Interview - Malcolm Adamson (cont)

◊ Jaguar National Rallies held in SA: Attended all.

Most of these events issue badges, and I have kept them for all those years and mounted them on a series of boards and fixed them on the garage wall.

Of all the Jaguars you have owned, which was your favourite?

I can’t really separate the Mk IV drop head or the Airline. Probably the Mk IV because I have owned it for so long. It is a lovely car to drive, either with the hood up or down.

Your fondest memories owning a Jaguar or classic car?

When we went to Broken Hill, I drove up the hill to the sculptures in the Mk IV and club members walking up, hopped on as we went. I had about 11 people and kids in and hanging on for the ride.

Any interesting or special ‘Jaguar’ experience?

The very first Border Run to Swan Hill in 1975. We went in the first Jaguar we had, the 1.5 litre Mk IV with the two kids. The car over heated and we put the bonnet in the trailer that someone else was towing and kept topping it up with coolant and water.

When we got there, Bruce Fletcher and Keith Bell jumped in and pulled the radiator out, back flushed it and put it back in, in no time. It was my first experience with mate ship within the club. And it wasn’t the first and the last time. It has been like that for the last 50 years. Members jumping in to help each other.

A wonderful story Malcolm, anything else you would like to add?

No that’s all.

Thank you very much Malcolm.

Editor - The following article was written in 2021 by Bruce McMahon for the magazine Retromotive. It is a succinct story about Les Hughes and provides background as to how the Jaguar Magazine came about. Photographs have been added to the story and provided by long time friend of Les, Heinz Schendzielorz.

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He could’ve been a detective that bloke Les Hughes. Sleuthing through followups and referrals to dig out scraps of history, uncover fresh angles on interesting cars and owners, incidents and accidents. This bloke loves the hunt, the places it takes him and the people he meets.

Instead, the genial Mr Hughes, working out of a home office in sub-tropical Brisbane, Australia, is arguably the world’s foremost authority on Jaguar motor cars. Albeit a long way from the climes of Coventry.

In 1976, the teenager and Mark I Jaguar owner was looking after a club magazine when Jack Bryson, famed Australian importer of the British cars, died. ‘Bryson had saved Jaguar. Sir William Lyons rang and said ‘’I’m going to the