Jaguar_World_Issue_186_July_2017
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EVENTS<br />
Royal Windsor<br />
<strong>Jaguar</strong> Festival<br />
6May,<strong>2017</strong><br />
Some 1,200 <strong>Jaguar</strong>s kicked off this<br />
summer of celebration in style, as<br />
Windsor Castle opened its gates to<br />
some of the world’s rarest and most<br />
desirable models in <strong>Jaguar</strong>’s history for<br />
the Royal Windsor <strong>Jaguar</strong> Festival, in<br />
support of the Prince Philip Trust Fund.<br />
Following an invitation from the<br />
trust, the <strong>Jaguar</strong> Enthusiasts’ Club<br />
organised the festival, which attracted<br />
an estimated 6,500 visitors from across<br />
the world, and cars from Germany,<br />
Italy, Holland, France, Sweden and<br />
Norway, aswell as owners from the US<br />
and Canada.<br />
The festival was supported by<br />
<strong>Jaguar</strong> Classic, which debuted its neworiginal<br />
XKSS, one of nine ‘lost’ XKSS<br />
supercars itisbuilding to the correct<br />
1957 specifications of those destroyed<br />
in afire at<strong>Jaguar</strong>’s Browns Lane<br />
factory 60 years ago.<br />
Other highlights –including<br />
the sole 1966 5.0-litre V12 XJ13<br />
from the <strong>Jaguar</strong> Heritage Trust<br />
Collection, which was built as aLe<br />
Mans 24-Hours contender –paraded<br />
through the historic town of Windsor<br />
and castle grounds.<br />
Distinctive <strong>Jaguar</strong>s adorned the Long<br />
Walk in the grounds of Windsor Castle,<br />
including one of the ten speciallysourced<br />
base cars for <strong>Jaguar</strong> Classic’s<br />
recently announced E-type Reborn<br />
factory restoration programme, a<br />
200mph F-TYPE SVR and aUnion Flagemblazoned<br />
XK8 Convertible.<br />
Tim Hannig, director of <strong>Jaguar</strong> Land<br />
Rover Classic, said, “This is adream<br />
event for us: we like nothing better<br />
than spending time with fellow <strong>Jaguar</strong><br />
enthusiasts and discussing how we can<br />
support them, so doing that at such<br />
amagnificent venue as Windsor, for<br />
charity, was ahuge privilege.”<br />
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