Jensen Interceptor series 3
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Great stuff, and welcome to Jensen land! Have you joined the JOC? It's a pretty good club, and has a reasonable forum.
I see that yours has a louvered bonnet. I had one of those when I had a 1977 Interceptor, a late car with fuel injection. My current Mark II has the bog standard bonnet.
I look forward to seeing more photos and hearing about the car.
May I please ask you a favour? I am having a discussion with my agreed value insurer about real values, as prices in the adverts are all over the place. Would you mind sending me a PM in confidence indicating how much you paid and what condition of car you got for the money. Apols for cheeky request and please tell me to buzz off if you wish.
I see that yours has a louvered bonnet. I had one of those when I had a 1977 Interceptor, a late car with fuel injection. My current Mark II has the bog standard bonnet.
I look forward to seeing more photos and hearing about the car.
May I please ask you a favour? I am having a discussion with my agreed value insurer about real values, as prices in the adverts are all over the place. Would you mind sending me a PM in confidence indicating how much you paid and what condition of car you got for the money. Apols for cheeky request and please tell me to buzz off if you wish.
Jensen was still sort of going in some guise, possibly run by insolvency practitioners, although not making new cars. A few late cars were sold and registered in 1976 and (possibly) 1977 and fitted with fuel injection from new. Jensen carried on maintaining the cars for a few years after that. Bob Cherry at Cropredy Bridge knows a bit about this. I cannot recall what the book says.
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 18th February 20:10
I purchased the car about a month age after looking at a few. The paintwork is ok with two small visable thumbnails of rust.The front seats are ok apart from a rip on the drivers side, but will probably both be retrimmed.Carpets need replacing due to leak around the front windscreen with the carpet over the passenger side cill being wet for some time. Have removed passenger seat and there is some surface rust on inner cill, which have been replaced at some point. Car is a running restoration but presentable. Will send an email BV.
hogg968 said:
I purchased the car about a month age after looking at a few. The paintwork is ok with two small visable thumbnails of rust.The front seats are ok apart from a rip on the drivers side, but will probably both be retrimmed.Carpets need replacing due to leak around the front windscreen with the carpet over the passenger side cill being wet for some time. Have removed passenger seat and there is some surface rust on inner cill, which have been replaced at some point. Car is a running restoration but presentable. Will send an email BV.
Terrific classic Jensen colour as well!Breadvan72 said:
Jensen was still sort of going in some guise, possibly run by insolvency practitioners, although not making new cars.
Yes, in administration, still building (and with a lot of hope in their eyes, designing new models!) up until May, 1976.Breadvan72 said:
A few late cars were sold and registered in 1976 and (possibly) 1977 and fitted with fuel injection from new.
Umm, no. No fuel injected cars, they were fitted with the Carter Thermoquad at this stage. There were certainly a few cars in stock at the Jensen dealer network that would have been registered in 1977.Breadvan72 said:
Jensen carried on maintaining the cars for a few years after that.
No, as I stated, the company ceased trading in May, 1976. There was a company formed however, called Jensen Parts & Service which employed ex-Jensen staff. You may be thinking of that company.Breadvan72 said:
Bob Cherry at Cropredy Bridge knows a bit about this. I cannot recall what the book says.
Bob is a good friend of mine. When it comes to Jensen history though, he usually defers to me. Now, what book would that be?Pages 63 to 67 of the paperback edition of John Tipler's book on the Interceptor explains what happened when Jensen was placed into receivership, with cars on the line being completed and sold, and various spin off companies carrying on maintenance and restoration, an interlude assembling Subarus, and then the launch of the 1980s version of the Interceptor.
The car that I owned in 2003 was what was called a Mark III Series 4. The 1980s cars were the Mark IVs.
The car that I owned in 2003 was what was called a Mark III Series 4. The 1980s cars were the Mark IVs.
Narr, I can't be bothered arguing with a know all pedant who is such a total expert on Jensen Interceptors that he didn't even know what a Federal dash was (see the other thread).
EDIT: that was too grumpy, apols, but I still think that hair splitting about different Jensen companies is hair splitting, as we are not in the Companies Court, and if Bob Cherry tells me that a car had fuel injection from new (as he did, back in 2003) then I am inclined to believe him.
EDIT: that was too grumpy, apols, but I still think that hair splitting about different Jensen companies is hair splitting, as we are not in the Companies Court, and if Bob Cherry tells me that a car had fuel injection from new (as he did, back in 2003) then I am inclined to believe him.
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 19th February 09:22
Breadvan72 said:
Narr, I can't be bothered arguing with a know all pedant who is such a total expert on Jensen Interceptors that he didn't even know what a Federal dash was (see the other thread).
Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo not enough port tonight old boy?I need ,no I demand entertaining badinage and blood spilt on the virtual carpet of PH towers
Don't mind me, I was just grumpty because I had to go to Wales yesterday. I went in my Lancia Beta, which is a fine car, but a bit too noisy and frantic for relaxed long distance trips. The carpets in my Jensen are wet enough already, but not with blood or booze, alas. It has a leak somewhere, probably at the windscreen seal.
The main Jensen company folded in 1976, and finished off and sold off the cars that were on the line when the Receiver was appointed. The tools etc were sold or scrapped, as were the main premises at West Brom. Other Jensen companies associated with Kvell Qvale and others from Jensen carried on doing bits and bobs from other sheds in West Brom, and one of these ended up re launching the Interceptor for a while in the 1980s, using a slightly smaller engine and making various other changes to the cars. Since then there have been those periodic attempts to re launch variants of the Interceptor, which attract some interest in the car press and then fade. Qvale, by the way, lived a long and interesting life and died aged 94 just last year.
I love my old Mark II, but I have been tempted recently by an early Mark III that still has the 6.3 engine (which I prefer to the 7.2 version) but also has the aircon and alloys. From memory, the Mark III/S4 car that I had a decade ago handled better than the Mark II, but it was slower and had a more gloomy interior in dull brown with rather heavy walnut on the dash. The fuel injection did not do much to improve the MPG, but that may have been partly because I used the (very good) aircon a fair bit. The Mark II has no aircon (it was a cost option at the time) and gets a bit sweaty inside on a hot day.
The main Jensen company folded in 1976, and finished off and sold off the cars that were on the line when the Receiver was appointed. The tools etc were sold or scrapped, as were the main premises at West Brom. Other Jensen companies associated with Kvell Qvale and others from Jensen carried on doing bits and bobs from other sheds in West Brom, and one of these ended up re launching the Interceptor for a while in the 1980s, using a slightly smaller engine and making various other changes to the cars. Since then there have been those periodic attempts to re launch variants of the Interceptor, which attract some interest in the car press and then fade. Qvale, by the way, lived a long and interesting life and died aged 94 just last year.
I love my old Mark II, but I have been tempted recently by an early Mark III that still has the 6.3 engine (which I prefer to the 7.2 version) but also has the aircon and alloys. From memory, the Mark III/S4 car that I had a decade ago handled better than the Mark II, but it was slower and had a more gloomy interior in dull brown with rather heavy walnut on the dash. The fuel injection did not do much to improve the MPG, but that may have been partly because I used the (very good) aircon a fair bit. The Mark II has no aircon (it was a cost option at the time) and gets a bit sweaty inside on a hot day.
Things that matter about cars:
1) Can you get the quarter light at precisely the right angle so that it sucks out your cigarette smoke but doesn't cause wind to enter and knock ash into the shag?
2) Is the boot large enough for a gents leather weekend grip, a ladies travel kit and 48 bottles of Salon fizz?
3) Does it offer enough room to give your lady companion a cheeky knee-trembler without getting something sharp stuck up your bottom (unless you want to.)
Things that don't matter about cars:
1) Old wrinkly Bert Smith made the f
king headlight fking glass out of tempered material so that they wouldn't fking break while driving on rough fking roads.
2) The company that made the fking car had quite a nasty fking law suit hanging over them after someone slipped and fked their fking knee on wet tiles in the fking gents.
3) Something small and insignificant was changed between different fking models and it's fking absolutely fking important to recognise that fact lest the fking world end.
1) Can you get the quarter light at precisely the right angle so that it sucks out your cigarette smoke but doesn't cause wind to enter and knock ash into the shag?
2) Is the boot large enough for a gents leather weekend grip, a ladies travel kit and 48 bottles of Salon fizz?
3) Does it offer enough room to give your lady companion a cheeky knee-trembler without getting something sharp stuck up your bottom (unless you want to.)
Things that don't matter about cars:
1) Old wrinkly Bert Smith made the f
king headlight fking glass out of tempered material so that they wouldn't fking break while driving on rough fking roads.2) The company that made the f
king car had quite a nasty fking law suit hanging over them after someone slipped and fked their fking knee on wet tiles in the fking gents.3) Something small and insignificant was changed between different f
king models and it's fking absolutely fking important to recognise that fact lest the fking world end.SV8Predator said:
Breadvan72 said:
and if Bob Cherry tells me that a car had fuel injection from new (as he did, back in 2003) then I am inclined to believe him.
You may think that this is being pedantic, but it didn't have fuel injection from new -- no, no, it really didn't!benjj said:
Things that matter about cars:
1) Can you get the quarter light at precisely the right angle so that it sucks out your cigarette smoke but doesn't cause wind to enter and knock ash into the shag?
2) Is the boot large enough for a gents leather weekend grip, a ladies travel kit and 48 bottles of Salon fizz?
3) Does it offer enough room to give your lady companion a cheeky knee-trembler without getting something sharp stuck up your bottom (unless you want to.)
Things that don't matter about cars:
1) Old wrinkly Bert Smith made the fking headlight fking glass out of tempered material so that they wouldn't fking break while driving on rough fking roads.
2) The company that made the fking car had quite a nasty fking law suit hanging over them after someone slipped and fked their fking knee on wet tiles in the fking gents.
3) Something small and insignificant was changed between different fking models and it's fking absolutely fking important to recognise that fact lest the fking world end.
This is basically THE BOOK OF THE CAR. 1) Can you get the quarter light at precisely the right angle so that it sucks out your cigarette smoke but doesn't cause wind to enter and knock ash into the shag?
2) Is the boot large enough for a gents leather weekend grip, a ladies travel kit and 48 bottles of Salon fizz?
3) Does it offer enough room to give your lady companion a cheeky knee-trembler without getting something sharp stuck up your bottom (unless you want to.)
Things that don't matter about cars:
1) Old wrinkly Bert Smith made the f
king headlight fking glass out of tempered material so that they wouldn't fking break while driving on rough fking roads.2) The company that made the f
king car had quite a nasty fking law suit hanging over them after someone slipped and fked their fking knee on wet tiles in the fking gents.3) Something small and insignificant was changed between different f
king models and it's fking absolutely fking important to recognise that fact lest the fking world end.Gassing Station | Classic Cars and Yesterday's Heroes | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff