[JONAT] AGM report

[Bob]

Marc

To answer your question regarding the northern portion of the Tour, Jay had
a nice comfortable ride in Jaguars all the way from Vancouver to Winnipeg
then down to Minneapolis.  I think Jay was accompanied by a convoy of one
only from Dundurn to Winnipeg itself, the rest of the way I think thee was
at least 2 cars.  Alan in Winnipeg did have difficulty getting local support
though as I recall.

As a thought, we should likely nominate someone to start communications with
the previous SC's directly to get the ball rolling.  As a head count, how
many SC's and ASC's are out there still on this list ...

Perhaps the ASC's / ASC's please could just send a brief note back to this
list. 

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: jonat-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:jonat-admin@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Mark Stephenson
Sent: April 5, 2005 2:53 AM
To: jonat@autox.team.net; papineaus@aol.com
Subject: RE: [JONAT] AGM report

[Ray, I added you to the distribution of this e-mail because it looks like
you are in charge of the 2006 AGM planning. As I mentioned at the AGM, we
are organizing a continental JCNA road tour. After the meeting it occurred
to a couple of us that the AGM would be an excellent place to start. You
might want to contact Bob England at engl_at_accesscomm_dot_ca (converting
the underscores and words to punctuation) about getting on the JONAT list so
you can follow our discussion. We are hoping that Pascal Gademer and Greg
Meboe (JONAT webmaster) can get together to transfer the JONAT info and
lists to the JCNA website. Greg and Jamie Duffey, a couple of Jaguar
enthusiasts and 2004 JONAT organizers are from the Seattle area.]

Ray Papineau, Bob, and everyone,

Yes, we definitely need to have some kind of "baton." We could have another
Jay named Mark and call him Mark 1, or since he's the second, Mark 2. You'd
just have to be clear if you're talking about him or me.

If we have any returning Sector Coordinators who aren't affiliated with a
club, I'd respectfully request that they contact the club and pull an ASC
from the club's ranks. If you were a member of a club and there is another
club in the area, you might contact them and see if they can provide an ASC.
The key to our success is going to be club involvement.

Ray, I checked your site and JCNA's and I couldn't find the AGM dates. What
are they?

Given the starting point and approximate 3time, my thought is that we'll run
the route in reverse, coming down the West Coast, then across Arizona. Since
everyone from Washington, Oregon, and California did such an excellent job
last year, I'm all for giving any of those clubs and individuals first dibs.


By the same token, it would be nice if we hit some of the places we missed
last time. For example, If Las Vegas wants to be involved, we might tie them
in this time around, by heading toward LA then cutting across. A visit to
the Peterson Museum is always fun and a spur from San Diego to LA to meet
the group there with some or all of the San Diegans continuing to Vegas
would hopefully be interesting. My local club (JCCA) is having our Saloons
in the Old West Concours, April 17 this year, and it ties in with the
Copperstate 1000 Road Rally (www.jcca.us/calendar/saloons05.htm). 

Based on last year's timing it took 13 days to get from the Arizona border
to Seattle. It might be a tad warm in the Arizona deserts after that, but I
think we could squeak by in Mid-April, especially if we adjust our drive
times to avoid the heat of the day. We would be right about on schedule to
tie the tour with the Copperstate 1000 Road Rally and our concours. Then we
could head down to Tucson, Tombstone (site of the OK Corral), and Bisbee,
which is right on the Mexican border. There are some great ghost towns along
the way.  This would create a San Diego loop -- a nice week-long excursion
from there to LA to Vegas to Phoenix to Tucson to Bisbee and back. If Las
Vegas doesn't want to get involved, we can go further south and have San
Diego be part of the main loop rather than a spur. It would be interesting
to hear from Hazel on the idea.

So I can sort of figure it out that far. (Grab an atlas or map.) After
Arizona we hit an expanse of clublessness. 2004 Participant Jag Maven is
from Albuquerque. We might get a few of his Alb. buddies to take the torch
from S. AZ toward Texas, but route from S AZ to Texas is about 220 miles
south of Alb. It's a beautiful drive north up the east side of Arizona on US
191. That would make a great loop for us Arizonans and perhaps we could hand
off in Springerville, AZ at US60. US60 crosses I-25 at Socorro, NM, about an
hour south of Alb. From there you could follow US380 the whole way to
Dallas. Unfortunately, it's over 600 miles from I-25. I have no idea how
interesting the road is. Roswell, NM is along the route. Surely the Dallas
club(s) will come out and meet the tour. Would they come out 2-300 miles? A
SC in El Paso would be a big help.

>From Dallas we have clubs all along the Gulf Coast and up the East Coast
into Canada. That will really just be a matter of who wants to do it. It's
coming back across the Northern Great Plains (and by that I mean in the U.S.
and Canada) where I anticipate a problem. At that latitude, I think
Wisconsin is our furthest west club until we get to BC and WA. This makes a
really tough decision. The whole way across Canada or drop down to Illinois
and Missouri, then cross clubless Iowa to Colorado and Utah and on to
Portland and the Western States Meet. There are gaps there, but there's a
huge clubless gap across three provinces as well.

Last time around we had you and Ian Bailey in Sask., Craig Talbot in
Alberta, and Alan Heartfield in Man. Did we have to FedEx Jay across some of
that? Where? I definitely don't want to leave you out of the loop, and as I
recall, there were something like four cars for a good distance in the
Western Provinces. As a percentage of the population of the area that's a
great turnout. Was Manitoba the weak link? If so, that this option might be
the best. Go to Salt Lake City via the second option above, then head north.
Somehow get across Wyoming and Montana (a visit to Yellowstone would be
incredible), and up to Regina, then across and down to Portland via the
Cascades or along the Columbia River.

What does everyone think of that as a rough framework?

There are some solid sponsorship options out there, one of which will be
great. Dennis Eynon has the contacts for that and as soon as we are a bit
more organized and have information posted that he can refer them to, I'll
have him go to work. We aren't going to have many national sponsors, so that
leaves a lot of JCNA sponsors like XKs Unlimited, Coventry West, and others
available to cover expenses for local clubs and sectors.

So has anyone heard anything from Greg Meboe? Getting him and Pascal
together is the first step.

Until then, let's keep brainstorming.

Mark - JCNA