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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 offic-ers 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 fabu-lous car collection at Meadowbrook Restorations in Kaysville on Sat-urday January 29 (see article on p. 5). This summer there will again be our annual concours in Park City in coop-eration 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
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 unan-nounced! Club officers for 2010 have all agreed to serve another year, so the roster shown on p. 8 is un-changed for 2011. Dues for 2011 are “due”. Send a check for $50 payable to WMJR to John
Green, P. O. Box 648, Farming-ton, UT 84025. Please send by January 10, as John is required to send reewals to JCNA by January 15.
Happy Holidays And Best Wishes
For 2011 Your WMJR
Officers
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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 Okla-homa. Bud’s dad worked for oil companies. Bud went to schools in Okla-homa. He came to Utah after high school and went to the University of Utah where he graduated with a BFA in Architec-ture and retired from there as well. Bud has one living sister and one who has passed on. Betty was born in Den-ver 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 gradu-ated with a degree in educa-tion. She taught special edu-cation in junior high. Betty is retired also. Betty has 1 liv-ing sister and a brother who has passed on.
Bud and Betty met in Cas-per, Wyoming at the Pres-byterian 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
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 mis-sion 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 50TH wedding anni-versary on December 28th. 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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From The Jaguar Clubs of North American www.jcna.com
JCNA Members, On the JCNA web site, there are a num-ber for forums you can subscribe to, one of which is the new JCNA Shoppe Fo-rum. 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 an-nouncements 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 sub-scribe 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 [email protected]
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 Ash-mead 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 over-pass, 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 fabu-lous collection and facility. I hope to see everyone there and have a good day!
—John Progess
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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 de-mand for luxury sedans and SUVs. Consolidated net income rose to 22.2 billion rupees ($501 million) in the three months ended in Sep-tember 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 bil-lion rupees, trailing the 5.14 bil-lion rupee average of 19 analyst
estimates compiled by Bloom-berg. 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 fac-tory in June that may make as many as 350,000 Nanos a year. [Shares in] Tata, run by Carl-Peter Forster, the former Europe-an head of General Motors, was little changed at 1,269.9 rupees in Mumbai Tuesday.
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Event Calendar Club Officers 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 [email protected]
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, [email protected]
Saturday October 29, 2011 Hallowe’en Party
J and Kay Jennings, 801-274-2671
Co-Presidents Susan Cady, 801-731-1599
[email protected] Liz Green, 801-451-5776
Vice-President Jim Revel,
435-640-3347, [email protected]
Past President Glen Hawkins
801-253-9878, [email protected]
Secretary / Treasurer John Green, 801-451-5776
Newsletter Publisher / Webmaster Gary Lindstrom, 801-554-3823
Membership Duane & LeAnn Allred, 801-943-9253
Chief Judge Duane Allred, 801-943-9253
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November Planning Meeting
Selection of New Officers TBA
Saturday December 10, 2011 Christmas Party