Classical Gas March/April 2014 Volume 45, Issue 2 www.jaguarmg.com This is not green. This is Jaguar XKE British Racing Green, Code 5038 WHEN YOU LOVE CLASSICS, YOU SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. Our world is colored by classics. They’re what we love and all we insure. Join us at hagerty.ca or call 800-922-4050. We may sell insurance, but we live classics. CLASSIC CAR INSURANCE 2 | Classical Gas March | April 2014 About ClAssiCAl gAs Classical Gas is the official Canadian XK Jaguar register/ magazine of CXKJR/CCMGC, and is published bi-monthly. Canadian ClassiC Mg Club All articles, technical tips, offerings and opinions seen in Classical Gas are for your enjoyment and edification. in this issue... The executive, authors, editors and publishers cannot be held 2014 CXKJR/CCMGC Calendar 5 responsible for errors, omissions or misinterpretation of content. Advertisements are not JCNA & MG News 7 endorsements. As always, please use your own judgement. Super Charged Summer [Troy Bell] 9 subMissions Wakey-Wakey! [Joe Carroll] 11 Contributions such as articles, technical tips, travel, event reports and photographs are all gladly Nostalgia Pt II [Roy Davy] 12 welcomed. Please contact Senior Editor Jennifer Orum at [email protected] for details. Octagon Open House [Joe Carroll] 14 subMission DeADlines Heritage Classic & Hagerty Driving Experience 17 May/June: May 9 July/August: June 15 Drive Your MG or Jag Day; June/July Klatches 18 Club AffiliAtions Tilbury Quiz Answers 18 MG Car Club Ltd. www. MgCC.Co.uk Super Bowl Party [Ian Newby] 21 North American MGA Register www.nAMgAr.CoM RWM & Co & April Kaffee Klatch 22 North American MGB Register Classical Gas Awards 25 www.nAMgbr.org Jaguar Clubs of North America The Last Word: 26 www.jCnA.CoM (Garage Nights; Fathers Day Picnic; BC Highland Games British Car Display) to ContACt us by post: PO Box 663, Stn Main Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada V3B 6H9 reprints Monthly Club MeMbership Meetings For permission to reprint Our club meetings take place at 7:30 pm at the Burnaby Lake Clubhouse Classical Gas articles or photos, contact 3760 Sperling Avenue (foot of Sprott at Sperling) Jennifer Orum, Senior Editor, at normally on the second Tuesday of each month. [email protected] n Credit must be clearly given to on this Month’s Cover the original author, photographer, Classical Gas and the The super charged engine in Troy Bell’s 1979 MGB LE roadster. CXKJR/CCMGC club. See page 9 “Super Charged Summer”. [Photo by Troy Bell] March | April 2014 Classical Gas | 3 [email protected] 604-984-0371 Bob McFegan, Owner 890 West 15th St., North Vancouver BC V7P 1M6 mistertransmission.com 4 | Classical Gas March | April 2014 .June 21 Aug 30/31 April BC Highland Games JOCO Concours & Slalom April 12 British Car Show (Portland) Kaffee Klatch * [see page 26] [see page 22] June 21/22 April 19 Vancouver Collector September Tulip Rallye Car Show & Auction Sept 2 - 6 [see page 7] www.vancouvercollectorcars.com JCNA Western States Meet April 27 June 22 Colorado Springs, Colorado LAMB St. George’s Day Show CXKJR/CCMGC Sept 6/7 [see www.lambscarclub.com] Summer Slalom * Luxury & Supercar Weekend Sept 19 - 21 May July Sun Peaks Run to the Sun Sept 20 May 3 July 4 - 14 Sea to Sky All British Drive Your MG or Jag Day * C2C (Victoria to Ottawa) * Rally to Whistler [see page 18] July 12 [www.seatoskyallbritishrally.com] May 12 The Powley Prowl/Kaffee Klatch * Sept 28 JCNA Concours Judges Training (Joint event with Morgan Club) LAMB Autojumble [see page 7] [see page 18] May 17 July 14 - 18 VanDusen All British Field Meet NAMGAR’s GT-39 (Ottawa) November [see www.westerndriver.com] July 20 Nov 2 Fraser Valley Classic Car Show May 19 Kruise for Kids Hagerty Driving Experience * (Previously at Minter Gardens) Nov 2 [see page 17] July 25 - 27 London to Brighton Jaguars on the Island (Victoria) May 27 Commemorative Run Clarke Garage Night * July 26 Nov 4 or 11 [see page 26] Western Washington All British CXKJR/CCMGC AGM Field Meet & Elections * June August June 1 December Kaffee Klatch * Aug 7 - 10 Dec 9 [see page 18] Club T- MG Rendezvous 2014 Florence, Oregon CXKJR/CCMGC Annual Awards June 6 - 8 & Potluck * BritsBest Classics Aug 8/9 Radium Hot Springs Jaguars on the Green (Tacoma) www.calgarymgclub.org/ Aug 15 - 17 britsbest2014.html BC Historic Motor Races CXKJR/CCMGC events are indicated June 7/8 Aug 15 - 17 with an ( * ). Jaguars in the Meadows Heritage Classic Weekend * June 15 Aug 29 - 31 Father’s Day Railway Picnic * Portland All British Field Meet 2014 General Membership meetings: [see page 26] Aug 30 May 13, June 10, July 8, Aug 12, Crescent Beach Concours Sept 9, Oct 14, Nov 4 or 11, Dec 9 d’Elegance 2014 CXKJR/CCMGC CALENDAR March | April 2014 Classical Gas | 5 BOard memBers Jaguar President [email protected] Danny Reilly 604-996-7106 MG President [email protected] Derek Critchley 604-465-9556 Jaguar Vice-President [email protected] Jim McLagan 604-538-4579 [h] 604-306-1184 [c] MG Vice-President [email protected] Chris Venning 604-462-8638 [h] 604-785-6141 [c] 604-437-0318 [w] Jaguar Past-President [email protected] Bev Kolosoff 604-466-1867 MG Past-President [email protected] Steve Collins 604-465-6618 [h] 604-803-6618 [c] Treasurer [email protected] Allen Brown 604-264-0930 Secretary [email protected] Pat Holmes 604-443-1215 Trustee [email protected] CLASSIC & THOROUGHBRED Joe Carroll 604-988-2497 RESTORATION SERVICES Trustee [email protected] Ian Newby 604-856-8477 Trustee [email protected] Jerry Parkhill 604-794-3652 Trustee John Morse 604-594-8992 Robert Maynard PH: 778.683.7554 #1 - 7440 Ottawa St. Delta, B.C. [email protected] V4K 0B4 www.rwmandco.com Other ImpOrtant COntaCts Membership [email protected] Al Riches 604-942-7370 JCNA Concours Chair [email protected] Tom Doyle 604-896-0159 JCNA Chief Judge [email protected] Les Garbutt 604-266-9086 Rally Master [email protected] Al Riches 604-942-7370 Slalom Master 604-594-8992 John Morse Classical Gas Senior Editor [email protected] Jennifer Orum 604-880-7598 Classical Gas Technical Editor 604-988-2497 Joe Carroll Classical Gas Advertising Mgr. [email protected] Doug MacDonald 604-435-5803 Little Classical Gas, [email protected] Editor & Marketplace 604-521-3021 Rhonda Gale Publications Distribution [email protected] Al Riches 604-942-7370 Club Roster [email protected] Al Riches 604-942-7370 Website Administrator [email protected] Mike Harford 604-464-2212 6 | Classical Gas March | April 2014 JCNA & MG News MORE NEWSLETTER AWARD WINNERS! 33RD ANNUAL TULIP RALLYE UPDATE Each year JCNA presents ten Sponsored by the MG Car Club Northwest Centre (Seattle), Newsletter Awards in five the Tulip Rallye takes place April 19 with a start in Burlington categories: Photography, and a route that includes the stunning tulip fields of the Event Reports, Heritage, Skagit Valley. While MGs will be participating in large Travel and Technical. In numbers, British as well as other sports cars will also be the seven years 2006 to entered. For information, see the MG News page of the 2012, CXKJR members January February 2014 Classical Gas or contact Rallye have won fifteen times Master Dave Ellis at [email protected] or 425-277-1086. for photos and articles in Classical Gas. The LONG DISTANCE CRUISING 2013 JCNA Newsletter Award winners have THIS SUMMER! just been announced Participants from both the and Jim McLean won a US and Canada will be 1st place in the Technical taking part in the CCMGC- Category for his “Hot Kitties” article in the sponsored Cruise to the May June issue. Marcia Vanwely received a 2nd place in Capital July 4 to 14 en route Photography for her photo in the January February 2013 to the North American MGA issue of Lex in the family 1997 XK8 in front of the University Register’s GT-39 show in Ottawa July 14 to 18. The 11-day of BC library. cruise will go through BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and then south into North Dakota and through Minnesota, Wisconsin REMINDERS OF NORTHWEST REGION and the Upper Pennisula of Michigan, before re-entering JCNA EVENTS Canada at Sault Ste. Marie and on to Ottawa. MGAs, MGBs, other MGs, as well as Jaguars and other British cars are June 7 & 8: Pacific Jaguar Enthusiasts Group Concours in welcome. In the event of any breakdowns that can’t be the Meadows and Jags & Friends All-Out Slalom. Info: Art handled by a roadside tech session, Hagerty Insurance is Dickenson at [email protected] or 604-465-7244. providing flat-bed towing assistance services along the route July 25 – 27: Jaguar Car Club of Victoria Jaguars on the in both Canada and the US. Island. See www.jaguarcarclub.com or for more info JOTI Chair Note: The plan is to have one CCMGC/CXKJR member drive Wayne Watkins at [email protected] or 250-652-1247. an SUV, truck or other larger vehicle to accompany the August 8 & 9: Jaguar Drivers & Restorers Club Jaguars on convoy, carrying spare parts and supplies. Anyone interested the Green. Info: Concours Chair Ray Papineau at papineaus@ in this opportunity should contact the C2C organizers Peter & aol.com or 425-483-9641. Anne Tilbury at [email protected] or 604-535-0648. August 30 & 31: Jaguar Owners Club of Oregon Concours & For information on the NAMGAR GT-39 show in Ottawa July Slalom at the Portland All British Field Meet.