Look at the irreplaceable glass on this 1974 Jensen Interceptor III. Just look at it! Dennis found this rare ride at the Lake Mirror Classic in Lakeland, Florida. #car #carlover #cars #carcollector
Oh gawd.... I think he's the opposite! The annoyingly overly enthusiastic type, that seems to crop up on some Murrrcan car channels. In this vid, the speaker is less media savvy, so Dennis interrupts him numerous times. He also changes his line of observations and questions, on multiple occasions. Tedious stuff. 🙄
Im a Brit too My neighbour across the road has one. My uncle has one. They both have had them from new. There is at least another in town that I see during the summer.
Rear glass is about £750 new from a UK producer; Pilkington Glass Classic Car Code: 9118. The real problem would be shipping and ensuring it is well protected to make the journey.
Awesome! I forgot about Pilkington and that's great that they'll do this. When I bought used Porsche 911 Targa glass I always had to use a wood crate as cardboard wouldn't protect the heavy, curved glass. I actually sent a crate to one seller to help him ship it.
@GeeKIller Used to be a guy nr me in Sheffield UK who broke those cars, he had heaps of these rear screen behind a container & the were fetching Nothing in Price.😢😢, dont know why really, the Jensen interceptor is not held in high in the british classic car market. I owned one early 80's for a few years, I have since had few brand new BMW's (top of the range), give me an Interceptor MK2 anytime. Just My opinion
I've heard that this was the first roadcar to have ABS. I love how this guy isn't afraid to drive and use the car (how he closed the hood caught my immediate attention)
@@kevbrand8824 Hood springs rusted out? It shouldn't be able to do that, damn thing might paralyze you if you got your head under the hood and it just slams down from a gust of wind. Those hoods are heavy as frick, keep a stick with you to prop it up.
I seem to recall hearing (possibly on Jay Leno's channel) that after Jensen shut down somebody found/rescued all of the manufactring information for every car Jensen ever built. I guess an owner can contact whoever has that info and get every iota of information about their car's construction
@@ben_jam Not in our Country, you can buy them daily., they are no big deal. I chopped it up for the running gear and sold the rolling shell for £250, I have all sorts of vgc cond "Jensen" parts"....wonder how much the dopes would pay for them?, I know the lunatics pay something like £8K to get 450hp..lmao, i can do it for £1500, daft as brushes.
It was indeed but wasn't a great success and only around 300 were made. The 4WD was made by Ferguson and it also featured anti-lock breaking. The 4WD Jensen FF was never sold in the US.
The FF was four wheel drive ... you can tell an FF because it has two vents just behind each front wheel arch; whereas you can see only one on the interceptor. PS I used to see an FF very often on my way to school in 1960s UK. The performance and roadholding was exceptional from the outside ... must have been amazing to be driver or passenger!
Pretty neat, I think I saw this one before cuz I think it's also the only one I've seen cuz. In the 90's, I had a bud that put a 440 in his Datsun 280Z and mounted the exhaust manifolds upside down to exit through the fenderwells to sidepipes. Crusing by us downtown, he laid a patch about 200 feet long with just 2 little lovetaps on the gas!
I'm 58yo. And I've never seen or heard of Jensen car in my life and I've rebuilt litterery hundreds of dodge 727. Automatic transmissions AND thousands of other automatics I'm a mechanic over 45 years that's one impressive machine 👍
Great little video I am from UK and they where built in West Bromwich 8 miles from me. The Gen 1 440 had only 325hp I think. It is not same 440 seen in say a Charger. Rumours of 2 Hemi's built on special order
In the 1980s, there was an eccentric old bloke who collected junk in Newtown, Sydney. He owned a Jensen Interceptor, the same as that one which he used as a ute/pickup, dents all over it and roof racks welded to the roof, just some old rusty steel angle, badly welded directly to the top. You'd see him with the hatch open and bits of old timber or pipe stuck in the back, or longer pieces on the racks. I think he had removed all seats bar the drivers, and fill the inside with random junk. Even then, I thought it was terrible to see an Interceptor treated like that, but it was his car.
I remember a Jenson Dealer in Montana in 1974. They had a number of Interceptor III's on their lot....I was in love with them. The 440 Dodge V-8 was a good match!
You find that English cars are slim due to a lot of country roads are narrow And fun fact Richard Hammond from Top Gear / Grand Tour his grand father ( mothers father ) was a inspector on the Jenson factory
There are so many car windows like this. The 'official' advice for somebody looking at buying a Reatta with a broken window: Don't. The 1965 Barracuda rear glass, 1971 Riviera rear window. So many others.
Jenson Motors started in 1934. They were involved with Ford and over the years used a Nash straight 8, a Lincoln V12 and of course the Chrysler V8. Assembled in my old hometown. I had a cousin who worked as a secretary in the offices, the factory was in the next street to her home. My Aunt still lives in the same house. The 440ci gave a 0-60 of about 6.9 seconds and a top speed of about 145mph. Not too bad for a big old bus. They were pretty expensive cars. Early Interceptors used to cost £3,700 when at the same time an Aston DB6 cost £5,000 and an E-Type Jag cost just £2,100 !! By '74, the Mark III cost £7,100 which was still £1,500 less than a BMW 3.0CSi and £2,500 less than a V8 Aston. I believe they are being made again. Modern everything under the skin but they look identical.
@@SavageBunny1 I owned a Jensen in the early 80's , they pissed all over the Etype. A very underestimated car in my opinion , I would take one over an Aston anyday. A Good one is an amazing car. Easy to work on Also, (Except for that No 8 spark plug, remove wheel to get to it.) Still I love them
A friend of mine had one of these. It was purple. He used to boot it along the country lanes of mid Wales. We went fly fishing together. An hour or so of mayhem and terror, followed by a few hours of peace and tranquility, then more mayhem and terror. Happy Days! The body was designed by Carrozzeria Touring in Milan, built in West Bromwich, and powered by Chrysler. The advert at the time was "supersonic velvet".
I used to live in Wolverhampton and, when taking the train to Birmingham, passed the Jensen plant in West Bromwich. Their yard was packed with lovely Jensens. My favourite was the FF [ having the Formula Ferguson four wheel drive]. The FF also had the Dunlop Maxeret anti-skid braking system. It looked very much like the Interceptor shown in this video, BUT was distinguished by having TWO vents on the front side panels. Bodywork for the video Jensen and the FF was by Bertone of good old Italy. Probably the FF remains my favourite car ever, but I never had the £ stg nor $ US to acquire one....I guess I am not alone. I love the bodywork colour of the particular car in this video. Thank you amigo.
I remember seeing one of these on our road where I grew up in the 1970s on a council estate, it was so out of place, amongst ford escort mk 1, cortinas, morris mariners, Renault 4 models typical of that era. It looked very exotic, very expensive and ultra rare, I appreciated it's design, the curves, sporty look and V8 sound on the very rare occasions I saw it driving around. That curved rear window gave it a very distinctive, unique look that set it apart.
That's exactly my memory of the first time I saw one. I was on my bicycle doing my paper round (I used to pick the papers up from a house on a council estate and cycle back to the posh side of town). On the way, one of these went overtook me and to this day I remember the 'thump-thump' of the V8. It must have had such incredible torque because I swear it was accellerating but the engine tone didn't change. Apart from the Rover and Triumph Stag, V8s were very uncommon in the UK. Maybe that Jensen was the reason I bought a Triumph Stag about 20 years later.
@@horsenuts1831 To be fair it looked like a spaceship compared to other vehicles of that era, just the name alone was like something out of a 1970s animated puppet sci-fi show! That v8 throaty thump and roar when it took off was very distinctive and turned heads, like you say a v8 was almost unheard of back then. I was always fascinated by anything that had more than one exhaust pipe! Riding past it on my module 3 Raleigh 3 speed sturmy archer grared bike I was in awe and dreamed of one day owning one...never happened though! Closest I got was a Daimler v8 250 another classic car from that era much like a mk2 jag but much more refined. 👍
I know two people who owned one of these magnificent car. When everyone was purchasing the so called norm, they set themselves apart from the crowd. Amazing vehicle. (I’m from the UK)
i'm new to this channel, but this guy Dennis is a gem! wow, i love his equal parts enthusiasm for a car, and deep deep knowledge that comes off so casually!
British motors were essentially crap. Sure, most of their issues were electrical, but you really weren’t going to get great performance out of them, especially once they all became a part of British Leyland. It was common for manufacturers to put American engines in vehicles. Once Carol Shelby demonstrated what a ford motor in an AC cobra would do, people figured that was the way to go. As a Triumph owner who still has a Standard Triumph in-line 6 in my GT6, I am being pretty honest with you. The only reason my car still has the original engine is because it can’t even drive long enough to crap out. Something else ends up breaking before the motor can.
Also available was the interceptor F.F. (Ferguson formula ) which was 4 wheel drive and one of the first in the world, marketed as the Aston Martin V8 competitor..
This is a machine that hails from my old home town of West Bromwich UK. I remember an old high school acquaintance who became a mechanic at the factory. Testing these powerful machines on the local roads. The left hand drive were particularly hard to handel on the uk roads. Try passing a bus :o) It is a thing of Beauty.
I used to see them a lot, but then as a child in the 'sixties & 'seventies I lived in Coventry (Jag, Triumph, Sunbeam, Alvis etc), not far from the factory in West Bromwich. However, I had no idea what they were until the 'eighties. when they were no longer made. That rear end is so distinctive that you cannot mistake them for anything else. There was a four-wheel drive version which was slightly longer up front; even rarer.
One more thing,... My first car was a 1958 Hillman ‘Minx’ Convertible. It wasn’t assembled by hand, But, ‘It was quite a car’. (I thought of it as my ‘Little iron tank’.), I would love to have another, today. (Just great on gas.). A very simple car.
what a beautiful sight to see the Jensen and having worked on them for years in a Jensen dealership in U K it was a pleasure taking them for test runs on the A40-m40 motorway 😊in bucks
My father was a car salesman in Richmond, Va. He worked at a dealership that sold British cars: MG, Triumph, Rover, Aston Martin, Bentley, Rolls Royce and Jensen, among others. He used to talk about Jensen customers who would buy an Interceptor and take it out on the Interstate for a trip. They often got tickets. The cars were very stable at speed and more powerful than their new owners realized.
I remember the Jensen Interceptor well, one of our neighbours had one here in Western Australia & its the only one i recall seeing back then. My father had a Mustang hardtop at the time, he loved American Iron.
The Interceptor was RWD... only the FF was AWD. Easy to spot from the side - the FF had 2 sets of louvers behind the front wheels instead of 1. Only about 320 of the FFs ever made.
Als kleiner Bub hatte ich in meiner meiner Kiste mit den Matchbox-Autos einige Favoriten. Und Autos wie das oben gezeigte zu meinen Favoriten. Zwar hatte ich nie so einen Jensen Interceptor, aber ich hatte einen Iso Grifo und der sah diesem ziemlich ähnlich. Einfach wunderschön!
I love the title*. I remember that in the mid 1970's, (in the UK), a local solicitor had one of these very expensive cars and would park it prominently with the hugely impressive rear window on display in a public car park close to the bank where I worked. Ironically his name was Mr WINDOWS*.
I was driven in one of these for less than a Mile :( I wanted more :) While I was working at a very dangerous car garage in the UK but the car left a lasting impression and the curved glass was amazing :) I would love this car then and even more so now :)
