AJS

Newsletter

Vol. XXXV, num. 08 www.atlantajaguarsociety.org August, 2014

From the President By Ted Anderson, President

In this communication I would like to touch

on three points; the first being the High Museum

exhibit of Dream Cars. A small group of 12 had

lunch at Cloud 80 restaurant and then made their

way through the exhibit. I’m sorry that Rita and

I missed this event but couldn’t attend due to the

unexpected passing of Rita’s sister. Thanks to

our program Director Rick Duff, a good time

was had by all.

Second is the July Monthly meeting was held

at McCormick’s and Schmick’s in Dunwoody.

The reason for the change was many of our

members had expressed their need for a change

in venue. The meeting was well attended by 40

based on my head count. The prices for food and

beverages were more than Aldos, but it was

refreshing to order off a different menu. The

next meeting on August 25th will again be at

McCormick’s and Schmick’s based on popular

opinion. The September meeting will be back at

Aldos unless we have reason to meet elsewhere.

Third and last I want is to save the date of

September 6th for the Atlanta British Car Fayre

in Norcross. To learn more about this event, go

to the web site at:

www.altantabritishcarfayre.com. The proceeds

of this event go to a charity. You will learn

about this at the August dinner meeting.

On a more personal note, Rita and I want to

express our gratitude to the many club members

who sent cards, and/or attended the visitation and

funeral of Rita’s sister Carol O’Brien. We have

developed many strong friendships with fellow

club members. All of you have been a blessing.

Please don’t forget that your annual

dues are due now! Please see

attached form.

Next monthly meeting August 25th

McCormick’s and Schmick’s Social hour- 6:00 pm, Dinner-7:00 PM

On September. 8th

, The Jaguar XE

Will be Unveiled at a Secret

Location in London

XE is the name of the noble gas xenon, the

name of a popular currency conversion site, and

for a while, the name of the infamous Blackwater

paramilitary company. For all intents and

purposes, though, it is the name of that small

Jaguar sedan we've been waiting since the F-

Type became old news. We see the front end,

unwrapped, in "S" specification.

We've seen the rest before, showing off its

unique aluminum-intensive chassis. Surprise,

surprise: The front matches pretty nicely. If it

looks like a squarer XF, that would be

intentional. But beyond that, the XE will carry

forth Jaguar's new line of 2.0-liter turbo fours,

the default engine layout of the continent these

days: Only Jaguar will name its turbo four

"Ingenium”. Jaguar claims that the gasoline and

diesel engines, which will be versatile enough

for transverse or longitudinal positioning,

depending on AWD or RWD will not only return

great mileage but also propel the car to 186 mph.

Jaguar is also launching the XE on

September 8th, weeks before its rumored debut at

the Paris Motor Show. It will host a feel good

interactive audio-visual spectacle in London

designed to show off how painstakingly British

Jaguar is, a trait it recently reasserted: The whole

thing is called FEEL XE.

It will involve noted Britishers Emeli Sandé,

designer; Stella McCartney and Idris Elba of

"The Wire" fame. JAGUAR XE TEASE

ATLANTA JAGUAR SOCIETY

MEMBERS All you need to know and more!

By Sheila Brower, Health & Hospitality Director

-Joel and Maryanne Blackford went on a

mission trip with their church to Rattlesnake

Ridge, Kentucky, and according to Maryanne, it

is the third poorest area in our country. They

went there to repair and add on to homes in the

area where there are virtually no jobs. After

their trip, they kayaked for 5-days at Ft.

Mountain State Park in Georgia. Thanks to you

both for the mission trip, bless you both!

-John Nichols went to Augusta for boat drag

races and had to miss our pool party…he had

hoped to attend but the boat races were delayed

due to the rain and couldn’t get back in time.

For those of you who missed his excellent talk

on Monday night, he did a great job discussing

his love for “going fast” in boats and cars. He

has passed this passion on to his sons, too!

-Paul and I had to miss the June meeting as

we were in Little Rock, since this was our

opportunity to go and visit family. We remain

busy with our commitments to real estate and our

schedules are pretty full! (This is a good

thing….I know some of you are thinking “keeps

them out of trouble!”)

-Chuck and Carolyn Frangiamore attended

our meeting at McCormick and Schmick’s and

said “they would meet with us as long as we

meet there.” It was good seeing them.

-Don and Marlene Hart both looked great.

Don said he is “all healed” and we are glad their

life is back to some degree of normalcy!

-June Mindrup had a birthday on July 31st so

we wished her a Happy Birthday! June is a lady

who is not getting older…just getting better.

-Sidney Gleaton – I refer to him as our

“traveling man.” This time he has returned from

travels to Nassau, Charleston, Orlando, Miami

and Panama...all fun places. Next month he will

be traveling to Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach; in

September, he is off to Las Vegas and in

October, Amelia Island. After that he plans to

stay home for a while. At the meeting, Sydney

mentioned the golf tournament on Monday,

October 6th at the St. Marlo Country Club in

Duluth. The tournament is to raise funds to

support the ongoing effort of the Alpha Atlanta

Education Foundation to provide scholarships to

deserving students. Over the last five years the

foundation has provided over $80,000 in

scholarships. You can go to the website to

register online at www.alphaatlantagolf.com.

Sidney is a co-chair for this event.

-Rick Duff recently went to Cincinnati,

Columbus and Youngstown, Ohio to see friends

he hasn’t seen in 30 years.

-Judy Scarborough said the pool party was a

“great success!” For those who missed, it was

great fun and great food! I believe it is the first

pool party where we didn’t have rain, but we all

have always had fun… rain or shine! Thanks

Judy for being the perfect host!

-Wayne Harris finished in FIRST PLACE in

the men’s singles 55/65c at the 2014 Georgia

Games Racquetball Tournament held on July

12th

. Congratulations Wayne!

-Larry and Deb Walton were both at our

meeting and Deb started school today as the

teachers have to start a week earlier than the

students who started August 4th

!….seems too

early to start as “back in our day” you didn’t start

until after Labor Day, right?

-J. P. and Jenny Summers recently returned

from a trip. As J.P. put it, “my bride and I just

returned from a trip to Newport, Rhode Island,

and Boston.” They had a great time.

-Dick and Johnnie Preston, whom we haven’t

seen in a while, were with us. They recently got

their son and family off to Germany. Their son

is in the military in Afghanistan. They plan to

go and visit them in December to celebrate

Christmas with them. Prayers! We understand,

too, that plans are being made to have a

gathering at their place on the lake, so look for

information on when, etc.

-John and Carol Almeter went to

Jacksonville, FL, the week of August 4 to attend

his 50th

High School reunion in St. Augustine.

-Vinnie Lauria only said “no news is good

news I always say!” It was good to see him at

the meeting and to see him and his wife, Marsha

at the pool party.

-Lew George just returned from visiting his

mother in Huntsville, AL. Lew’s mother moved

to Huntsville near his sister, which is good news.

She gave Lew her Mercury Monterey van so he

now has 3 cars again!! During the meeting, I

heard someone saying “Sheila, Sheila”…. Lew

was trying to get my attention to tell me he was a

new great uncle, again…he received the news of

the arrival during the meeting and had to brag!

The baby is named Johnny Ray Pearman and

weighed in just over 7 lbs. Unfortunately a few

weeks ago his mother fell and seriously injured

her head and knee. Fortunately this 90 year old

woman is a great fighter and is amazing the

doctors by here determined recovery and is doing

very well now!

-Vail and Linda Frost were at the meeting,

and her birthday was Sunday, July 27th…belated

Happy Birthday Linda!

-Ed Chellino sent me an email with

information regarding Jaguar: Jaguar buys

world’s largest collection of British cars.

Estimated price was $170M for 543 cars, which

includes 130 Jags. The collection is to be housed

at Browns Lane, Coventry. The Jags will be

used to promote the Mark and Heritage of

Jaguars.

-Joel and Maryanne Blackford are going to

Lake Keowee in So. Carolina for two weeks of

“camping, kayaking and sleeping.” They are

also going to show at the British Car Show with

their 1954 XK 120, which now is a real show

stopper….literally. Joel just finished installing

disc brakes on the front of his prize, and reports

that it stops quickly and in a straight line.

-John Nichols went to the Walter Mitty

Challenge and said Jaguar “kicked b____!”

Good to know.

THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS:

-Ted and Rita Anderson – Rita told me

Monday that her sister was in Hospice Critical

Care. Since that time, we have all learned that

her beloved sister, Carol O'Brien, passed away

Wednesday, July 30, 12:30. Her services were

Wednesday, August 6th, at St. Ann's Catholic

Church in East Marietta followed by a reception

in the Church hall.

-I mentioned Dick and Johnnie Preston’s son,

who is in Afghanistan. As you remember him,

please continue to pray for our troops and their

families as they serve everywhere. Continue to

always thank them for their service.

-Skip and Wanda Smith’s son, Brandon, just

expanded to 20,000 square feet and is now the

largest restoration, storage and service facility in

the Southeast!!! Go and visit him!

-Kim Daly--please continue to remember her.

Fran sent a contribution to the Tisch Brain

Tumor Center at Duke on behalf of the club.

Thanks Fran!

Let me know of any news you might

have…Bless you all!

Sheila Brower, Health & Hospitality Director

Jaguar buys the largest British car collection in the world

By: Lew George

27 years ago, James Hull started his dentistry

business in a small town in Wales. Today his

dental empire reigns across 50 locations across

Great Britain, tweaking the teeth of self-

conscious Britons to the tune of nearly $11.8

million year and a business value of nearly $152

million. Mr. Hull, cricketer, cancer survivor, and

self-confessed workaholic, spent this fortune

quietly amassing one of the UK's largest car

collections: a whopping 543 cars, in a warehouse

in Hertfordshire, north of London.

There's the wood-paneled Mini Traveller

owned by Lord Mountbatten. There's a ruby red

1966 Jaguar 420G built for Sir William Lyons

himself, used to chauffeur the great man to the

Coventry office. There are cars owned by Mike

Hailwood, Winston Churchill, Sir Elton John.

Churchill drove a humble Austin; Sir John, a

humble Bentley. There's the Morris Minor

Series II convertible which was Hull's first car,

purchased 35 years ago. Then, a Jaguar Mark II

3.8 -- once, one of the fastest cars on the road,

"catnip to British car collectors," according to

Hagerty. There are Mille Miglia winners. Does

any man need five Citroën DSs? Hull does.

Hull hoards like a man who truly knows what

he's doing. He claims to have sold just five cars

in his 35 years of collecting.

This wasn't just an assemblage of cars,

stacked together in a warehouse but, this was a

man's life work, painstakingly curated to the tune

of $170 million. That's how much the collection

was worth when Hull put it up for sale. He could

think of no more fitting a custodian than Jaguar

Land Rover, which, emboldened by record

profits, has bought the whole thing for an

undisclosed sum.

Hull's collection is a fitting expansion for the

newly emboldened Jaguar Special Operations,

which will oversee the collection. 130 of the 543

cars are Jaguars. There are C-Types, D-Types,

XK120s, SS100s. There are thirty Mark saloons

and twenty XJs. There are E-Types of every

generation and configuration. There's an XKSS,

though not McQueen's. There's a Lynx Eventer,

which should belong in Ian Callum's garage.

The oldest Jaguar he has is a 1922 Swallow

Sidecar; the newest, an XKR-S.

Video Information

The collection suffered a setback in 2006

when a group of vandals broke into the

warehouse and vandalized some 60 cars,

hotwiring them before crashing them into each

other. Evidently, the collection has since

bounced back enough to garner Jaguar's interest.

The Special Operations division will move the

collection to its historic Browns Lane home in

Coventry, approximately 70 miles northwest of

Hertfordshire. Jaguar plans to leave the

collection intact; it won't divest itself of any of

the vestigial brands of the once-noble British

automobile industry. No doubt Jaguar will begin

trucking its historic models to press events and

unveilings across the world to dazzle the

journalists who might view the upcoming XE

this September.

The Hull collection also includes 365 pedal

cars, 300 examples of war memorabilia, and one

mini Avro Lancaster hanging from the ceiling.

Jaguar, Land Rover had three Pebble

Beach debuts!

Jaguar, Land Rover had three Pebble Beach

debuts August 4, 2014. Jaguar will build six

examples of the Lightweight E-Type. Jaguar

Range Rover SVR, Project 7 and Lightweight E-

Type to bow in Monterey.

Jaguar and Land Rover will reveal three

special-edition vehicles at Pebble Beach this

weekend: a 550-hp Range Rover Sport SVR, the

U.S. version of the Jaguar F-Type Project 7, and

the prototype of the new Jaguar Lightweight E-

Type. The trio, all from Jag’s Special

Operations division, bowed on Thursday night at

the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Kick-Off

party at the Tennis Club.

The Range Rover Sport SVR has been

spotted testing at Germany’s Nurburgring lately,

with its parent company claiming a lap time of 8

minutes, 14 seconds, reportedly the fastest Ring

time yet for an SUV. The SVR is powered by

the same 5.0-liter supercharged V8 that

motivates the F-Type R. Being a Range Rover,

the SVR comes with a twin-speed transfer case

and a 33.5-inch wading depth. It’ll hit

dealerships in 2015.

The Project 7, which we most recently saw at

the Goodwood Festival of Speed, is a version of

the F-Type that pays homage to the 60-year-old,

Le Mans-winning Jaguar D-Type. It sports a

567-hp V8 leading to a 0-60 mph time of 3.8

seconds and a top speed of 186 mph. Jaguar

says it will only build 250 examples of the

Project 7, deliveries of which will begin in mid-

2015. Finally, Jaguar will build six Lightweight

E-Types to fill in the missing production

numbers from the 1960s. Eighteen were

scheduled to be built, yet only 12 were

completed. The new cars will be powered by a

300-hp 3.8-liter inline six.

See More Here

Dream Cars at the High By: Rick Duff, Activities Director

Rick Duff reporting here from the High trip

in Midtown. We met for lunch at Table 1280

right at the concourse, housing the High and the

menu was imaginative and interesting. The food

was good and the bar looked like a good place

for the late crowd. The open window

environment lent itself to easy view of the open

space and activity outside the High.

We had a great time at the High Museum. 12

AJS members came for lunch, the camaraderie

and to see the truly very fine car exhibit. We

have all seen cars that look like forms of space or

aeronautical triumphs combined with the auto

industry. But this exhibit had something

different. A van looking very much like the VW

Van but better, more sleek

and a very

creative hatch in

the back.

Chairs behind

the driver faced

each other and

many extras were included. BTW, the paint on

these cars was fantastic. Go to Google and see

the cars that were displayed. Marsha and

Rebecca both found their dream car. Don and

Marlene showed up for lunch to support the club

but had already seen the show. In addition,

Maryanne and Joel, Paul and Shelia, Ray and

Lew, Marsha and Vinnie and Rebecca and I all

showed up. I am glad to see everyone enjoyed

themselves and hope the next event is as good as

this turned out.

AJS Pool Party Hosted by

Judy Scarborough!

Event Schedule for 2013

January -

February –

March - AJC Car Show

- British Car Fayre

April – Murder Mystery

May - 4th

-Atlanta British Car Day

June - Annual Pig Roast

July - 19th

– Pool Party

August – 16th –

September – 20th – Killer Creek Dinner

October – 17th - Concours Party

- 18th - Concours d’Elegance

- Euro Auto Festival

- Halloween Party

November - Hilton Head Concours

15th – Dahlonega Winery

December – 14th - Christmas Party

Kartoon Korner

Atlanta Jaguar Society www.atlantajaguarsociety.org

Officers & Directors

President: Ted Anderson (H)770-855-2894 tedranderson@bellsouth.net

Vice President: Judy Scarborough (H)770.772.9734 judyscar@bellsouth.net

2nd Vice President: Don Hart 770.956.7165 blondething@comcast.net

Secretary: Rita Anderson

(H)770-855-2894 rita.bryan@eas.gatech.edu Treasurer: Fran McNair

(H)770.497.9980 fmcnair@bellsouth.net

Activities Director: Rick Duff (C)770.480.6680 richard.duff@ml.com

Newsletter Editor: Lew George (H)404.826.2132 lewatl@bellsouth.net

Membership Director: Wil Sommer (C)404.803.0306 peachtreebrokers@mindspring.com

Health & Hospitality Director: Sheila Brower

(H)770.509.6830 shebrowe@bellsouth.net

Technical Director: Ivan Ruiz 770.998.0923 ivan@thecarnut.com

Concours Director: J P Summers 770.40. 6004 jp.summers@comcast.net Advertising & Publicity Director: Open

Regalia Director: Open

Honorary Chairman: Alan Talbott

(H)770.621.9854 talbotta@bellsouth.net

AJS Founder: John B. Steen Deceased

The AJS Newsletter is published monthly except December and is emailed free to all Society Members. For mail delivery send request to:

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st of the month. Material is subject to

editorial revision and may express the sole opinion of the submitter.

AJS Newsletter Editor

Lew George

220 Renaissance Pkwy.

Unit 1113

Atlanta, GA 30308-2352

lewatl@bellsouth.net