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A Chapter of the Jaguar Clubs of North America Under The Bonnet Newsletter of the WMJR Web Site: Wasatch Mountain Jaguar Register www.WMJR.org April 2018 Follow Group WMJR On Facebook WMJR News Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wmjr TSI Salt Lake Not CSI Salt Lake - this is periences and insights in a all aspects of crash recon- Traffic Scene Investigation, tech session for our struction techniques and will meaning highway accident club. While it won't be a spill over into veteran/ reconstruction and analysis. antique/vintage/classic cars applicability and practicali- Dave Beaufort, a graduate ties for driving on modern mechanical/traffic engineer, highways. has made a career of doing just that for 32 years. His Dave is a bona fide car turf is the Intermountain guy, hailing from a collec- West, including Utah, Ida- tor car family with a spe- ho, Montana and Wyoming, cial love for the horseless with special expertise in carriage era. Their fleet mechanical and highway has included a 1904 Fiat design. Model 24-32 Series II (London to Brighton eligi- He has investigated mishaps ble), a 1914 American Un- involving just about all derslung and a 1913 Regal kinds of highway vehicles, (the marque, not the Buick, but mostly cars, farm vehi- also underslung). He is cles and trucks. Along the typical session for us, it currently up to his ball joints way he has learned a lot does promise to be informa- in mentoring a Father-Son about safe and unsafe driving tive, instructive, and enter- project restoring a Saab Son- practices, vehicle mainte- taining. net II. nance issues, and liability at- tribution in courts of law. He will speak about Event All this will transpire 10am Data Recorders (EDR) and Saturday April 7 at the Jen- Dave has agreed to share their role in accident recon- nings Car Barn, 6046 Fon- some of his professional ex- struction. This will open up taine Bleu Drive in Murray. Page 2 My Other Car Is … A 1966 Lincoln 4 Door Convertible By Jim Klekas When I was a young boy living in It would take until June 2017 percent, were soft tops. Germany early in the sixties, two before I bought my 1966 navy cars I saw for the first time left blue Continental convertible at The four door suicide door con- lasting impressions. the Russo and Steel Auction in vertible was the first and last such Newport Beach. convertible manufactured in the However, I US after never WWII. thought I would own The cars were them. unibody and the 1961 was The first 18 feet long, was a Jagu- but they grew ar E-Type 3 inches in coupe, 1964. which is still my all In 1966 the time favor- car received a ite car. major refresh with the body In the early growing 5 more eighties I was inches to 18 able to buy a feet 8 inches 1963 coupe and, the engine which I eventu- displacement ally sold be- increased from cause it didn’t 430 cubic inch- have a back es to 462. seat for my ba- by daughter. The convertible gained a glass In 2009, I pur- rear window chased my and a second 1968 E-Type hydraulic pump convertible. to operate the top separately However, the from the front other car that opening trunk left such an im- lid when storing pression was it. John F. Kenne- dy’s 1961 navy It weighed 5480 blue Lincoln Continental convert- pounds and only 3180 were pro- ible. when he glided by in July The fourth generation Lincoln duced. 1963 with his hair blowing in the Continental was produced from wind on the American Air Force 1961 until 1969, but the convert- My two dream cars couldn’t be Base runway in Frankfurt Germa- ible only until 1967. Over 9 more different, but they are both ny. years 334,349 of this series were special. It was a special time. produced, but only 21,347 or 6.4 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Ardell Brown 1934 ~ 2018 Ardell Duane Brown, 83, our beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, friend and classic car connoisseur, passed away on March 18, 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born on Oc- tober 2, 1934 in Murray, Utah to Joseph and Vera Brown. Ardell married Donna Lee Braswell on April 30, 1955 in Arco, Idaho. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. He was the owner of OK Motors, Ardell Brown Auto Sales, Ardell Brown RV and Ardell Brown Classic Cars. Ardell loved cars. He collected cars later in life to replace the cars he sold in his youth. He used his cars to fund- raise for various char- ities. Ardell was the for- mer chairman of the Utah Concourse d'Ele- gance Car Show. He was an active member of the LDS Church, serving in many callings, most recently at the Draper Temple baptistry. Survived by his wife, Donna; children, Debi (Raul) Garcia, Kevin (Evelyn) Brown, Suzi (Karl) Knobbe, Bryan (DeeAnn) Brown and Angi Brown; grand- daughters, Kelsey (Paul), Jessey (Casey), Sara (Iolana), Hannah (Leland), Haley (Markus), Karlee (Briant), Kandace and Alyssa; great grandchil- dren, Winter, Emma, Scarlett, Falcon, Beau, Phoenix, Luna Bella and Ziva; siblings, Rita (Bob) Bringhurst, Myrlene Roylance, Boyd (Manuella) Brown, Lloyd (Elise) Brown and Margie George. Preceded in death by his parents, grandson, Adam Hansen and many close friends. A special thank you to the CCU doctors and nursing staff at St. Mark's Hospital. In lieu of flowers, please make donations in Ardell's name to the National Kidney Foundation of Utah, 3707 N. Canyon Road #1D, Provo, Utah 84604 or the American Diabetes Associa- tion, 986 W. Atherton Drive, Suite 220, Taylorsville, Utah 84123. Funeral services will be held at 12 Noon on Friday, March 23, 2018 at the Sandy Crescent Ridge Stake Center, 1300 East 11000 South, Sandy, Utah. Viewings will be held from 6-9 p.m. on Thursday evening at Anderson & Goff Mortuary, 11859 South 700 East, Draper, Utah and from 10-11:45 a.m. at the church prior to the service. Interment, Crescent Cemetery, Sandy, Utah. www.goffmortuary.com Published in Salt Lake Tribune from Mar. 21 to Mar. 22, 2018 Page 36 Tips For Effective Writing By Prof. D. J. Higham, Professor at University of Dundee Circa 1994 Every sentence should make sense in isolation. Like that one. Finish your point on an up-beat note, unless you can't think of one. Choose your words carefully and incitefully. Don't use commas, to separate text unnecessarily. Similies are about as much use as a chocolate teapot. Spellcheckers are not perfect; they can kiss my errs. Somebody once said that all quotes should be accurately attributed. Americanisms suck. Mixed metaphors can kill two birds without a paddle. Before using a cliche', run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes. There is one cheap gimmick that should be avoided at all costs .......... suspense. State your opinions forcefully -- this is perhaps the key to successful writing. Never reveal your sources (Alistar Watson, 1993). Sure signs of lazy writing are incomplete lists, etc. Introduce meaningless jargon on a strict need-to-know basis. Don't mess with Mr. Anthropomorphism. Injecting enthusiasm probably won't do any harm. Appropriate metaphors are worth their weight in gold. Colons: try to do without them. Do you really think people are impressed by rhetorical questions? Less is more. This means that a short, cryptic statement is often preferable to an accurate, but drawn out, explanation that lacks punch and loses the reader. There is a lot to be said for brevity. To qualify is to weaken, in most cases. Page 7 Restrict your hyphen-usage. The dictionary on your shelf was not put there just for affect. If there's a word on the tip of your tongue that you can't quite pin down, use a cinnamon. In your quest for clarity, stop at nothing. Sporting analogies won't even get you to first base. If you must quote, quote from one of the all-time greats (Cedric P. Snodworthy, 1964). In the absence of a dictionary, stick to works of one syllabus. Vagueness is the root of miscommunication, in a sense. Don't bother with those "increate-your-word-power" books that cost an absorbent amount of money. Self-contradition is confusing, and yet strangely enlightening. Surrealism without purpose is like fish. Ignorance: good writers don't even know the meaning of the word. Intimidatory writing is for wimps. My old high school English teacher put it perfectly when she said: "Quoting is lazy. Express things in your own words." She also said: "Don't use that trick of paraphrasing ... [other people's words] ... inside a quote." A lack of compassion in a writer is unforgivable. On a scale of 0 to 10, internal consistency is very important. Thankfully, by the year 2016 rash predictions should be a thing of the past. Bad writers are hopefully ashamed of themselves. Eschew the highfalutin. Practice humility until you feel that you're really good at it. A strong ending is the last thing you need. Spelling dictionaries should be made compulsary. Sometimes, a foreign phrase can add a little 'je ne sais rien.' Only take writing tips from world-renounced writers. Avoid afterthoughts. Page 8 Club Calendar 2018 10am Saturday, April 7 Traffic Accident Reconstruction Tech Session Jennings Car Barn, 6046 Fontaine Bleu Drive , Murray UT See article on p. 1 Saturday, April 21 BMCU Antelope Island Run Saturday, May 5 BMCU Coleville / Taggarts Run Saturday, May 12 Dynamometer Tech Session Simple Performance, 346 W.