Practically Classics Forum

hillmanimpman wrote:my friend got a jowett jupiter which he is restoring i get some pics it was in the Classic cars mag in 2005 or 2004 in a garden (near brooklands)there was a pair but he could only afford one . got to say that they are great cars tho when there done nice like yours i been help strip the paint off my friends taking ages thanks to so many different colours.

I feel your pain on the paint stripping! It took days and days and days just to do one panel, I lost count of how many colours the thing had been painted, but I know it was bloody hard work stripping it back to bare metal! Where's your friend based?

as for the MX5 i wouldn't mind one getting one for summer but then it hard to, because then i get stuck in between MGF or midget or MX5. the other convertible i like is a Fiat X1/9 but there not cheap anymore, soft top motoring i love it

Go for all four of them then

my friend lives just down the road from me just outside Nottingham on the way melton mowbray. I know tony mumsby the jowett spares man at newark great guy for help and advise. don't worry everyone the car is inside now, but it still need a new cylinder block liner and a new set of pistons before that engine will run again. I am at the moment making a new bench seat for it as the original was missing, managed to find a diagram with alot original measurement so should have that finished soon.i show my process in a new post some point in the future

Crikey, that's almost as big an undertaking as mine was!!

If you need any help or info on the Jupiter, let me know - if one of us doesn't know the answer, we'll know someone who does. Happy to go and measure seats and anything you need on ours if you need info too.

Take a look at www.jowett.org, there's a forum on there as well and lots of very knowledgeable people. Best of luck with it!
Amy.

thanks amy,
always nice to know someone else with the same car for measurements and that sort of thing.looks a good site the jowett one i join up this evening as my friend can't use a pc so i'll ask any questions that he needs.
John

I have spent the past couple of evenings outside, in the sunshine, hard at work at a bench grinder cleaning up the hoops for the hood on my Jupiter. It's the last part of the car to be done, and has been something of a puzzle as it evidently had been messed around with by a previous owner. As with every other bit of metal on the car, there were silly amounts of paint on the hoops, but thankfully they are otherwise in pretty good condition with only a little bit of surface rust which has come off with the wheel and a bit of TLC.

The hinges for the hood mechanism have been hand made for it, and the wood has also needed to be replaced, all of which has been something of a challenge (mostly taken on by my other half).

Here is the hood frame as it was before we started work:



My task this week has been to clean up all the metalwork, prime it and paint it. I'm plumping for satin finish black hammerite as it should be sufficiently hard-wearing for the hoops and as far as I know they wouldn't have been body-coloured when it came out of the factory. Now all I need is the weather to stay good until the end of the week so that I can get the painting done

Luckily for me, just when I think it's safe to sit straddling bits of car, along comes my dad with a camera:





Once the metal's been primed and painted we'll be re-assembling the frame, hopefully for the final time, and then will be getting ready for Napoleon to have the first fitting of his hood, which is being made by the Grumpy Northerner's rather wonderful wife. She's already made two mock-ups and we've had the fittings of those, and tweaked where necessary. We are borrowing an idea from my MX5 and making the rear window zip-out on three sides so that it doesn't get cracked or obscured with continuous folding - this wasn't an original Jowett feature, but it's a very neat idea and it worked well on the mock-up hood that was made for Napoleon so we're going with it in the final version.

The MX5 borrowed it from the Spitfire!

Hammerite's a brilliant thing!

Aar0sc wrote:The MX5 borrowed it from the Spitfire!

Ah, I didn't know that, thank you Napoleon needn't feel troubled about borrowing ideas from the Japanese car market then

Aar0sc wrote:Chipperrite is utter rubbish....

There, that's corrected that for you. Seriously, it's brittle, ineffective and has no place on a car. POR15, that's the answer.
Or Crown house paint which is at least as much use as Hammershite in the protection of steel from the elements.

JPB wrote:

Aar0sc wrote:Chipperrite is utter rubbish....

There, that's corrected that for you. Seriously, it's brittle, ineffective and has no place on a car. POR15, that's the answer.

^^^WHS^^^ Bang on. I've used it in the past - never again.

JPB wrote:

Aar0sc wrote:Chipperrite is utter rubbish....

There, that's corrected that for you. Seriously, it's brittle, ineffective and has no place on a car. POR15, that's the answer.
Or Crown house paint which is at least as much use as Hammershite in the protection of steel from the elements.

hey JPB i used crown or leyland metal gloss paint on my JAMES motorbike and that looks fine and it been on 2 years now but i put a few coats of clear stonechip on top to protect it from flying stone off the road.
heres a quick picture sorry for Hi-jacking amy but heres a quick picture of my James motorbike.