I owned a 1973 Jensen Interceptor III for about 12 years. It was beautiful to look at, wonderful to sit in, and it sounded wonderful with its low pitched muted V8 burble. It was for its time, ridiculously quick.It also handled surprisingly well for such a heavy car, though the live rear axle made it skip around on bumpy roads a bit. Mine was at the time, according to Richard Calver, who wrote a book on the Jensen Interceptor, the best Interceptor in Australia. The downsides were its ridiculously high fuel consumption, around 11 miles to the gallon, whatever that is in litres/100 km. It was somewhat better out on the highway, but it certainly needed its 20 gallon/93 litre fuel tank. And I might add, it took forever to fill it. The fuel filler neck must have had quite a circuitous route, and the bowser would continually click off. It also got very warm in the cabin after driving for a while, despite copious amounts of (factory installed) insulation. Eventually the air conditioning got overwhelmed by the transmitted heat from 7.2 litres of cast iron V8 positioned well rearward. When you got out of the car in summer you could actually see the waves of heat rising up from underneath the sides of the car! The constant heat did play havoc with the wiring and fuses under the bonnet. There was a very neat, well labelled fuse panel on the top of the off-side mudguard in the engine bay. But those crafty Jensen people neglected to tell you that there were further fuses hidden behind the glove box and hidden under centre console!! I should add that Jensens were VERY prone to body corrosion. I spent an utter fortune having this dealt with. All the panels were hand formed, and you could see this. For example, the swage line on the bonnet was longer on one side than the other! I believe the mudguards were received by the Jensen factory as rough pressings and the wheel arches were then cut out by hand with tin snips!! Despite all this, it was a fabulous car; you felt very special driving it. It went to Canberra after I sold it in 1996, and I then lost track of it. Jensen incidentally also built all the big Healeys for BMC, the first Volvo P1800s for Volvo (the ones with the "cow horn" front bumper bars), and, I think, the Sunbeam Tigers for Rootes. I'll try to load some digital photos of some old photos of my Jensen I found. I incidentally still have an original tool kit in my shed that I purchased from Jensen themselves when they still were in existence. From memory the factory address was Kelvin Way, West Bromwich. Somewhere I still have the original sales brochure for my Interceptor too. A friend had a Jensen FF. From memory, the transfer case took up a lot of space in the car, and the transmission tunnel jutted a long way into the passenger side front floor space. And also, if I may add, the Iso Rivolta mentioned in the article above had a (small block) Chevrolet 327 V8 fitted, not a Chrysler (big block) engine. Despite the neat rocker covers showing "Jensen", my engine was really a Chrysler Magnum 440. Regards Thomas Aczel