OCTOBER 2020 Volume #19 No. 10 Coming up... 5310 Vinings Springs Point, Mableton, GA 30126 • www.ngjc.us Concours 2020 Registration Now Open! October 25th, Club Concours November 21st, NGJC Business Meeting LETTER FROM THE Host of the PRESIDENT 2017 International Jaguar Festival Fall in north Georgia is my favorite time of the year with the cooler weather, sunny days, and the changing of the color. While the pandemic has completely disrupted most Retro of our normal activities Drive: 1966 I would encourage all Jaguar XJ13, of us to take a moment, Unrealized Le go outside on a nice warm sunny fall day, Mans Racer Pennsylvania and somehow know that Article on page 5 we will get through this College of together. Technology Sunday, October Display Cars Can Still Sign Up For NGJC’s Concours Student 25 is our annual Submitted by Philip Di Trolio NGJC Concours. Terry Awarded NGJC Our club’s Concours will be held on October 25, 2020 before the long, cold southern winter sets in! Mathewson, Concours V.P. at the Chattahoochee Country Club. Registration is still Also, our Concours is the perfect opportunity to Scholarship and Philip DiTrolio, Chief open for Display Only cars. New for this year, you will introduce prospective new members to our club, so Submitted by Judge have worked very need to register in advance: online only! Registration please feel free to invite friends to this event, even if Lynn Cunningham hard with Roy Cleveland to can be accessed through our club website, ngjc.us, via they aren’t current Jaguar owners. We have invited ensure safe environmental We’ve heard from the the calendar page. You will not be able to register on the Hennessey Jaguar to bring a couple of special cars for arrangements with the Coventry Foundation day of the event, so go ahead and get registered today. display, making this an ideal time to potentially check CCC for outdoor dining that the scholarship we You can still be a part of this spectacular event, by out your next Jaguar. Map on page 7 for those who wish it. funded has been awarded entering our Display Class. Display cars are presented For those who are judging and have not yet declared Also Chief judge Phillip to a current student at as in our judged classes; however, they are not judged. a class preference, email me at jaguar@georgiaexpo. DiTrilio will provide masks Pennsylvania College Nothing is better than a beautiful fall day, good com or call my cell (404) 372-9071 and let me know for entrants and judges. of Technology. Here is friends, great cars, and maybe even a glass of socially what interests you. Hopefully you will choose the notice Gary Kincel distanced champagne. Karen says this is the perfect What a great feeling it is to be part to come and enjoy a posted on the Coventry opportunity for a fall picnic. After all, this could be of a truly great club! beautiful fall day outdoors Foundation Facebook the last time we can get together and enjoy our Jaguars at the CCC. page: The club’s annual “I am pleased to let NGJC Business Meeting Saturday, November 21st everyone know that our business meeting and Submitted by Dave Kirkman election of officers will 4th scholarship was take place on Saturday, Our club’s annual business meeting is scheduled for is Georgia Expo, 3355 Martin Farm Rd. Suwanee, GA recently awarded to a November 21. Complete Saturday, November 21st. This is when we have the 30024. Any interested club members are welcome to student at Pennsylvania details will be in the election of officers and begin to plan for next year’s attend. We’ll have more information in next month’s College of Technology. November newsletter. If activities. Philip De Trolio has offered to let us use newsletter. The student’s name is anyone is interested in his company’s facilities for this meeting. The address Allison Hoch, a second running for one of the club year student in the offices please contact me. Automotive Restoration Travel Safe, Technology program. David Kirkman The scholarship is for the academic year 2020/2021. Welcome new Funds for this scholarship members were donated to the J.P. and Jenny Summers of foundation by the North Alpharetta, Georgia Jaguar Club to Dennis and Janice Clack of honor years of service to Tellico Plains, TN the club by John Hoffman. and September We thank the North Lew George of Drive Georgia Club for their Atlanta Article on page 2 Continued on page 7 First Club Fall Drive Saturday, September 26th Officers Submitted by John Yates President Secretary Dave Kirkman John Hollier Meeting at the back of the North Georgia Outlet Mall Special thanks to Dave Kirkman The O’Rallymaster [email protected] [email protected],, on a picture perfect day we headed out through the for guiding the route and John Hollier for making the 770 886-7435 Concours Chief Judge, mountain roads to Copperhead Lodge for lunch. arrangements at the Rattlesnake Lodge. Vice-President Philip DiTrolio at OPEN jaguar@georgiaexpo. com. Vice-President for Newsletter Editor: Activities John Baxa OPEN 770-642-7535 [email protected] VP-Membership John Baxa Newsletter Publisher: [email protected] John C. Yates 770-642-7535 [email protected] Vice President Member-at-large Concours Bill Flavelle Terry Mathewson [email protected] [email protected] Deadline for Newsletter Treasurer Articles and Lynn Cunningham Advertisements is the lynn.cunningham9@gmail. 26th of the preceding com month. The Old Rallymaster All submissions are Dave Kirkman nonbinding and subject [email protected] to approval. 770 886-7435 Webmaster Dick Maury [email protected] Page 2 2020 NGJC Calendar Submitted by Dave Kirkman Summer Drive TBD ® NGJC EVENTS: October AUGUST 2019 PRESERVE JAGUAR M T W T F SAT SUN August 15, Saturday - Judges 1 2 3 4 Training, Suwanee, GA – H I S T O R Y 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 P. DiTrolio 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 SEPTEMBER 2020 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 September 11-12, Mountain Motoring Tours, Highlands, NC 26 27 28 29 30 31 September 12, Saturday – Atlanta British Car Fayre – Norcross, GA NGJC EVENTS: November Sept 17-20 Peachtree MG Registry M T W T F SAT SUN British Car Festival, Dillard, GA Saturday, September 26, Fall 1 Drive - D. Kirkman 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 OCTOBER 2020 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 October 7-10 Thursday-Sunday, 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Motul Petit LeMans – Road Now Accepting Donations 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Atlanta, Braselton, GA 30 October 25, Sunday - NGJC COVENTRY FOUNDATION Concours d’Elegance – JANUARY 2020 April 19, Sunday – Spring Drive Gainesville, GA – T. Mathewson, Donate Today Club Event Holiday P. DiTrolio ® Nothing planned Canton GA • Classic Jaguar cars Other Event sponsor Dave Kirkman October 30-November 1, Friday- • Parts FEBRUARY 2020 April 24-26, Friday-Sunday, HSR Sunday Hilton Head Concours – • Memorabilia Feb 15, Saturday – Valentines Walter Mitty – Road Atlanta, Hilton Head Island, SC Lunch, Pearl Lian, Duluth, GA Braselton, GA • Literature NOVEMBER 2020 • Monetary Donations MARCH 2019 MAY 2019 November 21 Saturday, 10:30 AM March 22, Sunday – May 24, Sunday Late Spring NGJC Business Meeting Suwannee, First Spring Drive Drive, sponsor Dave Kirkman GA D. Kirkman DECEMBER 2020 March 28, Saturday Roswell JUNE 2020 December NGJC Holiday Party Motoring Festival, Roswell City June 28, Sunday, June Club Drive. Hall – Roswell, GA Dawsonville, GA - March 28-29, Saturday-Sunday D. Kirkman SVRA Historic Races – Road Cancelled – Peachtree Corners www.coventryfoundation.org Atlanta, Braselton, GA Festival & British Motorcar Day – Peachtree Corners, GA APRIL 2020 JULY 2018 Keeping your Jaguar on the road Call us on +44 (0)1746 765432 (UK) / +1 800 452 4787 (USA) or visit sngbarratt.com Page 3 Retro Drive: 1966 Jaguar XJ13, Unrealized Le Mans Racer It could have raced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Now it’s a national treasure. From Angus MacKenzie, Automobile Mag LeMans, 1968, the way it was meant to sound: the rolling thunder of the 7.0-liter Ford racing car as early as 1953. Back then, Jaguar technicians insisted on sticking with GT40s, the screaming howl of the Ferrari P4s, the edgy rasp of the Porsche 908s, and the tried and true front-engine layout for what became the D-Type, but the idea the metallic snarl of the mid-engine, V-12-powered Jaguar XJ13. The thought of this apparently knocked around Jaguar’s engineering office under the designation G-Type impossibly low-slung British Racing until 1958. Green roadster running wheel to wheel Despite talk of having the XJ13 ready down the Mulsanne Straight with in time for the 1965 Le Mans race, the scarlet Ferraris, big-banger Fords, and project didn’t actually get underway scrappy Porsches is enough to get any until June 3, 1965—little more than two enthusiast’s pulse racing. Of course, weeks before the race—and the car was it never happened. But to wriggle into not completed until March 1966. Then the one and only XJ13’s snug cockpit, it was immediately grounded by Lyons, grasp the well-worn wood-rimmed who decreed the XJ13 was not even to steering wheel, and fire up the fuel- be driven around the factory grounds, injected V-12 nestling in the small of much less tested and developed. your back is to get a tantalizing taste Norman Dewis, Jaguar’s long-serving of the glorious spectacle it would have chief test driver, speculates the XJ13 been.