Salvage Hunters : Classic Cars at JD Classics with the 'Jensen Interceptor' 

The coolest name of any car ever!

In the mid seventies, I worked as a petrol pump attendant during the school holidays. It was a warm summer’s evening when a dandy looking chap pulled up in an orange Interceptor. “Fill her up ol’ boy and check the oil” he says. After filling both tanks, which seemed to take forever, I lifted the bonnet to be met with an enormous blast of heat. I remember tentatively reaching for the dipstick and feeling pretty scared as my hand got alarmingly hotter and hotter. I think the oil was ok but it all became a bit of a blur really. Quite an experience for a fourteen year old - it’s not often you get asked to check the oil in a traffic hot Jensen !

Fantastic exhibition of traditional craftsmanship, and great commitment by Drew and Paul to the project.

Great car, great restauration! Only one (small!) criticism: the BLACK windscreen wiper blades! They Must BE chrome! Love that car! Best regards from Switzerland

That was the best resto program I’ve seen, it’s a shame you didn’t turn a profit but the skills of everyone involved is astounding , true British Craftsmen and Craftswomen. I loved the state of the art facility in the garden shed :)

Mega Cool Episode, mehr davon bittttttttteeee😘😘😘😘😘super. Wundervoll wenn in neuem Glanz erstrahlen. Da schlägt das Herz höher. 👏👏👏👏

One of the last designs from Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera in Milan, carried out just before Touring closed down, that's why the prototypes were built by Vignale in Turin to Touring's design but without the Superleggera construction of beaten aluminium over a tubular frame like Touring's Aston Martin DB4 and many others.

My dad had one just before the fuel crisis in the 70's. He told my mum it was only a 2 litre or she would have killed him. It was a fantastic car but when he retired he had a Triumph 2000 Mk2.

Great show. Wish it was on in the US

I would like to have seen more of this epic restoration, chassis, engine, suspension and so on. Eye watering good looks and presence. What a steal!!

i remember my dad coming home in one of these when his own car broke down. his friend Peter lent him his. lovely motors.

The production company pay what the people are asking. There is no haggling with Drew what`s his name. A friend works for the production company and has to be confidential, but knows i wouldn`t blab.

British craftmanship? Very crafty indeed. This was my dream car, along with an Aston, when a teenager.

Worth the money for a splendid restoration & save a very special car. 🙏😎

A real good automotive adventure from the Salvage Hunters, but don't worry, with the TV show they must have made back their investment.

Wow! What a great bargain the new owner got. It's a shame Drew or Paul couldn't get to keep it after so much work and having it for so long, but I guess they had to recoup and fund future projects for the series

Absolutely amazing job. Throughout the whole episode I was thinking that you were going to make a loss on it, and I just thought please don't think about the money. Given the rarity and the cars provinance, it's history, I felt this was a car that needed to be restored and preserved at cost. I know it's a business at the end of the day, but I'm glad you treated this car the way you did, and restored it to perfection. What you achieved is outstanding and credit where credit is due. The right decisions, the right attitude, and the result an absolutely fantastic classic Jensen that you can both be proper proud of. Great achievement fellas 🚗🚗🚗

the craftsmen they used are amazing. good job chaps.

he says we saved it but they just gave it to someone else to do all the work ! apart from taking the gear knob to that bloke

There is very nice color ! I just think that was very good investment for the new owner!

My neighbor had one with a drawbar on it! Lol Used it to pull his power boats to races

So they had 70k+ into it and after 4 years sold it for 51k. Great success!

What a fabulous car, and with that magnificent Chrysler V8. So impressive. Just love it.

What a car! There's a 20 second clip starting at 22:19 that I'd love to use on my employer's social media please? I work for the company who make those safety gloves and that specific section literally looks like a glove promo video we'd try to shoot.

What a beautiful car. At least they're honest with their loss.

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Fantastic, well done

Wonderful restoration. That Jensen looks absolutely stunning.

Who would change it from thst gorgeous blue to a boring white???

It’s beautiful all ways want one

The seller looks like former WWE wrestler Hulk Hogan. 😆

🤣🤣🤣🤣 they lost their shirt on that one

Hi guys!Its just unbelievable! That is really super car with History

black wipers ???

Wow they did a good job. Great craftmanship

Really enjoyed that well done shows real enthusiasm the buyer got a bargain in the end.

Well some you win some you lose, as we all know classic car prices go up and down constantly. This one might of put you both out of pocket by quite a margin, but at the end of the day you've saved a bit of British motoring history, also l think everyone would agree it could'nt of been restored any better by anyone else so well done for deciding to go ahead with the complete restoration. Though why you would buy a car for over 20 grand known for rusting without putting a trolly jack under it to have a look at the underside, or even going over the bodywork with a magnet is beyond me. One other gripe why did Jenson build such a fantastic looking interia only to fit a hideous steering wheel?

Think dru the big spender should stick to retro antiques

The mirrors don't look right?

My first car in 1975 was a 57 Jaguar xk140 that I bought for US$2700. It burned oil and had a faulty leaf spring, but such a beautiful car. I sold it for $3000 when I went to college. It's worth $50K or more now. Unbelievable.

It's worth double what they sold it for now

Does anyone know the contact details - business name - for the glass polisher, Mike Smith?

This car would have sold for alot more at a classic car auction in the u.s.a.

How about a pint mate and it’s a deal!

I don't know about the chassis, but Astons must surely command higher prices because the body panels are all unrustable, hand beaten aluminium. A gent in my home town had a mk3 Interceptor, in a lighter colour blue but he's 'only' got two Bentleys and his late dad's XJ6 now. Maybe the Jensen needed too much restoration to be viable.

jensens restorations can cost thousands if rotton condition so have the biggest pockets of cash They are hard cars to value because people want to pay so little they defentley not a porshe 911

Can some fellow anorak explain to me why the other 3 Jensens have their wipers parked to the right, but Drew's car has it's wipers parked to the left. All 4 cars are RHD

I had an interceptor briefly in the late 80s, what a pile of junk. Massive engine guzzled fuel like crazy but couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding. God knows what it weighed but it was like driving a barge. My subsequent mk2 jag could run rings around it

Wheeler Dealers reinvented with a Bald Head ... I must admit Mikes Pit Pat was tiresome ...

I want it.

My original employer from 1966 through to the late 80's owned while I worked for him a Jenson FF in believe it or not LIME GREEN, I wonder if that car is still around, it was very unusual not just the colour but Four Wheel Drive back then was only for Jeeps and Land Rovers, If you know of any LIME GREEN Jenson Interceptor FF STILL AROUND PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

Enjoy these shows, didn't show the engine at all, wonder what was needed

Yeah total liARS

HD my back-end.... 🤔

I'd have held it , selling at a 20k loss no way .

The rattle of the driver's door shutting at 4:33 told the story😢

Strip the engine and find out what happened If it needs new pistons and shells and timing chain with gaskets must be cheaper than buying a second hand engine.

Really don't feel that drew is a car restorer but more like an opportunist, Think he should have stuck to antiques where he's a real expert.

so sorry, to hear they took a 20k pound loss on it, can't imagine, not putting it up on a lift, before buying it.

Still shows as a white car on the MOT gov checker

What's the old adage, something along the lines of a fool and his money.....

I wouldn't have thought that they would have taken on a Jensen. And so I was proven right, they made a loss.

what a nice bloke ! please, please, please someone who knows him tell him about his hair

This was just before JD Classics went bankrupt?

Looked better in white.

Big V8s do no need to sound like a tank.

Lost money on car made lots on video 😅

At 1min32... The TR4A they ruined.

Cheap looking wipers and set backwards to where they started and the opposite way around to the others on display. I would have expected a rotisserie restoration after having the bare shell sandblasted. That's a big loss at the end.

I will bet they lost much more than £20k on it. I gave up watching their series after discovering that they routinely lied about the price they paid and sold for. But the point is that in none of those shows did they account for the labour - just the purchase price and parts. Watch the shows and go and find out how much they actually paid for the cars and how much they sold them for - big, big difference to what they say on the show.

I’ll watch this despite the existence of Drew Pritchard in it.

All of that money and all of that effort and they stick crappy black modern wiper blades on it FFS 🤔

I would NEVER have it sold for such a cheap price!! I’d have waited to find buyers that would want it so bad, there’d be a bidding war, making the car go so much over asking price, I’d walk out with a huge profit. The way he let that beautiful classic car go for so cheap…I’m upset, shaking my head in disbelief. I’d want to say to him “What the bloody hell were you thinking, taking such a low bid?? That’s incredibly stupid, dude!! Don’t be the one selling any more cars you restore! Have someone else, who would make a profit do it instead! You’re not allowed on the sales floor!! Here’s a bucket and mop! Go polish the floor. It’s what you’re most good at…”

I hate to say it but Drew made a right twat! of himself, at the end when they go to see the other Jensen interceptors he's bragging about how "I bet they're saying OH look the press cars is coming" lol unfortunately, his is just a demonstrator, and the real press car is actually there plus a car that belong to Eric Morecambe. that combined with the fact he lost his shirt, is not a good look, maybe a little humility next time

They lost 20K on the sale price but made that up easily on the TV royalties By the time the video was syndicated around the world they would have made hundreds of thousands. So I read ,Drew gets about £75000 Plus each time a Salvage Hunters Programme is repeated , so i, guessing the same applies to Restoring Classics. Good luck to him I say. Very entertaining and such a nice bloke

Cars like this get bodged and painted and painted and painted until one day the black underseal hides a multitude of sins if u ever see that crap on a car run 🏃‍♂️

I bought and sold/exported 1000 cars and trucks. Also to the UK. This series is absolutely BS. Same as the other car program, they never ever add up all the costs like labor etc. Plus this guy buys really crummy cars anyway. He should stick to furniture and other crap

Dunkin' ripped off for 10000 that said that car looked special from the start

Takeing the world by storm and everything is so cool all gone to his head lost a load of money big hit wheres drew at the end too embarrassed poor paul see it all before same cars as wheeler dealers programme gone off that as well big head brewer car sos is the one for me they have a laugh don’t take it to seriously and totally rebuild the car

Takeing the car world by storm copying wheeler dealers same cars they did years ago and loseing a lot of money waste off time He knows nothing he keeps telling us everything is so cool soon disappeared at end of programme when they lost all that money cool man car sos is the top show to watch these days

now put body filler over the lead it just an old way of doing the job takes extra time and money but with no benefit ,iv been a panel beater for 56 years

"it's a Playboy's motor"? Never! It's a gentlemen's car. But horrible in this gaudy white. It should be bluish silver or gunmetal. 80K is a steal, 51K is a ripoff. If I had the money I'd happily pay that.

39:58 Car for girls like fiat 500.

I know it's only a TV show, but this is insulting our intelligence. Why would a guy who can afford a brand new Bentley sell a rare car? Why would a classic car dealer not have the car inspected? Put it up on a ramp. Check the history. How many miles? How many owners? This is drivel.

Whos the one with the car knowledge prichard or cowling, i thought it was cowling but the way prichard goes on you'd think he was the expert must annoy the fuck out of cowling why the fuck hes on the show.

No wonder Drew’s wife got rid of… arrogant person

What a clown, he thinks that a car that’s had the guts raked out of it by motoring journalists is going to be worth more. He makes the worst sciolist look really knowledgeable.

Abysmal video quality. What on earth? I had cell phones 20 years ago with better video

Is that really that rough chap from Eastenders? Has he given up acting?

It looked so much better in white.