1950 Rover

gazcaz · 3rd April 2018, 17:22

Just seen this very nice didnt even know there was one.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qcHdKOsHiX0

Teflon · 3rd April 2018, 17:27

I believe Jools Holland owns (or owned) a very nice replica.

Cliff

Jdwoodhou · 3rd April 2018, 17:41

There was a beautiful replica of this car (Jet 1) at Roverfest last year. The original is at the Science Museum in London. I remember the first time I saw it on a school journey in the Sixties - amazing!

maxi_crawf · 3rd April 2018, 17:45

JET 1 it's in the Science Museum.

Mike Noc · 3rd April 2018, 20:07

British Leyland toyed with the truck version in the 1960's:

https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/se...ec&action=view

BigBen · 3rd April 2018, 22:24

The (road legal) Jet 1 replica was made for Jools Holland in the TV Show "Chop Shop: London Garage"

Linky to YouTube video of Jools Holland collecting the car

Mike Noc · 4th April 2018, 07:46

Ha ha they forgot the most important part of Jet 1 - the turbine power plant.

Andy_with_a_screwdriver · 4th April 2018, 07:54

Many years ago I went to a University open day at Bristol. In one of the Engineering labs on a test bed, they had a small gas turbine engine for cars made by Rover I believe. Most probably the same engine.

Most annoyingly why must youtube stick adverts over the last 10 seconds?

kelvo · 4th April 2018, 08:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jdwoodhou

There was a beautiful replica of this car (Jet 1) at Roverfest last year. The original is at the Science Museum in London. I remember the first time I saw it on a school journey in the Sixties - amazing!

I think there are a couple of replicas of JET1 - I used to be in the P4 driver's guild and a chap there was having a replica built. I don't think it's the same one as Jools Holland has/had.

Be nice if they went back to the Cyclops front, but I think you'd be lucky to find a Cyclops to chop up into a JET1.

I remember going to Gaydon a few years back and there was a P6 derivative with a gas-turbine engine. I think the fuel crisis in the 70's killed off most of these.

4th April 2018, 08:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by gazcaz

Just seen this very nice didnt even know there was one.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qcHdKOsHiX0

there were three rover jets
jet 1
jet 1 r
jet 2
but jet 2 got destroyed as they thought to make it a lot lighter so it just went up in flames

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