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September 2011

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Shropshire and Welsh Borders Newsletter September 2011

SFOT—Nearly right first time!!

Regional News

Thank you for coming!!

Cover photo: E Types line up everywhere at the Silverstone Classic Festival in July

Meet at the Four Crosses, Bicton, nr. Shrewsbury

2nd Tuesday of the month

JEC Shropshire & Welsh Borders

SFOT Unbelievable to think that the SFOT

has now been and gone.

15 months in the planning, there

were a few sleepless nights in the

run up to the day itself. I hope

some of that showed in the organi-

sation, although we recognise

there are many things that could

have gone better. Either way

thanks to everyone who helped

out, particularly Martin, Stevie B,

Wally, Jim and Neil whose help on

Saturday setting up was absolutely

invaluable.

Thanks also to all of the members

who turned out to support the

show on the Sunday, it was an im-

pressive turnout and I can report

that 70% of our regions E Types

were on display as well which is

without doubt a record for one

event. I am only sorry that I did not

get more time to stop and talk to

more of you but it was a very hec-

tic day though one which I we be-

lieve was an overall qualified suc-

cess.

I must also thank our sponsors

Hatfield Jaguar, SNG Barratt, 27

Stars, 3 S Signs, and the Shropshire

Star without whom none of it

would have even got off the

ground. In total there were nearly

70 Jaguars on the JEC area and

that rivals the turnout for events

like Tatton Park and Trentham Gar-

dens. Pretty good for the first time.

Thanks too to Sue Hedley, JEC

Chairman, her hubbie Andy who

did some impromptu marshalling

for us, Nigel Thorley for his excellent

commentary, David Bates for

bringing the raffle car and lastly

James Blackwell who manned the

JEC shop on the day—your en-

couragement and support was

invaluable..

Oops! Not sure how it happened but

somehow I got the date of last

month‟s meeting confused. I

hope that most of you realised

my mistake and turned up on

the right date, namely the 9th,

and if you did go on the 16th you

will accept my sincere apolo-

gies—but I did have a lot on my

mind (see SFOT!!)

August Highs August has been a bit of a high

for one member. Norman Evans

was awarded the prize for best E

Type at the Shropshire festival of

Transport and then on August

14th at Shugborough he won the

prize on the JEC stand for “Best

Visitor‟s” car. Both were well de-

served, well done Norman.

Though I am not really sure how

North Staffs decided that Shug-

borough show belongs to them

and that we are “visitors” - espe-

cially as we had all the flags up

at Shugborough! Either way it

was a nice afternoon out—full

report soon!

Ray

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I think I can be confident in

saying that all our members remember the Sony Betamax debacle; many of you may

have been caught (like me!) with the wrong technology and had to

eventually change a VHS, not that it was a great hardship and the price of a video recorder was just a few

hundred pounds—not something you might therefore lose sleep over.

I am not so sure however about the next generation of hybrid, electron, electric, photogenic, cryogenic, cel-

lular battery powered vehicles. I am not even sure I understand the

logic for the direction some of the motor manufacturers are taking—they seem to have lots of money to

invest presumably from grants given to them by the governments back in 2008, so that makes it our money

technically and they also seem to be spending it in a random un co-

ordinated fashion. The different approaches to saving

the lesser spotted Orkney green seal are endless. Nissan and Renault are

building electric vehicles; they do

about 100 miles on a charge and take between 4-8 hours to charge up. The Nissan Leaf is this year’s

European Car of the year. Its a nice car. And apparently drives very

well—but it would not get you from Oswestry to Birmingham and back, and if you left it in an airport car

park chances are that you would come back to a flat battery.

It also costs £25k to buy and the battery pack has to be replaced in 5 years and that costs a further £10k

or so. So its really only any good for daily short distance commuting or for little old ladies who want to pop

to Marks and Spencer’s every day for their shopping.

Except that for commuting we are all supposed to be using public transport in the future to reduce the

number of car journeys and reduce congestion—in which case surely an

electric car that may lose charge and grind to a stop is likely to cause even more congestion than a normal

one.

Other manufacturers are going for

hybrid vehicles, a subject we have discussed before. These involve various different types of compli-

cated drive systems, all of which will be very expensive to replace when

they start to wear out assuming that you will be able to get the spare parts and afford to pay an electri-

cian to effect a repair. And this amazing technology achieves about 45-50 mpg from a petrol hybrid en-

gine. In which case you have to ask again

what the point is since most 2.0 litre diesel engines now do over 50 mpg and some are now achieving mid

60’s.

Yes I know they still put out nasty

hydro-carbons but so does the hy-brid petrol engine so I for one can-not see the difference.

The reality is that neither of these

solutions is the fuschia, sorry the future.

They are a bridging technology to get us used to a different means of propulsion and will eventually be as

extinct as the dodo but probably have a much shorter life cycle.

What we are waiting for is the hy-drogen fuel cell, and the experts will tell you that much of the charg-

ing and drive technology being de-

veloped on today’s electric cars will

one day form the basis for the hy-drogen fuel cell drive is to come.

Well I hope so, but in the mean-time I suspect second hand Nissan

Leafs and Renault Zero’s will have all the cache of today’s used Proton, and about as much street

cred. I think I will stick to my VHS for

now.....

Rays Ravings

FOR SALE: Sony Betamax, one careful owner,

only 5k miles, £25k o.n.o

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Rays Ravings

1964 to 2002

S Type and XJ8 for spares

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Shropshire & Welsh Borders Newsletter September 2011

Summer BBQ Report

I have often found that returning back to a restaurant following a good experi-ence can be a disappointment and that the second time never quite lives up to

the memory of the first. Happily this turned out not to be the case in this year’s BBQ where we returned once again to the Olde hand and Diamond at Co-edway following a successful first fory there in 2010. Our Summer BBQ (and Bonnets Up) day is traditionally an opportunity to get together with fellow enthusiasts and share experi-ences and tales of ownership, or simply so-cialise in an convivial atmosphere. Co-operation of the weather is as always in summer a bit of a lottery and this year we enjoyed much better weather than in previ-ous years with bright blue skies, fluffy white clouds and just a light breeze, in other words pretty much perfect BBQ conditions. We were scheduled to start at 2 p.m and I determined to arrive “early” to help Jim Craib with the set up and subsequent proceed-ings. However arriving at said time I found that either the weather, or hunger had driven

a large number of members to arrive earlier so there was an already impressive array of Jaguars adorning the Olde Hand’s car park. In total over 24 cars turned up for the after-noon which is the best turnout for our BBQ for some considerable time. The BBQ was already being warmed up and by 2 p.m the first smells of cooking were starting to waft from the cooking area to the main parking area . It was not long before a queue of hungry Jaguarists had formed and were treated once again to a feast of meats (not a veg-

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gies’ day out admittedly) as well as freshly pre-pared salads and a baked potato. Ian and his team managed to maintain the stan-dard they set last year and there was still Eton mess and other choices available for dessert assuming of course that anyone had any room for such a treat. There was a wealth of beautiful cars on display including Alan Harris’ recently finished XK120 featured a few months back on our front cover, Norman Evans soon to be award winning E Type, to name just a few—these were sprinkled

amongst some very nice more modern Jaguars, and it was nice to see such a variety of vehicles confirming our remit as an Enthusiasts Club NOT a club for classics only. Whilst eating was going on raffle tickets had been distributed and bought for prizes donated by our principal sponsors, SNG Barratt and Hat-feld’s Jaguar as well as some items donated by the members themselves. First Prize of an £50 SNG Barratt voucher was won by Al McLean. Other prizes were won in-cluding Martin Edwards winning an “espresso”

coffee set, however one member of the Bren-nan family had his eyes on a rather smart ra-dio controlled model of the latest XK that clearly would provide hours of fun. I under-stand that dad had had to invest considerable sums in the raffle to secure its ride home in the Brennan family Daimler. V8 250. The Brennans were sharing their picnic table with Eric Capron and his partner Susan, and as every prize was chosen and removed from the table so the excitement on their table rose to fever pitch. So when Susan’s ticket was pulled out and she chose the afore mentioned RC XK the look of disappointment was very pronounced until Susan, in a wonderful ges-ture, presented it to Master Brennan and pos-sibly the biggest smile of the day broke out—we hope he is enjoying his Jaguar “driving” ex-perience!

So a very happy ending to another successful day out—thanks to those who turned out, Jim Craib for organising this year’s event and Ian and the team at the OH&D for keeping up their standards. Third time lucky maybe?

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GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED

Ian Milner accepted a last minute offer to go to this year’s Festival of Speed, this is what he found.....

T he Festival of Speed is one of the major events organised by

Lord March at Goodwood. Having now been for the first

time I can confirm that anyone with an interest in motor vehi-

cles has to add this to their “bucket list” and preferably before

they are too old to enjoy it!

A friend of mine had been on two previous occasions with his

son. This year his son was unable to attend so he asked me to

accompany him, which I gladly accepted, after having first ob-

tained approval from the management! I offered the services of

my XF to transport us there. An early start (6:00 a.m!) from

Leominster saw us arrive at the entrance to Goodwood just be-

fore 9:00 a.m, parking was well organised (as was the whole day)

and was included in the prepaid entrance fee, so no messing

about or queuing for car park tickets (unlike other major

shows!). The show is spread out across the whole of the Good-

wood estate (and uphill obviously!) so you will do a fair amount

of legwork to get about. There are plenty of viewing points and

also plenty of food, drink and toilet facilities along the way. You

enter via the Auto Trader Moving Motor Show where a number

of major manufacturers displayed their wares both old and new.

Once onto the site the exhibits are along and either side of the

legendary hill climb. I recommend walking to the top of the hill

climb to take in the Rally Stage and then it is downhill all the

way. Here are the rest of the major manufacturers with their

display stands.

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Jaguar was no exception with their marquee

equal to the displays of Mercedes and Audi (plus

my JEC membership card got us a free coffee

and bacon rolls!)

Jaguars were well represented throughout the

event with the 50th celebration of the E Type.

The main theme statue outside Goodwood House

was an impressive sculpture provided by Tata.

The Cartier Style et Luxe concours featured the

most famous E Types currently available and

the “New” Eagle Speedster, a mere snip at

£499,999!

10 judges deliberated over the car of the show

and apparently could not agree unanimously but

eventually some old Ferrari nudged ahead of the

Geneva E Type presented by Peter Neumark

and he was runner up.

A long but enjoyable day. I would recommend it

particularly to be able to see the rare and exotic

automobiles blasting up the hill climb. Also if

you go make sure you get close enough to the

rally stage to get thoroughly covered in dust—

after which you can walk through the paddock

and get up close and personal to all the cars, and

not to mention the occasional celebrity.

The number of cars was just too great to list but

some of the memorable Jaguars that were not E

Types included the new concept Sports car and

the XKR-S ( but not sure I would choose it in

French Blue!) . There are other “daydream” mo-

ments particularly when I viewed the new

MacLaren and the Aston Martin 1-77.

The montage of picture will hopefully provide you with

a feel of the day and maybe this could be a future

weekend away for the region, next year perhaps?

Ian Milner

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Regional News continued.....

SUNDAY LUNCH CLUB STOP PRESS The Sunday Lunch Club has been one of our more popular

ventures over the last few years however last year our out-

ings were few and far between. This year we will be trying

to publish a schedule for these Sundays in advance to give

people more notice.

Our first venue is Halfpenny Green Vineyard, located at

Tom Lane, Halfpenny Green, Staffs DY7 5EP.

As well as the restaurant there is a craft centre, farmers mar-

ket and shop and delicatessen. SO you may want to get

there early and have a look around before lunch, for full in-

formation go to their website:

www.halfpenny-green-vineyards.co.uk

The date we have booked for is:

SUNDAY 2ND OCTOBER at 2:30 p.m. We have reserved

places for about 20 people and these will be allocated on a

first come first served basis. You will need to contact either

myself or Jim Craib to book your places. All bookings must

be made with us no later than 30th September!!

Prices are as follows:

Starters £3.25—£5

Mains £7.65—£10

Desserts £3.00—£4.25

Each diner chooses their own courses.

Don’t forget to reserve your place contact:

Ray Searles

[email protected]

01952 291898

Jim Craib

[email protected]

01952 242119

COACH TRIP TO THE NEC CLASSIC SHOW

Shropshire Classics have asked us to tell you about the

Coach trip they are arranging to go to the NEC Classics

Show on Sunday 13th November.

The coach will leave Bicton Club at 08:30 hrs returning from

the NEC at approximately 5:00 p.m. Cost for the coach is

expected to be about £7-8 pounds per head, tickets for the

NEC would be purchased on arrival.

You could take advantage of this to see if you had won the

JEC XK Coupe in the raffle and then drive that home!

If you are interested you need to contact Ken Williams, on

01743 341439.

Available for the first

time in years, SNG Barratt has repro-

duced the chrome pillar cappings for E-Type S1 & S2

Roadsters.

Retailing at £15.91

(ex VAT).

Sales Office UK 01746 765432

Email: Sales.uk@sngbarratt.

com

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Friday 17th June - Day 2 After a good nights sleep in the bridal suite

of the Blazing Donkey we face an early

start but are not the first down to break-

fast, Norman and Pam and some other

guests are already there.

We passed on collecting our Route Books

from the Ramada the evening before so we

now have to register first thing this morn-

ing. Our breakfast is quickly eaten and the

E Types are then carefully repacked. We

depart for the Ramada at 8:10 a.m.

The sight that awaits us when we get there

was not exactly what I anticipated—a car

park so stuffed full of Jaguars they take up

every space, every piece of grass verge and

even some of the approach road. Clearly

there are quite a few people going. Some-

how we both manage to find a space to

squeeze into the car park. No sooner have

we parked than a coach collecting a party

of travellers bound presumably for France

as well decides to reverse the length of the

car park between many thousands of

pounds worth of Classic and modern Jag-

uars—I can barely look because there is

less than a fag paper to spare on either

side, but skilfully he guides the monstrosity

down to reception to pick up his “cargo”.

Meanwhile we have arrived at the checking in

point and meet our “hosts come marshal’s”

for the first time. We are issued our route

books and some literature to help us enjoy

our week, as well as our “Entente” instruc-

tions. As an Entente virgin we are offered

tuition on how to read the “tulip” diagrams

which I decline—how difficult can it be, Mme

Le N has a degree and as a woman is capable

of multi-tasking so where’s the problem?

Whether this becomes famous last words or

amazingly intuitive bravado only time will tell.

In the meantime we note all the fellow en-

tentees, most of whom are gathering their

luggage or hastily polishing off the remains of

their breakfast—we spot the McLeans who

have lodged at the Ramada overnight and

swap stories of our drive down. But before

long it is time to set off for the ten minute

driver to Dover ferry port.

The coach has departed so we can actually

exit and many Jaguars have already left. At

the ferry port the number plate recognition

system cannot pick up the plate on the nose

of an E Type so we have to be manually

checked in but are soon making our way to

our specially reserved parking lines where we

get our first look at the collection of Jaguars

embarking on this years tour, 97 in all.

Two lines of Jaguars

at Dover

(the story of Sophee’s ENTENTE CORDIALE

2011)

Episode 2: “The Road to Ram-boo-lay!” (en Francais that’s Rambouillet)

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We virtually fill both parking lanes and as we near boarding it is an

impressive sight.

As we all get out to stretch our legs for a bit there is a critical topic

being debated by virtually all in the queue. Just where do you put

the stick-on light conversion patches on an E Type—(or anything

else for that matter). The extensive instructions do not go back to

pre 1986 so through trial and error and intuition, together with

the collective brain cells of about 5 E Type owners each with the

same challenge we hit upon a solution, reasoning that we do not

plan to drive in the dark anyway so as long as it looks about right

we should be OK.

This is the first chance we have to engage in conversation with

other owners and I am impressed by how easy and friendly every-

one is. The driver of the car parked next to me recognises that

Sophee has an Edinburgh registration and immediately asks if we

are from there or if we know anything about her origin as he has

some recognition of seeing her there—turns out he probably

knew her previous owner.

We are soon loaded on board and within minutes of being packed

sardine like onto Deck 7 we are on the move. We have to attend a

briefing session now to explain the tour and the next few days so

we head off to find the room in which we all congregate. This

requires finding the right set of stairs which we don’t and then

navigating our way to the rear of the ferry. Our first navigation

challenge a complete failure then ferries are confusing!

The briefing, if I am being honest is difficult. The room is large and

the ferry noisy so even with PA assistance it is difficult to hear the

instructions clearly—which appear to be the document we were

given being read out with some additional colour. If this is normal

practice then perhaps it needs a makeover? Either way once over

we head for the coffee bar and reconvene a meeting of Shropshire

region. We are not going to arrive until lunchtime so our key ques-

tion for Al and Caroline is where best to stop for lunch. Mean-

while, our crossing is smooth but the weather is gradually getting

worse the closer we get to France—by the time we dock it is hiss-

ing down.

At 1:15 pm we disembark. Kay notes the speed limits—90 kph =

55 mph, 130 kph = 80 ish...no tickets—that’s the lorrrr! (think Insp

Clouseau)

We zero the trip for the first time this week, as instructed in our

route book and also for the first time we are on the wrong side of

the road and Kay is in control of where we end up. We have 136

miles to cover on the Autoroute before taking off onto the more

scenic route. Its been 6 hours since breakfast and everyone is

hungry so Al and Caroline have recommended stopping at the

second services, Aire de la Baie de Somme, a distance of 68 miles

away.

Arriving there it is very scenic compared to our service areas

though the drizzle still falling detracts from what would otherwise

be a very nice rest stop.

We arrive there at 2:45 p.m. The worry is we still have 150

miles to go and we have yet to get to the twisty bit. We grab

a quick sandwich and “comfort break” and by 3:25 are back

on the autoroute.

Top : Al & Norman decide where to stop

for Lunch Middle: Looking windswept as France Approaches

Bottom: View from the Tower at Aire de la Baie de Somme services

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Eventually we exit towards the town of Auneil where at 4:40 pm

we decide to take on board the next lot of fuel. Another 52 litres

costs €86, £ 80 to you. There are 70 miles to go and progress is

now much slower as we are on D roads that wind through the

outer environs to the West of Paris. Our focus is on trying not to

get lost and keeping up good time. The weather has marginally

improved but progress is slow. We arrive at Oinville, some 37

miles from Auneil but it has taken an hour and that is not with-

out trying. These tiny villages are extensively “speed” averse.

Oinville has 5 speed humps in a mile and a half, all of which have

to be taken with care to preserve one’s exhaust. We pass

through a number of very pretty quiet villages which would be

worth exploring but there is no time. The instructions say allow

minimum 4 hours from Calais, we finally crawl down the ramp of

the underground car park in the Mercure Rambouillet at 6:30

pm. 215 miles have taken over five hours with stops. Norman

and Pam have arrived slightly before us. Arranging to meet up

later we make for our room which is nice and spacious and well

appointed. A quick freshen up before heading out to find some-

where to eat. I have a policy of not eating in chain hotel restau-

rants if I do not have to—it avoids disappointment. We find our

way to a square opposite where there is a “new”ish looking es-

tablishment called Cantine del Roy where everything is decked

out in the brightest shade of lime green imaginable. For France

the feel is very modern and contemporary but the staff are

friendly and the menu interesting. The “manager” tells us that

they recently extended the restaurant and redecorated hence

that is why everything looks fresh and new, even the menus

barely looked thumbed.

As it transpires this turns out to be one of the best restaurant

meals we encounter. The food we pick is cooked and presented

to the highest standard endorsing everything one hears about

the quality of French cooking. Kay pronounces her “trio” of rhu-

barb desserts as a masterpiece worth of Masterchef and

Norman gets his new nickname of “two balls”, which describes

his choice of ice cream dessert and not what you were thinking..

Rambouillet is home to a chateau that is the French version of

“Chequers”, as it is one of the summer residences of the French

Presidents. It is next door to the hotel and it looks interesting

but more of that on the return journey.

Zebedee pronounces that it is time for bed—we have yet to

discover the surprise that awaits us in the morning at the Mer-

cure Rambouillet—and you too will have to wait for next time.

Day 2 is complete another 230 miles covered in total with fuel

costs of £80 . Mpg—at this stage your guess may be as good as

mine

To be continued.....

The Forty Year old Virgin—Day Two—continued......

Left:

Mercure Rambouillet Above:

We decided not to eat here!

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Jim’s Jaunts [email protected]

September 2011 Shropshire and Welsh Borders Newsletter

Hello All,

As I write this I cannot help but wonder if someone has shrunk this year! It does not seem 5 minutes

since we all arrived at Weston Park and now here we are with only Drive

It Day left. But what a year it has been celebrating the 50 years since Sir William Lyons unleashed the E

Type on the motoring world and as a car mad 13 year old I remember seeing one of the first examples

when Tom Leake for those who re-member “The Trafficator” of the Wellington Journal had one on test.

It had the same effect on me as see-ing his first motor car had on “Mr Toad” in “Wind in the Willows.”

Anyway can I say what a splendid turnout we had for the Severn Hos-

pice Classic Rally at Attingham Park; 12 cars in all but this was 10 more than the previous year, and it was

noted that our “A” team had tables chairs and Pimms assembled within

35 seconds of arriving, that’s organi-sation for you! Thanks to David sear Chairman of Severn Hospice for al-

lowing me to do my onw thing when booking cars. This event is in its sec-ond year. The weather this year was

spectacular and we had prime set-ting on the green facing the tea-room and the mansion house, all in

all a very nice afternoon out. And of course Attingham has lots of diver-sions and walks to take advantage

of, or you could, like most of us, just relax and have a last picnic and a socialise.

So our jaunting is just about done for 2011, barring the Drive It day details of which are on the panel

on the RHS of this page, which will be MEA’s last outing of this

year. I am now planning our winter club nights and looking for inter-

esting speakers to come along and talk to our group; if you have any ideas please email me,

[email protected] with details or see me at the next club night.

We are also going to adopt a different approach to our “Sunday Lunch Club” - next month we will

be publishing details of the ven-ues and dates for the winter in advance to enable better planning

of your diaries. Booking places will then be co-ordinated via Ray and myself. We hope this will revive

the SLC which flagged a bit last year for various reasons.

For those new members the idea of the SLC is to pick a nice pub

that provides reasonably priced Sunday Lunches and then just all get together. No Jaguars are re-

quired since in the winter months many of us maybe resting our pride and joys, and not all of us

are two Jags. Ideas for venues are always welcome, we would not have found the Olde Hand &

Diamond as our BBQ venue with the recommendation of Alan Har-ris so if you have been some-

where that can accommodate a table of about 20 people and they

do a decent roast on a Sunday

then let myself or Ray know. TTFN

Drive it Day route

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REGIONAL EVENTS Your essential diary dates for 2011

DRIVE IT DAY—starting at Wroxeter Roman City 10:00 a.m

Full details last month, and a summary in this month’s Jim’s Jaunts. Dip in and dip out as you wish

our goal is to get to Lake Vwrnwy and drive around it by the end of the afternoon, sound interest-

ing then check out the points to pick up the drive... 4

September

S & WB CLUB NIGHT—Bicton Club

Probably a pint and natter night—but who know what might happen between then and now....

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September


Hopefully we may find a speaker for our first “dark night” club night..... More details next month.

Whatever happens the meeting starts at 8:00 pm 11

October

JEC CHRISTMAS DINNER

This year we will be holding this event at the Hadley Park Hotel, Telford. Full details of tickets and

menus soon... 10

December

VALENTINES DINNER & DANCE

No apologies for running a repeat of last years very successful event. The Ed Conlan Band are

practising some new numbers to entertain us...and the chefs at the Lord Hill are fine tuning their

menu. Watch this space for more details in a few months time.... 11th 2012

February

www.jec-region43.org has up to the minute information on the status of all our events – if you are in any doubt see the Stop Press

information there before setting out.

CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW—NEC BIRMINGHAM

The Sunday of this weekend show sees the draw for the XK Coupe raffle car seen at Weston Park

and the SFOT this year being made. Take along your tickets and maybe drive it away? 11-13

November


Know of an interesting speaker—then let Jim Craib know on 01952 242119

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November

JOINT JAGUAR CLUBS SPARES DAY—STONELEIGH AGRICULTURAL SHOWGROUND

Sunday 16th sees Stoneleigh nr Kenilworth play host to the second Jaguar Spares Day of the year.

Often worth going to find that hard to get component but make sure that you (and the vendor) are

sure that what you are buying fits!! Details in the National magazine and online www.jec.org.uk 16

October


Program to be decided.,...watch this space

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December

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WHAT WERE THEY

DRINKING??

XJS’s do not get any more extreme

than this

STEP AWAY FROM THE VEHICLE


YOU ASKED FOR IT! A Dutch television presenter was

run over by a contestant during

the recording of the final epi-

sode of “Who is the Worst Driver

in the Netherlands?!”

Contestant „Pim‟ ran down the

show‟s host, Ruben Nicolai and a

cameraman after taking his

hands off the wheel and putting

them over his eyes (whilst still

moving!).

Ruben and the

cameraman

were standing

to the side of a

braking speed

test when Pim

swerved off

the tarmac.

Also in the car

were an instructor and two fellow

female contestants.

Mr Nicolai was admitted to hospital

with minor injuries, but was released

the next day after tests revealed he

had sustained no major injuries.

“I have some pain in my shoulder

and my foot. It gave us all the fright

of our lives.”

On the bright side reports of the

accident meant the audience for

the final show attracted a record

1.2 million viewers.

Mr Nicolai is said to be looking for-

ward to filming another series next

year.

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Shrewsbury by-

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DRINKING??

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