Practical Classics Restoration Show 2015 - Report & Photos

[Grumpy Northener]

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I think this is forum member suffolkpete's Matra (Sorry I didn't have time to say hello Pete)

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[Grumpy Northener]

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We also had a members Jowett Bradford van on the 'Barn Finds' stand

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[Grumpy Northener]

End of show and we quickly got packed up - I towed the trailer with the Javelin bodyshell back home and arrived completely knackered at 22:30 only to get up early the following day to run around returning everything back to fellow members abodes, my wife's stuff back to her studio, the trailer back to my employers at Guildford and then home - arrived at 21:30 and still completely knackered. We shall be returning in 2016 - March 5th & 6th for more

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Two days after the show I took a very pleasing phone call that informed me that for the second year running we had achieved the award of
'Best Club Stand' at the show - still very knackered I extracted a very large G & T from the fridge - you could not have wiped the smile off my face with a double decked bus !

[suffolkpete]

I think this is forum member suffolkpete's Matra (Sorry I didn't have time to say hello Pete)

Unfortunately not, that is a very rare 2.2S, my poverty spec 1.6 is not considered good enough. I was probably buried inside the engine compartment of the white car on the left, just out of shot. A rather bored Mrs Pete is visible at the back though.

[JPB]

Thanks for posting up that wonderful selection of images, Chris. It never ceases to amaze me just how active the Jowetteers are. On a scale based on stand size & quality vs number of surviving cars, the Morris Minor club - as a random example of an active club with many more surviving cars - would have needed to occupy an area of several dozen acres and would have had to showcase around a thousand cars to come proportionately close to your turnout. (Numbers were not arrived at scientifically and are used purely to make a point..)
It's the same at local shows too, because the Jowett folk are wonderfully down to earth, and totally without any of the snobbery that can affect some clubs, so small wonder they're so well received everywhere they go.


Strangely, more than a dozen of the people I know who own Reliant Rebels, kittens and Foxes also own or have owned Jowetts, it must be the British love of the underdog that causes this phenomenon!

[suffolkpete]

Strangely, more than a dozen of the people I know who own Reliant Rebels, kittens and Foxes also own or have owned Jowetts, it must be the British love of the underdog that causes this phenomenon!

Or is it a liking for the different, non run of the mill? Although I've never owned one, the appeal is the innovation and the advanced design for their time. The Javelin and Jupiter were very advanced for their day and could beat their contemporaries in terms of performance and handling. I was looking at a Jupiter in racing trim at a show yesterday and I thought there was something very incongruous about a competition car with a column change though.

[rich.]

nice pics can you do a lead loading demo for us with pics & explanation on here please?

[Grumpy Northener]

nice pics can you do a lead loading demo for us with pics & explanation on here please?

Ok Rich - give me a couple of weeks and will get it sorted and posted - In the interim I have to sort the fleet at home - Javelin needs the carbs fitting along with the new rad & new ignition bits + a good service prior to its trip to the Netherlands at the end of the month & the Rover needs some minor finishing for it's MOT - I might just have to press into service as a daily for very short period but more news on that in couple of weeks time.

[rich.]

cheers mate!