Lyon's Tales Page 6 of 9
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The Lyons Roar
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VJC to Have
Private Jamestown Tour in March
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Gentry Shop Tour with NCJOC
Visits First "AC Cobra"
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The Joy of Six
(cylinder XJ40s)
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VIR 50th Anniversary
Set for June Dates
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2007 VJC Calendar
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SS100 Discovered in
Washington DC Front Yard
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Classicfieds--For Sale
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Jaguar Humor
Cartoon
Picture of the Month
VJC 2007 Officers
President
David Harrison
Vice President
Dr. Bill Massey
North Reg. VP
Bruce Murff
East Reg. VP
Don Jackson
West Region VP
Maurice Maxwell
Membership
Bruce Murff
Treasurer & Secretary
Marian Murff
Concours Chairman
Steve Kelly
Newsletter, Webmaster,
Chief Concours Judge
Wayne Estrada
SS100 Found on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC
Car covered near "Brown's Lane"by Wayne Estrada
About two years ago in Lyon's Tales, I reported that a car suspected to be a Jaguar S.S. 100
was spotted parked in the front yard of a house on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Well, the mystery has been solved! As you can see from the pictures
of the covered (and actual) S.S. 100 it is in fact a S.S. 100...but
as exciting as the story might have hoped to have turned out, it is a...
errr...replica car.
The car is a VW powered fiberglass "recreation", not driven since 1992. The proud owners, after a short conversation, confessed they love the car, and that it would be "someday on the road again." For their sake, certainly it is a nice thought, but for the Jaguar faithful, we'd wish not to crumudgeon the memory of such a fine car in Coventry's history.
Certainly only a rabid Jaguar lover could have spotted such a shape, even under a tarp! I have to admit, I was hoping it was the real thing, and for maybe a coupe of thousand, I'd take the car off their hands. Then again, one can dream...
Capitol Hill Mystery S.S. 100
Original S.S. 100