April 2014

PAST EVENTS 4-5

SPRING DRIVE 6

HIGHLAND GAMES 8

CHAMPAGNE BCF 7

CONCOURS 9

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No current event photos of any value to use so, I used my old photo from the 2011 Fall Drive. To Trav-erse City.

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April 2014

June 21st: Indiana Concours at Tom Woods Jaguar, Indianapolis. Info JCNA.COM or Rick Smith 317-437-6088

July 13th: Mad Dogs & Englishman, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Info www.maddogsandenglishmen.org

August 24th: Geneva Concours Info www.genevaconcours.net

The Official 2014 Club Calendar

Month / Date / Time Event Location / Contact

May 30th - June 1st: Champagne British Car Festival

www.cbcf-bloomington.com

Bloomington, Illinois Ken Katch 309-370-3368

June 7 - 8th: Spring Drive Auburn, Indiann Mike & Diane Smith 630-240-2303

June 21st: Scottish Highland Games & British Car Show

Itasca, Illinois

July 26th: Concours d’Elegance Naperville Country Club, Naperville, Illinois Michael Belica 630-204-6322

August 23 - 24th: Wisconsin Concours

Milwaukee Masterpiece

Milwaukee Lake Front John Boswell 414-764-9391

September: 7th: British Car Festival Harper College, Palatine www.britishcarunion.com

September 20 - 22nd: Fall Drive French Lick, Indiana Daria Durham 847-730-3440 

Other Coming Events this year.

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Ten Years of Weekend Drives

2001-2002 Dubuque , Iowa 2003 Stockton, Illinois /Spring Green, Wisconsin

2004 Saugatuck , Michigan 2005 Route 66 / Springfield, Illinois

2006 Spring Green, Wisconsin 2006 Wisconsin

2008 Columbus, Indiana 2007 Bettendorf, Iowa

2009 Columbus, Indiana 2010 Door County, Wisconsin

2011 Peoria, Illinois 2011 South Haven/Traverse City, MI

2002-2011 Join us this Year!

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As I write this article, I just fin-ished confirming all of our stops for the Spring Drive. We pushed the date out an extra month this year but its still rapidly approach-ing. June 7-8 is less than 60 days away.

Rooms are only being held through May 7th. Auburn gets lots of tourist but has limited hotel space. Please make your reserva-tion as soon as possible.

Now about the trip, we are depart-ing from the parking lot of Jo-liet Junior College. This gets us south and out of the city, avoiding most of the early morning traffic. It will be an early departure be-cause we loose an hour heading east and our last stop of the day closes as 5 PM. Each leg of the trip is about 60-70 miles. At the College we will conduct registra-tion, pass out trip information and hold our first grab bag drawing. ( this now officially qualifies as a "club tradition" this will be our third year). We will depart the Col-lege and our first stop will be Valparaiso.

This is just a coffee and fuel stop. From there the next leg takes us to

Amish Acres where we will have lunch family style in a Threshing

Spring Drive to Auburn

Barn and tour the various build-ings ( This is also our required "Winery Stop"). From there we will depart for Auburn and get to the Auburn /Dusenberg Museum about 3 pm and stay until 5 pm.

We then drive over to our Hotel, check in, freshen up and drive about 7 miles to Avilla Indiana for Dinner. Dinner is in the Historic St James Hotel.

The next morning we have a con-tinental breakfast at the hotel and at 9 am we head over to the Na-tional Truck and Auto Museum. This is a separate museum, housed in some of the origi-nal Dusenberg factory buildings.

From there, we hit the road and head west. We will stop for lunch at an undetermined location then on to South Bend to visit the Stu-debaker Mu-seum. ( I personally am looking forward to this because my grandfa-

ther worked for Studebaker for 40 years. His last Studebaker was a 63 Silver Hawk and my dads last Studebaker was a 64 Daytona. I remember as a kid being at his dealership the day the first load of Avanti arrived. We should finish at Studebaker by late af-ternoon and everyone can de-part from there for home.

With all these great Auto Muse-ums , we all should get our “car fix" on this trip. I hope to have the actual schedule done by the first week of May and will ask Ken to send it out. The miles are a little less than last year, but we do have a compressed time factor due to the time change as we head east on Saturday.

Please register, it makes plan-ning so much easier with pre-registration. See everyone in a few weeks

Register now ! Time is running out!

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Questions? Call Michael Smith 630-240-2303

From: Michael Smith

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The Champagne British Car Festival is just around the corner, May 31 - June 2, in Bloomington, Illinois on the grounds of the David Davis Mansion.

The featured marque this year is Austin Healy but there will be great examples of just about any British car. Last year they had over 135 cars and motorcycles and beautiful weather the entire weekend.

Please take a look at the website to learn more about the event and the weekend activities. Whether you come just for the show on Sun-day or also for the other events (Friday gather-ing, Saturday drive , Saturday evening dinner with guest speaker John Nikas. Sunday dawn patrol) you are sure to have a great time and meet some cool British car fans. Check the website occasionally as we will continue to update it with more details about the weekend. www.cbcf-bloomington.com You can register electronically on the web-site using PayPal

Friday, May 30: Hospitality at the Haw-thorne Suites - Evening - We’ll turn the bar at the Hawthorn Suites into a traditional English Pub with a traditional Guinness brew .

Saturday, May 31. 8 AM - 2 PM Registration at the Hawthorne Suites Aspen Room

Cruise (TBA - probably 11AM) Don’t miss this one!! Last year was ascenic drive to the Route 66 Museum and the recently opened Pontiac/Oakland Auto Museum in Pontiac, of

Champagne British Car Festival

course. This year is something new.

Evening Festivities - Saturday evening dinner will be in a private room at Biaggi’s - a well regarded restaurant in Bloomington. After a fine meal we will We will listen to John Nikas talk about his travels across the US in a 1953 Austin Healey 100 as a me-morial and inspiration to the cancer pa-tients and families affected by cancer. .

Sunday, June 1: 6:30 AM Dick Hansen will lead the Dawn Patrol through hill and dale to a special breakfast spot. Meet in the Hawthorne Suites parking lot.

8 - 11 AM Car Show begins at the David Davis Mansion. There is shade but the best goes to those that are on time and have pre-registered. Day of show registration ends at 11 AM.

11 AM Ballots are distributed for popular vote class winners. Classes require a mini-mum of 3 cars for a prize. Voting closes at 1 PM.

2:30 PM Awards ceremo-ny - recognition goes to Best of Show in addition to awards in individual classes.

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The Highland Games and Scot-tish Festival will be held on June 21st, 2014 at Hamilton Lakes in Itasca Illinois. This is at the Northeast Corner of I-355 and Thorndale. The British Car Festival is on Saturday the 21st only from 8 am to 4pm.

A few of us have attended this over the past 2-3 years. We have had 2 to 4 cars, never much of a strong club presence. The Lotus club usually gets about 6-8 cars and then another assorted 5-6 British cars or assorted makes.

We would like to make this a strong event for the club. With a little effort we could own this venue. We get prime display space, everyone entering or leaving the event walks past our cars.

We have a nice paved area to park in with a grassy knoll with

Scottish Festival & Highland Games trees behind us to sit. The nice part about this display is you can get up every once in a while and go visit the games. They have Pipe and Drum Bands, food,Rugby,Soccer,Whiskey tasting ( this will increase par-ticipation),Crafts, and many cultural attractions.

Your registration fee is Tax Deductible because this is a Fund Raiser for a non for Profit Organization.

his is a great way to spend a Saturday and get immersed in some fun and cultural activi-ties as well. Its close and sim-ple.

Drive your car, park, set up your chairs and enjoy. Feel free to create a Plaque that explains your car to the public, display your awards, display accessories for your car....its an unstructured event.

Registration is done at the site on Saturday, no early sign up re-quired.

Hope to see a good turn out.

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New site for the Concours d’ Elegance

Save the date, Saturday July 26th. Join us at our new Location in the heart of Naperville, just east of downtown, lies one of the most beautiful pieces of property in all of the western suburbs. Since 1921, Naperville Country Club has called this lush green and wooded ref-uge home. This year it will be home to the Illinois Jaguar Clubs Concours d' Elegance. If you love Jaguars, golf, and beautiful country club settings you should put this on the to do list. Hope to see you there in July.

From: Michael Belica

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