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TM Official Magazine of the Jaguar Clubs of North America July-August 2020 X100 Special Editions Brand new four-cam V12 engine to die for Canadian club’s model inventory Smiths Instruments today WORLD’S OLDEST JAGUAR MAGAZINE VOLUME 66 NUMBER 4 Jaguar Clubs of North America, Inc. NEWS & VIEWS Publisher 4 ..... Blowin’ Smoke ........................ Well, well, well Peter Crespin Editor 10 .... President’s Perspective .......... Full column from a full heart Gregory Wells Associate Editor 11 ... SE Region Report ................... Looking ahead to a busy year Tim Crespin UK Correspondent 12 ... Canada Calling ....................... This year is cancelled, or not 13 ... Continental Drift .................... Keyless car theft Diane DuFour Advertising Manager [email protected] SHOW & SPORT Malcolm Baster, Tim Crespin, Les Contributors: 14 ... Tera™ Project ......................... 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TM restoration shops, and Jaguar service specialists with their Design and print: Graphcom, PA. Official Magazine of the Jaguar Clubs of North America July-August 2020 Canadian Distribution: Canada Post International Publications Mail X100 Special Editions Product Sales Agreement No. 42452017. Brand new four-cam V12 engine to die for Canadian club’s model inventory restorations and routine vehicle maintenance. Smiths Instruments today Editorial / Club and JCNA Event News: Peter Crespin, 9435 Wat- kins Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20882 or [email protected]. Adver- tising correspondence: Diane DuFour, [email protected] Deadlines: Publication is the first of January, March, May, July, • We specialize in everything Jaguar from the Classic XKs, September and November. Submit editorial material and adver- tising orders eight weeks in advance, ad material four weeks in E-Types to late models. advance. Write for schedule and rates. © 2020 Jaguar Clubs of North America, Inc. www.jcna.com Visit JCNA’s website! TRY THE WELSH TEAM FOR YOUR JAGUAR NEEDS TODAY! 800.875.5247 (Domestic) | WelshEnt.com | 740.282.8649 (International) JULY-AUGUST 2020 3 Welsh Jaguar Journal Ad 2020.indd 1 12/17/2019 11:20:57 AM NEWS & VIEWS CLUBS Blowin’ Smoke The knee bone connected to the leg bone… Peter Crespin As my sixth grade math teacher Mr. as Ebola, have been covered in the spring. As JJ readers will know, Kim Nolan used to say, “Well, well, well! media. But a pandemic is by definition and her husband Mitch took their own Three wells make a lot of water.” He a global wave of disease and 2020 XK on the Mille Miglia a few years ago was a crop-haired, barrel-chested man marks the first time a serious illness has and she was an honorary JCNA Vice of medium height and military bearing, swept across our planet literally like an President. We will miss her and hope to who rode a Honda 50 to school each day airplane shadow across a cornfield. see her with her cars at events in the wearing a white Stirling Moss peaked It has spread far and fast because of Northeast and beyond. Go well, Kim. helmet and a large canvas shoulder international trade and travel and it bag. He definitely scored high marks has swept deep and wide because #3 WELL in our all-boys school for commuting of our interdependence as organized So, you’re likely reading this in early by motorcycle, rather than by car, but societies. You don’t need advice July and the chances are your club since Hondas 50s weren’t exactly fire- from this journal, but if you know of has cancelled multiple events already breathing monsters he lost a few points a club friend or neighbor who might in 2020. Who knows what the future for his choice of steed. This was during appreciate hearing from someone, may bring? When unusual or unique the period when Honda was trying to why not give them a call? Stay well. problems arise, even seasoned shed the Marlon Brando/Lee Marvin campaigners can be stuck for a ‘cure.’ ‘Bad Boy’ image of motorcyclists, #2 WELL At times like this there are pieces of with their famous ad campaign “You Sales and promotion of luxury cars is advice that are inherently sensible in meet the nicest people on a Honda.” one aspect of automobile marketing. themselves, whether or not they fix The average person easily conflates the problem at hand. When you get #1 WELL the two terms, not least because in sick, the chances are your healthcare This is a car magazine, not a medical smaller companies the same person professionals will suggest measures journal. Ordinarily we deal in automotive may be responsible for sales and to help you eat well, sleep well and and motoring-related stories and for marketing. Generally-speaking, perhaps take some exercise. These are club themes. But in probably a unique however, marketing jobs involve not magic bullets, but have the benefit moment in human history, we are not long term planning of product lines that they are more likely to help in a only involved in an infectious disease to match current and emerging range of ways than do you any harm. pandemic (those have happened before) market trends. Sometimes, ambitious but we are witnessing its evolution marketers with novel products can As in healthcare, so in club welfare, in real time as the first pandemic of establish whole new markets from there are behaviors and procedures the information age. We know about nothing, or expand them drastically, that will benefit the well-being of past plagues from history books as Honda did with their clean, reliable, clubs in almost every circumstance. or newspapers, and recent overseas fuss-free mopeds and motorcycles Like the bones of a skeleton, we are national or regional epidemics, such before moving into the much bigger all connected in some way or another. car market. Creating/changing Chances are that you have heard of, such markets relies on clever and or been involved in, meetings by sustained advertising and promotion. videolink, or telephone conference call, where previously they would have taken At the same time as the present virus place face-to-face. Last night I took outbreak, but not directly connected part in our first-ever family quiz night, to it, JJ was sad to hear of the including members in Australia, UK and resignation of Kim McCullough, JLR of course the USA. If it works across North America’s VP Marketing since three continents, why not badger your 2014, and herself the daughter of club to set something up locally, if a seasoned automotive advertising they haven’t already? Club meetings executive. Pending more permanent don’t have to be face to face every arrangements, Joe Eberhardt, JLR’s time – you can make new connections North American CEO, will manage within and between clubs. Play well. Kim’s work, including the important launch of the new Land Rover Defender, which will be at dealers from late 4 JULY-AUGUST 2020 JULY-AUGUST 2020 5 CLUBS CLUBS JCNA Annual General Meeting August 21-23, 2020 Columbia, South Carolina Join us for the Jaguar Clubs of North America’s 2020 Annual General Meeting! Join us for a fun, productive Annual General Meeting in Columbia. Late August highs average 90 degrees and overnight lows around 70.