amanico
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Facel Vega!!! Thank you, mon ami. I was sure I've seen that before but couldn't put a name on it!
Another curiosity: 1964 JENSEN CV8 MKII.
From 1964, Chrysler 8 Cylinders, 330 HP. Not the kind of cars I expected from Jensen. You? Best, Nicolas ...
Never seen this before, and would not have guessed it’s a Jensen.
Growing up there was a junkyard in the next town over that had a wrecked Jensen Interceptor visible right next to the fence. It was brown. Every time I drove by I couldn’t help but think it was a shame to see it there.
I enjoy how the lines evoke
Jensen's history as a high-end car body manufacturer: there are details reminiscent of prestigious designs of times long gone.
They came close to something exceptional.
But I agree: there is an issue with this overflowing carrosserie around the front lights, lost in vacuum and sheet metal.
Neighbors
Our next door neighbors when I was a child had a string of fascinating cars, and this was one of them, along with a Ford Galaxy 500 Convertible in red, an early Saab and a Volvo “Goddess”. Was he a car journalist? I don’t recall but I did manage to catch ...
This was the car…
…that ‘made’ Jensen (Classic Car magazine has just published a retrospective of the three model series). All fibreglass body. Serious grunt! And any Frenchman wondering about the front end needs to remember the Facel Vega. 😀 What’s not to love? Cheers, pp...