Newsletter of the Wasatch Mountain Jaguar Register December 2010 A Chapter of the Jaguar Clubs of North America Under The Bonnet WMJR on the web: www.cs.utah.edu/~gary/wmjr/ From The WMJR Officers Calendar, New (Old) Officers, Dues, Holiday Greetings Your WMJR officers have been hard at work planning an active and full calendar of events for the coming year. Highlights include a tech session and tour of DeWayne Ashmead s fabulous car collection at Meadowbrook Restorations in Kaysville on Saturday January 29 (see article on p. 5). This summer there will again be our annual concours in Park City in cooperation with the Bonneville Austin- Healey Club. The tradition of Hallowe en and Christmas parties will of course be continued, as will several driving and social get togethers. See p. 8 for a complete listing. The club Happy Holidays And Best Wishes For 2011 Your WMJR Officers website will be kept up to day as details change, so keep your eye on that resource. This newsletter is going to press just before this year s Christmas party, which is described on page 3. If you read this before then, it won t be too late to join in even unannounced! Club officers for 2010 have all agreed to serve another year, so the roster shown on p. 8 is unchanged for 2011. Dues for 2011 are due. Send a check for $50 payable to WMJR to John Green, P. O. Box 648, Farmington, UT 84025. Please send by January 10, as John is required to send reewals to JCNA by January 15.
Member Profile: Bud and Betty Merritt By Liz Green This issue s Member Profile features two long time club members, Bud and Betty Merritt. Bud was born in Kansas City but grew up in Oklahoma. Bud s dad worked for oil companies. Bud went to schools in Oklahoma. He came to Utah after high school and went to the University of Utah where he graduated with a BFA in Architecture and retired from there as well. Bud has one living sister and one who has passed on. Betty was born in Denver and grew up in Wyoming. Betty s dad worked for the BLM studying frozen river ice. She went to schools in Wyoming. She came to Utah after high school and went to the University of Utah where she graduated with a degree in education. She taught special education in junior high. Betty is retired also. Betty has 1 living sister and a brother who has passed on. Bud and Betty met in Casper, Wyoming at the Presbyterian church they both attended. Bud and Betty have two children, a son who lives in Montana and has two boys. Their daughter lives in Alaska and has two girls. They had two dogs. One was a beloved springer Page 2 spaniel named Sable and the other was an adopted dog named Smokie Joe who found his way onto their porch. Both have passed on. Betty loves to spin her own wool. She has a spinning wheel, gets her wool from people who belong to the Utah Wool Growers Assoc. She cards the wool and then spins it on her spinning wheel. Bud loves to work on his cars and loves antique mission furniture. He also makes his own wine. They go to antique shows around the country when they can. They have lived in the same house for 43 years. They will be celebrating their 50 TH wedding anniversary on December 28 th. Way to go you two!! They have four jaguar cars two working and two in pieces. Bud and Betty have been in the club since its beginning. They add much wisdom and fun to our club.
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Page 5 January Tech Session With BMCU At Meadowbrook Restorations Kaysville, UT The January tech session will be held at Meadowbrook Restorations on Saturday the 29th at 10:00 am. DeWayne Ashmead has a very interesting collection of cars that is old/newer, restored/original and muscle car/one of a kind. If you have not been here before, take the Kaysville exit 328 and go west.. You will be on 200 North. There is a light at the bottom of the new railroad overpass, go through the light and at the next stop sign (Angel Street about 1/2mile down 200 north) you will see Meadowbrook Restorations right in front of you. The enteance is normally open on the north side of the parking lot in front of the large metal building. The address is 181 North Angel Street. Hopefully we will have a good showing for the BMCU s third tour of this fabulous collection and facility. I hope to see everyone there and have a good day! John Progess From The Jaguar Clubs of North American www.jcna.com JCNA Members, On the JCNA web site, there are a number for forums you can subscribe to, one of which is the new JCNA Shoppe Forum. When you go to JCNA.com, you will see a list of headings, one of which is the Shoppe. In the Shoppe are all the various items that are available through JCNA. As new items become available on the JCNA Shoppe, we will be posting announcements on the Shoppe Forum. Some times we get a special limited quantity on items so you cannot just drop in and purchase the item anytime. Specials will be posted and when they are gone, they are gone. Please go to the JCNA.com web site and click on the Forums heading. If you have not already subscribed, please subscribe to the forums. You can pick just which of the many forums you want to be copied on. Then when someone posts to that forum, you will receive an email about that topic. Steve Kennedy JCNA Regalia Chair skennedy@jcna.com
Page 6 Tata Motors 2Q Profit Up 100-fold Detroit Free Press News Services Nov. 10, 2010 Tata Motors, the Mumbai-based owner of Jaguar Land Rover, boosted second quarter profit more than 100-fold as a global economic recovery spurred demand for luxury sedans and SUVs. Consolidated net income rose to 22.2 billion rupees ($501 million) in the three months ended in September from 218 million rupees a year earlier, the company said Tuesday in a statement. This beat the 17.1 billion rupee average of 10 analysts estimates compiled by Bloomberg News. Sales rose 36% to 287.8 billion rupees. Jaguar Land Rover sales jumped 43% to 161.7 billion rupees as increasing job security stoked demand for $72,000 Jaguar XJ sedans in the U.S. and China. Profit at Tata Motors, excluding Jaguar Land Rover and other units, declined 41% to 4.33 billion rupees, trailing the 5.14 billion rupee average of 19 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Last month, the automaker raised prices of the Nano, the world s cheapest car, by as much as 7% or 9,000 rupees. Tata opened a factory in June that may make as many as 350,000 Nanos a year. [Shares in] Tata, run by Carl- Peter Forster, the former European head of General Motors, was little changed at 1,269.9 rupees in Mumbai Tuesday.
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Event Calendar Monday December 6, 2010 Christmas Party Mimi s Cafe See announcement on p. 3 Saturday January 29, 2011 Tech Session with BMCU John Progess, 801-547-0259 johnprogess@comcast.net See article on p. 5 Saturday March 19, 2011 Dinner Social TBA Saturday May 21, 2011 Dinner Social with Drive TBA July / August Car Show with Bonneville Austin-Healey Club Saturday August 13, 2011 Lunch and Drive to Antelope Island A Little Taste of Britain, Layton Saturday August 27, 2011 Utah Concours Thanksgiving Point Saturday September 17 2011 Dinner Social at the Cady s 802-731-1599, cadysue1599@msn.com Saturday October 29, 2011 Hallowe en Party J and Kay Jennings, 801-274-2671 Club Officers Co-Presidents Susan Cady, 801-731-1599 cadysue1599@msn.com Liz Green, 801-451-5776 carousell2@msn.com Vice-President Jim Revel, 435-640-3347, jimrevel@aol.com Past President Glen Hawkins 801-253-9878, ghawkins@moog.com Secretary / Treasurer John Green, 801-451-5776 carousell2@msn.com Newsletter Publisher / Webmaster Gary Lindstrom, 801-554-3823 gary@cs.utah.edu Membership Duane & LeAnn Allred, 801-943-9253 Chief Judge Duane Allred, 801-943-9253 November Planning Meeting Selection of New Officers TBA Saturday December 10, 2011 Christmas Party Page 8