The Jensen Owners' Club

On FFs and Interceptors: "they have always been that just sort of heavy, I wouldn't say lumbersome, but they were, they needed all of their 6.75 or 7 litre engines and they had a kind of slippy sort of auto gearbox and you wafted, you added power, cruised a bit, added power and it wasn't quite ...

Painful to watch. FFrankenstein...

You're right, I should get out more... November is taking its toll on me

Dennis Collins talking to Thomas Weeks of Misfit Garage: a Austin-Healey 110/6 with a Chevy 265, possibly converted by Carroll Shelby in '57(?), possibly one of three ("the cars were to hustle investors"): https://youtu.be/mnUn-_wHdjY 251C1B03-AB08-4CD4-B975-4BFD55F17D51.png C328522D-25F9-...

I'm absolutely on the same boat with you on that

Clearly the moral of the story is to avoid cruise ships

Martin R wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 10:08 pm

felixkk wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 6:34 pm
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We’d never make a joke about a pub Felixkk!!

Why not?

Forget I asked that, I feel like we're going in circles, my head is beginning to spin.

I had to google, the Round Oaks Steel works is a bit to the south, a picture from 1951:

I cannot tell if and who's telling a joke and when

If you look at the photo from 1950 you'll see a second set of hangars that seem to be identical, with one standing nearby. That one (judging by its orientation) still seems to exist- the hangar I first thought was Jensen's. 2861D681-1A87-4802-947A-B335FED5DEF9.jpeg A4C93E46-6450-441E-8683-46B85396CE...

Thanks Kees Here are some pictures of Pensnett I found from the site Britain from Above, from 1950 https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW033494 72D38CA9-E89C-46FF-8E1A-1C8F50028D35.png CB4F2860-FC94-4A60-ABB0-F263794A198F.png https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW033490 0D52F3DA-9A08-426...

I've been contacted by Dirk Backenkoehler from Stuttgart with a question regarding the Pensnett facility and the production of the Austin A40 Sports. He has an excellent website (in english) on the A40: https://www.austina40sports.dirksspacealbum.de/The-Jensen-Connection/ His question was: "Pro...

nrb993 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:50 pm Hi John,

Please what value in £ would you place on this cv8 today.

kind regards
Neil

It's probably worth more now than after Retropwer are done with it

Detailed documentation on the disassembly on FB ("Project Connery"):

https://www.facebook.com/11220895735804 ... 860290090/