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
http://www.british-steel.org/brochure/Road_tests/rt1.htm
http://www.jensencars.org/images/saidabrochure.jpg
"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
"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
"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
"...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.
Kjell H. Qvale, Ex-Chairman of the Board, Jensen Motors Ltd.
"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
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
http://www.british-steel.org/brochure/Road_tests/rt1.htm
http://www.jensencars.org/images/saidabrochure.jpg
"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
"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
"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
"...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.
Kjell H. Qvale, Ex-Chairman of the Board, Jensen Motors Ltd.
"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