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Hello fellow Jewett Six automobile owner,
The Registry was established in 2006 in order to bring together current Jewett Six owners so that they would have access to historical information, factory and technical information, as well as available parts and cars. If you own a car and care to participate, please join us.
Please click here to fill out the online registration form, or you can download the registration form so that it can be printed out for Postal mailing.(Adobe Acrobat required).
If you mail your registration, please return the form along with a photograph of your car to the address above by Postal mail.
• There is no fee associated with this registration.
We will acknowledge receipt of these and keep you informed through this site and by email.
Of first importance is the registry of all existing Jewett Six automobiles world wide, secondly the owners of these cars. If you choose not have your name listed with the car(s) you own please initial that on the form. Your name will then be known ONLY to the registry and NOT made public or on this web site. If some other person or a Registered Member wishes to contact you the Registry will ALWAYS ask your permission before releasing that information.
Thank you,
Doug Thamert,
Registrar
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To date we know of three previous attempts made by Jewett owners to form an Owners Club and or a Registry. Two of which we know had some degree of success, but their efforts came to a halt for different reasons.
Olan D. Chiles of Maryland bought a remarkably complete 1922 Jewett Six Touring in the 1950´s but in 1963 it unfortunately burned beyond recognition in a friend´s barn fire, where it was stored. Even though he never owned another Jewett that didn´t deter his interest in Jewett´s. He was inspired to search, without the use of the Internet, for other owners and data on Jewett Sixes. He rigorously researched chassis and motor numbers, models and production dates, and located twenty-eight other owners and their cars. From this he established the first known Registry and Owners List in the 1980´s. He retired in 1988 and sold all but one of his other antique cars. At that time he also boxed his Jewett research and owners list and moved to California. The car he kept was a Paige Daytona Speedster, which he sold when he moved back East to South Carolina, where he presently lives. 7/08
In the early 1980’s, Terry Shelley from Northern California took an interest in Jewett’s after seeing one at a prestigious car show in California and then buying a 1923 Touring basket case. Being an auto parts storeowner his passion for cars and his curiosity concerning this somewhat forgotten marque inspired him to seek out and buy anything pertaining to Jewett’s. He searched with fervor over the next few years, without the use of the Internet, and amassed one of the most commendable, and somewhat unbelievable, collections of ephemera, parts and automobiles in various degrees of completeness. This passion for Jewett’s also included the forming of an Owners Club, of which we know very little. For unknown reasons he decided to abandon all and sell his collection, which ultimately went to two different people. One Michigan gentleman, also a Jewett owner, bought the ephemera, advertising pieces and other unusual accessories. A California car dealer bought his collection of cars and parts. Terry’s affliction was cured and he went on to other things.
Jolyon Hofsted of New York was also a Jewett owner who knew of the Olan Chiles Registry, and in 1993 showed intentions of continuing on with it. Not much is known concerning his success but we do know the Registry did not remain active.
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