Wagger Posted January 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 16 hours ago, Qu1ckn1ck said: My Jowett Jupiter, flat four engine, the radiator at the rear of the block, column change, torsion bar suspension, tubular chassis, aluminium bodywork, built at Idle ! I had the priviledge of working with Ed Nankivell in 2001. He wrote a very good manual for these and had two of them back then. Lovely man. We still exchange Xmas cards with banter. John Surtees had one. Super car as was the javelin. Another good old friend had a Bradford van. Ran it way into the 1960's. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qu1ckn1ck Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 11 minutes ago, Wagger said: I had the priviledge of working with Ed Nankivell in 2001. He wrote a very good manual for these and had two of them back then. Lovely man. We still exchange Xmas cards with banter. John Surtees had one. Super car as was the javelin. Another good old friend had a Bradford van. Ran it way into the 1960's. I believe that Ed Nankivell was the Jupiter Registrar. I had his book but lent it to a colleague and never got it back. My Jupiter was mentioned in Ed's book and recorded as the last one registered long after the Jowett factory closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121850977675?epid=90417071&hash=item1c5ee25d8b:g:bp0AAMXQwKdRe73g Found you a replacement first edition.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qu1ckn1ck Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 24 minutes ago, Colin Lindsay said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121850977675?epid=90417071&hash=item1c5ee25d8b:g:bp0AAMXQwKdRe73g Found you a replacement first edition.... Thanks Colin ! Can you find my old Jupiter too, I believe that it is red now. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badwolf Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 There's this one too.. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144320597625 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qu1ckn1ck Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 Not sure if this one qualifies as "Quirky" but it attracted a fair bit of attention when I owned and drove it. Not only could you hear my Lotus 6 but you could also smell it as the sump was filled with Castrol R40 ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wagger Posted January 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 18 minutes ago, Qu1ckn1ck said: Not sure if this one qualifies as "Quirky" but it attracted a fair bit of attention when I owned and drove it. Not only could you hear it you but you could also smell it as the sump was filled with Castrol R40 ! That is quirky enough. A table-spoonful of 'R' in our bike tanks made the exhaust smell wonderful. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wagger Posted January 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 Really glad that I started this thread. Shows what a 'Small World' it is. I'll post the sectional on BFG's thread now as well as on here about Tatra cars. Really advanced for their era. Ferdinand Porsche copied som of their ideas, so I am told. https://eu.capecodtimes.com/story/special/2019/10/21/cars-we-remember-czechoslovakia-cars/2483013007/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 42 minutes ago, Qu1ckn1ck said: Thanks Colin ! Can you find my old Jupiter too, I believe that it is red now. Nick It is: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qu1ckn1ck Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 3 hours ago, Wagger said: Really glad that I started this thread. Shows what a 'Small World' it is. I'll post the sectional on BFG's thread now as well as on here about Tatra cars. Really advanced for their era. Ferdinand Porsche copied som of their ideas, so I am told. https://eu.capecodtimes.com/story/special/2019/10/21/cars-we-remember-czechoslovakia-cars/2483013007/ There is a Tatra that appears at many of our local shows. Seen here at a classic car show at the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wagger Posted January 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 24 minutes ago, Qu1ckn1ck said: There is a Tatra that appears at many of our local shows. Seen here at a classic car show at the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden: 24 minutes ago, Qu1ckn1ck said: There is a Tatra that appears at many of our local shows. Seen here at a classic car show at the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden: My first means of transport was a Czechoslvakian Scooter. A 98cc Manet with a Jawa engine, it had 12v electrics, a dynostarter, trafficators and 14in spoked wheels. I could, actually, see at night. In my view, it was light years ahead of Lambretta and Vespa and half the price. Here is a link to a picture. Note the Earles no dive front suspension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Truman Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 That's why it was half the price! even bikes now have front suspension. Here's my first car, mid 63, a Goggo of 300cc brute power, best fun a teenager could have, & learn about car mechanics, we always got home under our own power! Would love one now just for the memories! Taught the then girlfriend now wife of 53 years to drive in it on an airport runway up north yelling brake, brake as we passed under a gate battier arm! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wagger Posted January 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 53 minutes ago, Peter Truman said: That's why it was half the price! even bikes now have front suspension. Here's my first car, mid 63, a Goggo of 300cc brute power, best fun a teenager could have, & learn about car mechanics, we always got home under our own power! Would love one now just for the memories! Taught the then girlfriend now wife of 53 years to drive in it on an airport runway up north yelling brake, brake as we passed under a gate battier arm! It had swinging arm leading front suspension, single spring and damper above the forks. Item 80 on the link below. Not easy to see how it works I'm afraid but it was good. All concealed behind the headlamp. https://www.motorenparts.com/spare-parts-catalog-a5-69-pgs---manet-100-scooter-e5023#group-7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 44 minutes ago, Peter Truman said: , best fun a teenager could have, That's open to debate 🤫 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wagger Posted January 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Peter Truman said: That's why it was half the price! even bikes now have front suspension. Here's my first car, mid 63, a Goggo of 300cc brute power, best fun a teenager could have, & learn about car mechanics, we always got home under our own power! Would love one now just for the memories! Taught the then girlfriend now wife of 53 years to drive in it on an airport runway up north yelling brake, brake as we passed under a gate battier arm! Ed Nankivell had a Goggo before a DAF then his Jupiter. You are in good company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qu1ckn1ck Posted January 15, 2022 Report Share Posted January 15, 2022 My old Morgan +8 certainly had a quirky front suspension. It still used the "Sliding Pillar" IFS designed by Morgan in 1910. This was lubricated on a total loss basis by oil from the engine sump. Every 200 miles or so the driver had to depress a foot switch/valve which allowed a shot of oil into the sliding pillars. Most of this oil ended up rust proofing the underside of the front wings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Costigan Posted February 13, 2022 Report Share Posted February 13, 2022 Perhaps not quirky, but certainly different, this is in my garage: 1100cc V4 twin cam, body panels all aluminium, four-door pillarless, only weighs 15cwt (recommended tyre pressures are 18psi front and back): 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark powell Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 Lancia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Costigan Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 Yes, a 1953 Lancia Appia (I forgot to mention it also has sliding pillar front suspension like Nick's Morgan): 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 1 hour ago, mark powell said: Lancia? Yikes! I thought it was a SAAB... apologies. Still looks great, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qu1ckn1ck Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 2 hours ago, Colin Lindsay said: Yikes! I thought it was a SAAB... apologies. Still looks great, though. .. I made the same mistake too ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 3 hours ago, Colin Lindsay said: Yikes! I thought it was a SAAB... apologies. Still looks great, though. 48 minutes ago, Qu1ckn1ck said: . I made the same mistake too ! Yes I thought Saabish but V4, 1100cc.? Back then SAAB were 2 stroke 2 or 3 cylinder in line I believe. Interesting car all the same. Any more photos, or do I need to ask Mr Google . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 It is a bit SAABish I suppose, but the SAABs were more curved at the rear; however the bonnet area is very similar.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Costigan Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 More photos? As many as you want! One of the car's party pieces is the pillarless construction: Gearbox is a four-speed column change: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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