The Jowett Jupiter car website welcomes you to the definitive group of Jupiter websites - read on !
What, when, from whom, how why and wherefore
t h e
sports car?
Seventy years on - more than half of all production still exists!
Bienvenu, Welcome, friends, to the Home Page of the Jowett Jupiter, as a sports car one of the best of the early nineteen fifties. Discover a little of its history, its motor sporting successes, books, who is campaigning their Jupiter today many decades after the Jupiter era...
Friend: having reached this tiny outpost on the world-wide web, why not take a little time to read about the life and times of this unusual and rare classic car? What some would call a sportcar or even an antique car - only in the very best sense of the word of course!
But:- this website is pure Nankivell not Jowett Jupiter !!
Check out these books on Jupiters and Jowetts.
This website has been on the net since 1996. This makes it easily the oldest site devoted to any aspect of Jowett cars. Some say it is still the best!!
The book on the Jowett Jupiter by Edmund Nankivell is still available. Low cost, high quality, and authoritative, it is a MUST for anyone interested in the car. Click here for details of how you may purchase it.
Another
book has arrived!
Yes, a 
book (published by Crowood) covers the complete story of the
Javelin
and Jupiter. Scroll down a bit to find it.
Research has produced MUCH NEW material but it does NOT render obsolete "The Car for Road Rally and Race".
I would like to extend a special welcome to all visitors who bear the name Jowett: I hope you all find it of interest. In fact, I have included a small section on the family of the the company's founders, William Jowett and Benjamin Jowett, and a small number of their descendants. This site is devoted to the last model produced by the august former car-builder from Yorkshire, England: The �� Jowett Jupiter �� English sports car. |
The author of this website is Edmund Nankivell, of Sussex, England. He has owned Jupiters since 1967. He has written books on the Jupiter, Special-bodied Jupiters, co-authored a book on Jowett Cars Ltd, and had published a number of articles for specialised heritage car magazines. He has co-authored (with Geoff McAuley) a book on the Javelin and Jupiter - with much much much new material! |
Other makes of car with similar
names to Jowett include
Jewel made
in Bradford, Yorkshire
by John E. Wood between 1921 and 1933.
and of course Jewett
built in the USA between 1922 and 1926 by
the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company of Detroit Michigan.
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The
Italian Customs agent stops them and tells them:
"It's illegal to put 5 people in a Quattro."
"Vot
do you mean it's illegal?", asks
the German driver.
"Quattro
means-a four", replies the
Italian official.
"Qvattro
is just ze name of ze automobile" the Germans retort unbelievingly
"Look at ze papers: zis car is designt to kerry 5 persons."
"You
can't-a pull-a that-a one on-a me!", replies the Italian customs agent,
"Quattro means-a four. You have-a five-a people in-a your car and you are
therefore-a breaking the law."
The
German driver replies angrily, "You idiot! Call your zupervisor over - I
vant to speak to somevone viz more intelligence!"
"Sorry" responds the Italian official, "He can't-a come. He's-a busy with two guys in a Fiat Uno."
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Some links to the outside world:-
For an excellent and inexpensive trackable international parcel service, I use Interparcel.com.
For authoritative Classic Car (and Classic Bike) Insurance you could try Peter James
The UK company Beeches Recovery have a covered/enclosed transporter ideal for moving prestige and classic cars.
In addition, they offer 24-hour breakdown and recovery throughout the UK.
Keith Clements has an excellent website for Jowett folk, especially Jowett Car Club folk
The revived North American Jowett Register has its own website
For Jowett Jupiter specifications and other details visit Carfolio.com