What's nice about this video is the mix of images of the cars that are original, and updated. You get to see some of the final cars with upgraded air dams (several versions), wheels, interiors, even the original HEA 1D car. Love the famous owners, original PR clips, and Lord Carrington's comments - very cheeky !
I had an Interceptor III in 75-76. It was a fabulous car and I drove it for thousands of miles, but for some never-discovered reason it would keep overheating.
Bit of poetic license with the boxing footage showing Henry decking Ali/Clay, it wasnt in their 66 bout Henry droppped Clay in 63 before Clay won the title and before the Interceptor was made.
Hilarious hearing the Brits talk about aircon, automatic transmissions, and V8s ehen the Americans had been doing them for the average buyer for decades. The Aussies had also been using V8s in the sixties with great racing success.
7:40 "product placement" must have been around for a while, I suspect a long while, but that time. It was routine for TV show credits to include things like "Cars provided by Ford Motor Company".
UGH, I just really wished the guy would just shut up from 2:27 to 3:07 just so I could hear the Beach Boys while watching the absolute beauty that is the Jensen Interceptor on the move, just how am I supposed to do that if he just keeps yapping about information that we don't really care about??? XD
The Jensen Interceptor. What more can anyone say. Well for me, it has to be one of the worst classic cars for rusting; I've heard they rust like buggery. Also, they've got to be incredibly expensive to run even just on weekend runs with that whopping engine; who could afford to run a 7 litre engine?, Lord Carrington yes, but Joe average working 9-5 paying the bills, earning £250pw certainly not. Why the need to stick in such a large engine for?. And we have the styling, or lack of rather, with that ridiculous oversized rear window. I think there were far better Jensen's than the Interceptor.
My grandads old neighbour years ago had an Jensen Interceptor. From what my granddad said a few weird things happened with it. Got involved in several strange accidents/bumps. No idea if its still on the road now though.