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SAID ABOUT JENSEN
Here's some great stuff said and
written about the great Jensen cars!
Enjoy!
Tony Baileys Bruchures on road Tests:
(Great test of different Jensen-models.)
http://www.british-steel.org/brochure/Road_tests/rt1.htm
"The name Jensen has long been to motoring what Saville Row is to tailoring
- classics like the Jensen Interceptor are renowned as the gentleman's jam
jar of choice."
BBC Online
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/472345.stm
"The Jensen Interceptor left behind a legacy of what touring in the grand
style should be. One writer recently referred to the Interceptor as The
Gentleman's Express, which is an apt description. It superbly sums up the
Jensen Interceptor, with its Italian styling, English luxury and American
power, all rolled into one sumptuous grand touring machine."
Bill Vance
http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/bv/jensen_interceptor.htm
Then along came the Allard enthusiast's
dream, the Jensen FF. Imagine a car weighing almost two tons approaching a
roundabout on a semi-flooded road. It overtakes several other cars ... then
it claws its way round the roundabout without the slightest signs of a skid
and disappears up the All in a cloud of spray. That car could only be a
Jensen FF - and it was!
Lotus Elan.net
http://www.lotuselan.net/print/magazines/lotus_marque_68_spring.htm
"The inside of the Jensen FF, like its economy partner the Interceptor,
looks more like the cabin of a modern light aircraft. For anyone with E5500
to spend on a real prestige fun car the Jensen is a far better buy than a
Ferrari, a Lambourghini, or any other car in this bracket. If you want to
outdrag a 4~2 E-Type off the lights in the pouring rain, outbrake a DB6 into
a roundabout and be proud to be seen getting out of a beautiful British car,
get a Jensen FF, or if the British gentry know what is good, get in the
queue."
Lotus Elan.net
http://www.lotuselan.net/print/magazines/lotus_marque_68_spring.htm
"Into the 1970s, a Jensen was certainly the car to be seen in! The Jensen
Interceptor was the car for many films and TV celebrities."
Newmedia
http://newmedia2.ppp.co.uk/portfieldcars/marques/jensen1.htm
"...was the Jensen Interceptor FF. (F.erguson F.ormula) This car was
really quite extraordinary; Four wheel drive, 3 Ferguson viscous couples,
ABS, Traction Control, 7 litre V8, and drop-dead gorgeous Vignale coachwork
based on the Maserati of a few years earlier. Built in a couple of sheds by
a scary mix of eccentrics and petrolheads, and not a computer within 15
years, how in Gods name did it work! Well it did, mostly, and I drove one in
1976 and the lingering impression is of bulk and the strange kickback from
the brake pedal, (I performed a needless Emergency stop). Because of the
huge additional weight of the secondary hydraulic system the pedal did a 'ghost'
form of cadence braking by pushing it up against my foot half a dozen times.
I did not like that! A good friend's father (a local Publican) owned it, and
said that on many occasions it saved his life when driving home 'half-cut'
from the LVA. The system could 'go-off' half-cocked if you took a
hump-backed bridge at speed and then the brakes would not work on first
application afterwards, I don't fully understand how this could happen, but
I think the wheels had to leave the ground. If that is the case, perhaps FF
stood for the first 2 letters of a normally 4 now 5 letter word you uttered
as you hurtled toward oblivion!"
The Lexus Soarer Owners Club
http://www.jkwebdesign.co.uk/lexusclub/notfadeaway.htm
"He kept her in a Jensen Interceptor
Delivered her ten roses to my door
She rocked the night away
Hoolahooling with her date
What she taking me for"
The song "GOODBYE
MR. GOOD GUY" by Dave Edmunds
"It is an honor and a pleasure for me to
become the Honorary President of the Association of Jensen Owners. The
economics of the day and the peculiar problems in Great Britain have worked
together to eliminate from the marketplace a wonderful automobile industry.
It is a sad thing to happen, but at the same time, it is following in the
footsteps of many other illustrious cars. From an enthusiast's standpoint,
there are some minor pluses in this development which can be found through
the added enjoyment of owning and driving a special car that will become
increasingly desirable as time goes on and the numbers slowly diminish. "I
hope the Jensens that all of you own perform in a satisfactory manner and I
want to assure all of you that we intend to keep spare parts flowing as long
as they are needed."
Kjell H. Qvale, Ex-Chairman of the
Board, Jensen Motors Ltd.
http://members.shaw.ca/dballantine/jensen.html
