No Fall Tinker Day
By Mark Bradakis
Sorry, folks, I’m temporarily tinkered out. For the first time in a decade, the Fall Tinker Day is canceled. With the recent move to another shop in complex, the shop is unfit for human occupation, and the Fat Chance Garage will likely not be set up until after the IVR race weekend October 19th and 20th. Hopefully there will be a Spring Tinker Day as usual.
Hmm, maybe I should just say that Tinker Day will be October 19th, noon to 6, east side of the Enola Gay hangar at the historic Wendover, Utah airfield. See you there?
End of the Season Dinner
Mark the last Saturday in October on your calendar. The End of Season Dinner will be at The Fiddler's Elbow at 1063 East 2100 South (463-9393) on October 26 at 6:00. We've been there before and everyone seems to enjoy the place and its selection of food and beverages. The food is excellent and similar to that offered by most pubs. Figure on $7 to $10 each plus beverages, tax ,and tip. Now for the fine print. Due to the size of the group, they will automatically add an 18% tip on each bill. They will do separate checks but did remind us that this takes a bit of time with a group of our size. Therefore, please be patient, sit back and relax with friends or bring exact
change if you're in a hurry.
We will be sending out an e-mail around Oct 21st to get a final head count for the restaurant. If you don't have e-mail, please call Gregg Smith at 943-2361 and RSVP the week before the event.
This might be the last driving event of the year, so drive your Brit car if you can. Thanks all...and see you there!
Just cruisin’
The blistering heat of summer had passed for the most part, but things were heating up at the State Capitol as car after car assembled for the second annual Sate Street Cruise Night. Like last year, this event attracted a few cars that had not been seen at previous events and the trek down State Street lured a bunch of eager drivers out for a spin and some good food.
We waited until 7 PM and true to form, a couple cars showed up at the very last second as we were about to hit the road. And hit the road we did, cruising leisurely down State Street all the way to 90th South.
There we turned up the hill to the Sandy Dairy Queen, owned by Joe Chou. Everyone ordered dinner or snacks and we had a grand time. Joe had prepared a very large ice cream cake with a picture of an MG on it. Jon Hermance, master of the Klingon knife, pummeled the cake until it surrendered itself into many small pieces to feed the hungry masses of the BMCU clan. Indeed, we stumbled across a real Brit, out for ice cream with her kids, and she gave us rousing pep talk.
Then we got down to business for a small raffle. Some automotive prizes were donated by Bill & Julie Robinson and Joe Chou donated certificates for ice cream cakes. We raised $60 from the event for our club coffers.
It was another great BMCU turnout with 19 cars present. 18 were British and yours truly had to show up in the British Motor Werks sedan, as the clutch on the Spit hasn't fixed itself yet. Present from the sign up sheet were Joe Chou, Bill & Julie Robinson, Nichols & Stuart Nichols, Bill & Julie Van Moorhem, Kent & Kaye Thomas, Larry Farrington, Rick Florer, Will & Diane Pataki, Bill Walton, Kendall & Connie Dewsnup, Jim & Barbara Munter, Jenny Robinson & Ben Fonnesbeck, Dil Strasser, Mike Pennington, Barbara Nordquist, Ted Hemsley, Mitch & Diane Johnson, Barney & Toni Bauernhuber, Mary & Larry Bishop, Mark & Joyce Noeltner and Roger & Jill Davis. Sorry if we missed anyone. Thanks to all for making this another successful BMCU driving event.
A beautiful Nebo fall color tour
Some habits put you more in a groove than a rut. That's the case with the BMCU annual fall color tour 'round Mt. Nebo. This year the unbroken string of fine weather was maintained, although a down pour an hour before rendezvous time raised doubts. And despite this year's drought, the fall colors were beautiful, especially the vivid red scrub oak at lower levels, and bright golden aspen higher up.
The route followed was the standard--down Redwood Road to Lehi, then along the west shore of Utah Lake to Elberta, then Goshen with its lovely sports car canyon, past Mona Lake to Nephi, then east to the Loop Road, with a picnic lunch at Bear Canyon Campground. Then up and over, with no overlooks overlooked. Finally, farewells and “same time next year” resolutions were exchanged at the de-mustering point at the mouth of Payson Canyon.
Participating were: Todd and Connie Pixton, Tony Walker, Buck MacConaghy, Julie and Bill Van Moorhem, Jule and Don McEligot, Mike and Sally Pennington, John Progress, Ken and Patrick Gleason, Mark and Joyce Noeltner, John "Barney" and Toni Bauernhuber, Nan and Bob Green, Larry and Margaret Farrington, Jon and Susan Hermance, Kendall and Connie Dewsnup, Nick and Stewart Nichols, and tour leaders Gary, Sandy, and Margaux Lindstrom.
Alpine Loop
Thank You, corrected
We need to correct the list of companies we printed in last month’s newsletter. We inadvertently left The Easthill Group/The Eastwood Company off the list of generous donors that made this year’s Alpine Loop very successful. Thank you to all of the donors to the 15th Annual AlpineLoop Event. The complete list of businesses, listed alphabetically, includes:
Apple Hydraulics
Easthill Group/The Eastwood Co.
Fat Chance Garage
Moss Motors
Pep Boys
The Roadster Factory
Utah Lotus Museum
Victoria British
We appreciate their continued support; some have donated items for our club’s events for many years. We would like to remind all of our members to please patronize the companies which donated to the event.
The Lucas Calendar
This calendar works about as well as its namesake, so use it with care. Club events have
red dates. The others you may find interesting. All events are subject to change.
October 19. Tinker Day has been cancelled. See article in this newsletter.
October 26. End of the Season Dinner at Fiddler’s Elbow. See article in this newsletter. Gregg Smith.
October 31-Nov 2. High Country Tour, Sedona, AZ. Racermoss@sedona.net
November. Tech Session. Date and time to be announced.
December. No event.
January 2003. Utah Lotus Museum.
Mark Bradakis, 364-3251.
February 2003. Pot Luck dinner and business meeting. Stay tuned for date, time, and place.
Autojumble
Must sell: '77 MGB 1-owner. 32.5 k miles, in storage for past 20 years. Good condition. $3500 obo. Also, '76 Centennial Model MG Midget. 1-owner. Low miles. Garage kept. w/hardtop. $2500 obo. Both for $4500/offer. Call Curtis Van Nood at 801-294-7870
For Sale: '90 Miata, in very nice condition. It has about 52K miles, a new tan soft top, a hard top (for winter driving??), and new 2000 Miata wheels and tires (with about 5K miles on them). Car looks great, is in excellent mechanical and cosmetic condition (60-year old driver), never been in an accident, obviously no rust (was a Texas car until late 2000), and very well maintained (e.g. timing belt, new rubber belts and hoses all replaced in 2000 at 40K miles, and I been replacing the oil with Mobile-1 every 3K miles). Car is in Idaho Falls, and can be seen anytime. Contact Russel Hertzog via email, or at 208-542-9922 (evenings and weekends) or 208-526-4092 during business hours.
For Sale: Very nice green TR-6 in Boise. Everything (rubber seals, interior, bumpers, etc) on it is new except the driveline and engine. A first rate driver. Owner is anxious to sell starting at $7K. Call Jerry Renfro, 208/939-2546.
I need to reduce my Jaguar collection! The following cars are for sale.
These first two cars are drivers in excellent condition:
1990 XJS convertible, medium metallic brown/tan, excellent condition
1993 XJ6 sedan, British Racing Green/tan, excellent condition
The following list are project cars that need work as listed. In some cases, I may have most of parts to fix them:
1988 Van Den Plas, needs paint and tlc
1990 XJ6 Sedan, front end damage
1989 XJS coupe, engine fire, otherwise beautiful shape
1995 XJS convertible, front damage
1998 Van Den Plas, front end and side damage
1997 XK8 convertible, right front end damaged
2001 XJR convertible, roll over
Please contact Dave Hobson at 801-224-9313 or email at drhobson@hotmail.com, or call Bruce Keetch at 801-368-9900 for more information.
Board of Governors:
Bill Robinson, 947-9480, email: brobinson@redwoodmusic.com
Marty Van Nood, Chancellor of the Exchequer; 467-0525 (H)
Gary Lindstrom, 532-1259
Newsletter Editor: Nathan Massie, 486-2935 email: nlmassie@mmm.com
Membership director: Bruce Schilling, 486-0425 email: partsmaster@sisna.com
This Newsletter is published by the British Motor Club of Utah, Ltd., a non-profit corporation of British automobile owners. The group holds monthly events such as drives, picnics, technical sessions, and more. We welcome owners (or potential owners) of British cars, in any condition, to the group. Membership is free, but we ask for a donation at events to support the Newsletter and other activities. If you would like to join the group, send your name, address, and a list of British cars owned to
Bruce Schilling
917 East Mill Creek Way
Salt Lake City, Utah 84106
or to Bruce’s email address shown above.
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British Motor Club of Utah
1944 East 2700 South
Salt Lake City, Utah 84106