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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22779 Location: UK

Hi all,

Technically, this isn't a re-creation or a replica, as it was never built in period.

This very smart car was created on a Jowett chassis, and bodied in aluminium using period factory drawings of a car that was planned for, but never produced.

Smart isn't it?

http://ebay.to/1MTME31

RJ
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PAUL BEAUMONT · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks

Not expensive either as Jupiters go!Where this fitted alongside the GRP R4 I do not know. It looks as though the engine cooling system has had a makeover!

mikeC · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 4:25 pm Post subject:

Yes, I rather fancied that - shame he's removed the registration number, though Crying or Very sad

poodge · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 687

From the front it looks really good,but the back end looks like an afterthought.

Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4850 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
I knew I had seen a picture of a Jowett similar to that.

http://www.on-magazine.co.uk/yorkshire/yorkshire-history/jowetts-car-factory-bradford/

I think this might be the Jupiter R4.
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PAUL BEAUMONT · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks

Yes Penman, that is the R4. When Jowett lost their body supply (Briggs, after the Ford acquisition) one of their ideas was to build a Glass Fibre reinforced bodyshell for a developed Jupiter, returning to the pre-war theme of everything produced in house. In the event 3 GRP cars and a single Aluminium bodied one were built, most of which survive.