Sylva Jester

[fuoriserie]

Is the old Sylva Jester still being manufactured ?

[fuoriserie]

http://www.jesterkitcar.blogspot.com/

a nice blog with pictures of the Jester.

[Toltec]

Stingray motorsport was updating the Jester to use a more modern donor, their website is down at the moment though. Hopefully just for an update not because of the company going belly up.

[fuoriserie]

Toltec said:

Stingray motorsport was updating the Jester to use a more modern donor, their website is down at the moment though. Hopefully just for an update not because of the company going belly up.

I had forgotten Stingray had bought the kit....thanks for reminding ......

[MartinDB]

Given Stingray's website's still down and Sylva now list a different agent, I don't think it's looking too good

[fuoriserie]

MartinDB said:

Given Stingray's website's still down and Sylva now list a different agent, I don't think it's looking too good

http://www.sylva.co.uk/links.html

they've also been deleted from the Sylva links page.......

Edited by fuoriserie on Sunday 20th December 21:52

[Toltec]

Oh poo, they still owe me an ali rad too.

Noticed the Spectre/Shindig is now the J15.

Edited by Toltec on Sunday 20th December 23:02

[fuoriserie]

Toltec said:

Oh poo, they still owe me an ali rad too.

Noticed the Spectre/Shindig is now the J15.

Edited by Toltec on Sunday 20th December 23:02

let's just hope they're updating their website for 2010......

[fuoriserie]

http://www.stingraymotorsport.com/cars.htm

the website is up again......

[Toltec]

[Mistrale]

Massive thread resurrection! Does anyone know what happened to the Jester after Stingray?

[fuoriserie]

Mistrale said:

Massive thread resurrection! Does anyone know what happened to the Jester after Stingray?

No idea...but I would think the project is on hold with Stingray Motorsports.

[Furyblade_Lee]

The Jester is one of the few Sylva cars that I found difficult on the eye, but I can see the genius in the design. I'd love JP to come up with new beach-buggy type vehicle, very simple chassis and body with a single-donor ethic. Wipe down GRP interior and incorporating a factory Windscreen and soft top / hard top option from an MX5. Rear-engine with maybe Ford KA / Fiesta as the single donor. I'd build one if simple and cheap enough.

[Yazza54]

The jester is a styling abortion compared to other Sylva cars.

[Mistrale]

As I recall, the Jester styling was done by a chap called Huw McPherson - a design graduate!!! I've seen a couple with Ka lights and they look good in my eyes - would be a logical update to the Mk1 Fiesta mechanicals to replace them with Ka too.

[KDIcarmad]

Mistrale said:

As I recall, the Jester styling was done by a chap called Huw McPherson - a design graduate!!! I've seen a couple with Ka lights and they look good in my eyes - would be a logical update to the Mk1 Fiesta mechanicals to replace them with Ka too.

I own a KA a nice car, but the gearbox and engine are of an older design. I believe they are very like the MK1 Fiesta's, I have read of them already being used, so not really a update. I would looked a more modern Fiesta or beyond Ford to some like the Toyota Aygo as better update.

[Furyblade_Lee]

I agree but a running Toyota Aygo will probably not cost £200 and it be laden with lots of stuff a £5k buggy build will not need with complex wiring loom to sort out. Imagine being able to swap over all the Ford mechanicals in several weekends and ending up with a 600kilo mid-engined cheap fun buggy.

Mills could be our man... Give it some traditional beach buggy styling Stiggy and put me down for chassis number 1!

[KDIcarmad]

Furyblade_Lee said:

I agree but a running Toyota Aygo will probably not cost £200 and it be laden with lots of stuff a £5k buggy build will not need with complex wiring loom to sort out. Imagine being able to swap over all the Ford mechanicals in several weekends and ending up with a 600kilo mid-engined cheap fun buggy.

Mills could be our man... Give it some traditional beach buggy styling Stiggy and put me down for chassis number 1!

I agree a simple one piece body shell. No doors and mid/rear engine. It could have weather protect that has door. I have an idea for what this could be like...




This is the Range GT from the 1960's. I like this design. Almost any engine could use by a design like this.

[Fastpedeller]

Strangely I have an unfinished yellow jester in my garage - 90% there, but I've too many projects and may end up advertising it. It has nearly every part new though so it would make financial sense to sell it to someone restoring a mk1 Fiesta, but it would be a shame to do that to it. It always appealed to me (not many cars where the back looks better than the front!), although I've made improvements on the headlights.