1977 70s seventies Yellow black JAGO Ford V8 'Seven Hills Steel Works, single seater roadster. Ford Model A Open top Jago Hot Rod roadster en-route to Capesthorne Hall classic August car show, Cheshire, UK
In March 1960 Geoffrey Jago founded his own business building Street Rods in Portchester - a small town between Portsmouth and Southampton. In 1969, the landlord sold the site for redevelopment and Geoff moved site. Jago is a British company which used to produce a range of kit cars principally Jeep styled between 1965 and 1997. The company is still based in Chichester, West Sussex and now manufactures for a number of industries including, concealment work for councils and telecommunications, theming and the arts. Geoff Jago founded a company called Geoff Jago Custom Automotive in 1965 making Street Rod type vehicles. In 1971 he made the vehicle for which the company became most famous, the Geep. This used glass fibre panels moulded off an original World War II Willys Jeep[1] and fitted to a chassis with Ford Anglia 105E mechanical parts. An alternative version using Morris Minor parts was added in 1974 and a Ford Escort version in 1976. In the same year Geoff met with Richard Park and the two decided to open a joint venture in Quarry Lane, Chichester, under the collective title of the "Rodding Scene". Richard ran Custom City and dealt with customised motor cycles and custom painting and Geoff continued his business of building street rods, kits and associated components. Amongst other notable achievements, Geoff Jago was the first person to introduce the American metal flake paint system into this country and this was used to good effect on his first Model T Hot Rod, which was yet another venture of Geoff’s. Always eager to introduce new lines and expand the business, Geoff put in hundreds of hours of work to introduce one of the first kit cars into the country and in 1971 he launched the Jago Sandero at which time the company changed name to Jago Automotives.
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Location: Congelton, UK
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