1951 Jowett Jupiter by goodoleboy
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Twenty-two in a series of classic vehicles, captured 9/21/08, at the beautiful Palos Verdes Concours d'Elegance, held annually at the beautiful Trump National Golf Club on the beautiful Palos Verdes Peninsula in overpopulated Southern California.
For more information on this event, see my posting for 9/28/08.
Tallpindo should love the following:
The Jowett Jupiter was a British car made by Jowett Cars Ltd of Idle, near Bradford from 1950 to 1954.
Following the launch of the all new Jowett Javelin the company decided to use its power train in a sports car, the only one the company ever made. For the chassis design Jowett approached ERA to design one and they came up with a tubular steel fabrication based on a design by Professor Eberan von Eberhorst who had been with Auto Union. The suspension used torsion bars front and rear and was independent at the front. On this frame Jowett built a steel and aluminium open body with a bench seat for three people. There was no external access to the boot (trunk) and the bonnet (hood) was rear hinged and opened complete with the wings.
The flat four overhead valve engine of 1486 cc was more highly tuned than in the Javelin and had its compression ratio raised from 7.2:1 to 8.0:1 developing 60 bhp (45 kW) at 4500 rpm giving the car a maximum speed of 85 mph (137 km/h) and a 0-50 mph time of 11.7 seconds. Two Zenith carburettors were fitted. A four speed gearbox with column change was used.
Source: Wikipedia Encyclopedia
To emphasize the auto, I blurred and darkened the background.
Thankx for looking in, and have a properly propitious Tuesday.
Comments (19)
What a gorgeous green classic !!! i have never seen a jupiter before interesting write up, enjoyed seeing =beautifully captured!!!
nice shot, lifting that hood must be a team effort ?
Love the green, my favorite color!
Great color :) Good shot Harry ~
Wow never seen one of these before, nice photo. This series has been very informative, thanks.
That is it!...roof off!! Love the color of this car and have a fine satin shine. You did well on a background, hardly looking what happenes behind, all my attention spend on a car.
I recognize the name. It is a lovely rounded look of the early fifties. I had a model of an Allard as one of my first plastic models.
Superb image. Great write-up. But at 11.7 seconds 0-50mph is it a sports car? And if three on board? Nice lines, vaguely reminiscent of the Jaguars of that time. Let's see more, please.
wonderful shot of this car.
Unique design...great color. Excellent presentation. Bill
Now THAT's a beauty! Great shot!
Nice car. I have never seen this one. I am a native so. Califorican. I remember the freighter Dominator went aground in the area and is rusting away. Used to live in Long Beach.
Beautiful car and fantastic photo.
I remember this from the back of a Kelloggs Cornflakes pack!
It is a cool car. I posted a red one a while back. Love the green though! Nice... Rob.
Had never heard of this one...a nice colorful image...
wow such a green beauty...smile
Now THAT is my kinda car! I love those bulbous fenders. Gorgeous color, too! Nice shot!
Has that early jaguar feel to it. Wonderful car and capture O'lboy. What a fabulous series this has become, real nice work!!