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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
631-239-6075
Club Photographer
Stephen Leoniak
631-473-9452
BUSINESS NAME The JAG MAG Oct, 2012 A Jaguar Clubs of North America Affiliate
Visit Jaguar Clubs of North America (JCNA) web site for their monthly news letter at www.jcna.com. Click on news letter-thumb nail on right side of page.
This years Spring Dust Off was well attended; 45 people were in attendance and most participated in the back roads drive as well as lunch at the Country House Restaurant. Members from the MG club and Triumph club also joined in this event. But the focus of the event was a tour of Joe Buzzetta’s Porsche racing cars. His son Joe led the tour of the collection and included history about his father who still drives or better said, races in Vintage Racing such as Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. The showroom was also filled with posters, plaques, trophies and other racing regalia. Again we thank Ger-ry Duff for volunteering and setting up the tour with Joe Buzzetta. A thank you also goes out to Mike Car-roll, our 2nd Vice President & Concours Chairman for collecting the RSVP’s and monies. The next event was the Vintage Euro-pean Sports Car and Motorcycle Display
hosted by the Stony Brook Community Church. This car show helped the church support it’s various charities and missions. Members who attended this
show always found it to be enjoyable and relaxing. Vehicles are judged by peoples votes with a Best Car and Best Motorcy-cle award. A new event was added to the calendar and organized by Mike Carroll. The Annu-al Long Island Antique Power Association Summer Show and cont. page, 3
Joe Buzzetta’s son Joe gives the tour of his father’s collection
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Principle in their era, and the F – Type will hold true that same principle in its time, a time that is soon to arrive. Since the F – Type is being promoted as a direct successor to the E – Type it illustrates how important it will be to Jaguar’s future. This was confirmed by the report of what Adrian Hall-mark, Jaguar Car’s Global Brand Director, had to say. “The core appeal of Jaguar’s cars is their sporting heart and that heart will beat stronger than ever before in the F – Type. Its development is a vivid representation of the confidence and am-bition of the Jaguar brand, and the desire of our engineers and design team to produce a world leader in a market segment that we have been absent from for too long. But no long-er…..the F – Type is coming. Not many details of the car were released. It will be all Aluminum and a true two seat sports car. It will have a range of petrol engines including a new power plant family that they say will bring stunning performance. The camouflage test bed cars look like a cut down XK and perhaps that’s just good camou-flage because Jaguar say the design inspiration was the concept that caused such a sensation at the Frankfurt show. The C – X16 and will have a strong resemblance to this. It is reported that Vehicle Line Director, Ian Holban said, “The engi-neering development of the F –Type has focused on delivering a heightened level of dynamic driving reward. We are excited about our progress to date and are looking forward to soon being able to demonstrate what we have achieved.” The devel-opment schedule has moved to final on road testing with engi-neering prototypes leaving Jaguar’s Castle Bromwich plant where the F–Type will be produced. More details of the F will be released later in the year together with prices. Welcome to our Jungle….F…for fearsome performance.
By the Roving Reporter Michael Tate - Delaware Valley Jaguar Club
Believe it or not ...F-Type is a Go The front cover of the magazine Auto- Week for January 24, 2000 proclaimed in bold letters “YEAY BABY” printed over the photo of the “F – TYPE CONCEPT” with the sub headline “F-Type Concept Wows Detroit Auto Show”. The reviews were, without fail, drooling over this possible introduction of a Jaguar sports car in the mould of the greatest of them all…the E-Type. Ford canned it! Now 12 years and 4 months later at the New York show on April 4 they announced that the first real Sports Car since the demise of the E-Type in 1974 would go into production later this year and be available for sale mid 2013. In 1975 Jaguar went down the GT route with the launch of the XJ-S followed by the XK8 and the current XK which will remain in the line-up. Jaguar have tantalized us over the years with the thoughts of a true 2 seater sports car Nominally given the name “F” or would it be the “XK–F” as the “E” in the USA became the “XK – E”. The management of JLR and Tata have often expressed their desire to introduce such a car and even Ford showed some in-tent. In 1980 there was the XJ 41 project and the XJ 42 which was the convertible version. There was no great motivation to push these concepts to market and when Ford took over the project died. In 1999 a project was born that was known as the “Roadster Project” and this became the concept car that wowed the world at the 2000 Detroit show. The enthusiasm for the “Concept F” was strong in Ford management, the car was fea-tured at Pebble Beach and the feasibility continued for a year when eventually on January 4th 2001 Jaguar announced “The F- Type was a go” The sale date was projected as 2004/2005. Now the Bean Counters entered the fray and it was declared that the business case for such a car was not as clear as originally thought. The project was not cancelled but put “On Hold.” It has been “held” right up to now and in the meantime BMW launched their interpretation of a sports car (No further com-ment) and Porsche their Boxster both racking up thousands in unit sales. So there is and was a market and Jaguar surely are not too late with their introduction. The F will surely bring the younger Jaguar driver that they have been longing to entice which in turn will benefit the Jaguar Clubs of North America so everything is positive .JLR reported in excess of $1 billion in profit for 2011 and Jaguar sales are up 17% for the 1st quarter. They have launched an aggressive mind changing advertising campaign based not only on beauty but power….power to rock! As part of this it is said that Jaguar is overhauling its image ( pipe & slippers brigade) in a remake that includes significant changes to the logos the “leaper” leaping hood ornament and “growler” the fierce Jaguar face on the cars steering wheel! The company is investing over $300 million in bringing the F–Type to market and it will create a further 1,000 jobs. At the press release in New York they did not have a concept car but photos of heavily disguised test vehicles. It is reported that Ian Callum, design director, had this to say, “A true sports car needs to be pure in both its purpose and its form. To have the opportunity to produce such a car for Jaguar has been a privilege both for myself and for my team. The C-Type, D-Type and E-Type Jaguars were all sports cars that held true to this
The F-Type in disguised
Oct, 6 Bridgehampton Vintage Auto Poker Rally and Car Show Location: 2368 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton Sat, Road Rally and Car Show Time: 9:30am - 5:00pm. Event Flyer & information go to www.bridgehamptonrally.org/index.html Oct 28 Fall Foliage Tour - MGCCLIC & JDCLI Meet at Cold Springs Harbor Train Station. Plan on arriving between 10am and 10:30am for socializing before the approx 11:00am start time. Call Kris or Steve Becker for information at 516-247-1558 or contact us via e-mail at [email protected] TBA George Luhrs Shop Tour of George’s shop of working miniature engines.
As the date for an event approaches, further infor-mation, flyers, registration forms will be posted on the Jag Club web site www.jdcli.com. Reminders will also be sent out. From time to time some of our members announce impromp-tu car related activities, car shows or just going out for a cruise. These will be announced via e-mail and if time per-mits on the club’s web “News and Updates Flasher”. As always members are welcomed to submit their ideas for club events; please forward them to: George Stephani at [email protected] or mail them to: JDCLI 74 Orienta Ave, Lake Grove, NY 11755
Club Calendar of Events
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Cont, from page 1 tractor pull event at the Hallock Farm Museum. There was a collection of early steam powered trac-tors, fire engines, stationary “hit and miss” engines and a display of race cars from the John Himes col-lection. Throughout the day owners demonstrated the pulling abilities of their tractors and competed for 1st place prizes in their weight/size class. There was also a parade of tractors on the field in front of the grandstand. Many of these vintage tractors were restored to their original condition just as we do with our cars. It was a fine demonstration of engines used for farms, factories, and road building! By George Stephani
Vintage European Car Show, Stony Brook
Long Island Antique Power Assoc, Summer Show
Annual Spring Dust Off Event Brings Out an Enthusiastic Crowd
As you can see we had a nice collection of mar-quees' in the parking lot next to Joe Buzzetta’s Museum which was cov-ered by plywood to pro-tect it from the heavy construction work going on.
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MG Car Club Members joined the Jag Club’s Spring Dust Off
Joe Buzzetta at one of the races
So much to look at!!!
L to R, Josephine, Charlie, Lee & George
Barbara & Mike Carroll
Photography by Gerry Duff, Steve Lenoiak & George Stephani
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Spring Dust Off cont,
Susan Blackwell & George Stephani setting up the banner
(L. to R.) Ed, Brad, Carol and Rolf sharing a light moment MG Club, front, Kris, Steve, back row Carol, Roy, Steve & Sue
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Triumph & Jaguar Clubs Combined Winery Run to Duck Walk Vineyards
This year we tried to combined the two clubs Winery events. The Triumph club planned the event and the rally route to Duck Walk Vineyards with a starting point at the K-Mart parking lot at LIE exit 63. After some socializing the group made it’s way out east with some making wrong turns but eventually all meeting up at Duck Walk Vineyards on the South Fork of Long Island. A box lunch was provided by Northport Caterers and a private tour of the vineyards and wine tasting. Attendance from the Jag club was small this year probably due to the last minute posting of the event. Next year’s winery event will be different.
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Tractor Pull cont,
A “Hit & Miss” engine running a small corn husker on right
Steamed powered tractor and Steam Roller with chains to steer front roller.
1960 Maserati Supperleggera
