In addition to the Annual General Meeting and the welcome party at Primus, Thursday's schedule also included a special tour for the large group of C-types, D-types and XKSS attending the JCC. Even thought this tour was not advertised in the program it was exciting to think that so many rare cars would be on the road together.

Many other events such as the various vintage rallies organized each year throughout the US do offer the awesome sights of very rare cars on the road but as Jaguar enthusiast a group of the cars which earned Jaguar its fame on the the tracks in the 50s was the ultimate.

Unfortunately, soon after the tour got underway a couple of E-type drivers who were following were asked to leave and stop following the group. Worst even,  the editor of the Jaguar Club of Florida newsletter, Ginger Corda, who had been invited to come along as a passenger in one of the new X-type that served as a press car was also told leave and take a cab back to the Marriot by one of the tour organizer and this in an particularly unfriendly manner

We had hoped to show pictures of these beautiful cars in action on the fine country roads of Tennessee but that is obviously not possible.   Disappointing indeed since many attendants came to Franklin in part to see rare Jaguars they rarely get to admire.

picture Brad Cline