Below: Werner Bald and Jupiter (of Hamburg) prepared for the 2003 Hansa Classic - Oldtimer-Rallye, in which he finished 7th in class out of 21: co-driver is normally Ilse Bald. They also participated in the Cuxland Classics rally of 2005. Recently the Jupiter was entered in the Dolomiten-Gardasee ADAC Trentino Classic Rally, alas forced to retire somewhere in Austria with gearbox trouble.

Research by Chris Freudenberg

The National Restoration Show and Grand British Autojumble was on 28 October 2007 at Stoneleigh Park. They are returning to the original concept so they are only accepting clubs which mount an active restoration / maintenance project. For more, click here.  Stoneleigh is 5 miles due south of Coventry.

Heinz Bolliger and Jupiter - see above (2006 Jupitourists will remember Heinz) drove his Jupiter the 200 miles North to Schwetzingen near Heidelberg to the European Concours d'Elegance (Oldtimer Gala) there (1/2 September 2007) and came away with the third prize in his class against stiff opposition.

General Sir Mike Jackson is a former Jupiter owner (OPX 495 chassis E3 SC 994R). This makes him, in principle, a sensible man. On 6th December 2006 General Sir Mike Jackson gave the 31st Richard Dimbleby Lecture. The man who led Britain's soldiers through conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan talked publicly for the first time since retiring from the Army. The Daily Telegraph (on 2/9/2007) has this report on his intelligent comments on the USA's 'handling' of the war in Iraq. I normally avoid politics but this is worth a look. He has a book out now, Soldier: The Autobiography  ISBN 0593059077

Above is Newton Small's Jupiter in the 1500cc production car race at Torrey Pines December 1951. This was during the very first motor race ever at Torrey Pines...see the book Jowett Javelin & Jupiter.

Thanks to Peter McKercher and Alastair Gregg for these images, thanks to Scott Tisdale for the corrections.

The images are from a 4-CD set of Southern California racing in the 1950s, made by Al Moss. Here is Roger Barlow's description of what happened:

A battle developed between two TDs and the Jup. Strawn worked his TD from 3rd to pass the "slightly faster" leading Jupiter. Strawn couldn't pull away from the Jupiter and hit the turn too fast and spun right in front of Small who did a good job of avoiding hitting Strawn but ended up in the haybales. Strawn recovered and went on to win. Small, when backing from the hay was almost hit by another MG which then spun. Small therefore did really well to recover and finish second.
Scott Tisdale adds: Strawn had just overtaken Small and came in too hot into the turn. If Small had not had to swerve and spin to avoid Strawn, he would have re-passed and maybe have won the race. The full story is in the relevant issue of Motor Sports World.

Below is Scott Renner racing a Porsche at California's Wine Country Classic at Sears Point (Infineon Raceway) in 2005. Scott takes up the tale:

"I had a great passing duel with the 356, let him by on the last lap at turn 7 knowing that I could beat him to the finish line after the last turn (11) , as long as I was just a car length or two behind. As we  entered the turn, the leaders came up to lap us and I took a wide line, hoping to not get balked, but the Porsche clung to his line, getting passed at mid corner. The end result was  I was about a car length back of the Porsche at the finish. The upside was that I won the Best Presentation and Performance award for the group! Sometimes it pays to be smarter rather than faster!"

Chris Freudenberg, intrepid Jupiter owner/driver, visited Northern France to attend the EXPOSITION LES ANCIENNES EN VALLEE DE L'EURE 2 Sept 2007. For more, and other activities of Chris and Jupiter, click here.

Above: Paul Byrne (of Deloraine, Tasmania) and Jupiter - this is the entry and event publicity photo for his entry into the Tour section of Targa Tasmania in April 2008. Paul normally competes in the Targa full competition in his 1975 Alfa GTV but has decided it would be good to run the Jupiter in 2008 with Veronica navigating

Jaak Jacobs has found a website which has pictures from the recent Mille Miglia retro. Amongst them are three images of the white special-bodied Jupiter JTM 100 of Bobo Onofri. And the indefatigable Alastair Gregg has found another two -here the first image, and here the second image. Someone out there clearly likes the white Rawson Jupiter!

Above: Ib Rasmussen and his Jupiter in a Danish hillclimb. A reader writes: the photographer should be congratulated, technically it is excellent, it captures the speed perfectly whilst the car is bright and clear

Below - Craig Ainge writes "I attach a jpg from Sunday 15 July. The event was the Kimbolton Country Fayre and Charity Classic at Kimbolton Castle, organised by the Rotary Club and the Sporting Bears Motor Club. Here we are being presented with the Car of the Show award...

...there were some 400 cars on display so we did quite well.  We were particularly delighted because we actually won this prestigious award in 1999, so some 30,000 miles or so later we did it again".

Below: Chris van der Vaart has crossed Holland (summer 2007) in his red Jupiter to visit Bas & Gerda de Bruijn

Below: two images of a Jupiter prepared for a civil partnership celebration in Holland. The Jupiter is owned by Bas & Gerda de Bruijn (on the right), and the partners are Renate de Bruijn and Mi-Clara Trinidad. Date was 07/07/07.

Below, images from the summer 2007 Ross-on-Wye Jupiter gathering. Bottom left, Ed Nankivell's Jupiter had its flywheel shear off, and bottom right Alastair Gregg wins the Reg Korner Trophy

(By the way, thanks to prompt action by Dennis Sparrow, NNK is back running again 13th July)

Alastair Gregg wants you to remind him of where this photo of his Jupiter was taken - have a look-see, have a butcher's, take a dekko.

Click on this Youtube link and enjoy a drive in a blue Jowett Jupiter - thanks Ian Leighton for the tip-off! For more, visit this page of the website

Just 11 seconds of Craig Ainge on Youtube at Prescott

Youtube is catching on, here is a Jupiter zooming round castle Coombe in 1998

Saturday/Sunday, 9/10 June 2007 at London's Southbank Centre - mainly the Royal Festival Hall - reopened after 2 years of renovation. One of the events marking the opening is called "Stroll down a 1950s street past cars from 5 decades ago". Well done Chris Freudenberg for getting your Jupiter to be one of those "cars from 5 decades ago".

Below: These four images of Jupiter 38 ex Alf Thomas from the Mille Miglia Retro of May 2007, and two others, are here for all to see. Owner Bobo Onofri and co-driver Elizabeth Oropesa brought the Jupiter to 263rd out of 375 participants - all cars being 1957 or earlier. The event was first run 80 years ago. Thanks to Jaak Jacobs for finding now four 1000 Miglia images

Now! Thanks to Philip Dingle, a chance to see a moving image of a Jupiter chassis being manually exercised. It is a clip from Pathe Movietone News from the 1949 London Motor Show. It is wmv file of about 5.5 megabytes you have been warned.

And thanks to Alastair Gregg and Dennis Sparrow, you can see and hear a video of the Sparrow engine installed and running in Al's nearly-restored Jupiter. It should be running and ad the JCC event 25th May.

(Top pair of photos) two photos of Howard Bryan at the 2007 Classic Prescott 12-13 May meeting. It was essentially a JCC Midlands Section meeting and Jowett was the best represented marque, with 8 Jupiters and 5 Javelins. We should have more of these meetings!

Bottom pair of photos shows the line-up and how the weather deteriorated during the afternoon. Craig Ainge in the red Jupiter

Here is a recent photo (thanks to Scott Tisdale) of the late Ted Miller, the nearest we Jupiter enthusiasts had to a genuine renaissance man

Scott wrote "If I could have received one thing in Ted's will, it would have been his steel-trap memory, as he's told me more than twice on more than one occasion, some important Jowett details not in any of the books..."

Below: two recent photos of the Dave Burrows Jupiter, near its Pennsylvania home. Dave writes "It is still in concours condition and often wins 'Best Car in Show' at local car events. It always excites people seeing it for the first time.

Dateline 28 April 2007, Bristol. John Blazé writes: Pat Lockyer's Farina Jupiter won a bottle of Champagne at the Bristol Italian Auto Moto show on the 28th. The Farina Jupiter looks divine, and was justly rewarded.

Did you use your classic on April 22nd, 2007's 'use your classic' day? We did!

Left: outside Henfield (Sussex) Post Office. Right: outside The Plough

A sad death to report - Ted Miller, who died instantly from a heart attack on Friday 6th April 2007. Indefatigable researcher into all things Jupiter, meticulous, never failing to spot an anomaly and assiduous in following it up, a lesson to us all in how research should be carried out. We are fortunate indeed that he decided that Jupiters were worthy of such attention. Our sympathy must be with his family at this time, in particular his father and his sister Theresa. The good news is that the NAJR is to continue under the aegis of Neil and Theresa Belk. They own the LHD prototype Jupiter chassis 58, which has all those delightful early features: formed-in tail lights, unlouvred bonnet, trafficators, and oddly it is the only LHD Jupiter with the external door key-lock on the driver's side.

Click here to see frequently-updated pix of Alastair Gregg's Jupiter under restoration. Progress is in leaps and bounds with the possibility of the car being on the road in time for the big JCC event at the end of May. Worth looking at Alastair's website from time to time to catch up with it. Car is in the bodyshop but it should be ready for the trimshop towards end of April with final mechanical work being completed by mid May. Stressful times for Alastair!

Check out my page of interesting but obscure weblinks, last updated 17 April 2007. Click here for some fun.

There is now a classic car video channel on broadband  - heavily biased towards Jaguar and MG as you would expect but may be worth a look from time to time.

Below: Jon Andersen of Utah has a Jupiter, a nice Jowett car, nearing readiness

Below: the Jupiter of Geoff Jones is getting a bare-metal respray to Ferrari Rosso Italia

Stand by for another Jupiter (LHD) to be advertised on eBay. It has been garage-stored in New Jersey since the 1960s and has a little competition history in the USA's midwest dating from 1953-4, winning an SCCA Rally down there. Less than 60,000 miles from new, very straight and laid up as a running car.