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A Publication
of the Jaguar Club of Tulsa, Inc.
April, 2005
CULTURE NIGHT
Ok, put down the polishing cloth and get out from under the hood. We are going to have an evening of Tulsa culture. The Tulsa Ballet will present the
spring trilogy “In Tense”, and INTENSE it is! The Company will be presenting 3 totally different ballets that show off the athleticism and excitement the Tulsa Ballet is famous for. We will be seeing the past, present and future in these 3 short pieces. The first dance is by choreographer
Jerome Robbins (he did “West Side Story), a contemporary piece called In The Night. Next is Stanton Welch’s Bruiser a humorous, high energy display that begs the question, ‘is it dance or sport?’ The future belongs to Tulsa Principal Dancer Ma Cong who created the final piece to showcase extraordinary stage presence and power.
Yes, Ballet is more than tottering ballerinas and men in tights, plus we will get a back stage tour to meet some of the dancers and get a glimpse of
what it takes to put on a word class show of music and dance.
To complete our evening of Culture we are trying to make arrangements to visit one of Tulsa’s newest wine bars for a relaxing and tasteful end to our evening.
This club event will take place on Saturday, April 9 at 8:00 p.m. and we can get a special group rate for center balcony seats for $30.00 each. However
I must have your money by April 7. I can only get these seats if we have at least 15 tickets so mail your check today. Make the check out to Jaguar Club of Tulsa
and mail to Linda Young, 205 E. Knoxville St. Broken Arrow, OK 74012 or bring it by my house. H(918)258-8320
Invite you friends and family and have a great evening enjoying some of the best dancing talent in the world and the classiest wine bar in town.
APRIL 23RD SATURDAY
GERMAN GOURMET DINNER
6:00 p.m.
A genuine “taste of Germany” dinner will be held at the new home of Don and Carol Wright. They have recently moved to 5316 E. 115th Place, in Tulsa. Don and Carol are well known for their involvement in the Tulsa German-American Club and are active participants in the Tulsa “October Fest”, one of the biggest events held in the River Parks every fall. Thanks to them, we are going to have the chance to sample the great German cuisine without having to fight the traffic and crowds of the festival. Here is the dinner menu: Salad,
Rouladen, "stuffed beef roll with gravy",
Rotkohl, "sweet red cabbage", Spaetzle, "egg noddle", Strudel, Beverages, Bier, Wien and Coffee.
Your club will be footing the bill for this feast, so you don’t want to miss it. We must have a count of attendees by Thursday, April 21 so the cook knows how much food to prepare. Please call the Wrights at (918) 299-2839 or e-mail them at
allgau@att.net with the number of guests attending. This is very important so, do it today. Below is a map of how to find the Wright’s home which is located in the mile between Yale and Sheridan on the east and west and E. 111th St. and E 121st on the north and south. If you get lost, call the phone number listed above and they will “talk you in”!
TOOLS EXPLAINED
Editors Note: This bit of wisdom regarding tools and their usages came to me as a forward, forward, forward via the internet so I can’t tell you it’s origin but, it is pretty much on the target! HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive parts not far from the object we are trying to hit.
BOX KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on boxes containing seats and motorcycle jackets.
ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning steel Pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age, but it also works great for drilling mounting holes in fenders just above the brake line that goes to the rear wheel.
PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads.
HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.
VICE- GRIPS: Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.
OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your garage on fire. Also handy for igniting grease inside a brake drum if you're trying to get the bearing grease out.
WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16 or ½ socket you've been searching for, the last 15 minutes.
DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against that freshly painted part you were drying.
WIRE WHEEL: Cleans rust off old bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar calluses in about the time it takes you to say, "Ouch...."
HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering a motorcycle to the ground after you have installed your new front disk brake set-up, trapping the jack handle firmly under the front fender.
EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2X4: Used for levering a motorcycle upward off a hydraulic jack.
TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters.
PHONE: Tool for calling your neighbor to see if he has another
hydraulic floor-jack.
SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog-doo off your boot.
E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt holes and is ten times harder than any known drill bit.
TIMING LIGHT: A stroboscopic instrument for illuminating grease build up.
TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the tensile strength of ground straps and brake lines you may have forgotten to disconnect.
CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mount prying tool that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end without the handle.
BATTERY ELECTROLYTE TESTER: A handy tool for transferring sulfuric acid from a car battery to the inside of your tool box after determining that your battery is dead as a door nail, just as you thought.
METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw.
TROUBLE LIGHT: The mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," which is not otherwise found under English cars at night. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105-mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading.
PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splash oil on your shirt; can also be used, as the name implies, to round off Phillips screw heads and can double as oil filter removal wrench by stabbing through stubborn oil filters.
AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a
coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last tightened 60 years ago by someone in Coventry, and rounds them off.
PRYBAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or
bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.
HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to cut hoses 1/2 inch too short.
I’VE DRIVEN IT!! (sort of) By – Stan Lackey The lessons that I learned while painting my parents “toad” were good lessons. Having sanded that paint job with (uhhh !) 1000 & 1500 grit sand paper until the world was looking flat, taught me several things. It taught me to go ahead and apply a serious dose of extra clear coat to the paint job. This simple process can save you LOT’S of time! The ability to do the first sanding of the finish coat with 600 grit sand paper and then follow it up with 1200 & 1500 grit sand paper shortens the job by about 3 days while achieving the same great results. Actually the cost of extra paint seems more than reasonable when measured against the cost of my sanity, finger tips, and (hopefully) my general good attitude.
The paint job was straight forward, and the color is great! Jaguar calls the color Regency Red. It took about a week to do the paint job, and with my extra clear coat technique the finish sanding and buffing only took about 2 of the total 5 days.
Having the paint job finished it was time to start re-installing all the chrome trim, front and rear bumpers, new door seals, head lights, tail lights hood, windshield etc. and all the other “stuff”. After the fight that I’d had getting my car to this point I now have a new respect for what Jessie James says on the cable TV show “Monster Garage.” When it appears they are all finished and down to the final hours, Jessie James says, “you know, all that’s left to do is EVERY THING”. Well even at this stage of completion that’s how I felt about my project. While the re-assembly process looked like an easy deal I still wanted help to get it done as soon as possible.
With the paint job finished, and hoping that I was in the final leg of this project, I again came to several realizations. I realized that I was now approaching the one year mark on this project that I had forecasted would take about 2 months. My second realization was that this deal had cost me MUCH more that I had ever expected or would have believed it could have. My third realization was that the phrase “duplication of effort” had become my mantra. I now know that when you have a newly rebuilt T-700 R4 transmission you need to have, no, let me correct that, you MUST have the “shift points set” prior to driving the car, (any car) hard. If ….you…. don’t…. have…. The…shift points….. Set…. Prior to driving the car “hard”…… you BLOW UP YOUR NEW TANSMISSION!!! After getting most of the car re-assembled with the hood, head lights and windshields re-installed, I decided to take my car for “a bit of a test drive”, don’t cha-know. Living out in the country can have some advantages. Like, fewer cops! If you want to take your almost assembled car out for a test drive you can normally get away with it. If you happened to be spotted by the local “man” and you’re not just absolutely flagrant about your vehicular violations, you can normally get away with a “wink” over the deal. That is of course assuming that you and your ride,are still rolling. If for some reason you’re on the side of the road with mechanical problems then it’s just kind of an unwritten law that the wink zone has been violated and you’re going to get what you have coming to you. Not a pretty picture! Well, as I’m sure you can guess having my car at even this stage of assembly I was like a kid with a new toy on Christmas morning. The desire to drive my “essentially legal” but still incomplete, restored Jag was just too much for me. After an engine warm up of about 20 minutes, I was ready to rock. With every thing warmed up, down the hill I came in my NEW Jag. I had decided to just kind of idle along for the half mile of dirt road that is between my house and the paved road. During that first ½ mile I was checking all the gauges. I felt like I was getting ready to really “do something”. Little did I know that my learning curve was about to be extended…….. Ahhh… paved road in sight, and NO problems. Good. A quick stop at the mail boxes and then a right turn on to the black top. It was an interesting drive. Foot on the gas, accelerating, easy at first as the transmission shifted from first gear to second. Ok, I was thinking; that shift was a bit hard but that was ok. As I continued to accelerate the second to third gear shift came and it was a bit smother and again, “ok”. I had installed this GM transmission because it has an overdrive in it and I was looking forward to seeing what it would be like and at about 45 MPH, here came the overdrive. Nice! I was now cruising down the road in overdrive at about 55 MPH while turning in the neighbor hood of 2,200 rpm. With the original transmission I would have been running close to 3,000 rpm, so at that point I was happy. I had picked an almost deserted stretch of road about 2 miles long, just west of my house where I cruised at different speeds and rpms testing out all the “working of my new car. All was going well until I remembered something. Hey…… this thing has 3 carb’s on it, and I should be going a LOT faster than this! My demise. About half way through my next 2 mile run I took my foot off the gas and then just “hammered” the gas pedal. There was a brief hesitation, a good jump in RPM but, no increase in speed! Once again that kind of sinking feeling came over me.
My car was now coasting to the inevitable stop my gut told me was coming. Bumm…..errrrr Not only had I apparently blown my new transmission, but I was now in serious violation of “the wink rule”. Not a good thing….. It Ain’t Over Yet... Stay Tuned.
UPCOMING EVENTS
April 15th – TU Spring Cruisin’ Festival - for you football fans, we have been invited to a car show and they really would like some Jaguars to come! If you can’t make it at 2:00 pm that is ok. Call them and they will make arrangements for you to get there a bit later. See full page ad in this newsletter. May 14th - Saturday - Drive to Tidal School Winery for tour and Dinner at a great restaurant nearby.
June 11th – Have Gun, Will Travel – Trip to Tulsa gun range. Ok we have given you just enough info to get your curiosity going. Keep these dates free so you can make to these events that promise to be fun, filling and different for anything else we have ever done.
ABOUT THOSE JAGUAR ADS By – Linda Young I mentioned in the last newsletter that I was not impressed with the “Lust, Envy, etc.” ads that Jaguar was running. Well, nothing has changed. Obviously (in my opinion) this ad agency knows nothing about the kind of people who drive Jaguars. I’ve been driving Jags for over 30 years (that long?) and the owners/drivers I have encountered share many of these qualities: independent thinkers, adventurous, self made successes. People who assume everyone “thinks outside the box” and loves a good challenge. Think of Sir William Lyons, and “Lofty“ England, designers and builders of Jaguar. Norman Dewis, test driver, Graham Hill, Jim Clark, Bob Tullis, Paul Gentilozzi, race drivers past and present. Do these names remind you of shallow, self absorbed lightweights indulging in self promotion and looking for connections? I really think these ads appeal more to the drivers of “über cars” who feel the need to impress. Encased in their private world they feel no need to interface with anyone not in their realm. Boring! I’d be willing to bet the creators of these ad’s are 20 somethings’ steeped in popular culture and short on realism and experience. We could use a return to the style of “Grace, Space, Pace.” Please, Jaguar Ltd., find an ad agency with some class.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas
HEY! LOOK WHAT WE WON!
Yes, our “Cat Tale” got the 2nd place trophy for “pre-event” publicity. What makes this even better is now we have a way to remind YOU that our Concours is only about 18 weeks away! That’s right, we are already preparing for the biggest event of the year on September 10Th , so mark that weekend on your calendar so you will not miss out on our biggest show and slalom event ever. Meanwhile, remember to thank Greg Timo for all the hard work he puts into this show and tell him you will be there with your car and be ready to help out with making this show a big success!
CLASSIFIED
Classified ads are free to club members. To place an ad e-mail to mmra@valornet.com
or call (918) 258-8320.
For Sale: 1976 XJ6C. BRG with biscuit interior. Paint and interior in very good condition. Nice driver, low mileage, A/C works! New Dunlop tires (all five), original 8-track, rebuilt transmission, factory tool kit, manuals, parts book and Delanair manual. Drive anywhere. Always scores high in driven class. Asking $12,000. Call Richard Crump (918) 587-3939 (w) or (918) 541-7378 (cell)
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