I used to walk from Faygate Station (10 trains a day) to the wonderful Frog & Nightgown pub. The footpath behind the station passed through a combinated woodyard and scrapyard that had 19 Interceptors, although if you count unrusted iron there was barely one Interceptor. It's fancy houses now, which are less well built than a Jensen. Anyone remember the yard?
"Looking back I should have kept it" says Cliff Richard. Having owned many cars which today are highly prized and very valuable but were not back then, I do understand - with regret! I recall spending a day phoning around car dealers looking for a used Jag XK150 in around 1964. One sales manager said, "No I don't have anything like that, thank God!" And today, right now, which cars would fit into that category of worth preserving and keeping, 30,40 years in the future? Are there any?
+weskitten Never had a 180B, but had a brand new 200B GX for a year and hated it - worst car I ever had. Whined, things fell off it (door handles, brake lever, buttons), air cond never worked properly, and it handled like a pig.
Mine was a 4 dr sedan with the 2 litre motor. It wasn't particularly sporty. I bought it brand new in (I think) 1980, and sold it when it had done 10,000 klms. No rust but it was new.
Mark Dignam Isn't it awful that we're discussing shitters like Datsun 200Bs on a clip about Jensens? I paid too much for a 200B used. It was a 1980. There was a sports model, the GX was the "luxury" one, the GL the base. Mine had velour trim etc, but it was thirsty, not fuel injected. It had rust around the left rear lights. Rust weakens a car, makes it good to die in. Bought a Daihatsu in 2002, new, made in Japan (not Aussie made mock Jap) and it's been completely reliable. I'd buy a Nissan today. I've forgiven them!
Oh well. The two brands I'd tended to avoid have been Nissan (then Datsun) and Ford - I had two lemons in a 1977 Escort 1600 (new) and a 4.1L Cortina (second hand, circa 1973). These days I just have a Toyota. In Australia, I did know someone who had a 440 Interceptor, and they had a love-hate relationship with it. Great car with a few flaws.
50 years old this year and still looks amazing!
A Jensen never break down. Best car ever built.
One of the most JAW-DROPPING cars of all time. Wonderful.
Many thanks for uploading. As a West Bromwich lad, I used to watch these being made!
Jensen should stay in the 70's, Shape and look very much of a time gone by. I really really want an old one.
Thanks for uploading
The convertible OWK happens to be mine😊
I used to walk from Faygate Station (10 trains a day) to the wonderful Frog & Nightgown pub. The footpath behind the station passed through a combinated woodyard and scrapyard that had 19 Interceptors, although if you count unrusted iron there was barely one Interceptor. It's fancy houses now, which are less well built than a Jensen. Anyone remember the yard?
"Looking back I should have kept it" says Cliff Richard. Having owned many cars which today are highly prized and very valuable but were not back then, I do understand - with regret!
I recall spending a day phoning around car dealers looking for a used Jag XK150 in around 1964. One sales manager said, "No I don't have anything like that, thank God!"
And today, right now, which cars would fit into that category of worth preserving and keeping, 30,40 years in the future?
Are there any?
Cynic.
The song is "Walk of Life" by Dire Straits
They did rust a bit though , having said that I’d have one today if the price was right
2:15 Sounds a little like the Studebaker Avanti; people just keep bringing it back.
If Cliffy's Jensen died on a roundabout, it sounds little better than an old Datsun 180B- the car that stalled when you went around a corner!
+weskitten
Never had a 180B, but had a brand new 200B GX for a year and hated it - worst car I ever had. Whined, things fell off it (door handles, brake lever, buttons), air cond never worked properly, and it handled like a pig.
Mark Dignam the "sporty" 200B? I had a 200B and it was a rust bucket.
Mine was a 4 dr sedan with the 2 litre motor. It wasn't particularly sporty. I bought it brand new in (I think) 1980, and sold it when it had done 10,000 klms. No rust but it was new.
Mark Dignam Isn't it awful that we're discussing shitters like Datsun 200Bs on a clip about Jensens? I paid too much for a 200B used. It was a 1980. There was a sports model, the GX was the "luxury" one, the GL the base. Mine had velour trim etc, but it was thirsty, not fuel injected. It had rust around the left rear lights. Rust weakens a car, makes it good to die in. Bought a Daihatsu in 2002, new, made in Japan (not Aussie made mock Jap) and it's been completely reliable. I'd buy a Nissan today. I've forgiven them!
Oh well. The two brands I'd tended to avoid have been Nissan (then Datsun) and Ford - I had two lemons in a 1977 Escort 1600 (new) and a 4.1L Cortina (second hand, circa 1973). These days I just have a Toyota.
In Australia, I did know someone who had a 440 Interceptor, and they had a love-hate relationship with it. Great car with a few flaws.
could you tell me what song plays from around 3:05 onwards please?
thomasjacklin bit late now, but the song is Walk Of Life by Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler.
The british government should have helped out the company, Jensen made the kind of quality that just is not seen any more.
What's the song in 3:08?
Matan Egozi Dire Straits: Walk of life.
A British car from the 60s and not a single person complaining about reliability issues! How odd is that?
I drive a full restored 1991 MB 300SE. The last one ever built
Did creepy Cliff Richard really say he wanted something macho???