January 9, 2009
Palais de Jade

On January 9, 2009 the Reno Jaguar Club had their first dinner meeting of the year at Palais de Jade in Reno, Nevada.

Thirty five RJC members attended along with one guest, Janice Hamilton's daughter, Julie.  The RJC gave her a warm welcome.

After the delicious meal a 40/60 raffle was held - 40% of the monies collected went to the winner and 60% of the monies went into the club treasury.  Iain Buxton was the lucky winner.  The club treasury made $65.00!

Larry Richardson welcomed everyone and turned the floor over to various other speakers for the meeting part of this dinner.

Iain Buxton stated that a person in Ohio saw our RJC Anniversary car badges on our website and purchased on.  He also said that he still had some badges and members could go to our website to place their order

The La Jolla Jaguar Club invited our club and other clubs to their Valentine's Party.  Any interested member is invited to go.

Patti Wilder gave the pictures she took, as a gift, to all the couples who attended the Christmas party.

Mike Glass told us that the Reno Jaguar Club is NOW FAMOUS! He said he submitted an article about the RJC's trip to Europe to the JCNA Jaguar Magazine.  The article was 3 pages long with wonderful pictures detailing the trip.  NICE JOB MIKE!!!

The RJC received a letter from the National Automobile Museum thanking us for our generous donation of $250.00.

There was a large and sometimes heated discussion about the JCNA new rules concerning the ability to tow a Driven Class Jaguar to a concours event.  Iain and Ron Pizer commented that some cars cannot go over 40 miles per hour so would be very difficult to get to an event if not towed.  Iain proposed that we give our proxy vote to our South West JCNA Representative, Steve Kennedy, and have him vote to allow cars being trailered.  It was brought up that it says nothing about not trailering it to the hotel and THEN driving it to the concours.  Randy Wright chimed in and said that in 2007 the rules said that you needed to drive your car onto the site and that the driven cars could not be towed there.  Randy asked Gerard Garra to find the correct document and to send it to all the members to straighten this hearsay out.

Here is what Gerard sent to the club members, via email, a few days later:

Subject: Proposed rule changes for Driven towing requirements:

As a follow up from the dinner meeting on January 9, here are the rules as they are written concerning the ability to tow a Driven class Jaguar to a Concours event.

I am proposing that we support the ability to tow a Driven class Jaguars as explained below for the rule identified as Current Rule.  This will make it easier for those who have vintage Jaguars to participate in Concours events a distance from their home.  We can vote our preference on this issue at the next meeting and request the parties holding our proxies vote our wishes at the next AGM meeting.

(Current Rule) Entries to be Driven to their Assigned Parking Positions / Trailering
Trailering to the Concours site is allowed in all Divisions.  The Chief Judge or his designees must confirm that all Entries are driven, under their own power, to their assigned parking positions in the judging area - the objective is to simply prove/observe that the Entry runs.  Entries not meeting this rule are ineligible for the day's Concours Competition and shall not be judged.  Entries shall not be trailered directly to their assigned parking positions and off loaded.

(2008 AGM) JCNA Concours Rule Book - Edition 8.5
Entry Eligibility, Divisions, and Classes - Chapter II, Page 1


(Previous Rule) 6.  Trailering
a.  Trailering a Jaguar to the Concours site is allowed only for Champion Division and Special Division Entries.  Trailering or towing is NOT allowed for Entries in Driven Division.
b.  If horns and lights are present on S2 Entries, they must operate.  (2006 AGM)
c.  Special Division Class S3, Modified, must be equipped with functional horns, headlights, tail lights, brake lights, parking lights, license plate lights, back-up lights .  All Jaguars must be driven, under their own power, to their assigned parking positions in the judging area. 

(2007 AGM) JCNA Concours Rule Book - Edition 8.4
Entry Eligibility, Divisions, and Classes - Chapter II, Page 1"

Mike Johnson said he was actively looking for a site to host this year's "A Day on the Village Green".  He said the place we had it last time, The Cal Neva Resort/Casino was in receivership and would not be available for this event.

He had other ideas such as, Van Halle (spelling) Estate in California or possibly Camp Richardson near Lake Tahoe.  Randy Wright proposed the new ball park that is being constructed in the Reno area.  He said it may be available when the home team was at an away game.  He also said there would be great parking, big expanse to park our cars, centrally located for out of town guests.

Other places mentioned were: Thunderbird Hotel and Rainbow Lodge.

The 2008 RJC Board Members were thanked for a job well done and the new board was introduced.
 

The new 2009 Board members are:

*(Patti & Sunny were both write-in's on the election ballot.  Both are too busy to do this job full time so agreed to share this position)

A board meeting was proposed to be held in a few weeks.

Gary Dyer gave the Treasurer's report since Dave Minedew was absent.

Tony Fakonas told the club that Rich Wilder was doing an EXCELLENT job as webmaster

Patti Wilder passed out "dinner kits" to all the members who would be hosting the upcoming dinner meetings.

Mick & Lani Collins mentioned that the next RJC dinner meeting would be held at the "Butcher Boy's" Restaurant/store in Reno on February 13, 2009.

Rich Wilder thanked Larry Richardson for being last year's President.

Meeting was Adjourned

Minutes and Pictures by Patti Wilder

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