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Jaguar Drivers Club of Long
Island
46 Colonial Drive
Huntington, NY 11743
631-692-5909
President
Laurence Campbell
Vice President
George Stephani
631-981-5708
Vice President/Concours
Chairman
Mike Carrol
631-757-9764
Membership
Ralph Trimarchi
631-278-2127
Club Photographer
Stephen Leoniak
631-473-9452
BUSINESS NAME
The JAG MAG Feb-March 2012 A Jaguar Clubs of North America Affiliate
A Review of 2011 Events Spring’s arrival ushered in the Spring Dust
Off, the club’s official start to the year. A group of about 30 JDCLI members met at the scenic and historic 56th Fighter Squadron Restaurant
to enjoy a brunch buffet, to get reacquainted with other members and to talk cars. The busi-ness side of the meeting was lead by George
Stephani and Mike Carroll, Vice Presidents, with
door prizes pro-vided by Jaguar Huntington along with a sponsor-
ship check of $250.00.
The dealership also provided a white 2011 XK
coupe for the club to preview that day. Previously, George and Mike, our new
Concours Chair met with Jeff Myers, General Manager of Jaguar Huntington to discuss events for 2011. Jeff expressed continued support for
the club and we are very thankful for his enthusias-
tic support. Our next event
was participating in the Stony Brook Vintage
Car Show. About half a dozen mem-
bers brought their cars to the show and some
came as spectators. With live music, people’s choice awards, and great weather it was a pic-ture perfect day. The lawn was filled to capacity
with about 50 cars. At the end of the show about half the cars lined up for a drive on the local roads of Stony Brook/Smithtown; finishing
up at Tic Toc Café in St, James for a dinner sampling of some of their creative cuisine, a
At the Dust Off, Gerry Duff looks over Joel Joachim’s E-type which was featured
in the 2011 JCNA calendar
From left to right, 51’ xk120, 67? E-type and the 2011 XK, Spring Dust Off
perfect ending to a perfect day. It was an enjoy-
able day for all. The Himes Museum and breakfast event in
Bayshore was just amazing! Members gathered ( Cont Page 2 )
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The JCNA tech line has been in the works for a
while and is finally up and running. You can dial up the main JCNA phone number 888-258-2524 and select option #3 for the Tech line. At this time, it is
for members only so have your JCNA number available. From restoration questions to general mechanical help from the factory publications are
available.
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at the Peter Pan Diner for breakfast and then drove over to Marty Himes’ Museum. The weather that day broke a heat record; I think it topped out around 100 degrees. Mike Carroll brought along a brand
new white XJ from Jaguar Huntington and a few took it out for a test drive. Again a big thanks goes out to Jeff Myers, General Manager of Jag-uar Huntington for the support of our events.
At the museum was an extensive collection of Long Island racing memorabilia along with all kinds of other odds and ends. There was eve-rything from the concrete fence posts from the Vanderbilt Parkway to
vintage bicycles, gas pumps, and ticket booths from Freeport Raceway. Marty gave the club a private tour relating much information on his col-lection, people he met, and his part in racing on Long Island race tracks.
We hope Marty Himes, will soon find a sponsor so his collection can be displayed inside one large building. Right now some is housed in out-side trailers and in the elements. It would be a sad to see some of his collection just rust away. Marty doesn’t charge any admission to see his
collection or to give a tour. He just enjoys about his experiences, the nostalgia of auto racing and answering questions. At the end of the tour the club presented Marty with a check and cash donations to help him
preserve his collection and for his generous time in accommodating the club. Thanks Marty! JDCLI’s Annual Winery Event took place at Jason’s Vineyard on the
beautiful North Fork. There was music under the shady covered porch, delectable wine tastings and a luncheon catered by The Garage of Haup-pague. Jaguar Southampton provided a new Super Charged XKR con-
vertible for us all to admire and test drive. Jaguar Huntington sent a Jaguar XF. Another big thanks to both dealerships and to AJ for joining us. (Cont. pg 4)
Membership Update We would like to thank Ralph Trimarchi for volunteering to take over Membership.
Lee Stephani has been in charge of Membership for the last 7 years and it was time to let
someone else to take over. Thanks Lee for your dedication in doing such a fine job!
Please contact Ralph at 631-278-2127 or [email protected] for membership information.
Feb. 5 Annual Post Holiday Brunch
Location: Garden Grill Restaurant 64 North Country Rd, Smithtown, NY
Contact: George Stephani [email protected] 631-981-5708
April/TBA Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Tour
Location: TBA Date &Time: TBA
May 6th Spring Dust Off Drive & Luncheon
And Joe Buzzetta’s Racing Car Collection Location: Meet at Cold Spring Harbor Train Station
Contact: Mike Carroll [email protected]
516-607-6074
June 10th The British are Coming Car Show hosted by the MG Car Club
Location: TBA Date Tentative
July TBA Annual Vintage European
Sports Car & Motorcycle Show Location: Stony Brook
July 14/15 Annual Long Island Antique Power Association
Summer Show. Location: Hallock Farm
Date &Time: TBA
July 22nd Polo Match at Bethpage State Park with Triumph Club Location: Polo Grounds
Sunday: TBA
July 26 Thatched Cottage-Huntington Hospital Fund Raiser Dinner
Location: Thatched Cottage in Centerport Time: TBA
Aug. TBA East End Winery Luncheon with the Triumph Club Location: TBA
Time: TBA
Aug26-Sept 2 Hampton Classic Horse Show - TBA Joint Venture with Jaguar Huntington?
Sept 9 Pre-Concours Brunch Volunteers Meeting
All clubs are welcomed Location: Mike & Barbara Carroll’s Home
Time: TBA
Sept. 16 Concours d’ Elegance and Concours Sanitaire at The Vanderbilt Museum-hosted by the Jag & MG
Car Clubs
Oct, 6 Bridgehampton Road Rallye and car show Location: TBA
Time: TBA
Oct. 28 Fall Driving Tour & Luncheon hosted by the MG Club Location: Meet at Cold Spring Harbor Train Station
Time: Arrive at 10:00am, tour starts at 11:00am
Calendar of Events
Last years Post Holiday Brunch at Blue
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Last years brunch was a cold day with snow every-
where...what happen to our winter this year?
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(Cont. 2011 Events from pg. 2)
Annual Winery & Luncheon Event at
Jason’s Vineyard
Club members had the opportunity to check out and test drive the
2011 XKR courtesy of Jaguar Southampton
Joe Limongelli’s Model A Ford at Cutchogue’s Museum
From left to right, Lee, Rolf, Carol and Janice enjoying the vineyard
Parker Wickham’s Model T Truck
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Annual Stony Brook European Vintage Sports
Car and Motorcycle Show
Bernard Hoffman and George Ellis
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The JDCLI Concours d’ Elegance at the picturesque Vanderbilt Museum
The 2011 Concours d’ Elegance was another successful
show thanks to Mike Carroll, our new Concours Chairman. With the passing of the baton from Concours Chairman George Stephani to Mike Carroll, the show flowed seamlessly
and drew 50 plus cars with our Master of Ceremonies Joe Limongelli bringing up cars for comparisons and highlighting all kinds of interesting details about the different cars. Thanks Joe
for more fine showmanship! George Daube, past Club President who now resides just
outside of Atlanta Georgia and is a member of the North Georgia Jaguar Club, paid a visit to the show. George looked
good and the visit was a nice surprise. Steve and Kris Becker from the MG club took the pictures for the photo plaques; this has become a favorite keepsake for many entrants. Susan Blackwell once again helped out at the
raffle table with Lee Stephani, who made up made up the bas-kets and wrapped the prizes in attractive packaging.
Jaguar Huntington supplied goody bags and Jaguar regalia. Several JDCLI members donated items and gift cards for the silent auction as did vendors, namely XK’s Unlimited, J.C. Tay-
lor, Hagerty Insurance, and Aid Auto Stores. The proceeds of our 50/50 raffle aided the Wounded Warrior Project.
THANKS to all our Judges and volunteers and members who con-tributed in making the show a success! So much “behind the
scenes” work goes into the show and your help made it the success
that it was. We are quite excited to announce that the next Concours
d’ Elegance on Sept, 16th 2012 will be a combined show with the MG Car Club. We are hoping to attract other British, European, and some American classics car clubs to join in
once again and fill the fields. Details for running the joint event have been worked out with just a few small details to be final-ized. The 2012 show has the potential of having at least 100
cars. Concours registration forms and fliers have just been completed and will be available in June.
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On be half of JDCLI George Ellis presents a portrait which he painted
of Joe’s Model A in appreciation for his participation in the Concours
Lee and Sue at the raffle table, something for everyone
Variety of MGs in the line up Joe Limongelli explaining differences in model years
Judges at work on a 1966 3.4S
Behind the awards; a new XF and Range Rover from
Jaguar Huntington
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XK8’s and XJS’s grace the museum grounds
From Adriana’s Smart car to Joe’s golden Rolls Royce to…a Ford GT, You couldn’t ask for more variety of cars
It’s always 5pm on a Friday somewhere in the world
A Cobra GT Racer
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All British Car Club Meet Story & photos by Steve Becker
January 22 saw members of the British car clubs meeting
at Elijah Churchill's Public House, in Fort Salonga, to dis-cuss the coming year and to coordinate our events. This
year we had folks from the Jaguar Drivers Club, the Long
Island
Triumph Association, the Mini Club, and a delegate repre-senting several clubs. Along with a few folks from MG Car
Club-LIC.
The purpose of this annual meeting is to ensure, as much
as possible, that we don’t wind up with prospective entrants
and spectators having to make a choice of which event to attend on a certain date. Age and the economy have already
reduced the number of cars being entered and we want to
avoid reducing attendance even further.
We worked from a basic list of events printed from last year’s copies of Skidmarks, adding in the dates for this
year
and then incorporating the current planned events of the
other clubs. Two hours of discussion, fortified with the ex-
cellent food served at Churchill’s, left us with a complete list of the currently planned events, although I am sure
changes will occur as the year progresses.
We all wound up with some to-dos, such as verifying
dates
and locations. The MG and Jaguar clubs have already com-
bined the Vanderbilt shows for this year, and some other
events may also be jointly run. For example, we may be running a joint EuroSunday Alternative Run with the Tri-
umph Club, something that may make sense considering
we passed a group of their Triumphs in the circle below the
Bear Mountain Bridge on last year’s ride. I will be updating the schedule and printing it over the
next couple of months so you can mark your calendars. As
the year
goes by there will be inevitable changes of dates, locations
or
other information, so watch the schedule each month to avoid missing that event you were waiting for. After that it
is up to you to get yourself, your family and anyone else
you know to bring their cars out and participate. We’re
looking forward to a great year.
MGCC-LIC
Photo above, from right; Joe Palazzo & Kate Hurney (Triumph Club); Ethan Abbe & Tom Abbe (Mini Club); Kris Becker, Susan & Dave
Becker (MG Club); George & Lee Stephani( MG & Jag Club).
(Left Front); Wayne Nowland, (right front) Mike Carroll, Gerry Duff
and Brian O’keefe, all from the Jag Club.
Prices of gas per gallon around the world in U.S. currency
Istanbul, Turkey $9.63 (highest)
Athens, Greece $8.50
London, U.K. $8.17
Cairo, Egypt $1.13 Kuwait, City, Kuwait $0.81
Tripoli, Libya $0.54
Caracas, Venezuela $0.06 (Cheapest)
A Chandelier …
In a Garage?
That’s right — this beautiful
heirloom
chandelier hangs from the 16-
foot vaulted ceiling at the home
of a
Jaguar Club of Austin member,
Mark
Moore of Dripping Springs,
Texas.
Read more about his lovely
garage
that houses his ’63 E-type with
room for more additions in the
January-February issue of the
Jaguar Journal. If you have a
“Great Garage” you’d like to share with JCNA members, send info and
photos
From the Jan, 2012 JCNA News letter