Great SC rebuild.......

[Jack]

Great thanks will chase up. Jack hopes to get your ones back from chroming tomorrow.

Chrome will be back at 4pm today.

The spacer for the bonnet catch has come through as well.

Jack.

[Forumadmin]

From the outset this project was about taking enjoyment from learning new skills, having a social event for Jowett owners and passing the ability to support a Jowett on to the next generation. It was not about having a concourse winning car or making money on an investment or inflating our ego.
We had to pay for professional upholstering although Jack made all the patterns and we chose materials. We could have, and wanted to, do the work but just needed to get it to the show. We (Sharon) will make our hood to restore our claim we did it all ourselves.

I have seen many professional restorations that are not up to the quality we have acheived; allbeit over a 30 year project.

[Forumadmin]

Well Amy is off to Birmingham in the SC with Jack following in the Subaru legacy. They left at 21.00hrs to miss the torrential rain expected tomorrow and to leave the car at Malcolm and Wendy Oliver's just 15 minutes from the show.

The car sounded and looked great so I will be hoping the mobile does not ring tonight. It is almost freezing which is perfect carb icing conditions, so they have been warned.

Hope to get to the prize giving tomorrow; but with my mother in hospital, my dad needing 24 hr care and Jen having radiotherapy, juggling my time is difficult. I would go in the SA Jup if the weather was likely to be just a bit better.

[Forumadmin]

Pictures not words now.

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[Srenner]

Very cool. Good on all of you.

Same thing next year with the Javelin?

[Chris Spencer]

Scott - Plans are presently being penciled in - but first on the list is to sort and re equip the garage / workshop - I am sure Keith will post the details once we are decided on what happens - when.

[Forumadmin]

Scott, Note your headlamp embellishers freshly chromed!

[Forumadmin]

Click on the link to see other pictures in TOPIC the Gallery

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[Forumadmin]

Napoleon, Jack and Amy are back from the show and tucked up in bed.

[Keith Clements]

I have just started reading this saga from the beginning, and what a story it makes. I am really glad I captured the tale in reflections in the club magazine in the early eighties and then in our daily blog entries here. No doubt one day we can do some editing and make the story more succinct; but I do like the occasional diversions from the main story line and the banter that reminds me of the team spirit that kept us going through those cold long winter nights.

There are so many aspects to this rebuild that I tried to convey to the editors and story writers that we met this weekend. There is the technical side where problems came and were solved, where skills were learnt to tackle every aspect of the rebuild either by trial and error, learning from the many who popped in to help or by research in books (in the 80's) or on the internet in the last year. There is the social side where many friendships were made or strenghtened from all parts of the globe, and the family involvement.

A garage had to be built from reclaimed materials after the site was excavated by hand, sand blasting equipment installed, a paint spray booth built and paint technology understood, workshop with third hand milling machine constructed and skills learnt, welding facility assembled and the skills learnt, Waxoyl kit used, metal working and panel beating kit bought and skills learnt, all the mechanical and electrical parts had to be checked, cleaned and assembled requiring many new skills and tools. Some had to be fabricated as they were missing. Very little is 'off the shelf' for a car which is 60 years old and only 90 were made. Luckily SA Jupiter and Javelin parts can often be used; but they have to be sourced from the club members and not motor factors.

This is really a call to all those who talk to magazine or newspaper editors to use our saga to inspire those interested in classic cars. Everyone has a skill! A team of people can combine those skills to resurrect a work of art, a work of engineering genius, a monument to car history that is a classic car. The rewards are many and lasting. The best reward is the satisfaction of taking part.

Some of those who contributed to the Great SC Strip Show and Rebuild-

Wes Meneely, Ray Milton, Bill Lock, John Walker, Alf Clements, Jenny Clements, John Buchan, Serge Ribot, Bas De Bruyn, Gerda de Bruyn, Ben Shaw, Drummond Black, Alan Smith, Keith Patchett, Chris Seagrave, Bob Mackenzie, Malcolm Oliver, William Maris, Chris Spencer, Amy Clements, Jack Moon, Jim Miller, Scott Renner, Robin Fairservice, Sharon Spencer, John Blanckley, Leo Bolter.

Also Jowett Car Spares, Jowett Parts NZ, Jupiter Auto Club Spares, Classic Autos, SC Parts, PJM Motors, Capital Car Colours, Vintage Supplies, James Morgan and his Apsley Motor Spares

[Jack]

A few more photos from the weekend, hopefully getting some of these to Alan for the Jowetteer next month.

Ignore the engine size, slight typo there, this is what we wrote with some careful editing from them:

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Mr President with Amy, just behind Amy is the photo from the rally in Wakefield - these were loop playing throughout the show:

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Me and Amy behind the car - you can see the interior that went in within the last 2 weeks!

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Car from the side

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I've also got some on the other camera from the Jowett stand, though it was about 9pm by the time I'd got the space around the stand to take any photos - that's how busy they were! Unfortunately the light wasn't very good, so you may have to settle for some slightly blurred images to give you an idea, and we'll track down some much better ones.

Jack.

[Robin Fairservice]

I took the liberty of copying and posting one of your pictures onto "The Nostalgia Forum". I trust you don't object to some more publicity.

[Forumadmin]

SPAM away! Go for it! Hit all the newspapers you can. After all you can even say you helped so local papers would accept the story!

[Forumadmin]

My energy provider provides a graphical comparison of consumption year on year. Interestingly electricity consumption doubled during the extensive rebuild!
Approximately 15 kwh per month were used on the restoration from Jan to April when we were doing all the body prep, compressors and power tools as well as lighting well into the night. No heating of course, makes the workers work harder!

As part of the garage reorg I hope to make the garage more worker friendly perhgaps even have a Teasmaid to put Jack out of a job.

[Jack]

As part of the garage reorg I hope to make the garage more worker friendly perhgaps even have a Teasmaid to put Jack out of a job.

I have contacted my union rep, who advised that I don't have a case. Seems I will need to retrain - I think welding is going to be fun

Keith, we may have some time to help take a car full to the tip at the weekend - time to start clearing out in advance of the garage rebuild!

Jack.