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 !
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.
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.
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.
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 !
The Jensen interceptor and the Rover P5B are my favorite British-made cars, by a whole bunch....fantastic vehicles....
Want to buy one?
It was my favourite car as a kid, and half a century on, I believe it's the most beautiful car of all time.
The Jensen Interceptor is TOTALLY Fantastic
Agree. I'm amazed it not still around.
An Anglo-Italo-American beauty
A bloke down the road had an orange one when I was a kid. It was gorgeous. My mum's dream car.
Lovely bit of kit if you could afford it! No-one makes cars like that any more!!
back when business men, investors, actually felt shame & sadness going bust, now ppl buy firms just to asset strip them
What a cool guy Henry Cooper was
Gorgeous looking car..... always was.
Man, how I would love to get my hands on that damaged Jensen at the end of the video - well worth restoring these days, 25 years later!
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.
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.
A mix between a Reliant Scimitar and a futerized Aston Martin.
I would definitely have one of those!
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.
The Lord himself drives round the roads of paradise in an interceptor
What happened to Jensen? I'm sure I saw an episode of top Gear which showed their factory as a derelict shell.
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".
That rear window was enough on its own.
And the convertible shown resides in NZ
As they say in Australia: if you break the rear glass hatch, it'll cost you five thousand. Maybe more.
I only have the Jensen episode.
I suspect our 'enry would have made a better investment decision if he had gone for an Aston, especially a DB5!
Cliff Richard drove an interceptor , the guy is a total killjoy. Maybe he destroyed their image.That's why they went bankrupt.
Ha ha.
Porsche copied this with the 928
WORST PORSCHE EVER
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
Cliff was one of the Kray' bum boys
The car seemed cool until Cliff started talking about it. I wonder how many kids he could get in there?
craP
Used to like the Interceptor. Now I realise that Cliff 'insufficient evident to ensure prosecution' Richard had one I am totally put off!
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.
The grand old days, when EVERYONE in UK car factories was WHITE AND BRITISH.... and... BRING BACK BRISTOL!
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.