bottles.

The drive home was uneventful except for a security alert on the "Coho". The ship was delayed for an hour.

Thank you to Bill & Kay for your wonderful hospitality.

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A COOLER E-TYPE by Peter Conway

Although I’ve owned my 4.2 E-Type, S1, FHC for 35 years, I have not actually used it much, so I’m new to some of the challenges left by that wonderful design team in the 1950s. Most of the mechanical issues, or upgrade opportunities, are reasonably straight forward, but there is one particular, significant, thermal challenge. Basical-ly: a) the stock E overheats and b) the interior is too hot. While the former is easily addressed, it is worth covering here as it leads to a much more difficult task, my “Interior Heat Project”.

The E-Type was designed as a GT, dashing up to Scot-land or, once across the channel, to Paris, Geneva or the Riviera on some elegant, high society, excursion. It was-n’t expected to go slowly or idle for very long, and I don’t think that an urban crawl on a hot day ever made the de-sign team’s radar screen.

The stock radiator fan, a piece of flat bar twisted in the middle, had always puzzled me, so I was delighted to find a 1961 magazine article that described Jaguar’s design basis. Believe it or not, there was a specification. The car was placed, running at idle, in a room maintained at 70F for half an hour. The room temperature was then gradual-ly raised until the cooling water boiled. This occurred at 120F.

The above is only a reasonable approach for continuous moderate or high speed driving, with occasional short term idling. This fan design premise does not work for urban driving because: 1. Crawling stop and go traffic is more severe than con-

trolled environment idling. It generates more engine heat, and the effective ambient temperature is in-creased through pavement radiation and heat from other vehicles.

2. The poorer thermal properties of anti-freeze com-bined with component age, reduces cooling system efficiency. Further, anything less than optimum en-gine tune will compound the problem by increasing engine heat.

3. Operating an engine well above its design tempera-ture on a regular basis is detrimental (reduced lubri-cation, off spec clearances, changing mixture, deto-nation, etc).

A rough calculation back from the design point suggests that, with the stock fan, in crawling traffic, the tempera-ture gauge may begin its climb at an ambient as low as 70F. The good news is that the radiator is quite ade-quate, so this overheating issue is easily addressed with the popular fix of an upgraded or supplementary fan.

Fortunately, the cooling system idle test did not require someone to actually sit in the car, where I would have expected temperatures in excess of 140F. Had that been the case, the course of history might have been changed. The sleek S1 might have been larger, higher and heavier; to better isolate the interior from heat sources and pro-vide effective cooling air.

The first step in the interior heat project is to quantify the problem. Anecdotal information abounds, but data is right up there with hen’s teeth. As an engineer, I appreciate that “data” is relative, with accuracy a function of the amount of time and money spent collecting it. In this case, I’ve had to take a low budget approach. My equip-ment includes a low end infra-red temperature scanner, two automotive digital thermometers with remote sensors, an automotive electric oil temperature gauge and adhe-sive labels.

Even without prior knowledge, a glance at the configura-tion of the car provides immediate clues. The prominent exhaust manifold with adjacent fresh air duct, no insula-tion on the firewall and the exhaust system routing with mufflers under the seats, all suggest a hot interior.

I measured air and metal surface temperatures at up to 19 different points under the hood, in the interior and on the exhaust, in the course of 60 and 45 minute runs of urban driving. Ur-ban driving con-sisted of stop lights, stop signs, a bit of traffic con-gestion and mostly a 50 kph speed limit. As expected, idling or a crawl is worse, and things cool as speed picks up. A few high-lights: 1. Delivered fresh air was 8F to 15F above ambient (air

temperature measured at the nose). 2. The engine side of the fresh air duct in the hood was

60F above ambient. 3. The average of (7) interior floor pan and drive tunnel

points was 28F above ambient at the start (after 8 minute warm up) and 35F at the end of the run.

4. The interior hot spot was on the floor pan, at the drive tunnel, by the passenger seat. 70F to 80F above am-bient.

5. Exhaust system temperatures (at beginning and end of the runs) were: manifold 600F and mufflers 315F. The tail pipe was 13DF above ambient.

The next phase of the project is to test some fixes. The popular one I’m aware of is the interior insulation up-grade. However, this is only a piece of the problem, as insulation doesn’t actually cool anything, it only slows the rate of heat transfer. Strangely, while there is little historic mention of the cooler fan issue, the fresh air problem was identified immediately by Road & Track: “The heater in-cludes a fresh air vent, but this appears to let in warm air only …”. I am not aware of any popular aftermarket fixes for this, although there is mention of a solution in Paul Skilleter’s Jaguar Sports Cars: “Owners who realized what was happening took to lagging the pipe which

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Test Setup

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THE BELLEVUE, WA ABFM (or “Did you book?”) by Dennis Brammer

Every few years Carol and I head to the Washington ABFM. Our favoured route may not be for everyone, since it involves being in the Coho Ferry line-up before 5.00 am and travelling to the States via Port Angeles. Anyway, this year smiling Immigration officers cleared us in Victoria, others greeted us at the border-kiosk on the other side of the Juan de Fuca Straits, with a cheery “have a safe trip,” and we were off.

We happily meandered through early morning haze, crossed the Hood Canal, and drove on to Bainbridge Is-land ready for a leisurely ferry ride into Seattle. Relaxing on the boat we went up for’ard to watch us slip into the dock, with the buildings towering above us, a cruise ship

busily taking on supplies for its Alaska run, and the smell of fish and chips wafting across our bows; it was summer, and we were on holiday! But then our world changed abruptly; trundling off the ferry we were hit with fifteen or so miles of frenetic banshee screaming traffic

that weaved viciously past us on both sides, to instanta-neously fill the short space in front of us, each with its own malevolent purpose, fuelled by knowing where they were going – we on the other hand only had a vague idea! Eventually we reached I-90, and relative calm; there were only eight lanes, and we could choose the inner one! Thankfully, some half-hour later, we pulled into our hotel - the Issaquah Hilton (individually cooked breakfast buffet, an excellent bed and a pool, all for $109 per cou-ple), and a brew pub nearby. The whole trip had taken five hours, fortunately with only about 90 minutes of it in the car.

It was hot though – in the 90’s, so we were very relieved to get to the Show early the next morning and to find shade – others were not so lucky. There were around 550 cars entered; down a little on previous years, and the as-sortment was also less than we had been accustomed to. Since there were no stewards on hand to park the en-trants, and only a 8” by 4” card on a slim pole being placed on a stand every few yards, except for certain ob-vious categories or classes, the cars tended to be min-gled, making judging difficult, and more like an “I Spy” game. The Daimler originally in the “Post 1960 Classics and GTs Class,” was redi-rected at the gate to an “Open Class” “on Parking Lot 5” which had no parameters at all, except apparently one had to be an “orphan” i.e. there were no more than two of your make of car entered and it was not covered by one of the obvious classes such as Jaguar, Land Rover, MG, Triumph or Mini. We

did find two “relatives” though in the “soup” – an ar-moured Daimler Scout Car (which was allowed to park anywhere it liked!) and a 1937 Lanches-ter 14 ( a Company taken over by Daim-ler) with a Hobbs pre selector transmission– the only Lanchester

I have seen in North America.

It was definitely different this year. Sadly, the main organ-iser and the man who had given the ABFM such an impe-tus over the years, together with making a wonderful con-tribution to the Jaguar and MG Clubs, Arnie Taub, whom some readers may know, died in February. His family and others made an heroic and appreciated attempt to pull things off, but Arnie was, and is, much missed

I saw no Island or Victoria Jaguar Club cars, and there seemed to be fewer BC cars, but there was a clash of dates with our Jaguar Club which was holding its Annual Show at the same time in Windsor Park. Sadly the five Jaguar classes were also in a bit of a mix and one had to wander through several lanes to make sure that one had found all of the cars that were supposed to be in the same class; in fact, some people just gave up trying. Even looking at cars was a bit difficult, for example all Jaguar Mk1s, Mk2s, 240s, 340s, 420s, S-Types, and Mark 7s to 10s were in the same class but parked in sever-al different places. When the final “judging results” came in 14 out of the 15 Awards went to Washing-ton State owners, with the only incursion being from Mike Powley’s green X-Type which I believe came in second, wearing BC plates, in the “XK8, XKR, S-Type (new), X-Types” and the dreaded “Others” class.

Carol and I spent the day parked backing on to the Jagu-ars, but apart from them, in the shade reading, answering questions, wandering through the “For Sale” vehicles or the concessions and stalls, and meeting up with a few people whom we knew. Occasionally, we were amused by being admonished for bringing a “German” car to the Show, or were told that the hemi engine we have was really built by Chrysler, and once or twice we heard peo-ple say “what the hell is that?” when seeing our car. How-ever, I was personally surprised by the number of people who not only knew “what the hell” it was, but were quite knowledgeable, even to knowing its Jaguar parentage. I was even more surprised by the number of people who truly seemed to like the car’s design. Anyway, at the end of the day I collected a silver medal, with the winner being

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Aug 21 - HERITAGE CLASSIC (NORTH VAN CONCOURS)

by John Fitzgeorge-Parker

Aug 15 - OAK BAY COLLECTOR CAR FESTIVAL

by John Gordon

The 41st Classic Field Meet was held at Waterfront Park, North Vancouver, on August 21st. The event was a tre-

mendous success with good representation from the JCCV. The arrangements for out of town participants at the new Pinnacle Hotel worked well with fine accommodation, excel-lent facilities and, later, a good banquet.

Simon & Cheryl Scutt drove over in their E-Type, often re-ferred to as "Rust Bucket", and I accompanied them in my VDP. Tom Doyle and Krista Briggs gave us a warm wel-come in the hotel lobby and, after checking in, we repaired to the comfortable bar for some well needed refreshment.

The day of the Con-cours d'Elegance turned out favourably and we speculated as to how well the cars would fare under the exacting eyes of the judges. In fact, the JCCV members’ cars fared well: Brian Evers' 1967 E-Type scored 99.920 to place 2nd in its class; Simon’s 1966 E-Type placed 2nd with 9.679; Dr. Gregory's 1966 Mark 2 recorded 9.998 for a 1st and Roy Gill and John FP's VDPS took 1st & 2nd with 9.988 & 9.985 respectively. Former Club member Mike Hancock took a first with his 1990 XJS coupe. Apologies to anyone missed; and a reminder that the points are out of 100 for the Championship Division and out of 10 for the Driven Division.

The Sunday drive up the Sky to Sea Highway to the recently opened Bri-tannia Museum of Mines was missed. This proved fortunate as "Rust Bucket" was suf-fering from overheating. Sunday morning was spent at Bob Tapp's

where Simon was able to remove a thermostat. Thanks, Bob. On Sunday afternoon we took the Sea Bus and Sky Train to the River Rock Casino out in Richmond. What a bargain at $2.50 each for a return ticket to Lonsdale Quay! The inexperienced gamblers came out $1.75 ahead after about an hour of one arm banditry.

The weekend was great fun. Thanks are due to Krista, Tom and their committee members. We can't wait until next year.

The usual suspects showed up and

enjoyed a pleasant lunch together at the Penny Farthing Pub.

The usual crowd re-mained thick, from Monterey to Elgin,

throughout the day.

As usual, Jim Bateman’s XK140 OTS, with all its modifications,

attracted a lot of admirers.

There were some other Jaguars there too, some of which I did not recognize and whose owners I did not identify.

Some days after the show, Ken Agate phoned me to say that I had won an award and must come to the Blethering Place to pick it up. I did that and was given a large ro-sette; a black ribbon, with silver lettering, backed by other ribbons in two shades of mauve. It read “The Rugby Play-ers’ Choice - Sponsored by Castaway Wanderers Rugby Club”. Little do they know! - If they are all the size of the guys that made the rugby team when I was at school, they would have the greatest difficulty getting into an XK 120, never mind driving it!

There were many other kinds of cars there too, including this

surprisingly large assortment of

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AUG 29 - TURKEY HEAD COFFEE KLATCH

by Marke Simmons; photos by Carol Bird

Two unexpected visitors joined the 32 club members (and twenty cars) at Turkey Head on Sunday morning, Aug. 29th. I had previously re-ceived a query via Gregory A. from a person I presumed to be a new member interested in the upcoming Coffee Klatch. It turned

out, however, that the person was, in fact, the President of the Virginia Jaguar Club, of Richmond Virginia. David Harrison and his wife, Una, were visiting David's broth-er here in Vic-toria and had heard of our Sunday morn-ing gatherings.

The Harrisons had left the UK in 1976, intending a two year stay in Virginia. However, finding the people and local much to their liking, they made Richmond their home. Una is a stage actress, playwright and songstress, while David currently heads the local Jaguar Club and is busy organizing and promoting the upcoming bi-centennial of the world renowned E-Type Jaguar - includ-ing an appearance next summer from Norman Dewis,

Jaguar's famed test driver. David and Una are a delightful cou-ple and we are looking for-ward to keep-ing in touch with them in the months ahead via Ter-ry S., who is heading the

planning committee for our own E-Type bi-centennial cel-ebration here in Victoria.

The offshore morning breeze was a tad chilly, however it did not cool the enthusiasm of the group, with chatter ex-tending well into the lunch hour.

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effected a reasonable cure”. Is this lagging the exhaust manifold or lagging the surface of the duct? The E ex-haust system, with its 500F temperature drop between manifold and tail pipe, does a good job at getting rid of its heat. It would be nice to find some aesthetically accepta-ble way of stopping so much of it ending up in the pas-senger compartment.

At the end of the day there may not be any practical, sub-stantial solution for the car. Maybe it is a case of: suck it up, don’t drive in the rush hour, wear shorts and sandals when others are fully clad, stay on the freeway, keep the windows wide open (or top down), limit driving to the spring and fall, etc. Some of you may have already trav-elled this road so ideas will be gratefully received (conwayp@shaw.ca). Hopefully, my solutions will follow in Part 2.

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a lovely 1948 Riley Roadster from Yakima, and Carol and I set off for Bellingham. We were topless and the sun was roasting and I thanked our stars for the auxiliary fan that I had fitted to the radiator a few years ago. Pounding up I-5 at 70 mph in a fifty year old car I don’t think that I actually passed anything, but the traffic noise, the smell of melting tarmac, and the odd tail-gater who wanted to get a better view of what he was over taking, was a little unnerving.

The next morning I made what was to be a monumental mistake, maybe influenced by patronizing another of Washington’s excellent brew pubs on the previous even-ing. Since we were equidistant from Anacortes and Tsawwassen, I chose to travel back through the San Juan Islands, rather than taking on Blaine and the Peace Arch in the hot sun, so we retraced our steps and set off south to Vernon, ready to swing west and relax on the ferry to Sidney, via Friday Harbor. Wrong decision! Although we arrived 90 minutes early at the Terminal we were turned back with an ominous voice booming “Sorry – we are go-ing to be full!” “Did you book?!”

Nothing for it but to go back to Bellingham and, four hours later, to start all over again! Actually we did find a little solace since, to avoid as much highway as we could, we cut off Interstate 20 and took the Chuckanut Drive – we found it en-chanting, even if we were down to 15 mph at times. The Drive begins in pleasant Skagit Valley farmland and then rapidly climbs, giving sheer cliff drops, sweeping views of the San Juans, oyster beds, and Swamish Bay, and is partly hidden by towering trees through which the sun occasionally penetrated, but which, by and large, afforded merciful shade; this was the high-light of the trip – and a delightful interlude.

Back in Bellingham again we emerged into the sun, found the freeway, and headed north. The Blaine border cross-ing was not as slow as I had anticipated, and we even harboured thoughts of catching the 6.00 pm BC Ferry to Swartz Bay. Wrong again! Although the sign on approach to the ferry said “78% full” we were again accosted with the dreaded words – “Did you book?!” But it was a Sun-day afternoon!

The story ends with the 6.00 pm being full, the 7.00 pm breaking down, and the 8.00, upon which we had been placed, leaving at about 9.15 pm. So, about 15 hours af-ter making the fateful decision of heading south, instead of north, we pulled into our garage, much wiser, having spent almost six hours in the car from Bellingham, still topless, tanned, partly deafened, tired and just in time to see that it was still not quite Monday!

As I switched off the light and reached over to Carol, she quietly murmured, “Did you book?”

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SEPTEMBER 5 PROWL “Green Fields and Vineyards”

by Lois Smith; photos by Dick Auchinleck

In spite of the confluence of a Concours and Slalom in Portland, a long weekend and several days of not-very-promising weather forecasts, 29 JCCV members cheer-fully turned out to explore the back roads of the South Cowichan Valley and enjoy a delicious lunch at the Arbu-tus Ridge Golf Club. During the drive, the Prowlers’ atten-tion was drawn to nine wineries (a 10

th was missed from

the directions but, hopefully, noticed) and a cidery in the Cobble Hill and Glenora areas. The tour also noted spe-cialty farms and the foodie destination shops of Cowichan Bay which was a very popular spot on the long weekend Sunday.

Luckily for us, the sun decided to shine and equally lucky, Dick brought his camera to provide great photos for you to enjoy. Reports of an accident on the Malahat caused those with later commitments to head out immediately after lunch, while others with a more flexible schedule enjoyed the hospitality of Brian Evers and Barb Driver, who live near by, for an after-lunch coffee. Thanks to eve-ryone for making this a fun day.

Jaguar 75th

Anniversary “Drive-It Day” Results

We counted 16 Prowl Jaguars for the Drive-It Day, plus others who couldn’t make the Prowl advised of three more “on the road, on the day.”

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JCCV BITS & BYTES proved to be worth several hundred thousand dollars. So, you never know! We could title this meeting the JCCV Antiques Road Show. Graham How

FOR E-TYPE ENTHUSIASTS

The Jaguar E-Type Club in the UK, headed by Philip Por-ter, is organising an “E-50 Luxury Weekend” on July 21 - 24, 2011 at Silverstone and Stratford-on-Avon. Accommo-dations are limited and they are expecting an early sell-out. They have sent us a long e-mail with details and links. A copy will be forwarded to anyone who requests it in an e-mail to jaguarcarclub@shaw.ca.

A GOOD DEED LEADS TO A “GARAGE FIND”

In a recent e-mail to our Club, a man trying to help a new-ly widowed neighbour deal with her deceased husband’s old cars, wrote to ask how to open the bonnet of a Mk IX. Simon Scutt took it on and checked out the four cars in-volved (the 61 Mk IX, a 1968 Rolls, a 68 Cougar GT and a Jeep that was his daily driver). Simon found the serial numbers and referred the widow to Rudy Koniczek for appraisals. Simon says that the cars look good, very clean, although some haven’t been run for years.

A NOTE RECEIVED BY JOHN F-P

Hi John, Here's the scoop on Norman's latest - replicar D-Types! And XK-SS’s too. They'll probably end up making more XK-SS’s than Jaguar ever did! David Brown

We will wind our way over the Malahat to Mill Bay, then turn right at the next lights onto Kilmalu Rd. 1/4 mile in, we turn left onto Telegraph Rd. and

proceed north for 12 blocks to 4249 Telegraph Rd. on the right hand side. We go through the gates and then bear right before the house onto a

gravel driveway and up to Geoff's stable of pedigree Jaguars.

Lunch will follow at the Rock Cod Café, in nearby Cowichan Bay, around 1:00 pm.

Meet at 10:15 am at the Juan de Fuca Rec Centre, 1767 Island Highway (front parking lot by the Library), for departure at 10:30 am sharp.

geOff & NICKY CRAMB’S AUTUMN PROWL

Many different models of Jaguars are arranged for us to see, each

with their own special story.

JOIN THE JAGUAR PROWL October 3rd for our 2nd annual visit to

Geoff and Donna Moyse’s fabulous feline collection.

TWO OBITUARIES

I am saddened to inform you that my husband, Roy Sieber, died last month (August), after a six year battle with cancer. He was an enthusiastic member of JCCV and had a few years of enjoyment from his Jaguar, a 1986 Vanden Plas. We attended Jaguars on the Island last year (2009) and Roy was amazed and absolutely delighted to win “Third in Class, Enthusiast Division Popular Choice Modern Saloons”. I intend to keep the Jaguar so please change Roy’s membership to me. Anne M. Sieber

Nelson Rath, CPA, 64, of Louisville, KY, passed away at his home, Saturday, September 18, 2010. He was an avid car enthusiast, a scuba diver and underwater pho-tographer, world traveler and excellent chef. Nelson had served Jaguar Clubs of North America as the JCNA Administrator Treasurer/Membership Chair for the past twelve years and had only recently stepped down from that position. Nelson was a member of the Jaguar Drivers Club, Area 51.

PLAN TO BE AT THE OCTOBER MEETING

I have arranged for Michael Rice of Fenian Antiques to come and talk to us at the October Meeting. He has sug-gested that each member bring along a SMALL item / artefact for him to value/assess and /or provide his ad-vice. He related to me that, after his presentation to the OECC in April (which was very popular), someone showed him a Canadian Victoria Cross Medal which

To see the “scoop” (a poster) on Norman Dewis, go to page 14.

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1965 JAGUAR 3.8 S-Type, 52,000 miles. Body in excellent shape. Perfect for restoration. $4,000 or best offer. Please phone if interest-ed: (home) 250-477-7725, (cell) 250-686-7066 George Hurley (9-10)

MANUALS AVAILABLE – numbers (1) – (5) are originals issued by Jaguar Cars Ltd – (1) Service Manual – E Type Grand Touring Models (2) 1965 Spare Parts Catalogue for Jaguar 4.2 E Type (3) Service Manual – Jaguar Mark V11 and XK 120 also including supplement for XK 150 & XK 150S Models (4) Service Manual for the Jaguar Automatic Transmission (5) Jaguar 3.8 Litre Mark 2 Model – Operating Mainte-nance and Service Manual (6) The Complete Official Jaguar E – Driv-ers Handbook, Workshop Manual and Special Tuning Manual - Pub-lished by Robert Bentley Inc (7) Workshop Manual Jaguar XK 120 140 150 Mark 7 8 9 1948-61 Autobook Autopress - Kenneth Ball (8) Work-shop Manual for Jaguar 2.4 3.4 and 3.8 Mark 1 and Mark 2 240 340 1955-69 Autopress – Kenneth Ball (9) Photocopy of Jaguar XK 150 XK150S Spare Parts Catologue. (10) AUSTIN HEALEY - The Austin – Healey 100-6 and 3000 Workshop Manual Original issued by BMC Service Ltd. (11) Austin Austin Healey 100 Parts List Original issued by Austin Motor Co Ltd 1958 (12) AUSTIN - Austin A – 40 Series GS2 G2S2 GV2 GP2 GQU2 GC2 Service Manual – Original issued by Austin Motor Co Ltd 1950 -- Phone Mark Childs, 604-931-5460 (9-10)

For Sale: E Type, 1969 Series 2 OTS. Contact Ian Cameron 250-652-1260 (8-10)

A rare car; 1988 Jaguar XJSC Cabriolet T-roof, V-12 with 83,000 km, black with tan interior. Excellent condition, $12,900. It is in Victo-ria. Phone John at 1-403-870-4648. (8-10)

2003 Jaguar XKR silver-grey convertible with black interior. 80,000 km, in excellent condition. $26,800. It is in Victoria. Phone John at 1-403-870-4648. (8-10)

I no longer have my XJ6, but I still have the Repair Operation Manual published by British Leyland in 1978. I am looking for a buyer. John Scales: john.scales@optusnet.com.au (7-10)

2002 X-Type, manual shift, in excellent condition. 82,000 kms. A beau-tiful, trouble-free car, well-maintained, a delight to drive and to own – very economical as well. Looks new and runs as new. Reason for sale- too many Jaguars! $12,500 to a good home. Gregory Andrachuk at 250-595-7453. (6-10)

1982 Jaguar XJS 62,000 original miles, silver, my deceased fa-ther’s car (He was the original owner). Needs a bit of TLC, but runs well, collector’s plates, new head liner (not installed), $2,900 firm. Love to see it get done. Kenny Cunningham kennyplay@hotmail.com (6-10)

1972 Jaguar XJ6 Series 1 for sale. Sable Brown with Biscuit interior. Won “Best in Class” at 2006 Jaguars on the Island Concours. Excellent condition and runs strong. (Photo on page 14) Mike 250-818-6931 (6-10)

FOR SALE OR WANTED Advertisements run for three issues at no charge. Place your ad

with the editor at 250-477-4695 or jaguarcarclub@shaw.ca

JCCV Events are in bold print

Sun, Oct 3rd.

JCCV Sunday Prowl , organized by Geoff & Nicky Cramb. Details on page 17.

Sun, Oct 17th

. Turkey Head (Oak Bay Marina parking lot) Coffee Klatch. We rendezvous again, anytime be-tween 9 and noon for coffee and socialising. See the Aug 29 story and photos on page 13 . Bring your Sto-ries to tell and Stuff to sell and “LADIES” Books to swap. Please join us if you can. Info 250-656-3099.

Sun, Nov 7th

. JCCV Sunday Prowl. Details TBA.

Sun, Nov 21st

. Turkey Head Coffee Klatch

Tue, Nov 23rd

. JCCV Annual General Meeting. Details TBA

Sun Dec 5th

. JCCV Annual Christmas party at CFB Esquimalt Wardroom. Details TBA.

Sun, Jan 2nd

. JCCV Sunday Prowl. Details TBA.

250-881-1892

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328-1095 McKenzie Avenue

COMING EVENTS here’s what's ahead

PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS

The next meeting of the

JAGUAR CAR CLUB OF VICTORIA is on

Tuesday, October 26th at 7:30 pm

at the Chiefs & Petty Officers Mess CFB Esquimalt,

1575 Lyall Street, Victoria

THE JCCV ANTIQUES ROAD SHOW Each member is asked to bring a SMALL item/artefact for Michael Rice of Fenian

Antiques to assess and value (see Graham How’s comments in

“BITS & BYTES” on page 17)

Come and enjoy the evening with fellow members. As usual, the cash bar service will be available along with

complimentary coffee.

SEE YOU THERE!