Javelin drophead

[Forumadmin]

Hi,



I am a fanatical model maker and classic car fan, my own car a 1953 MO Morris Oxford, but whilst researching information for the 2008 60th Ann Club Stand with the MMOC I came across pictures of a Jowett Javelin Drophead and would love to produce a model of this car for my own collection converting the very nice Lansdowne Model.


Regards, Roger Tennyson

javelin drophead.jpg

[PAUL BEAUMONT]

This was, I believe, a prototype that never saw the light of day. Something at the back of my mind says that it passed therogh the hands of Ian Aitken-Kemp at one time, but might be wrong!!

Paul

[RogerT]

Just to add a little more information on this car it was produced as a prototype for the 1948 Motor Show and was possibly gold in colour, it had Dickey Seats in the boot, as per the Triumph Roadster only without the luxury of a windscreen and there were two stepping points one set in the rear quarter panel and one on top of the rear wing on the offside. I only have the one magazine photograph and a sketch in the magazine showing the rear seat arrangement so any further information would be appreciated, did the car survive? The Lansdowne Models LDM26 Jowett Javelin would be an ideal starting point for the conversion for I have refinished several of these in different colours for individual collectors and owners of the cars in the past. Thank you for the opportunity to use the forum to try to gather information for this car and project. Roger Tennyson

[Tony Fearn]

Hello Roger,

I'm fairly sure that I used a link within one of the JowettTalk sections that took me to a site which showed a photo of a drophead Javelin in red within the last few weeks, but I can't for the life in me find it again.

Have any of the other members seen it?

Tony.

[Drummond Black]

The Javelin Drophead is currenttly owned by a Scotish Section member. This car was at the Pitlochry Rally in 2000. I suggest that if Lansdowne are considering a model that contact is made via the Scottish Section

Drummond

[RogerT]

Thank you all for your information, any searches I have done have brought up plenty of Jupiter Dropheads and special bodied Jupiters but no Javelin, will keep looking. At least I have ascertained that the car exsists and if anyone can point me in the direction of the owner I would be obliged, however I must point out that it isn't Lansdowne who are interested in doing the model, I am a specialist who produces only small numbers of these models and would use the Lansdowne as a base. I have forwarded the information to Lansdowne sometime ago only as it was not a production car there is not a lot of hope that they would produce it. Thanks again RogerT

[k. rogers]

I'm sure I have seen a resin kit of this Javelin on ebay, but I couldn't tell you when the kit was produced or who made it. Incidentally, wasn't this conversion of the Javelin by Carlton?

[Jack]

In our very own Gallery, an article from Classic Cars, June 1991, featuring a photo of the drophead Javelin - described as a "roadster version of the javelin" right at the bottom of the article. Thanks to John Dolphin for uploading.

https://jowettnet/forum/download/file.p ... &mode=view

[Alf Heseltine]

This car was on display at the 2000 NJR Pitlochry, as already mentioned. I believe it won an award at the rally, with a report & picture in the Jowetteer
probably July or Aug. of that year.

[Robin Fairservice]

I dug the July 2000 Jowetteer out, and there is a picture of this car omn page 12. It won a Peoples Award. On page 6 there is a reference to it recently obtaining an MOT, and that it was the original car that had been displayed at the 1948 Motor Show. Apparently Dennis Cremer had rescued the car in Rochdale in 1968 in a derelict state.

[RogerT]

Thank you all again for this information but not being a Jowett Club member I am a little at a loss as I cannot view your gallery or have access to the early Newsletters you are talking about, is there any possibility that someone could scan the article and email me a copy at rjtennyson@tiscali.co.uk plus any of the pictures refered to. Thanks again for your help, Roger

[Jack]

Thank you all again for this information but not being a Jowett Club member I am a little at a loss as I cannot view your gallery or have access to the early Newsletters you are talking about, is there any possibility that someone could scan the article and email me a copy at rjtennyson@tiscali.co.uk plus any of the pictures refered to. Thanks again for your help, Roger

Hi Roger,

The gallery is designed that way to protect intellectual property and copyright - it requires people to join the club to get access to the huge amount of information in there.

If you wanted access to it, you will need to contact the webmaster who may be able to give you a login to see the information, perhaps with some agreement about bringing the model when completed to a club event so that it could be photographed and shared with everyone, or even a few photos of the model being built with a brief outline from you, we could include such a thing in the club newsletter.

Forumadmin (Keith) is the man to help with access or copies of the relevant information.

I think that our newsletters and articles are kept on public record, so you could track them down that way, but I think we'd all be very interested if you'd be prepared to write a blog or similar on here, or send an article with a bit of information on how you are getting on to us and we can share it. It might also be a good way for us to contribute a bit to things, provide photos of some of the details on Javelins and other information that we can gather, however the specific model you are planning will be a challenge I'm sure due to its rarity, though it is clearly known to members on here and within the club.

First questions from me - What scale is the model going to be? What will it be made from - metal, plastic, something else?

Jack.

[Jack]

Decent photo here, originally posted by isleofthanet:



I have to say it looks a million times better with the top down.

Jack.

[Forumadmin]

But it would handle like a dog having lost all rigidity.

[RogerT]

Thank you for that, I will keep you informed as to how I get on with converting the model, it will be 1/43 scale in white metal as that is the Lansdowne base item material I will be working with. Yes it looks a lot better with the top down and I'm curious about the colour in this picture, I had thought it was gold though it has been mentioned that it is now red.

Interesting comment the fact that the car would handle like a dog, as I have already mentioned I am a member of the 6/80 & MO Club, actualy a founder member back in 1977, showing my age now, but Nuffield did produce a Drophead MO Oxford as a prototype and the car had continual scuttle shake no matter what they did to correct it, one of the chief designers, the late Jack Daniels ran the car for many years himself before it was moved on and I suppose the fact that the Javelin was never put into production also speaks for itself. Thanks, Roger