The Jensen Owners' Club

nice looking Porsche at the mall at the weekend

I don't know where to post this - General Discussion, Joke, CV8, cars for sale. It does concern a car for sale http://bringatrailer.com/listing/2008-javan-r1/?utm_source=dailymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017-07-14 but it was this comment that caught my eye: Jul 13 at 4:38 PM Mr. H 1,1...

the whole web site is pretty amazing.

Jan

sold for $38,500

A Jensen is worth every look of surprise when passing the public who haven't seen one for years, the person who has a story when in the petrol garage, the person who stops you when in a car park wanting to talk about your Jensen, It really is the only car that does this, there are many other classi...

It looks purple in this screenshot.

Jan

Another photo of Sir Roger - sorry - the Saint and his 1800 is the fifth in this rather lovely series of photos:

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All the best
Jan

this may be the car posted earlier:

http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1975-j ... terceptor/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

not quite the modern classic to rival Arnold's Bugatti Veyron but still nice.

"Motor" magazine did a road test of a Mk III in 1975:

"List price, west coast.......$15,500"

equivalent to about $70,000 today.

All the best
Jan

On the forecourt of a garage just down the road from us in Huntington, New York

taken by a photographer friend

Wow! You are brave, I would definitely not take out my Jensen in that! In fact I wouldn't drive anything in that weather! Well, as I said, it wasn't what I was expecting otherwise the Jensen would have stayed at home! In fact, it was a brief - 15 minute - storm that approached blizzard conditions. ...

when I drove the Jensen to work this morning!

We are just back from a week in Cuba. It was wonderful to see so many classic cars on the streets. There are the "restored" ones for giving tourists rides (see the line of them in one of the photos) but the fascinating thing was to see all these cars being used as daily drivers. We visited...