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Volume 5 Issue 6 —— NEWS UPDATE —— JULY-AUGUST 2013

Ian Callum

This panorama photo was taken on July 27, 2013 at Windsor Park in Oak Bay. According to Malcolm Baster of Jaguar Car Club of

Victoria, this is the first time ever that models of all sporting Jaguars have been represented at the same place at the same time, from

the 1935 SS100 re-creation; XK120, XK140, XK150 from the forties, fifties and sixties; Series 1, 2 and 3 E-Types both 6 cylinder

and V12 from the sixties to the seventies; XJS models from 1974 to 1996; XK8 1997-2006; XK from 2007 to 2013, and in front is the

new 2014 Jaguar F-Type. Photo by Dick Auchinleck.

Jaguar Car Club of Victoria

Celebrating a Decade of “Jaguars on the Island”

By Malcolm Baster

2013 marks the 10th anniversary of the Jaguar Car Club of Victoria, and within that decade our annual Jaguars on

the Island celebration has grown to become the biggest JCNA-sanctioned Jaguar event in North America. It was first

held in August, 2005. The elegant Harbour Towers was then the host hotel, and the Concours and show saw about 80

Jaguars parked on the sun-browned grass of the nearby Gyro Park.

This year the host hotel was the Delta Ocean Pointe, located on Victoria's busy and scenic Inner Harbour. The week-

end began with a Friday evening reception at the hotel. We filled our plates at the buffet inside, and then drifted out onto

the expansive terrace, where five gleaming Jaguars were displayed. The evening was warm, and everyone enjoyed watch-

ing the busy marine and seaplane traffic using the waterway

beyond the terrace, while chatting with friends old and new.

Our Saturday Concours was held at Windsor Park, in the municipality of Oak Bay. Oak Bay is a leafy, pleasant place,

and the manicured green grass of Windsor Park an entirely suitable venue upon which to show Jaguars. Appropriately

enough for a British car show, the Park is where the local cricket teams play their matches. There were 126 Jaguars pre-

sent, ranging from two SS100 replicas to a brand new F-type, and most everything in between. The highlight of the dis-

play was a row of all Jaguar sports cars from a replica 1935 SS100 through to the current XK, and with the new F-type

proudly to the fore. It is thought that this is the first time ever that all sporting Jaguars have been so represented. One

for the history books!

Sir Stirling Moss Pays Visit to ‘Art of the Car Concours’ in Kansas City Lisa and Jim Hendrix of Jaguar Association of Greater St. Louis provided some great photos

taken by Jim from the 7th annual Art of the Car Concours in Kansas City, held June 21-23 at the

Kansas City Art Institute.

Nearly 200 collector cars,

trucks, motorcycles and

pedal cars from 12 states

and 74 cities were featured.

The event welcomed racing

great Sir Stirling Moss as

well as

auto historian and driver

Brock McPherson, Sir Stirling Moss 1947 2.5 litre saloon Maserati Birdcage Photos by Jim Hendrix

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Text and Photos by Candy Williams

Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio was the set-

ting for the 41st annual Concours d’Elegance of

Jaguar Club of Ohio Aug. 3. A picture-perfect day

greeted participants from the home club as well as

the Jaguar Association of Central Ohio, Jaguar

Club of Pittsburgh, Jaguar Affiliates Group of

Michigan and Ontario Jaguar Owners Association.

One of the most fun parts of this event is the Fri-

day night get-together at the host hotel, where

members and guests mingle, catch up on friend-

ships and enjoy some great food and beverages …

and of course, cake! (Too bad the photographer

wasn’t quick enough to get a shot of the dessert

before the gang dug into it!)

Jaguar Club of Ohio Celebrates 41 Years of Concours ...

… and the wedding of its president and newsletter editor!

Above, the crew of judges stopped for a quick portrait

before heading into the judges meeting for a last-

minute review of rules by Chief Judge Paul Cusato.

After the awards

ceremony, we cele-

brated (with more

cake!) the recent wed-

ding of JCO President

Dominic Perri and

award-winning news-

letter editor Irene

Chudzik!

In photos at left and above …

a couple of lovebirds!

Congratulations, Dominic and Irene!

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Vintage Jaguar Key Chains

From: The Jaguar’s Roar … Nation’s Capital Jaguar Owners Club

By Bud Marston

A quest for original parts and accessories for my 1961 E-type coupe, under

restoration, led in 2011 to a search for the correct original key chain—a fasci-

nating and whimsical, if not overlooked, aspect of vintage Jaguars. Eventually

the two original key chains that Jaguar offered in 1961—bearing the ‘Jaguar’

wings and with enameled ‘Jaguar’ badge—and a few others became avail-

able, and I decided to start a collection. Little literature on these key chains is

available and early pieces are quite limited and found mostly in England..

Beautiful vitreous jewelry-grade enamels for Jaguar key rings from the

1950s to the .early 1970s were made in the jewelry quarter in Birmingham

and other locations. The process involves powdered glass, concentrated acids,

heavy metals such as chromium, and high-temperature furnace work. Seg-

ments of a badge were over-filled with traditional leaded jewelry glass in

moistened powdered form, then fired in a kiln at 800º C to melt and flow the

glass. Excess glass was ground back to leave a precise thickness and then

dipped in glass-dissolving acid to remove tiny debris particles before final fir-

ing to re-gloss the glass surface. Enamel is hard but brittle, and small cracks

and chips are common in vintage pieces.

Dozens of companies were capable of making these vitreous enamel

badges—but nearly all have gone to the wall. Typically the badges were made

in batches of 50—and only 50 examples of some badges were produced—so

they don’t often appear. Most will have been lost or thrown away when the

leather disintegrated or are languishing at the back of a drawer somewhere.

Almost all vintage enamels carry the Jaguar company name and many in-

clude ‘Coventry.’ Some leather backings carry the name and address of deal-

erships or companies, and at least one has a plastic insert for a 6-pence coin

for parking meter use!

The symmetrical torpedo-shaped leather fob with the hinged enamel at-

tached to the fob by a leather loop was produced from the mid-1950s to the

very early 1960s—just as key fobs were beginning to become generally avail-

able. The torpedo design died a quick death when Keyflix brought out its slim

line teardrop fob in the early 1960s. The Keyflix fob and the classic

(rectangular) fob were considered much more ‘modern’ and the split ring

was oriented so the fob hung flat to the dashboard, unlike the torpedo with its

split-ring 90 degrees to the fob itself. Original torpedo examples are now very

rare; what few were produced have been lost or have literally worn out during the past 60 years. I will use an excel-

lent reproduction of the growler key chain Jaguar offered in 1961, fabricated by Classic Leather Fobs Ltd, Lincoln-

shire, England (www.classicleatherfobs.co.uk), for my Series I E-type.

Castles Unit Development (CVD, later CUD) Ltd, Church Gate, Leicester, England fabricated high-quality enamel

badge key chains in the 1950s and 1960s, mostly using the torpedo leather fob. Other vintage fabricators included

Manhattan Windsor Co. And Melsom Products Ltd (Birmingham) and R Sculthorp & Co. Ltd, Blackfriars House,

and New Grange Products (London). Craftsman and Kings Int’l N.Y. are American firms that made excellent key

chains. A few of the largest companies, including CUD and Manhattan Windsor, fabricated the entire key chain, in-

cluding enamels. Most had the enamels made and then mounted them on key fobs. Many badges were stamped with

the maker’s mark or simply ‘Made in England.’

Most Jaguar key chains were made for a range of cars rather than specific models. The exceptions include several

versions with the E-type badge and the XJS and XJ6. A key fob medallion with ‘XK140’ probably was fabricated

later than the car, and specific key fobs for the XK120 and XK150 were not available at the time. An attractive XK

120 key chain now available is based on a reproduction of a small XK 20 bonnet badge that probably was never on a

key fob.

The photos depict a range of

original vintage Jaguar key

chains from the 1950s to the early

1970s.

Photos

by Jim

Hendrix

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GUEST OF HONOR HAS STAR POWER:

Part 2: Jaguar F-type Making the Social Scene Taking their turn behind the wheel of the new F-type are members of the Jaguar Associa-

tion of Greater St. Louis., who attended Plaza Jaguar’s F-type Roll-out and Test Drive.

On June 27. Photos by Jim Hendrix and Ray Unger.

If your club has some great photos with your members and the new F-type,

please send them to cwilliams@jcna.com.

Jaguar Club of Florida’s Mac Ballard covered the F-type Party at Jaguar of Orlando.