The World’s Fastest Jaguar
Editor: Thank you very much to the JDCA (Jaguar Drivers Club of Australia) and club member Gary Satara and editor Brian Todd for the following story.
Even before the automobile, mankind was obsessed with speed. The desire to get there faster has been a measure of progress throughout history. However, the invention of the automobile has brought on an era in which man has been able to harness increasingly greater power and an explosion in increased speeds to produce an incredibly fast and often skittish machine. Enter Gary Satara.
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Gary is general manager and financial controller of a large company in Sydney called GMK Logistics. That’s trucking company in old language. Financial controller doesn’t sound like a very exciting position but his business card lists his credentials as B Com, CPA, FAIA. “FAIA”??? that’s Gary’s way of checking whether the reader has an enquiring mind; the acronym is self-claimed as the “Fastest Accountant in Australia”. Gary builds fast cars in his spare time with his current (Ford-motored) XJS clocked at 237 mph... that’s just under 380 kph!...
And that would make it the fastest Jaguar on the planet with Jaguar Project 8 rated as 200mph. However, not content with the Ford Cleveland, Gary is building an XJS 12-cylinder motor, aiming for 1,000 hp at the flywheel, which will blow all records away. Henry Ford Historically, men (and women) have always raced, however the land speed record came to the United States in 1904 when Henry Ford wanted to prove to all who would listen that his cars were built better than anyone else’s in the world. On
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