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FEBRUARY 2021 Volume #20 No. 2 Coming up... 5310 Vinings Springs Point, Mableton, GA 30126 • www.ngjc.us February 24th Porsche Experience Center Tour & Lunch March 20th Metal Union Speed Shop tour and metal tech session April 10 - Detail Life with Jose Soto, ceramic coating tech session. The Ecurie Cars LM69 Host of the Is a Street- 2017 International Legal Jaguar Jaguar Festival LETTER XJ13 From FROM THE an Alternate PRESIDENT Reality The calendar is starting A $1.5 million look to shape up to have something for everyone. at what the Jaguar The Porsche Experience XJ13 could have The Ecurie tour and catered lunch for been. February 24th is filling up Conner Golden, Cars LM69 so don’t procrastinate. Automobilemag See the article in this issue on how to sign up and pay. Despite appearances, In March we have a tech this svelte and supremely session and tour of Metal swoopy shape is not a real Union in Lilburn. The car. Well, it’s real insofar Porsche Experience Center Wednesday, February 24, 2021 shop has some amazing as it physically exists on Submitted by John Yates cars and will demonstrate this slice of the multiverse, February’s event will be a guided tour of the Porsche AGENDA some converted aircraft and if the purveyors at Experience divided into two groups of 10 to allow 10:30AM - Arrival /Check in metal working machinery Ecurie Cars are to be social distancing on Wednesday the 24th. After our 11:00AM - OPD tour dating back to WWII. believed, it runs and tours we will have a catered lunch in the 356 restaurant 12:30PM - Lunch in Restaurant 356 Social distancing will be drives as sharp as a real surrounded by vintage Porsches. 2:30PM – Departure achieved by dividing up Ford GT40 or Lola T70. The 2 Course Prix Fixed Menu includes: Porsche Experience Center, Atlanta our members into stations Conceptually, Ecurie Car’s Bread and Butter One Porsche Dr, Atlanta, GA 30354 that will rotate throughout LM69 is a manifestation in Starter: The cost of this event is $31.00 per person. To sign the 15,000 square foot the cosmic game of “what Chef’s Selection of Seasonal Soup up and pay go to www.ngjc.us, select the Calendar tab, facility. if,” specifically as applied Main: click on the highlighted HERE under the February 24, Be sure to check the to the stillborn 1966 Roast Turkey Club, Smoked Maple Cheddar, 2021 tab and fill out the form and submit. Payments are white cover insert sheet Jaguar XJ13 prototype and Charred Onion Aioli, Baby Kale, Demi -Baguette made via PayPal. The club has underwriten 25% of the that comes with your what the XJ13 program Served with Housemade Potato Chips cost for this event. “JOURNAL” magazine for might have looked like had Soft beverage or tea The cutoff date for this event is Wednesday your new membership it continued development February 17th. card. A lot of clubs are through the 1969 race doing this as a cost saving season. 2021 Concours Judges Update measure. The January/ First, some clarification; February issue may still despite carrying Who wants to help make the NGJC Concours the best event have the 2020 expiration augmented Jaguar on the JCNA calendar? mechanicals and taking Submitted by Philip DiTrolio, Chief Judge NGJC Continued on page 2 direct inspiration from The North Georgia Jaguar Club was one of only ten adding some additional events in the week leading up to Welcome new one of Jaguar’s greatest clubs to hold a sanctioned JCNA Concours in 2020, our Concours. Activities might include a Slalom, perhaps member designs, this project isn’t everyone who participated should be justifiably proud a Rally, a Tech Day, a Detail Day or even one of Dave Randy Muecke officially affiliated with the of our event! We had no less than five 2020 National Kirkman’s famous mountain drives; think fall colors! of Marble Hill, GA, great British marque. As Champions in attendance! It’s early in the year but we These activities would help fill the week as well as Donald Pace of the name implies, this wild are already putting together plans for this year’s event showing our out-of-town guests a little of our Southern Lawrenceville, project falls entirely under Michael Chassner which is currently scheduled for October 31st at our hospitality. Would anyone be interested in attending a the purview of Ecurie of Marietta, traditional venue, The Chattahoochee Country Club! Saturday night cocktail party? I would consider hosting Cars, who in turn carries Dale and Susan Baker Historically our Concours is one of the last events it at our home. Last year Karen & I invited several the spiritual torch of the of Cumming, on the JCNA calendar and as such we usually attract out-of-towners over on Saturday night, old friends got defunct Ecurie Ecosse Tom and Midge Gose some of the finest Jags from around the country. With reacquainted, new friends were made and a great time racing team. French for of Maretta, this year’s International Jaguar Festival scheduled for was had by all. “Scottish Stable,” Ecurie David and Debbie Peck October 23 in Fort Meyers, Florida, it provides a unique As with everything else this can only happen if more Ecosse’s signature dark of Johns Creek and opportunity for our club. Many of the IJF participants of the membership gets involved. While our Jaguars are blue cars were a mainstay Jason and Heather heading home will pass right through Atlanta, so I’m what brings us together it’s the people that make our Anderson on the international racing asking our members if they would be interested in club great! of Atlanta Continued on page 4 Continued on page 7 President’s Letter continued from Page 1 date. Future issues should catch up as applications for volunteering for this position. Secretary 2021 are finalized. Stay safe and watch out for that other Officers John Hollier We still need a VP for our club, please consider crazy on the road. John Yates President [email protected],, John C. Yates Concours Chief Judge, [email protected] The Modern Classic, XK | X150 Philip DiTrolio at SNG Barratt Vice-President jaguar@georgiaexpo. OPEN . For years, the X150 version of the XK was referred to to the F-type some years later. As a 4-seater with plenty com as the “New XK” but now, 15 years since its launch, it’s of power in both 4.2 and 5 litre variants, many would Newsletter Editor: already becoming something of a modern classic. This consider that this car is the most recent “GT” that Vice-President for John Baxa was Ian Callum’s first car as head of design at Jaguar Jaguar has produced. At SNG Barratt, we keep a huge Activities 770-642-7535 and the car takes styling cues from Jaguars of the past range of parts to keep these beautiful cars doing what OPEN [email protected] as well as setting a direction that would follow through they do best – Grand Touring. VP-Membership Newsletter Publisher: John Baxa John C. Yates [email protected] [email protected] 770-642-7535 Member-at-large Vice President Bill Flavelle Concours [email protected] Terry Mathewson [email protected] Deadline for Newsletter Articles and Treasurer Advertisements is the Lynn Cunningham 26th of the preceding lynn.cunningham9@gmail. com month. All submissions are The Old Rallymaster nonbinding and subject Dave Kirkman [email protected] to approval. 770 886-7435 Webmaster Dick Maury [email protected] Page 2 2021 NGJC Calendar Tentative Submitted by Dave Kirkman NGJC EVENTS: February MAY 2019 ® M T W T F SAT SUN ? - Spring Drive Picnic Lunch, 26 - 28, Thursday - Saturday, AGM Annual PRESERVE JAGUAR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Dipuma Winery, Helen, GA, Meeting, Columbia SC 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 H I S T O R Y 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Sponsor: J Yates ? - Dawsonville Track, Georgia Racing Hall 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ? - Judges Training test of Fame tour. Optional Go-Kart track time. NGJC EVENTS: March Suwanee, GA – M T W T F SAT SUN Sponsors: P. DiTrolio – T. Sponsor: D. Kirkman 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mathewson 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 SEPTEMBER 2020 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 20 - 23, Thursday – Sunday, ? - Summer Drive Brasstown Resort, Young 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Harris, GA Brunch 29 30 31 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, Amelia Island FL Sponsor:? Club Event Holiday Other Event JUNE 2020 11, Saturday, Atlanta British Car Fayre – JANUARY 2020 4 - 6 Friday - Sunday, Coventry Norcross, GA Nothing planned Foundation Overnight, Cars and Coffee event Now Accepting Donations on 6/5 that will include a 26, Sunday, Atlanta Concours d’Elegance at FEBRUARY 2020 British Sports Car Hall of Fame ceremony Tylor Perry Studios 24 - Wednesday, Porsche Experience Tour & COVENTRY FOUNDATION 25651 Simpson Rd. Petersburg, VA 23803 Lunch. Sponsor: J Yates OCTOBER 2020 6 - 9, Thursday-Sunday, Motul Petit LeMans Donate Today 10 - 13, Thursday - Sunday, Highlands ® MARCH 2019 • Classic Jaguar cars Motoring Festival, NC – Road Atlanta, Braselton, GA 20 - Saturday, 11 AM, Metal Union Speed • Parts Shop tour and metal tech session. Lilburn, 13 - Sunday, Cincinnati Concours, Ault 15 - 17, Chattanooga Motorcar Festival, • Memorabilia GA, Sponsor: J Yates Park, OH. Concours d’Elegance, TN • Literature 25 - Thursday, AGM, COLUMBIA, SC 26 - Saturday, 2nd. Judges Training Car 22, - Friday, International Jaguar Festival • Monetary Donations Clinic and Meadow BBQ Picnic, Canton GA, (IJF), Ft.