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A reader has this to say "...the time and research you have put into it makes it an essential addition to the Jowett catalogue of publications. Congratulations on an easy to read and informative publication".

Michael Ware, in Classic & Sports Car February 2012, wrote "Edmund Nankivell has researched the whole variety of coachbuilt specials created on these marvellous Bradford cars...a remarkable 200-page record of 40 years research"
 

Here is a recent photo of Barry Houston's Jupiter, restored from a hideous ruin some years ago. Fortunately for this car and us enthusiasts Barry has engineering in his veins and has done a superb job

The Jupiter of Patricia et Pierre LeMercier will appear in the French magazine Auto Collector (février-mars 2012)

Here is one of the photos taken for it at Cap Coz by Pierre-Yves Gaulard

After a 60-year wait, the Jupiter Mk2 (built correctly on an Eberhorst Jupiter Mk1a frame) is now with us, superbly built by Allan Fishburn

As of December 2011 the car is fully MoT tested and on the road! Shown here as it was in June 2010

Left: the car seen here in Jowett's model form Photo CH Wood.                           Right: body nearly completed, photo Mike Smailes

These photos are of Alfred Keller and his Jupiter that appeared in October in the newspaper „Werdenberger und Obertoggenburger“ in Switzerland

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On the seventh hour, of the seventh day

of the seventh month the seven doctors say

he'll be born for good luck, and that you see

Ed's new book is out, click here it be

with apologies to the great Muddy Waters aka McKinley Morganfield

Below, book signing at the Black Lion, Patcham 6 November 2011 as the VCC cars chugged by on their way from London to Brighton

Ed signs for Dave Stimpson, with Norman Shirlaw far left. At least 11 Jupiter owners came by during the day with Brian Cole in his nice green Jupiter.

The TV programme Celebrity Antiques Road Trip was transmitted on Monday 31st October. It featured

Tom Conti driving the Nankivell standard Jupiter. Also on BBC i-player. The Jupiter was well-featured and quite a lot was shown!

Here, Tom Conti talks to Ed Nankivell before Tom drove off from the Tunbridge Wells second-day start. Tun Wells not mentioned in the programme!

Here are links to two Jupiters for sale in foreign parts.  Jupiter No 1 is in Greece but the vendor is Swiss, and Jupiter No2 is for sale in France

Thanks to Noel Stokoe, a photo of Cédric Purges in the April 2011 Rallye Vignes et Virages in the South of France has become available: photographer Francois Arsene.

Richard Gane raced his red Jupiter at Donnington on the Sunday of the Bank Holiday weekend (28th August 2011).

It was an MGCC event. Richard's Jupiter has had cooling mods and some further weight reduction so he hoped to finish,

and he finished both races!

More filming with Tom Conti, Katie Derham, and the STV film crew, this time in Royal Tunbridge Wells on 14th August 2011.

Clockwise from the top: Tom and his expert wait for the 'off' with Ghislaine Nankivell standing, centre. Tom and expert drive off from the Tun Wells rendezvous hotel.

 Katie Derham and her expert head off in the blue MG. Tom Conti and Jupiter head off to their first antique shop, camera crew filming from van in front.

Norman Shirlaw with his newly-acquired Jupiter, somewhere in the London area

See above for filming in Tunbridge Wells on August 14th

On 4th August, in spite of really wet weather in the morning, STV filmed part of their programme Celebrity Antiques Road Trip with Ed Nankivell's Jupiter,

Tom Conti driving it. Photo below top left, behind camera-man, the two celebrities Katie Derham with Tom Conti. Filming was in Lewes, Sussex

The hallowed Harvey's real-ale brewery in the background

Bottom pictures, Tom Conti in Lewes driving off with a man from STV in the passenger seat

Goodwood Festival of Speed was on 30th June 2011. It had a display of Italian cars which included Pat Lockyer's superbly restored Stabilimenti Farina Jupiter, which he had also shown at Beaulieu a few weeks before.

Here is Pat Lockyer with his Farina Jupiter

Below: Scott Renner racing his Jupiter at the Sonoma Historic Motor-sports Festival at the Infineon Raceway at Sonoma, near San Francisco, California on Saturday June 4 2011.

Yes it does sometimes rain in California!

Photo below taken at the recent JCC Annual big rally at Gayden/Daventry. Photo by Chris Freudenberg shows just a few of the 32 Jupiters present

Four Cylinder Club of America Rally trophy won (in 1952) by this Jupiter with unknown crew, who could be Melvin Allen or Louis Himmelrich with Nancy Hanson. Thanks to Glenn Davis and Bill Wilkman for the photo and information

Pat Lockyer discovered that the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, were to celebrate Italian cars on 22nd May.

Pat showed his Farina Jupiter, and great enthusiastic attention was paid to it!

Black Lion, Patcham, first Sunday in May 2011, old commercial vehicle run saw 4 Jowetts present

This spectacular blue Jupiter that was for sale on Car and Classic website now has new owner Keith Spacey courtesy Graham Berry

April 17th 2011 was Drive-it Day! Both my Jupiters were out and about on the Sunday!

Below: JOAC Committee Meeting 9/4/2011. Simon Holloway (right) came to Whittlebury by Jupiter. Ghislaine Nankivell on the left.

Simon is to be JOAC's new Press Secretary

Below: This long-stored Jupiter once owned by Scottish accordionist/band-leader Jimmy Shand has been bought by a dealer at auction for a whisker under £7000

Now sold again to someone who will I am sure be an excellent owner, with car going back to Scotland

The Jupiter below, which has been long...long stored, has been got going again by Graham Berry. On 27 March (still in its original paint) he took it to the Gazelle Hotel on the isle of Anglesey, where it had spent the first five to six years of its life owned by the then hotel manager. JOAC hopes to have a meeting on Anglesey in 2012

Richard Gane is progressing well with his Le Mans-replica racing Jupiter (see below). Its first outing will be on 28/8/2011. He tells me the car

(OKD 725) will run along with the ex-Frank Woolley racing Jupiter LBY 254 at Donnington that day in the 1950s series run by the MG Car Club

Three images from the Four Cylinder Club of America website, dating from 1952. Thanks to Jim Miller for alerting me to this.

Left: possibly Hunter Hackney about to race an MG on a windswept day

Right: Jupiter owner quite likely Hunter Hackney collecting an award (we know Hackney won two FCCA rallies)

A Jupiter in Switzerland snapped (19 September 2010 at Altenrhein, Lake Constance) at a Classic car meeting.

Photo by Javelin-man Peter Pfister. Thanks also to David Morris and Peter Holden. The Jupiter is that of Alfred Keller

Jackie Gruz and Jupiter took part in the Ollons-Villars retro hillclimb in Switzerland 18-19/09/2010. It is not timed, you have to slow down through a village (Huemoz) half way up and there's no competitive element, hence no prize giving. But to focus on that is to miss the point.

The hill is 10 kms long and a great drive in stunning scenery, south of lake Geneva not far from the French border

The Jupiter of Richard Gane under reconstruction

Two images of David Sneddon's USA-based Mk1a Jupiter which he has owned since 1962!

 

8th May 2010: the 26th ADAC Tour de Nostalgie for classic cars at Trittau in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Right: Christophe v. Eberan-Eberhorst, son the famed Jupiter chassis designer, co-driver with with Werner Bald the illustrious Jupiter owner from Hamburg

Here is an engine built by Philip Dingle for Dave Cleavinger's Jupiter. Looks good, no? According to Philip's bathroom scales, the complete engine sans dynamo, starter, and water pump registers just about 250lb

Below: the Fiorano-bodied on the road and giving Geoff McAuley, its builder, some fun. Car now (June 2010) sold to new enthusiastic owner

The JCC International Wakefield Rally has been and gone, and there were so many interesting Jowett people there. I had hugely enjoyable conversations with Jupiteers from the USA, Scandinavia, Belgium, Holland, Australia and New Zealand, as well as UK people I had not met before -  it was all so good.

I counted 42 Jupiters on the Saturday evening at the Cedar Court Hotel, and 47 Jupiters on Sunday at Canon Hall etc! A world all-time record!!

Below are four images from the event. Clockwise from the top: (1) Dennis Sparrow drove up to Wakefield in the R1, seen here at our hotel the Best Western. (2) A small subset of the Jowetts at the main hotel, the Cedar Court. (3) more Jowetts on the rally field, and  (4) David Kennedy, Neil Belk, Ghislaine Nankivell and Theresa Belk née Miller. Theresa is the late, great, Ted Miller's sister, married to ex New Zealander Neil who with others in the USA is reviving Ted's North American Jowett Register on line.  Neil and Theresa were just two of the many Jowett folk from overseas that it was our enduring pleasure to meet

Also from JCC-Wakefield 2010, Ib Rassmusen's ex Mike Smailes competition Jupiter

Below: Classic Prescott weekend 8-9 May 2010 has come and gone.

There were 6 Jupiters and 3 Javelins attending with 2 other Jowetts, the event being organised by Craig Ainge on behalf of the Midland section of the JCC UK.  Here is Craig ascending Prescott Hill:-

Below - at Beaulieu, as detected by the ever-vigilant Huntley Perry:-

Two Jupiters at Popham airfield Sunday 2 May 2010

North of England "2010 Drive it Day" gathering - 5 Jupiters, 4 Javelins, 1 pre-war. Thanks to Tim Brown/Dave Mason

Alastair Gregg writes (17th April 2010) The weather is just so gorgeous here we had to do something to get the Jupiters out.

Please find a picture taken behind my house in Derbyshire. Dave Mason (red Jupiter) joins Alastair

Below: Joe Leach's Jupiter saved from extinction following a both-ends crash. The rebuild even required a chassis-change, but the bent chassis has been rescued, straightened, and will be re-used one of these old rainy days. yes, that is snow!!

Fist news of 2010. Ib Rasmussen has raced his Jupiter on ice, the first time in 13 years the winter has been cold enough for this once-normal Danish activity. His time was not the best as most others had special ice tyres whilst Ib was still using taxi radial tyres. This event was a timed sprint against the clock

Below: in London, the restoration of the Jupiter of Craig O'Dwyer continues

Below: The JCC stand at the NEC Classic Car show 13-15 November 2009.

Thanks to Geoff McAuley and Frank Woolley

Below: Richard Gane's racing Jupiter under construction - aluminium bodyframe un-lipped for aeroscreens, lightweight doors,

soon (14/11/09) to be fully assembled prior to final coat

Below: Pierre Le Mercier reverses his Jupiter out of its Breton home

On the weekend 19th/20th September 2009 Claude Bernard did some hill-climbing in the Wallonian region of Belgium near Spa, actually the Trôs Marets in the Ardennes near Malmedy. The Jupiter went beautifully, he reported, and attracted a lot of attention

Jupiter Owners' Auto Club AGM/Dinner/Scenic do weekend 19th/20th September has been and gone. This image taken at the White Bear, Masham. No rain, 11 Jupiters, good times. Even some Jazz on Sunday evening

Blow: Alan Dart's Jupiter at Alan's place at Passais la Conception on the Orne dept of northern France

The was a big classic car event in Limburg, Netherlands, in June 2009 which attracted four Jupiters and a Javelin, all from Holland and Belgium

Four Jupiters is a record for Holland, and there was a fifth nearby at Vaals.

Below: another Jupiter in the Netherlands, being got ready for the road by Bas de Bruijn for a friend

Below: A justifiably buoyant Tom Chapman with his Abbott Jupiter and standard Jupiter, the Abbott having just got its MoT (May 2009) after a long and detailed restoration. Well done, Tom!

Two SCs and an SA on drive it day 26th April 2009. Location is Flash the highest village in England. Vehicles GJT 620 Tim and Pauline Brown, Jun 70 David and Sue Mason and HKY 770 Alastair and Sarah Gregg. Thanks to Alastair Gregg for the photo & info.	Pat Lockyer's Chassis 5 prototype ready to show at Beaulieu on the occasion of the National Motor Museum's big celebration for their 50th birthday on 4/5/2009	Pat Lockyer's Stabilimenti Farina Jupiter at the Bristol Italian Classic Car show 25th April 2009. David Kennedy's Lancia is on the left. Organised by one of the Italian Car Clubs (this year Lancia) held in Corn Street, Bristol, which is closed for the day to normal traffic.

This British lifestyle and car event took place over the weekend 28th February - 1st March 2009 at Rosmalen, North Holland.

The Dutch and Belgians put on an excellent show. The event was a great success and generated a lot of interest

 Photo (and Javelin) below courtesy Richard van Buul

On 31st January 2009 Jupiter man Sharaku visited the Nankivell residence from Mexico. We went to Andy Stevens to see work in progress on his LHD Jupiter.

From the left: John Blazé, Chris Freudenberg, Ed Nankivell, Sharaku Koshiishi. On the right: Sharaku with Andy Stevens

Below: these postage stamps were on my Christmas card from Jaak Jacobs - go figure!

Six Goodwood revival photos from September 2008. Stirling Moss driving the Jaguar, Pete Dixon the R1

Middle right, Pete Dixon talks to the son of the late Charles Grandfield. Grandfield was Jowett's Engineering Manager and so he was the man behind the R1 project and much else at Jowett. This chance meeting must have been an exciting moment for both men. Thanks to John Blazé for the photo

J&M Classics now have their Jupiter Mk1 scale model available, based on my Jupiter NNK 560 even with luggage rack.

A good job they have made of it too. Available from Marquart

The indomitable Chris Freudenberg has just returned form the Dieppe Retro 29-31 August 2008. They had some rain but not when this was taken! Chris writes he has decided not to attend the event at Heudreville on Sunday September 7th, he and Rosy will be at the Dieppe Kite festival instead

Ex-UK Jupiter arrives in Brittany, France, Summer 2008 to the delight of the new owner's daughter

The Nankivell's Jupiter out of petrol in West London 5 June 2008

Congratulations to Jon Andersen! On Sunday June 1, his Jupiter was awarded the second-place trophy in it's class at the third annual Los Angeles Concours d' Elegance, which took place at the Pasadena Rose Bowl.

Thanks to Jupiter man John Kenna for sending me this photo of Scott Renner in his Californian workshop. Regular visitors to this website will have seen several images of Scott racing his very quick Jupiter, which he chooses to call in a droll reversal "Unsagacious I" and run under the number 63. Those who know of the 1950 Le Mans class-winning Jupiter and its two drivers will get the drift. Long may Scott continue to race his Jupiter, and long may he also work on Jupiters in his workshop

Jacqui Bryan has this to say about Tim: He battled magnificently for the seven years since his first operation and is an inspiration to us all - he never let it get in the way of doing what he wanted, as witnessed by the Jupitour 2007. It is hard to come to terms with the loss but thank goodness we all had the chance to know him. Howard is devastated to lose his lifelong friend. Tim always took great enjoyment out of life and that was wonderfully infectious. We were out there in March to celebrate our wedding anniversaries together, and despite everything he had to cope with, he managed to get around and wine and dine as usual - even managing to get out in his Jupiter with Howard

The UK's 2008 Drive It Day took place on Sunday, 20 April

The Nankivell Jupiters - not just "get it out of the garage" day. Three out 4 photos taken at the Plough, Henfield

Below: the "Queen's English" Woodley Park All-British car meet and autojumble, Sunday 6 April 2008

Van Nuys, California

Below: Spring 2008; Andy Stevens and SC Jupiter getting a quote for some welding work.

Ed Nankivell's red saloon Jupiter in attendance

Below: The Jupiter of Bas & Gerda de Bruijn with newly-upholstered doors courtesy Jaak Jacobs.

The doors rattle less, apparently! Well done Jaak! (March 2008)

An ex-USA Mk1a Jupiter is under intensive restoration in France. Vic Boddy is doing the good work. ph early 2008

Jacky Gruz is the envy of his local classic car fraternity with his well-restored Jupiter. The car has been made a light as possible and has vents at the rear of the bonnet to assist the extraction of hot air from behind the radiator. The 2007 events the car has attended include the Ronde Historique du Mont du Chat and the Ronde de Montagnole, both in the Haute Savoie region of alpine France

The above picture (courtesy Morgan man Brian Lee) shows Mike and Judith Chevers, who have located to France with their two Jupiters, driving through the village of Esse in the Charente in France recently. Mike and Judith entered two local rallies, in one the mayor provided a free four-course meal for all participants.

Above: Jupiter now owned by Australian Susan	Sharrock. She drives it every week
Above: Jupiter seen at the Summer 2004	at the Laughton (Sussex) Steam Fair.

Photographs taken in 2004 below. Top left, Roy Watling-Greenwood, who in 1953 built single-handedly the special bodied Jupiter known as GAP 6 - an almost exact replica of standard. The remaining 5 photos were taken at the recent Ardingly Festival of Transport.

Centre left: Mrs Joyce Swayne, widow of the man who bought a Jupiter in 1953 when it was 6 months old. The family still have the car! See further below for pictures of the unsheeting of this car.

The standard Jupiter shown immediately below is owned by John Hodgekinson, who is also responsible for the oil cooler installation top right.

Two bottom photos show a folk-dance troupe performing a Yorkshire clog dance, and a Trinidad-style pan band.

Some news from the 2006 Australian National Jowett rally, held in Tasmania for the first time: The Brian Holmes Jupiter was voted the most desirable Jowett, Best Overall Jupiter, and Brian came second in the Driving Test. He was awarded the "Overall National Jowett Meet" Trophy. Mike and Sue Allfrey came second in the Observation Run in their Jupiter.

2006 is the 50th year of the Jowett Car Club of Australia and they are aiming for an unprecedented 50 Jowetts. They normally get just a few more than 20, but our resourceful Australian friends are already planning how this may be achieved in such a large country.

Jupiter seen near Croydon South of London in 2004 for the first time in 40 years when it was laid up under sheets.