“RITES OF
SPRING” DINNER
BOURBON ST. CAFE
SATURDAY MARCH 20TH
6:00 P.M.
COCKTAILS
7:00 P.M. DINNER
While every one else is recovering from
Mardi Gras overindulgence, the Jaguar Club will be celebrating the “Rites of
Spring”. Yes, March 20th is the spring equinox and a great reason for a party
and why not? Our early ancestors always celebrated the arrival of spring with a
rollicking good party so we are justified in carrying on the
tradition.
We will gather at the Bourbon St. Cafe, 8246 S. Lewis in
Tulsa. (that is the Plaza Shopping Center at the corner of 81st and Lewis Ave.)
at 6:00 p.m. for cocktails and socializing and dinner will be at 7:00
p.m.
To make the evening fun, the entire board of Directors is working on
coming up with entertaining facts, questions and trivia about celebrating the
“rites of spring”. Since we are a Jaguar club, we will recognize the Jaguar Club
of New Orleans as the “Rites of Spring Concours” club as they will host the
first show of 2004 on March 20th. Now this expands our entertainment to include
New Orleans, the Jaguar Club of New Orleans, Louisiana, Jaguars in Louisiana and
anything else that might be even remotely related.
We will be ordering
from Bourbon Streets regular menu so there will be a wide variety of choices and
price range and something to suit everyone. Since we will be using their private
dinning room we must have reservations from YOU! Call Warren and Carroll Werling
at (918) 495-3578 and tell them how many will be in your party.
The only
excuse that will be accepted for not attending this dinner and party is you are
attending the first Concours of the season in New Orleans. Otherwise, call
Warren and Carroll today.
BREAKFAST
AT THE SHERATON
SATURDAY, MARCH 6TH
Our monthly informal breakfast
meeting starts at 9:00 a.m. at the Sheraton on 21st at Garnett. The coffee is
always hot and waiting and the buffet is great. Join your fellow club members
for some conversation and good food on Saturday morning.
WELCOME NEW
MEMBER
New member S. Drechsler, has left us with a bit of a mystery.
There was no clue on the application if this is Mr. Mrs. or MS but, we do know
that our newest member owns a 1976 XJ6C, one of the more rare models of modern
era Jaguars. We are delighted to welcome this person of obvious good taste to
our club and look forward to seeing the XJ6C and meeting the owner.
SANTIAGO SPORTS &
CLASSICS
AUTO AUCTION MARCH 5TH & 6TH
TULSA EXPO
SQUARE
Thinking about buying, selling or trading a car? The Santiago
Auction will be filling up the Expo Square building with all types of cars. For
more information you can call 1-800-994-2816.
THE “NO JAGUAR
LEFT BEHIND” TEXAS DOUBLE RALLY By – Linda Young
If you thought
about going to Texas to participate in this rally, but then didn’t; it is my
intention to make you feel really sorry you stayed home. You missed a really
great weekend for several reasons:
1. The weather was PERFECT.
2. The
rally from Addison to Tyler was not difficult, no one got lost.
3. The
benefit car show in Tyler was terrific and it was right across the street from
the Tyler Rose Museum for those of us (me) that were sick of looking at
cars.
4. Billy Hibbs and his lovely wife Tisa went all out to make us welcome
at their home, feeding us great Mexican food and of ourse, Margaritas.
5.
Billy gave us a tour of HIS garage and the infamous “Company Car”. (sorry, you
will have to ask!)
6. Sunday, the weather was PERFECT!
7. Steve Averill
showed us how to run a rally on an almost totally straight course from Tyler to
Lake Texoma.
8. We learned a tremendous amount about the art of “Rally” and
we intend to pass it on to our club members, soon.
9. We had the Red X up
over 90 on those great Texas straight-aways and did not get a speeding
ticket.
10. WE ARE STILL MARRIED!
Yes, it is true, a rally can be fun
and husbands and wives can do this together and not stress the marriage to the
breaking point. Steve Averill did a great job of setting up a rally that was
simple to follow but did require some thinking where speeds and times were
concerned.
We came in dead last on Saturday (the Stray Cat award) but we
had a sharp learning curve and did much better on Sunday, coming in 2nd. Most
important, we learned there are several ways to lay out and calculate a rally
and Steve set the second day up so the type of calculations used were totally
different from Saturday.
We now know that rallies can be a lot of fun and
do not require a large amount of manpower to put on. Scott and Stan Lackey will
be working on getting a rally school going later in the year so our club members
can learn how this is done. You like to drive your Jaguar? Here is one more way
we will get the Cat on the road. It is high time that someone from the South
Central region wins the Fred Horner Sportsman award and by adding rallies to our
list of JCNA events we can make it possible.
JCTI COMING
EVENTS
The “NO EXCUSES EVENT CALENDAR” is on page 3 of this
newsletter. The members who attended the planning meeting on Feb 15th have done
a really good job of mapping out a year’s worth of fun for the club so to avoid
missing anything, take the page and hang it on the refrigerator door or use it
to enter all the dates in your PDA or mark that big wall calendar or what ever
it is you do to keep track of your life.
The abbreviated “Coming Events
Calendar” will continue to appear on the last page of the newsletter, but is
frequently shortened to the current month or two due to space requirements on
that page. To avoid over scheduling or just plain forgetting an important club
event. take advantage of this calendar and then there are “No Excuses!”.
INTRODUCING THE GAME
“WHERE’S THE JAGUAR”
We all have heard of “Where’s Waldo” but how
about a new game of “Where’s the Jaguar?” This game concept was introduced at
the February 15th planning meeting buy Lester Neidell. The Alfa club has done
this for several years and the members seem to enjoy it so we thought we would
give it a try.
On page of this newsletter you will find a list of 16
notable sites of interest in the Oklahoma, Arkansas area. You choose at least 8
of those places and sometime between now and the Installation Dinner for 2005
you must drive there and take a picture of your car at the site. Yes, you and
your family members can be in the picture. The important thing is the car must
be in the picture.
Write your name on the back of the picture and save
it. You must have at least 8 pictures to be eligible for the prize. At the
Installation Dinner we will put all of the pictures in a box and a winner will
be drawn. To increase your chances of winning you can go to more than 8 places,
take the picture and add it to your collection. They will all go in the
drawing.
This game is open to all members of the club. This includes the
Daimler division, the Bentley division and the Armored division. If your Jaguar
is not operable at the moment, we will accept your daily driver, it just has to
be the same vehicle in every picture. Get your self a map, put film in the
camera and set out to explore. You can enjoy driving your car, see some
interesting places, learn a little about the history of our part of the country,
and maybe win a prize.
WHERE’S THE JAGUAR?
In the interest of driving our
Jaguars every chance we get and learning a bit about the state we live in, we
have devised a year long game for all members of the club. For full disclosure here, we will have
to admit that we stole the idea from the local Alfa Romeo club. They had a good time with it so we
thought we would too.
Here is how the game works: below is a
list of 16 places of historic interest in and around the Oklahoma and Eastern
Arkansas and Missouri area. You
drive your Jaguar to any EIGHT of the places on the list and take a
picture of your Jaguar in front of the sign, historical marker, building or
other item that identifies the site.
Once you have your eight pictures, write your name on the back of the
pictures and bring them to the installation dinner in January. All of the pictures will be put into a
box and a grand prize winner will be drawn.
Eligibility: Participants must be
members of JCTI. The game is open
to all “divisions” of the club. The
Jaguar division, the Daimler division, the Bentley division and the Armored
division. If your Jaguar is
currently not operable you can use the family daily driver and be in the
“Generic Division”. The only rule
is; it must be the SAME VEHICLE in every picture. Yes, you and your family can be in the
pictures.
BONUS PICTURES: To increase your
chances of winning the grand prize, go to more than the required 8 places and
take the picture. These extra
pictures will also go into the drawing.
The more places you see, the better your chances of winning.
Here is the list of places. We did not give you exact street address nor are they in any particular order, as finding some of them is half the fun. Remember these are interesting places so find out all you can about them while you are there.
1. Boston Ave. Methodist Church, Tulsa
2. Marland Mansion, Ponca City, Ok
3. Will Rogers Home, Claremore, OK
4. Cherokee Strip Museum, Perry OK
5. Jim Thorpe home, Yale, OK
6. Homesteaders Sod House, west of Enid, OK
7. Darryl Starbird Museum, Grove, Ok
8. Totem Pole Park, Foyil, OK
9. Town Square, Carthage, MO
10. Pea Ridge Battlefield, near Little Flock, AR
11. Murrah Building Bombing Memorial, OKC, OK
12. Okmulgee State Park, Okmulgee OK
13. Pawnee Bill Museum, Pawnee OK
14. Heavener Runestone State Park, Heavener,OK
15. Indian art murals, Hominy, OK
16. U.S. Army Ammunition Plant, near McAllister, OK
Be ready to hit the road! Keep this page in your car glove box with your maps. Take those pictures! Let the Editor know about any adventures you have while finding your destination. We will print as many as possible in the “Cat Tale”. Good Luck!
CLASSIFIED
ADS
Classified ads are free to club members. To place an ad, e-mail to
mmra@gte.net or call (918) 258-8320.
For Sale – 1996 Jaguar XJ6, 4
door luxury sedan, beautiful carnival red, beige leather all numbers match. 6 CD
player, all power options, 75K miles. Always service by Jaguar dealer, just
bought my wife a VDP so this must go. NADA book value $14,105 obo. Call Warren
Werling (918)495-3578.
“Jaguar, the Classic Marque” by Steve Kennedy.
This definitive book on Jaguar automobiles will make a wonderful present for the
Jaguar lover on your list. The book is available for $79.95. There are some
special editions, slip cased, signed and/or leather slip cased still available.
You can get all the information and order the book on line at
http://www.jaguarbooksite.com