On 26 Sep 1997 11:05:02 -0500 "A. B. Bonds" <ab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
writes:
>In <19970926154130.AAA20138@LOCALNAME>, Mojo wrote:
>>Has anyone ever heard of a Javelin Jupiter ? I'm going to see a '51
>next
>>week. Owner may be willing to part. But I haven't a clue what it is
>(other
>>than British).
>>
>Sure that wasn't a Jowett? They made a Jupiter in that time frame, a
>_very_ interesting car. They went out of business because production
>costs exceeded what they could get for the car. After WW2, folks
>would buy anything due to pent-up demand, but as production elsewhere
>ramped up, Jowett folded.
> A. B. Bonds
>
>
I dont know much about the javelin other than when i was a kid they were
very much a "wow" car as they went by -
must be very rare now, but very desirable
mike robson
69 roadster
70 BGT
72 roadster
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