Tim Hortons -- a traditional meeting spot.
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Yes, that's a Jaguar flag hanging outside this...
... ahm.... Japanese Jaguar.
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Blossomeers began arriving at 10 a.m. for an hour's worth
of chat and socializing.
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This Blossomeer arrived from T.O. Yes Bob drove his OTS ... and spent the next wee while warming up......
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The meeting before the roll-off....
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Tour co-host Jeff: " Here's yer Tour Manual....read it real good as ye're motorin' around..."
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Tour co-host Fred: "And don't ferget to stop at the
Jordan House fer yer lunch....:
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More lineup.....Getting set to go. Hood up right now....
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Ross practises his gestures for his next Hallowe'en performance.
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Yup, ya go thattaway....
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Whaddya mean, the heater doesn't work? !
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OK, cars are actually starting to move....
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Herding Cats: Getting everyone into a line for the roll-off,
which was sharp at 11 a.m.
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More lineup.....
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More lineup.....
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More lineup.....
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More lineup.....
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More lineup.....
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We don't know if Michael and Alan know their Cat's standing
beside and auto graveyard. But what the heck .... they're
smiling, ain't they?
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Heading up New Mountain Road, which connects lower
Stoney Creek with upper Stoney Creek. This photo is
misleading .... it was actually very steep.
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Entering the Valley of the Twenty. That's Carolinia Forest
all around the cars.
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The Tour pulled over on Ridge Road to allow Jaguars
delayed by a nasty (short) stop light in
lower Stoney Creek to catch up to us.
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Hey, if you've got an OTS, use it that way. Right Nelson?
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A bright spring morning ... the hood down... Lee and passenger are bundled up, though.
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Bet that tire store in the background has sold any tires
like this E-Type has.......
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While the Niagara Escarpment is a United Nations
World Biosphere Preserve, it is marked
by a number of limestone quarry operations, left.
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Two E-Type drivers talking to each other.
Driver A: "Was that your oil drip?"
Driver B: "No, I thought it was yours....."
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Classics and classics. Cars from both sides of the Atlantic divide met as the Spring Blossom Run
motored on through the
Niagara Fruit Belt.
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What do one stop sign and a lot of Jaguars add up to?
A long line up......... :)
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Up on top of the Niagara Escarpment. Cherry trees are just
starting to blossom. This is on Ridge Road, in upper Stoney
Creek. On the other side of the road you can get
a panoramic -- and breathtaking -- view of
the entire western basin of Lake Ontario.
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Heading down into the Balls Falls Conservation area.
Lovely, historic buildings and pleasant scenery.
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Cats don't like to get their feet wet.
So when it came time to cross the picturesque river at Ball's Falls
our Pride opted for the iron bridge.
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The only acceptible way to pass a Jaguar?
With another Jaguar ..... well, of course!
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Jaguars to front, Jaguars to the rear. It was
a veritable clowder of Cats.
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PROBLEM: How do you address 80 people -- when they're spread across two floors of a restaurant?
ANSWER: Get in the middle of the staircase.
That's exactly what OJOA Vice-President Fred Hill, left, and President Jeff Booth did, as the "formal" part
of the day's event got going.
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Nigel Watson, left, receives his First Place prize (a lovely Jaguar key chain, with Leaper) for winning
the Wacky Road Sign Contest.
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Member Anne Oakes receives her Jaguar S-Type ball cap from President Jeff Booth. Ann, with John
McLaine, right,
took Third Place in the Wacky Road Sign Contest.
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OJOA Treasurer & Membership Director Bob Barrett, right,
begins his presentation of Jaguar art glass to
Blossom Run co-hosts Fred Hill, Connie & Jeff Booth.
That's Fred Hill on the left ... listening hard but eating well
is member Steve Sherriff, front.
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OJOA Co-hosts Fred Hill and Connie Booth are
already enjoying the Jaguar art glass.
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You can't buy these one-off pieces
of Jaguar art glass anywhere ... ya gotta earn them ....
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OJOA member Steve Sherriff, left, announces that our 2008 Spring Blossom
Tour will scamper about the Forks of the Credit region. That's Vice-President Fred Hill with him.
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