Jensen Interceptor

[Ron240]

only the ones numbered 1 to 45

How long did it take you to check and double check that there wasn't a 46?

Have to say that considering all the talk and apparent apprecation for this beautiful machine, I am very surprised that I am still currently the only person to have liked the photos.

 

[Flyinspanner]

I’ve always loved them *swoons*

 

[tjamesbo]

I’ve always loved them *swoons*

They still look good today styling wise nothing looks wrong ( e types were good but the wheels were too far inboard which spoils them ) the jensen is pretty near perfect

 

[davidsl500]

I went to grammar school in the early to mid 70's in Oldbury only a few miles from the factory in West Brom and when I was walking to school on a Friday morning there was the sound of thunder from around 1/2 a mile away gradually getting closer and then 3 Interceptors on trade plates in convoy would rumble past. The noise would make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and send a shiver down my spine. I was a petrol head from an early age but that sound just reinforced it for me..

Then in the late 70's I started working for Mintex and we used to supply the Jensen factory and parts dept. with Brake Pads as OEM...

 

[A.J.]

They still look good today styling wise nothing looks wrong ( e types were good but the wheels were too far inboard which spoils them ) the jensen is pretty near perfect

I agree with you regarding the 'E' Type. They did address that with the V12 though and that was a far nicer looking car in my view.

 

[rorywquin]

Back in the early 70s (South Africa) a guy who owned an engineering business around the corner from where I worked, had a Jensen interceptor. I stopped there many times to drool at the car and one day he came out and took me for a drive.....never forgotten it & always loved them.

If I had the $$$ there would be one in my collection next to an E-type & MB SL of that era.

 

[A.J.]

Back in the early 70s (South Africa) a guy who owned an engineering business around the corner from where I worked, had a Jensen interceptor. I stopped there many times to drool at the car and one day he came out and took me for a drive.....never forgotten it & always loved them.

If I had the $$$ there would be one in my collection next to an E-type & MB SL of that era.

This is a friends 'E' type which he bought in California and converted it to RHD. The picture is of him doing the conversion. It is absolutely like new and he loves it. A big improvement over his previous pretend AC Cobra

 

[VARINDER SEHDEVA]

This was mine for about 12 years. A labour of love. Sold it because just wasn't driving as much as I should have . Recovering from some health issues. Very fond memories. Rebuilt everything except the fuel tank and the rear diff. 552bhp and 560 lbs ft

 

[rorywquin]

This was mine for about 12 years. A labour of love. Sold it because just wasn't driving as much as I should have . Recovering from some health issues. Very fond memories. Rebuilt everything except the fuel tank and the rear diff. 552bhp and 560 lbs ft

Still a stylish looking car ....

 

[rorywquin]

This is a friends 'E' type which he bought in California and converted it to RHD. The picture is of him doing the conversion. It is absolutely like new and he loves it. A big improvement over his previous pretend AC Cobra

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I’d love one of those lifts for carwash time.

 

[Bubble]

My mates dad had an Interceptor when I was about 14. It was the first time that I had been over 130 mph in a car. So much faster than my dad's Cortina Mk3 1.6 auto

 

[Snake Charmer]

View attachment 69244 View attachment 69245 View attachment 69246 parked in front of me in Banbury Aldi today , looked completely original , even had the obligatory oil leak, no obvious rust though . My dad had one when I was about 10 , a very very long time ago.
Large dollops of respect to whoever is keeping this beauty on the road

Interceptor III J Series. Mine was HOV 300L. @VARINDER SEHDEVA I remember you building the car and we met at the Unwanted Heat Christmas Party. (Wallace.)

 

[Paul Garrett]

Jenson was an amazing car would have loved to have owned one if i had the money, but at least there is a firm nowadays that have all the blueprints and tooling machines to make the body panels and other items to keep these beauties on the road, i know my late Dad would have drooled at having one but he spent too much time in the bookies losing money! Ha!

 

[Snake Charmer]

The sills had to be perfect as they held the reserve vacuum for the brake servo..... My father had the predecessor - the CV8, He bought a 4 year old one back in 1968 ish for about £1200. Brilliant car but some thought them ugly..

I'm not being pedantic, the CV8 and Interceptor used the chassis tubes as a vacuum reservoir and they tend to rot at the rear where there is a dirt trap. Another problem can be people drilling holes for P clips!

Do you know the registration of your Father's CV8 or better still the chassis number? I can ask if the car has survived.

 

[Frontstep]

are they the panels that rot .... ?

The Mercedes Interuster

 

[Snake Charmer]

Interceptors do seem to dissolve before your eyes, mine did and a CV8 I replaced a lot of metal on wasn't much better.
Brave is the person who uses the factory jacking point!

 

[Frontstep]

I forgot to mention the Interusters 30 year warranty it rebuilt mine ...............................

 

[davidsl500]

Do you know the registration of your Father's CV8 or better still the chassis number? I can ask if the car has survived.

Unfortunately it didn't survive. It was T-boned, luckily, on the empty passenger side when my father was driving home one evening when a drunk driver drove straight out of a side road. Fortunately, 2 cars back was a panda car and the officers saw it happen. My father was sat on a wall waiting for the recovery truck and the police were interviewing the drunk driver in the panda when a transit driver, rubber necking the drunks wrecked car one side of the road, ran straight into the front of the CV8.... That was the final straw. When I got there the CV8 was a total wreck and being dragged onto the back of the transporter. I wondered how my father had got out alive until the police officer told me about the Transit hitting it after he was out ... Still, he had a good 9 years of fun with it.

 

[Snake Charmer]

A lucky escape and an unusual story, do you remember the registration number? I can contact the CV8 Registrar and see what information he has. It would make an interesting article for the JOC magazine.

Mike.

 

[davidsl500]

A lucky escape and an unusual story, do you remember the registration number? I can contact the CV8 Registrar and see what information he has. It would make an interesting article for the JOC magazine.

Mike.

I can't remember the reg number - it was a little while ago! I know he bought it from All Electric Garages in Harborne, Birmingham. I see the company are still going today! I remember taking a couple of pics of it the next day at the yard it had been recovered to - with a Polaroid instant camera. I don't know what he did with them. He didn't see the full carnage after the transit hit it as the ambulance arrived shortly afterwards and carted him off to hospital for a check over.