The Special Breed Wisconsin Jaguar Ltd Newsletter Volume XXXVIII No. 3 May 2019 The Board of Directors 2019CALENDAR OF EVENTS SUMMER PICNIC Save the Dates Mike Korneli………... President SATURDAY Mark O’Meara….Vice President Details to follow JUNE 22 ND Dick Diercksmeier….. Secretary Don Huebschen……..Treasurer KORNELI GARAGE Sandy Block.Membership chair May 19 th , Hare and Hounds John Boswell…. Concour Chair Fun Rally 6236 Gilbert Circle John Boswell…….. Chief Judge Beginning and West Bend, WI 53095 Jan Schlabowske…...Marketing ending at the Dave Warren…..Dealer Liasion Jensen’s 1:00 PM Snacks Order your Jaguar club June 22 nd , Summer Picnic Appetizers At the Korneli’s Drinks Name Badges! Wisconsin Jaguars Ltd. will See enclosed flyer provide individual name badges MEAL SERVED AT 4:00 th, to new and veteran members for July 17 Supper Club Night brats, burgers, hotdogs, buns, a nominal fee of $15 per badge. Union House fruits, veggies, potato salads, Please mail a check for $15 for Gennsse Depot chips and dips, deviled eggs, each badge, payable to WJL Contact Dave Warren beans, pickles, cheese, catsup, Don Huebschen mustards & desserts July 28 th , Illinois Concours 7730 Cannellwood Drive choose to bring something South Beloit , IL 61080 Sept. 14 th Neenah to Email your request to from the menu above th Elkhart Lake [email protected] 13 , Driving tour Type your name as you wish& lunch it to RSVP Oct. 13 th Driving Tour appear on the name tag 8:30 am driving from Milwaukee to By June 12th American Club in 262-629-5314 Kohler for Brunch. [email protected] More information to follow. Contact Bring your Jaguar or your Karen Diercksmeier favorite vehicle, lawn chairs or picnic blankets. Oct. 26 th Halloween Party Boswell’s There are at least two new projects in the works! Nov. Go cart racing WELCOME NEW MEMBER Come for a relaxing Dec. Holiday Party afternoon and fun with David Raatz Butler, WI 53007 great friends! 1994 XJS Conv, Black A PEEK INSIDE THE Concours there was an ad in cosmetics. Endless business PRIDE The Special Breed about a 1948 trips to England for Carl helped Jaguar 3.5 ltr saloon available in getting some parts and Story by: Carrol Jensen for sale in Oshkosh WI. Wow! details. As we restored the Could it be that simple? interior, I re-stiched the original Quickly we reached out and leather on the seats, meanwhile In June of 1991, Carl and I ran learned his wife was willing to I watched Carl layout wiring an event called a Grand Classic sell the car only because they harnesses. With all those wires for the Classic Car Club of were in negotiation to buy a and notes, it was the only time I America and met Jerry and drop head of the same year. questioned if we were ever Kathy Nell. They were already Discussion ensued for the next going to drive the car again! I in the planning stages for the 9 months waiting for Wally to have seen a lot come apart in 1995 Biennial Jaguar national call to let us know they had that garage and cars down to event to be held in Milwaukee finally purchased the drop the frame…but the spider web by the WI Region and wanted head and the saloon was now of wiring harnesses did leave Carl and I to join the club and available for sale. Finally we me a little concerned. help them with the event. took position of our “50 foot When we said we didn’t even In 2016 we shipped our MK IV car” because it looked good own a Jaguar, Jerry said “That to Lexington KY so we could from 50 feet away…..up close, is okay, you can drive one of participate in a CCCA not so much. ours!” Little did we know how CARavan and over a 7-day much that initial meeting period, we put over 1000 miles would change and enrich our on the car traveling lovely KY lives. scenery and back roads. The For the 1995 event, we still did last couple of days we not own a Jaguar and instead experienced a tremendous we drove and showed Jerry and amount of rain and when the Kathy’s 1974 Jaguar E-type car came back to us, it took roadster (now owned by Despite being stored in a days to dry out the interior (it members Bruce and Maria garage for several years AND rained so hard, water had come Tammi). In fact we would go the engine compartment filled up through the wooden on to run many events with the with hickory nuts, the car ran floorboards). Nell’s including the 2001 well and for years, we drove it I said earlier that meeting Jerry Biennial. to both CCCA and Jaguar club event club events before and Kathy would change and For years afterward we were making a conscious decision to enrich our lives and I meant it. searching for an older Jaguar restore it. We truly enjoy the How many people can say they that would meet our needs as a restoration process, and all that logged thousands of miles in a “dual purpose” car because of goes with it. There were D-Type Jaguar? Jerry and our involvement in the Classic several trips to the British car Kathy participated annually in Car Club of America (CCCA) swap meet and even Hershey a week long C and D Type which celebrates cars from with Ian Furness and the Jaguar rally in Arizona and for 1915-1948. In 1995 after Kornelis. We started the four years, Carl and I had the traveling home with Jerry and mechanical restoration on our pleasure of joining them, racing Kathy from the Meadowbrook 1948 then went to the through the hills in northern Arizona, spending evenings was Design Works which was On Greenfield Ave we were around the fireplace after stared be Chuck Pelly. Mr. blessed with the following dinner with stories provided by Pelly also did design work on vehicles which were either Jaguar test driver Norman the famous Scarab race cars. restored or repaired. Three very Dewis; definitely a life The company still exists and is rare Bizzarini’s (out of only changing experience! We one of the premier design firms about 50), a Figone et’Falachi continue to enjoy long lasting in the world. When I was in Talbot Lago, Rolls-Royce friendships with the C & D their office they had several Phantom 5, Citroen DS 19, group. It is actually the projects for Japanese motor several Maserati’s, Several friendships we have met cycles and auto manufactures. Vintage Ferrari’s. through vintage cars that have been the greatest treasures to There were several memorable Another bonus of being below us. projects besides the Packard Zimdars was the regular Racer’s and Cobra that we did when lunches with racing buddies of my shop was below Zimdars Harold Zimdars. We frequented a Greek restaurant on Hwy 100, The Motors at Greenfield ave. Greek wine flowed freely. We still Being directly across the street meet about once a month, but the from the Fair Grounds race group gets smaller and smaller as track, and hearing practice was our age gets greater and greater. As I type this, Deb Korneli and an additional benefit for the Obviously the conversation tends I just finished making breakfast small gearhead staff at Classic to be racing lore of old. the morning after the Jaguar Auto Works. Pot Luck event and the four of Chapter 9 will include the SS100 us are talking about upcoming Among the above mentioned restoration, converting Grey adventures together! cars was Jerry Nell’s SS 100 . Market Mercedes to US Specs, and Jerry and I went to see the car possibly Cutting Rolls-Royce at George Stauffer’s in Silver Shadows in half. Bluemounds Wisconsin. It was Primrose Yellow at that time. After Jerry completed the purchase my son David picked The Jag Whisperer up the car and drove it to my Auto Biography of By: Jan Schlabowske house. Jerry also had an E-Type An 80 year old Gearhead at the time which I sold for him. Notes from the Shop Chapter 8 After owning the car for a while April 2019 By: Jan Schlabowske Jerry brought the SS100 to my shop for restoration. While we Good news, my son Dean has The first SS100 and the shop started the car at the Greenfield chosen to return to working below Zimdars Motors. Ave. shop, it was finished at the with me, and I have another next location on North Ave. I chap, Guy who works twenty A foot note regarding the 1934 will discuss the details of that hours a week. Guy is a retired Bentley that I spoke of in the part of the project in chapter 9. Milwaukee Fire Dept. mechanic last chapter. The design who has a Triumph Spitfire company that designed the car which he restored. So we can is being done at NVR Racing make faster progress on the who Rick recommended since ongoing projects. he did not have time to do the block. Tom at NVR has been in Speaking of the projects, the the racing engine rebuilding Alloy 120 engine has evolved trade for a long time. from a simple head gasket to a complete tear down and Other ongoing projects are the inspection. It was rebuilt (?) 2 + 2 which nears completion, a about seventeen years ago, but Series I for suspension only ran a few minutes during rebushing, and A 1962 Rolls- Reina International Auto the years.