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MAY 2021 Volume #20 No. 5
Coming up... 5310 Vinings Springs Point, Mableton, GA 30126 • www.ngjc.us
Sunday May 23rd. Dipuma drive and luncheon
Saturday June 26th. Jaguar and Friends BBQ Picnic, Canton GA,
Perception Reality
LETTER
FROM THE
PRESIDENT
Now that the weather is
breaking we can look
forward to the upcoming
outdoor events. Last
month’s lunch and drive
In Memoriam was an example of a
Frank Sessions picture perfect day and
We learned recently that The Rally Master’s route
long time NGJC member did not disappoint. Thank
Frank Sessions passed you David for shepherding
away recently. There is little the cats through the
information including the backwoods country side.
This month’s drive and
date of his passing but we North Georgia Jaguar Club Members luncheon is to a winery
found some information
from the Facebook page that is being repurposed
into a small event venue
of Atlanta Pizza & Gyro in JCNA Concours d’Elegance Season Now Underway just outside of Helen. Our
Conyers where Frank liked Submitted by Philip DiTrolio, Chief Judge NGJC
to spend some time. host David is a Porsche
“Saddened to learn car guy, but don’t hold that
This past month marked the start of the 2021 Concours as a visiting judge. This is something I have truly come
of the passing of a good against him. This months
season, with the first event being held in Lake Mary, to enjoy, as it provides an opportunity to see how
friend and longtime drive will be more straight
FL. The event was hosted by the Jaguar Club of Florida other clubs handle their Concours as well as their
regular at the restaurant, forward. Look for the
and was very well attended with 33 judged cars. The judging techniques. As always, I received some great
Mr. Frank Sessions. He article with details and
Marriott, Lake Mary hosted the Friday mixer, the suggestions. I will share these with Terry and hopefully
was an Air Force veteran sign up directions in this
Concours on Saturday as well as the awards dinner we can add some to our Concours this fall.
and a lifelong classic newsletter.
Saturday night. They did a great job and together with One thing I think we should implement is to add
car collector, amateur The Coventry
JCoF put on a first-class event. more photography to our events, anyone want to
photographer (that photo Foundation has been busy
As almost everyone had been vaccinated, mask usage volunteer? We can add these to our club website and
he is posing with was collecting and expanding
was noticeably on a decline. It was refreshing to see upload some to the JCNA website. This can be a valuable
one of his favorites from it’s special repair tool
things starting to get back to normal! This is a not so tool in attracting new members.
a chance encounter with program. Special tools
subtle reminder that getting vaccinated is the quickest I am still working on our Judges training and will
a lovely pair of ladies at are now available on
way for all of us to get back to normal. have a further update in the June newsletter. I am still
Atlanta Motor Speedway both coasts. Look for the
That said, there were some truly incredible cars looking for members who can help out with presenting
in the early 1970s), article on their continued
in attendance, including Ian Crawford’s 1993 XJ220 judging training for specific early cars. My goal remains
and historical aircraft vision of preserving and
(9.998) with 7,000 original miles, Chris Labinski’s 1934 to make our judges the best trained, most consistent in
aficionado. He always had expanding the Jaguar
S.S.I. Tourer (99.830) and Eduardo Zavala’s 1935 S.S.I the JCNA.
interesting stories about heritage here in the USA.
Coupe (97.80). Craig Kerins brought his 2013 XKR Philip DiTrolio, Chief Judge
his travels and his many We have some future
Coupe (9.994) and it was as well prepared as always. As jaguar@georgiaexpo.com
friends he made over events that will be shaping
Craig is our Southeast Regional Director it’s always good (404) 372-9071
the years (he was close up in the fall so stay tuned
to get his perspective on the status of our club.
friends with caretaker for calendar updates.
Fielding enough qualified judges is an ongoing
and “phantom of the Fox There are some spots
problem for most clubs and I was asked to help out
theater” Joe Patton before open in our club officer
his death in 2016). So positions, Vice President
much loss in the past year, and Vice-President for
but we all are blessed to Activities are available.
be friends with and enjoy Continued on page 2
the company of those Host of the
that bring meaningful Host Welcome new
2005 JCNA of the 2017 members
experiences, stories and Challenge affiliated with International Dennis and Linda Habrat
Championship Jaguar Clubs of North America Jaguar Festival of Canton, GA
Continued on page 6
President’s Letter Officers
continued from Page 1 President Secretary
John C. Yates John Hollier
Think about throwing your hat into the ring and get involved with this club. We have 20 years of past officers who johncyates@comcast.net drjohnod86@gmail.com,,
will support you in any of the open and upcoming positions. New blood and ideas are needed to keep this club Vice-President Concours Chief Judge,
going strong. OPEN Philip DiTrolio
Stay safe and keep the shiny side up. jaguar@georgiaexpo.
John com.
Vice-President for
Activities Newsletter Editor:
OPEN John Baxa
770-642-7535
VP-Membership
jwbaxa@mindspring.com
John Baxa
jwbaxa@mindspring.com Newsletter Publisher:
770-642-7535 John C. Yates
johncyates@comcast.net
Vice President
Concours Member-at-large
Terry Mathewson Bill Flavelle
tlmathewson@bellsouth.net bflavelle@att.net
Treasurer Deadline for Newsletter
Lynn Cunningham Articles and
lynn.cunningham9@gmail. Advertisements is the
com 26th of the preceding
The Old Rallymaster month.
Dave Kirkman All submissions are
kirkmandav1@aol.com nonbinding and subject
770 886-7435
to approval.
Perception Reality Webmaster
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2021 NGJC Calendar Tentative
Submitted by Dave Kirkman
NGJC EVENTS: May 26 - 28, Thursday - Saturday,
M T W T F SAT SUN AGM Annual Meeting, Columbia 6 - 9, Thursday-Sunday, Motul
1 2 SC Petit LeMans – Road Atlanta,
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Braselton, GA
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ? - Dawsonville Track, Georgia
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Racing Hall of Fame tour. 15 - 17, Chattanooga Motorcar
31 Optional Go-Kart track time. Festival, Concours d’Elegance,
Sponsor: D. Kirkman TN
NGJC EVENTS: June
M T W T F SAT SUN SEPTEMBER 22, - Friday, International Jaguar
1 2 3 4 5 6 ? - Summer Drive Brasstown Festival (IJF), Ft. Myers, FL.
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Resort, Young Harris, GA
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Brunch 31, - Sunday, NGJC Concours
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30
Sponsor:? d’Elegance – Gainesville, GA – T.
Mathewson, P. DiTrolio
Club Event Holiday 4, Saturday British Motorcar Day,
Other Event Tellus Museum, Cartersville, GA NOVEMBER
JANUARY 5 - 7, Friday-Sunday, Hilton
Nothing planned MAY 11, Saturday, Atlanta British Car Head Concours d’Elegance –
23 - Spring Drive Luncheon Fayre – Norcross, GA Hilton Head Island, SC
FEBRUARY 2021 at Dipuma Venue, Helen, GA,
24 - Wednesday, Porsche Sponsor: J Yates 26, Sunday, Atlanta Concours ? - Saturday, 10:30 AM, NGJC
Experience Tour & Lunch. d’Elegance at Tylor Perry Studios Business Meeting - Ga Expo,
Sponsor: J Yates 20 - 23, Thursday – Sunday, Suwannee, GA
Amelia Island Concours OCTOBER
MARCH d’Elegance, Amelia Island FL 2, Saturday - Roswell Motoring DECEMBER
20 - Saturday, 10:30 AM, Metal Festival – Roswell, GA ? - NGJC Holiday Party
Union Speed Shop tour and JUNE
metal tech session. Lilburn, GA, 10 - 13, Thursday - Sunday,
Sponsor: J Yates Highlands Motoring Festival, NC PRESERVE JAGUAR ®
HISTORY
20 - Saturday, GTA Spring St. 13 - Sunday, Cincinnati
Paddy’s Day Drive, 10:30 AM Concours, Ault Park, OH.
25 - Thursday, AGM, COLUMBIA, 26 - Saturday, Jaguar and
SC Friends BBQ Picnic,
Canton GA,
27 - Saturday, Roswell Motoring Sponsor: J. Yates
Festival
JULY
25-28 - Saturday-Sunday, SVRA 22 - Thursday, North Carolina Now Accepting Donations
Historic Races – Road Atlanta, Jaguar Club, Concours
Braselton, GA d’Elegance, Little Switzerland, COVENTRY FOUNDATION
NC Donate Today
APRIL • Classic Jaguar ®cars
10 - Saturday, ceramic coating ? - Dick Maury’s Garage, drive • Parts
tech session. Detail Life with train tech session • Memorabilia
Jose Soto, Sponsor: J Newell Sponsor: Dick Maury • Literature
RESCHDULED • Monetary Donations
AUGUST
18 - Sunday, Spring Drive 15 - Sunday, Pebble Beach
Sponsor: D Kirkman Concours, Pebble Beach, CA
23 - 25, Friday - Sunday, HSR 21 - 22, Saturday - Sunday,
Walter Mitty – Road Atlanta, Huntsville Overnight, U.S. Space www.coventryfoundation.org
Braselton, GA & Rocket Center
Jaguar car corral
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Dipuma drive and luncheon May 23rd.
Submitted by John C. Yates.
Enjoy a drive to a beautiful setting just outside of Helen THE MENU: THE COST:
for lunch overlooking Yonah mountain. Your choice of either Lunch is $25 per person.
David Dipuma has purchased a small vineyard over Grilled Burger on a Bakery Bun, with lettuce, tomato,
looking a picturesque farm with Yonah Mountain in the onion, ketchup, mustard. To sign up and pay go to www.ngjc.us, select the
background. Space will be limited to 25 cars. Or Calendar tab, click on the highlighted HERE under the
THE DRIVE: Mama Dipuma’s Chicken Salad May 23, 2021 tab and fill out the form and submit.
We will meet in the back parking lot of the on a Bakery Fresh Croissant Payments are made via PayPal.
North Georgia Premium Outlets The cutoff date for this event is Wednesday
behind the Nike Factory Store at 10:30, heading out at Sides include: Potato Salad, Cole Slaw May 19th.
11:00 for the drive to lunch Dessert Platter of cookies and brownies,
(800 GA-400 S, Dawsonville, GA 30534). Ice Tea and Lemonade
Some Of What’s In Store At Amelia Island Auction
From Hagerty Media
The May 20th Bonhams’ Amelia Island Auction will bring together many of the usual Like most “non-essential” businesses, Great Britain’s Atalanta Motors ceased
suspects—Porsche, Jaguar, Cadillac, Volkswagen, MG—as well as a few marques that production at the start of World War II. In 1944, British Major Richard G. Shattock,
may be completely unknown to you. then working in the Department of Tank Design at Chobham, acquired an Atalanta
Bonhams, which postponed its Florida event in March and rescheduled it for May chassis and parts and began tinkering. Five years later, Shattock bought a garage,
20, recently unveiled the auction’s first group of prewar and vintage cars. Three of along with the rights to Atalanta Motors’ name and inventory, and opened RGS
them caught our attention because they’re rarely seen on the auction stage—or Atalanta in 1951.
anywhere else, for that This 1953 Atalanta,
matter. finished in British Racing
1953 RGS Atalanta Green with a Fly Yellow
In Greek mythology, nose and stripe and wearing
the Goddess Atalanta was a green leather interior,
renowned for her swiftness carries registration number
of foot, and so is this 1953 UKL 852. In 1955, it was
RGS Atalanta (Jaguar purchased from Shattock’s
C-Type) race car. The rare Brookside Garage by David
factory works car features Smallwood and registered in
an all-aluminum body built Kent, England, as a “sports
by John Griffiths (most tourer.” It was imported
Atalantas were fiberglass) to the U.S. in 1978 by Sam
and a 3.4-liter, straight-six Tayloe, who parted with it
Jaguar XK series engine (no. in 1988.
F-1632-8). It was highly All Atalanta models
modified at the time, fitted benefited from lightweight
with special valves and a construction and were
16-quart oil sump, plus a revered for their solid
racing Warren Pearce intake handling and tenacious
manifold with triple SU cornering ability. The best
H-8 Sandcast carburetors. news for its next owner
Additional features include (who should expect to
independent front and rear pay six figures): It can be
suspension, inboard rear alloy brakes, 16-inch wire wheels, original Rey-Dot mirrors, licensed for driving on the street.
and a Le Mans filler cap. For other surprises check out https://www.hagerty.com/media/auctions/3-cars-at-
bonhams-amelia-island-auction-that-you-didnt-know-existed/
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Perfect Weather For Our 2021 Spring Drive
Submitted by Dave Kirkman
Sunny day and temperatures in the low 70’s. Nothing better for a spring drive on Beverly and I were delighted to see a nice collection of Jaguars parked in front of
narrow twisty back roads in a Jaguar; especially one that winds up at a DQ for ice the Olive Garden when we arrived shortly after 11:00 am. Bob and Linda Ray, Tom
cream! and Marie Clearman (a special award to the Clearman’s for attending this event as
Marie’s knee was in a cast from a ski accident), David
Singleton and Ena Hammond, John and Judy Hoffman,
Peter and Janell Helman, Tom and Midge Gose, and Brian
Black and his guest all joined us for brunch before the
drive. It was obvious we were all just glad to be among
friends again after a long year of being shut-ins. Patti
Fox, Bill and Jane Flavelle and Laly Davis passed on the
brunch and met us shortly after noon for the drive. We
even had a surprise visit for club President John Yates
before we set out.
The traffic was light as we wound our way along
the tree lined streets around Canton and out into the
beautiful green countryside and the previously mentioned
narrow twisty roads that eventually lead us back to the
DQ in Riverstone Village where we all enjoyed ice cream
and swapped more stories before heading home. A
perfect Jaguar day; beautiful cars and good friends.
What is the Coventry Foundation and what does that mean to you?
Edited reprint from The Jaguar Club of Minnesota
It means the following:
The Coventry Foundation is a non-profit
• Make a tax-deductible donation of
Jaguar® cars and automobilia to the
Example of a XK-150 Parts Donation
501(c)(3) organization created by a group of Foundation. After doing a restoration of an XK-150, this donor decided to
enthusiastic hobbyists to perpetuate the heritage • Make a tax-deductible donation to the donate the remaining parts including an extra transmission to the
of Jaguar Cars®. If you are a member of the North Foundation. foundation. With the permission of the donor, the parts will be
Georgia Jaguar Club, the club’s membership in the If you’re looking for a nice “Jaguar related liquidated for cash, and the cash will be added to our
Foundation enables you to: vacation” consider visiting the library in Columbia, scholarship fund.
• Borrow and use tools specially made SC and then visit the museum in Petersburg, VA.
for Jaguar® cars.(By the way, if you are Or, if you’re in a west coast mood, visit the library
a member of the North Georgia Jaguar in Oceanside, CA. Do some research on your Jag
Club, your mechanic may also access while you’re there and talk with the experts.
the tech hotline and tool loan program if All this and more is available on the Coventry
they’re working on your Jag). Foundation website at www.coventryfoundation.
• Access the Coventry Foundation libraries org. Or, go to the Coventry Foundation’s Facebook
located in Oceanside, CA and Columbia, page. Additional information is also available on
SC. Right now, the information must be our website at www.jaguarminnesota.com. Click
viewed at the libraries. The Foundation is on “Heritage” at the top of the home page and
working on digitizing the information so scroll down.
you can access it online in the future. Enrich your knowledge of Jaguars – check out
• Visit the Foundation museum in the Coventry Foundation!
Petersburg, VA. Note: The Coventry Foundation is not affiliated with Jaguar®
Land Rover North America, LLC. The Jaguar® trademark and
• Purchase Jaguar® related items from the other referenced trademarks are trademarks of Jaguar® Land
Ebay store. Rover Limited and are used for reference purposes only.
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Continued from Page 1
In Memoriam Frank Sessions
share their memories into our lives. Rest in peace Frank. the 1954 Jaguar. The time difference was only 3-tenths of a second over the 1.6 mile
Collection History course, a simulated road course with 100 mph straights.
1932 Ford 3-window Deluxe Coupe. This car was Earlier, in 1954, the ‘32 Ford coupe raced in the
owned by Frank Sessions of Atlanta and Conyers from first legal “drag races” in Georgia on a dirt air strip
1953 to 2012. In 1953 Sessions and a few friends at Fairburn, Georgia. The little Ford went into storage
installed an Olds 88 engine in the car, one of the first in the early ‘60s. Before that it was driven to New
such modifications in Georgia. In 1953 Sessions also York State, Watkins Glen, New York City, and out to
had the chance to drive a friend’s XK120 Jaguar and Denver, Colorado. It is now part of the Wester Family
saw the 120 mph the car was capable of--very fast for Collection, Okatie, South Carolina, and is being
this time period. Sessions also had his own XK120 maintained in “preservation” state. It has its almost
from 1956 to 2010. With this car he set the fastest 90-year-old original interior. All its sheet metal is
Jaguar time of the day at an SCCA Solo One event at original to the car. It was in a special invitational area
his Air Base in Columbus, Ohio in 1957. He was also at Hilton Head Island Councours in 2015.
2nd over all, beaten only by a then-new 1957 Corvette
with the 270 hp engine package--270 hp vs. 180 hp in
Cars Wanted & For Sale
For Sale: 1995 Jaguar XJS Convertible 4.0 . Car has 50,000 miles. It is garage kept. It drives and runs well. For Sale: 1972 XJ6 Series 1. Exceptional. Owned
It needs some work and the ask is $7000. The perfect price for someone wanting an entry point car or possibly an 40 years Major Eurospec (2-inch SUs, etc.) mechanical
avid collector. This car has been shown in the past.. The car is located in Temple, GA near Carrollton. Kyle Rowan restoration 1989. Interior and exterior restoration
864-704-7798 rowan945@bellsouth.net 1993. Paint better than new. HVAX garaged. Many
upgrades including Bluetooth. Drive anywhere. Heritage
Certificate, documents, trophies included. Asking
$35,000.
Call Brian 404-275-8200.
Wanted to Buy: Jaguar E-Type Series 1 or 2
convertible 1961 – 1969.
David Peck, 770-559-3943 or davidhpeck@aol.com.
For Sale: Jaguar Super V8 - Rare limited production model I am posting system, Reclining rear seats, heated and cooled front seats, heated rear seats, dual
this ad for a JCNA member whose husband has rear video screens, DVD and CD player, rear
recently passed. She is offering for sale his 2008 window screen and more.
Super V8 in Lunar Gray with Ivory leather and This isn’t a special model just because it has a
charcoal piping. The car has a clean Car Fax and different model name or special colors. It is truly
a binder with extensive maintenance records. a limited production model with unique features
Recent (within the last 20,000 miles) include pads and styling with only about 200 worldwide in
and rotors, Coolant system updated with flush, 2008. It is a future classic in the real sense of the
hoses and grommets, Transmission flush with words. It is originally a California car that made
software update, all O2 sensors replaced and both its way to the Carolinas. It listed new for over
front air spring suspension assemblies with factory $94,000. She is asking $15,000. Serious inquires
originals. Current mileage is 109,900. It has a only. More photos upon request.
recent oil change and new battery. Car is located in North Carolina. Contact Judy
The Super V8 has a 400 HP supercharged 4.2 Meyers at judyhpm@gmail.com.
liter V8 with 6 speed Auto. Rear door window Call Brian 404-275-8200.
shades, long wheel base, rear entertainment
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