Welcome
This is a blog dedicated to the J&S Fibreglass Company of NSW, Australia. The company was started by two friends, Jeff Simmonds and John Jennens on 23rd September 1959. Prior to that, as will be seen in the following pages, they had already built cars. This was an era of the "can-do" attitude.
The company was sold by Jeff around 1985 (John sold out to Jeff), they had close contact with an incredible Sydney motoring scene which needs to be written about before it is lost.
This is hopefully, a start of that, a recorded history for others to read, follow-up and write. The close contacts and working relationships by J&S were with the following (but by no means limited to):
- Len Moir - Len lived close to Jeff and is the designer for the Renault/Moir car, Hunter, hardtops for sports cars and beach buggies for J&S.
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| Len Moir at the wheel. Image Source |
- Jack Pryer - Already famous for the Prad (PR = Pryer + AD = Adams), Holden, designed the chassis for the Buchanan to accept Holden mechanicals. It was this chassis the Jack subsequently developed for the Hunter.
- Hunter and Delbridge - They designed and made a disc brake conversion for the early Holden kingpin front ends the J&S used in the early hunters.
- Frank Kleinig Jnr
- Lovell springs
- Nat Buchanan - They bought the rights for the Buchanan body and the Buchanan Cobra. Yes, the name Cobra was used well before Shelby used it.
