The Special Breed Wisconsin Jaguar Ltd Newsletter FO Volume XXXVIII No. 1 JANUARY 2019 Order your Jaguar club FOR EVERY ENDING 2019 THERE IS A BEGINNING! Name Badges! CALENDAR OF EVENTS Wisconsin Jaguars Ltd. will Saturday evening, December 8, provide individual name badges Save the Dates marked the end of the 2018 to new and veteran members for calendar year for the Wisconsin a nominal fee of $15 per badge. Details to follow Jaguar Ltd. Club. Please mail a check for $15 for April 6 th , Potluck A great group of members each badge, payable to WJL joined together for the holiday Don Huebschen th May 19 , Hare and Hound party in the library of the 7730 Cannellwood Drive Fun Rally University Club near the lake South Beloit , IL 61080 front in Milwaukee. Drinks, Email your request to June 22 nd , Summer Picnic Hors d’ oeuvres and lively [email protected] conversation proceeded the Type your name as you wish it to July 17 th, Supper Club Night dinner. A short meeting appear on the name tag followed with members July 28 th , Illinois Concours offering up suggestions for the events they would see August 4 th , WJL Concours organized for the 2019 season. Also announced: September 14 th Neenah to Elkhart Lake The Board of Directors for 2019. RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP October 13 th , Driving tour Mike Korneli………... President FOR 2019 & lunch Mark O’Meara….Vice President RENEWAL……………………$70.00 Dick Diercksmeier….. Secretary If postmarked after 1/01/2019 October 26 th Halloween Party Don Huebschen……..Treasurer Sandy Block.Membership chair Dues include our club November, Go cart racing John Boswell…. Concour Chair newsletter John Boswell…….. Chief Judge JCNA “Jaguar Journal” and December, Holiday Party Jan Schlabowske…...Marketing inclusion in Dave Warren…..Dealer Liasion JCNA sanctiond and non-sanctioned events. JAGUAR REPAIR Make check payable to: callcallcall WISCONSIN JAGUAR LTD . Mail with this form to: WELCOME JAN SCHLABOWSKE NEW MEMBER John Boswell 501501501-501 ---625625625625----5035035035031111 724 Michigan Ave Kristie Lawrence South Milwaukee, WI 53172 . [email protected] Sheboygan, WI 2000 XKR Convertible, Black A PEEK INSIDE THE anything I wanted to, with hard dream!) Last year, my husband PRIDE work. God only knows the started teasing me about Story and photos power of those words. The seed upgrading for my birthday, and By: Shenendoa Finnigan was planted, and I became I finally took him up on it! I Jaguar crazy. My goal was to traded Izzy in, and came home Why I Love Jaguars have one by the time I was 40. with Olivia. She is a 2007 XKR I was emancipated from my convertible, and I adore every step-parents in 1980 at the age Life took its course. I ended up inch of her too. of 16. I had a tiny apartment in being a single mom, and the hood in Cleveland, Ohio, through the years became a and the only income I had machinist. I didn’t get my coming in was from the V.A. Jaguar when I was 40 because I and Social Security. I didn’t was busy trying to figure out have a clue about how to make things and raise my kid. I ends meet. I was still going to finally got my first Jag when I She is also classy, but an “in school and managed to get a was 49 and after my daughter your face” kind of classy! She part time job at McDonalds had gotten married and started is indigo blue and sparkles later on. Times were pretty her family. It was a little silver when the sun hits her. She is bleak. 2003 X-type, and I loved every the fastest thing that I have ever My hood apartment was next to inch of her. She was very driven and makes me giggle a little used car lot and I would “IZZY” when I punch the pedal! I get sit and watch the activities of the biggest kick when Chargers this place. Once a month, an and Mustangs on the road want accountant would come to this to play. car lot, to do the books. He was driving a brand new XJS. This I love Jaguars because this car was the most beautiful former little Cleveland hood-rat thing I had ever seen. She was can hold her head up now hunter green with camel leather knowing that she finally made interior and had wire wheels. it. The accountant was proud, but “OLIVIA” didn’t come off as snobby. I remember that he carried a classy, and in my mind, I could leather briefcase too, which I say, “I did it!” I named her thought was a nice touch. Isabella, (Izzy), after my People respected him, and he favorite actress. seemed empowered, and that’s how I wanted to be. I decided With the encouragement of my that I wanted to become an now husband, I retired from my machinist career, (almost 30 accountant. One time while he was there, I walked over and years!), and went back to started looking his car over. school. I got my Associates Keep in mind, I was a 16-year- Degree in accounting and old lost soul and had no clue realized that I couldn’t stand a about cars. He came out and desk job, haha! I’m an out- talked with me for a bit, and doorsy country type, hands-on then went about his business. I kind of women, and that’s told him that I was going to okay. I can use my degree to have a Jaguar when I got older take care of my own books for and he told me I could do my B&B, (another life-long about that time. (one could be a mirrors, ladies make up kits, a member as an enthusiast crown or crease here or there without owning a car if a on a fender, a special molding member sponsored you). That or moldings, etc., etc. opened up new clients and the Auto Biography of availability to associate with In the next step the design other Rolls-Royce repairers, studio created a full scale set of An 80 year old Gearhead restorers, parts suppliers and drawings on large sheets of the large archive of technical paper for the client to approve. Chapter 6 information at the RROC These were mounted on a wall By: Jan Schlabowske headquarters in Mechanicsburg to give an accurate perspective. PA. I attended my first RROC Changes could be made if During the last two years or so national Meet in Detroit in proportions were less than at the Buick dealer, I built up a 1978. What a treat to spend satisfactory. When the results following of Rolls-Royce and several days surrounded by were satisfactory, the chassis Bentley clients, thanks to the these wonderful cars. was delivered to the frequent projects sent to me by Especially the pre war custom coachbuilder for building. Butch. It expanded significantly coach built cars, by Hooper, Clearly one can understand after a visit of an Opel customer Park Ward, Gurney Nutting, why these early cars were who was a reporter for the and the dozens of British constructed mostly of Milwaukee Journal. In August European and yes American aluminum over ash wood 1977 the reporter, Miles coach builders. framing. There were few parts McNamara, brought his Opel in A short Primer on Rolls-Royce that could be mass produced for service. On that particular history . Before the Second for the bodies. day I had two or three Rolls- World War and shortly Royce cars in my work area. thereafter, one did not usually I met one of the Hooper Miles asked why they were go to a Rolls-Royce showroom Coachworks designers, there and I explained that I had and select a car out of stock. Osmond Rivers at a RROC a small following of vintage The dealer may have a car on meet. He told a fun story. The Rolls-Royce clients. The local display that he commissioned client came to look at the first dealer, at that time, was not to be built, but carried no rendering and said “I want the enthusiastic about working on inventory. The purchaser roof to be two inches lower”. these early cars. They ranged selected the chassis model from After he left the staff agreed from 1920’s Silver Ghosts to the few that were available. The that it could not be done and 1960’s Silver Clouds. He did an chassis included the complete allow enough head room in the interview a few days later and running gear, the grill, and the cabin. Top hats were the norm brought along a photographer. bonnet. It was drivable. After at that time. The solution was The heading of the article was that a coach builder was to draw another roof line two “Doctor of Auto Status selected. He or she then went to inches above the original, then Symbols”. It ran on August 14, the coachbuilder’s studio, erase the new roof line so it still 1977. From that day forward where a portfolio of designs was somewhat visible as a my work was almost was presented. The buyer change. Leave the original roof exclusively on vintage Rolls- selected the basic design and line and invite the client back Royce automobiles. I had so then discussed details which for another look. You know the much business that two or varied as wildly as one could results. Upon seeing what he three assistants were hired. One imagine.