Bay Area Car Meets?
There's an informal group of Bay Area Jaguar owners (BAJrs) that gets together two or three times a year for the last few years. A typical BAJrs run is a date most people can agree on, a meeting place with restrooms that's big enough for a bunch of Jags, a fun drive of around an hour and a lunch destination that's affordable for most people with, again, parking for a bunch of Jags.
My wife and I have been attending for a couple of years now and a nicer, more inclusive group of people you'd be hard pressed to find:
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/search.php?searchid=4893619
Since we've been attending BAJrs events, there have been meets in Los Gatos, Napa and Marin County but there have been others. Here's a page I put up to aggregate some of the video footage from the last few: http://nocryingjag.blogspot.com/p/bajrs-runs.html
My wife and I have been attending for a couple of years now and a nicer, more inclusive group of people you'd be hard pressed to find:
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/search.php?searchid=4893619
Since we've been attending BAJrs events, there have been meets in Los Gatos, Napa and Marin County but there have been others. Here's a page I put up to aggregate some of the video footage from the last few: http://nocryingjag.blogspot.com/p/bajrs-runs.html
Last edited by Rhett; Oct 14, 2015 at 07:59 PM.
Ditto. There are so many F-Types in Marin, and we've started waving to one another. I get down to the Peninsula quite a bit, and even further south, and north... hell anything to drive. =) Sadly, I am quite busy... but I would love to cruise along the lines of the day event. I will check it out and thanks for compiling video, Rhett =)
So far as I know, anyone can launch a BAJrs run by proposing a date, and the following:
- A meeting location that can accommodate 10 to 20 Jaguars (with restrooms close by),
- A scenic route of about an hour that is suitably fun for modern Jags but not so fast that the older cars can't keep up, and ...
- A lunch destination that can accommodate 10 to 20 Jaguars (and their people), can satisfy most dietary restrictions and is moderately affordable.
- Sometimes there's wine tasting in there too. Once we had a picnic... Pretty informal stuff.
My sense is that BAJrs events used to happen several times each year, weather permitting. Due to some regulars moving out of the area and the pressures of real life, there have only been 2 in the last year or so. It's a bit of work to coordinate because you're basically host for the day, but theoretically, anyone can jump in and start one up.
Then there's the Jaguar Associates Group which is everything you would imagine a club might be, with a roster, membership dues, newsletters, elections and so forth. Seems fairly active. I joined but my Jags seem a bit tatty and common for their set, so I haven't worked up the gumption to attend any of their events.
Does that help?
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The BAJrs is a loose group of forum members who get together when someone gets the notion, finds the day, suggests a run/lunch spot and those who can, join. It's less a club than a bunch of people who share a desire and intention to visit with other Jag enthusiasts, drive and nosh together. There's no roster, hierarchy or membership as such, but there are regulars and new faces alike.
So far as I know, anyone can launch a BAJrs run by proposing a date, and the following:
My sense is that BAJrs events used to happen several times each year, weather permitting. Due to some regulars moving out of the area and the pressures of real life, there have only been 2 in the last year or so. It's a bit of work to coordinate because you're basically host for the day, but theoretically, anyone can jump in and start one up.
Then there's the Jaguar Associates Group which is everything you would imagine a club might be, with a roster, membership dues, newsletters, elections and so forth. Seems fairly active. I joined but my Jags seem a bit tatty and common for their set, so I haven't worked up the gumption to attend any of their events.
Does that help?
So far as I know, anyone can launch a BAJrs run by proposing a date, and the following:
- A meeting location that can accommodate 10 to 20 Jaguars (with restrooms close by),
- A scenic route of about an hour that is suitably fun for modern Jags but not so fast that the older cars can't keep up, and ...
- A lunch destination that can accommodate 10 to 20 Jaguars (and their people), can satisfy most dietary restrictions and is moderately affordable.
- Sometimes there's wine tasting in there too. Once we had a picnic... Pretty informal stuff.
My sense is that BAJrs events used to happen several times each year, weather permitting. Due to some regulars moving out of the area and the pressures of real life, there have only been 2 in the last year or so. It's a bit of work to coordinate because you're basically host for the day, but theoretically, anyone can jump in and start one up.
Then there's the Jaguar Associates Group which is everything you would imagine a club might be, with a roster, membership dues, newsletters, elections and so forth. Seems fairly active. I joined but my Jags seem a bit tatty and common for their set, so I haven't worked up the gumption to attend any of their events.
Does that help?
I was curious is there a good place in the area to get custom work done? I need to get my springs and larger super charger pulley installed.
Wish I could help on the custom work. Maybe the F-Type people on the forum can help?
Every time I've gone on a BAJrs run, I've had a great time. Really inclusive bunch of interesting people. Which makes sense, they're the people who use the forum just to help out other people, usually strangers.
Every time I've gone on a BAJrs run, I've had a great time. Really inclusive bunch of interesting people. Which makes sense, they're the people who use the forum just to help out other people, usually strangers.
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Thank you, this is sort of what i was expecting, similar to the G35 meet. We used to meet sort of informally a couple times a year. It was a blast. I was curious how regular/often the Jags meet, given that these cars are low production. The G35 meets would have like 30+ cars, they were pretty fun, usually a run over Skyline to Santa Cruz or a big treasure island meets with the 350z and G35s together, it was pretty fun. Anyways, I am not the event planning type, but i look forward to joining some of the BAJrs meet ups.
I was curious is there a good place in the area to get custom work done? I need to get my springs and larger super charger pulley installed.
I was curious is there a good place in the area to get custom work done? I need to get my springs and larger super charger pulley installed.
Zmoothg,
You will have fun on the Bay Area Jag drives. Rhett, I look forward to your next BAJ drive!
Zmoothg, call GP Tuning at 650 302-1574 or www.gptuning.net Matt Gower He is a great car tuner and I am sure he knows the right shop to recommend for your performance upgrade installs. He tuned my restomod Jaguar and it was the best money I spent on the car as it runs so smooth thru the entire power band now.
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I am in Mendocino County so keep my eye out for Sonoma and Napa gatherings. I've only had my XK8 a couple months but am not new to Jaguars and am keen to get together with other Jag lovers. I know an XJS owner in Petaluma and my daughter in the Sacramento area also has a Jag (XJ8) but she works almost all weekends.
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JAGS
There is a group called JAGS - Jaguar Associates Group. Members are all over the Bay Area with a very wide variety of Jaguars from very vintage to current. There is a membership fee. I think it is around a hundred bucks or thereabouts. It includes a membership to the JCNA - Jaguar Clubs North America.
This weekend on Sunday 8/26/17 there will be a meet from Los Gatos to a winery in Gilroy. The website of JAGS is Jaguar Cars JCNA, Jaguar Associates Group Home (Click on the blue link) I'm not sure if its too late to register for this event at this time but it is a good group with really interesting events. Our last big event was a meet and breakfast in Mill Valley and a drive to the GGNRA missle site museum.
This weekend on Sunday 8/26/17 there will be a meet from Los Gatos to a winery in Gilroy. The website of JAGS is Jaguar Cars JCNA, Jaguar Associates Group Home (Click on the blue link) I'm not sure if its too late to register for this event at this time but it is a good group with really interesting events. Our last big event was a meet and breakfast in Mill Valley and a drive to the GGNRA missle site museum.
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Yes please !!!!!!!!!
my wife and I are getting close to finishing our baby, 2003 jag s type. 3.0 absolutely love the car and would love to join a local club in the Bay Area . I’ve been a mechanic and engineer pretty much all my life and would love to offer help and advice to other club members.
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Welcome to the forums Superdad! Very few posts in this thread. Mine previous was just about four posts back and was over eight years ago! I still have my XK8 coupé. Three years ago I bought a used 2019 I-Pace. Loved it until it started going badly wonky. Has now been sitting at JLR Marin at least 6 months and is going to be repurchased by corporate as a lemon due to defective battery packs. JLR has really blown it in many ways in recent years. Really sad to see such a great marque grind itself into the dust of automotive history, as did many other great British marques. I still miss the XK-150 FHC I reluctantly sold almost 50 years ago.
Love to see this resurrected.
I was a 2016 manual 6 cylinder base F-Type, the engine failed me and jaguar corporate bought me a brand new 2019 manual 6 cylinder base f-type! Not to be outdone, I personally ****ed up that engine by swamping it in an escapable flood of sorts.
For some reason, insurance did not total my car and they rebuilt the engine for me. What a wild ride. Now I'm in my new lemon phase with an EV LOL
Let's do this. Find the most recently paved windy road and let's get out to point reyes?
I was a 2016 manual 6 cylinder base F-Type, the engine failed me and jaguar corporate bought me a brand new 2019 manual 6 cylinder base f-type! Not to be outdone, I personally ****ed up that engine by swamping it in an escapable flood of sorts.
For some reason, insurance did not total my car and they rebuilt the engine for me. What a wild ride. Now I'm in my new lemon phase with an EV LOL
Let's do this. Find the most recently paved windy road and let's get out to point reyes?
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Hey Uncke F! Windy roads, yes! Lots of great ones north of The Bay. Although I love driving my XK8 on these lonely snake tracks, its handling us not a patch on that of the I-Pace (RiP)..
I've a torn bicep and a totally separate tooth extraction from yesterday, so I am SLEEPY but...
it's way too late for y'all, and I found out last night!
BRITS BY THE BAY show is in marin this morning
10p-2p
https://bonair.com/brits/
it's way too late for y'all, and I found out last night!
BRITS BY THE BAY show is in marin this morning
10p-2p
https://bonair.com/brits/