journey through the years of the oil leak

The 2024 Oil Leak was a revisit of the 2017 tour.  Due to various reasons, the 2017 tour did not go as planned.  For this reason, it was decided to try again.

With the ebbing of the pandemic, the Oil Leak was back.  This year the trip started at Bass Lake, CA and ended at Mount Shasta.  Stops included Yosemite, Truckee, Grass Valley and Chester

Due to the uncertainty of the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an abbreviated version of the Oil Leak was planned.  Dubbed the Oil Drip, it consisted of day trips instead of daily road trips

The 2021 Oil Leak trip started in Death Valley and ended at Crater Lake with stops in Bishop, Bodie and Yosemite National Park

 The 2019 Oil Leak explored the Cascade range in Washington State .  The trip began at Mount Hood and concluded in Olympia National Park

 2018 Oil Leak - the Grand Circle Oil Leak visiting several of the National Parks in Northern Arizona and Utah, as well as sampling some of best driving roads in the area. 

 The 2017 Big Sky Oil Leak (BSOL) which will visit some of the roads and National Parks in Montana and Wyoming. 

This trip explored the California coast from San Luis Obispo, through Monterey/Carmel, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, Fort Bragg, Eureka, Weed and ending in Redding. 

5th Annual Oil Leak is the British Columbia Oil Leak.  This year's tour starts in Boise, ID and concludes at the 'Jaguars on the Island' car show on Victoria Island, B.C.

The West Texas Oil Leak started in Santa Fe, NM and concluded in Austin, TX.  Scenic sites included Carlsbad Caverns, Fort Davis and a tour of Classic Jaguar in Austin.

 The 2013 trip starts in Lake Havasu City, AZ, and  travel North West along the western edge of the Sierra Nevada and concludes in Lake Tahoe. Participants came from Northern California and Arizona. Several of the Arizona participants had just completed the Route 66 Fun Run.

The 2012 trip started at Bend, Oregon and finished at Crater Lake National Park.   The trip will include the Oregon high desert, the Columbia River Gorge, Mount St. Helens, The Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon (home of the Spruce Goose), Oregon Wine Country, the Oregon Coast, and Crater Lake National Park. 

In 2011, prompted by an idea from Paul Wigton, a group of E-Type enthusiasts took a week long road trip to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Jaguar E-Type. We enjoyed it so much that "The Oil Leak" has become an annual event...