JENSEN CV-8



Jensen CV-8 MK I with chrome around the lights.
These were removed on the MK II



Jensen CV-8
This car was using a ladder frame designed by Richard Jensen, and used large diameter paralell tubes.
The chassis was also originally designed by Richard Jensen, with the front lights designed by Eric Neale.
The CV-8 started using the 5,9 litre Chrysler V8-unit, with an automatic transmission.
The engine produced 305 bhp, which gave the car a maximum speed of 132 mph (212 km/h).
This drove through the Torqueflite automatic transmission, but manual transmission could be fitted.
This was the first production car in Britain to be offered with an alternor place of the dynamo.

There was also made a handful of convertibles in 1965.
The MK III-version, which came in July 1965, had differences around the front lights, a deeper windscreen, and a heated rear window, in adittion to dual-circuit brakes.

















More pictures and info is to be found at:

www.jensencv8.com

http://www.jcc.ch/cv8.htm

http://www.british-steel.org/members/cv8/ray_whitley_cv8.jpg

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-17180/Image11.jpg

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-17180/jen_gal.htm

http://members.aol.com/c1j1miller/perfcar389.html

Chassis-details of a 1965 CV-8
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The scan kindly supplied by: Han Kamp, Holland