Saturday, March 7, 2015

NO WAY TO TREAT A JAGUAR

The cover photograph on the  right seems to imply this elegant and powerful  British  car  - Jaguar  or  Daimler?-  had  been turned  into  an Aussie ute as the caption  asks where is the dog  . There is no further information to clarify  the situation . An  advertisement , however,  for JAGCARE, Jaguar and Daimler experts, new and  used  parts, mechanical service and restoration ,  Salisbury, Brisbane , appears to  portray the same vehicle  side  on   with  what  could  be  a  cut  away  back .

In  a batch of these  journals acquired by Little Darwin  is a  report headed  HOW WOULD YOU FEEL ?  from Townsville about an unfortunate event involving  a newly restored Jaguar .  

It tells how Rod Smart , having spent months restoring  the body work and repainting "his pride and joy ", a Mark 1 ,  took it for a  drive to Pallarenda, a seaside  suburb . Out of  a side street, failing  to give way, came  a  woman driving  a  lowly  Mitsubishi  which scraped  the  passenger side of  the  Jaguar  from  the  rear   door to  the bumper bar. The only "satisfaction" was that the Jag tore off the whole front end of the Japanese  car. Nobody was  injured.

Sunshine Coast Jaguar  owners  headed for the Ettamogah Pub  and Eumundi Brewery in a convoy of seven vehicles , growing to  14 along the way . There is an  advertisement, below, for the  junior E type Jaguar built for five year olds .