British Motor Club of Utah

Come join us for the Annual Antelope Island run! Saturday, May 19th, at 10 AM we will meet in the parking lot of Fresh Market on 200 N. in Kaysville (turn East off the Kaysville 200 N. exit and go a couple blocks– it will be on the North side of the road). At 10:30 we’ll take off and motor down back roads to the island. The entrance fee for the island is $9 ($6 for seniors). We’ll drive to the ranch, bring a picnic lunch; if it’s cold I’ll bring hot chocolate! The bugs may be bad so you may want to bring bug spray and look forward to washing your car! Paul will be meeting anyone from area’s south at the Capitol at 9 am for a 9:15 departure; please contact him if you’ll be joining him there. See you there!

- Kimberly Owens

Saturday morning up at Dr. Hoopes’ I expected ten or so, it turned out to be forty or so, and that’s good. As you can see by the pictures Phil has many cars that are special for their marque like that MGA or TF. Take your pick, he has a few. His first Triumph had the keys in the ignition and all were welcome to drive the dear and many did. Towards lunchtime a few of us motored up Cottonwood to Snow Bird for lunch with Phil in the lead and the first TR scooted right up the hill with authority. He mentioned driving with us to Antelope Island next, let’s see what he shows up with for that.

- Paul Jaroch

Springtime Drive with our Austin Healey friends April 28, 2012 began rather chilly at our Cars and Coffee site of the Starbucks in Kimball Junction. Chilly but the sun shone bright to warm things up soon. We meandered along the two-lane roads east then north past Rockport Lake and onto Wanship. From there the route gets a bit fuzzy but we continued on north through beautiful countryside and everything was blessedly green. Eventually we connected to west bound 84 to the turn off to Taggart’s Grill, a roadhouse that’s famous in these parts six miles east of Morgan; once tried and you’ll see why. Taggart’s was a campground and fishing destination in it’s early days and the history is in the many old photos on the walls. Yes, in one of the pictures that’s a bobcat sitting on the little girl’s lap, a fat bobcat. It showed up they fed it and it stayed. The present location is just west of the original campground, the bait shop long gone. The area is now a popular paddling and rafting stretch of the Weber River. Back on the road Ogden is 15 miles west of Morgan on 84 connecting with 89 and south to Farmington and the Salt Lake Valley. I’m in Ogden and we know the spots in Morgan well like Larry’s Spring Chicken Inn and Louis’s Authentic Mexican, for future references you see. So a beautiful day spent with our new friends from the Austin Healey group doing what we do best, drive interesting routes and enjoy local treats along the way.

- Paul Jaroch

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Thought you might like some shots from yesterday’s car show. We had 6 BMCU cars in attendance. I took both the Sprite and the Lotus Caterham, Roger Gisseman brought his MGA coupe, MGB-GT and his MGB roadster and the MGTD with the hand-made Kevlar/carbon fiber top was there. (I cannot remember the owner’s name – hopefully you will know it. He participates in some of our events.) BMCUer Rob Green brought his silver Porsche 356. Pugs came as a spectator. What a perfect day for a car show. Can’t believe we didn’t get more of our club cars out.

Enjoyed the $1 hamburgers and hotdogs, a pretty good rock band and all the biker babes in bikinis . . . not necessarily in that order!

-Ron Christensen

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The Wasatch Mountain Jaguar Register has cordially extended an invitation to us to join them for a tour of Kirkham Motorsports in Provo on Saturday, April 28 at 10 am. We went once before and it was quite a treat to see. A huge thanks to the WMJR for including us. Here’s the article from this month’s Jag club newsletter on the event:

The story of Kirkham Motorsports and the attention it is bringing to Utah automotive interest and manufacturing expertise is a fascinating one. WMJR members will be treated to a personalized tour of their world headquarters in Provo, where the production of Cobra replica cars and parts will be on display. Even if you are not particularly a Cobra fan you will be dazzled by the craftsmanship, tooling, and technology employed in this enterprise.

This not to be missed event will be 10am Saturday morning April 28. To reach the facility take the Center St. Orem exit (271) off I-15 and travel west 0.2 miles to Geneva Rd., turn left (south) for 2.9 miles. Keep left onto West 1680 North Street. Kirkhams is at 2575 West, on the right. If you get lost call them at 801-377-8224 for guidance.

Depending on interest there may be an impromptu lunch gathering after the event. Thanks go out to WMJR member David Hobson for facilitating this event.

For more information on Kirkham Motorsports visit their website at www.kirkhammotorsports.com