Jaguar Journal January/February 2022

Liverpool in the 1950s had, I believe, the highest number of Irish in any city apart from Dublin. The Irish can laugh at themselves and this 1970s joke was best delivered totally dead-pan to try to avoid the listener realizing what was being said: “Ireland is going to switch to the European way of driving next year.” “Really?” “Yes, it’s the Common Market thing, they are going to drive on the right like Europeans.” “Oh. I hadn’t heard that.” “Yes, they are going to take it very carefully – you can imagine the accidents otherwise!” “Right. When will that be?” “I forget the exact date, but the first week it’ll be busses and trucks and then assuming it works, the cars will also switch over.” “Right. Hey, wait a second…”…

MARCH 24-27, 2022 The 2022 JCNA AGM is coming up quickly. Yes, it will have been a mere seven months since the terrific AGM was held last August in Columbia, South Carolina, an event which had to be rescheduled twice due to the pandemic. But since the JCNA’s business must go on, the AGM is being returned to its more usual time of the year. The 2022 meeting is being hosted (on short notice!) by Wisconsin Jaguars Ltd., and it will be held in and around Milwaukee. Here are the great activities planned for this year’s AGM in the ‘Brew City.’ Friday, March 25 Friday afternoon will feature a short bus trip to Mike and Deb Korneli’s garage, which houses mostly Jaguars, several with race history, and lots of auto…

For some time, there have been requests for an electronic version of the Jaguar Journal. Led by Les Hamilton, JCNA has been working to provide an accurate, timely and secure digital edition to members without incurring undue costs. We initially worked with our production partners at Graphcom, who hosted an interactive PDF version but there were costs involved, as well as a risk that anyone could access the website and read our first-class magazine without paying for the privilege. The problems were not insoluble, but having stopped that service some years ago, JCNA has selected the Zinio Publishing system to make the electronic option available. Zinio is one of the largest e-publishers and serves many other motoring publications. Zinio holds your electronic copies of JJ, which have been paginated for…

Now that the holidays are over, many of us in the north have put our driver cars to bed/garage for the season. There’s finally time to grind away at the laundry list of other car projects that were postponed due to overcommitting ourselves earlier in the year. Or is that just me? If you have one or fifty cars, there is always something that needs to be done. Some of us seem to thrive on getting our hands dirty. If you missed the IJF in Fort Myers, you must plan on making the 2022 festival. There’s always an abundant amount of cars, conversation, and comradery at this gathering. With that said, it is time to turn our attention to club activities for the upcoming year. If you haven’t heard yet,…

What a difference a year makes. Last year, due to the virus, the NC region event schedule was very limited. There were only three concours held and no rallies or slaloms. This year to date (October 2021), eight NC region clubs have held concours and there has been one slalom. I was able to attend five of the NC region concours, namely: the Susquehanna Valley Jaguar Club, Jaguar Club of Ohio, Jaguar Affiliates of Michigan, Jaguar Club of Pittsburgh and the Ontario Jaguar Owners Association, as well as the JCO Slalom. Unfortunately, I could not make it to the Illinois Jaguar Club, Wisconsin Jaguars Ltd. or the Jaguar Association of Greater Indiana concours. All the above events I did attend were well organized and attendance seems to be back to…

THE GREEN PREMIUM Britain, like many of the world’s leading countries, is making a push towards carbon neutrality across the board. Whether that be industry, domestic heating (where a number of £5,000 grants for homes to install heat pumps as opposed to traditional gas boilers has just been announced) or, of course, in terms of transport, all are under pressure to at least be doing something about it. The Net Zero Strategy, as it is called, contains a vehicle-specific subsection known as the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate which will take effect from 2024, and it has recently been revealed that as part of this the UK government has pledged £620m for zero emission vehicle grants and EV infrastructure. This money will have a particular focus on local onstreet residential…