The Jensen Owners' Club

I can make out the letters of the license plate - UGK and the first number is 5 or perhaps 6. Is there anyway to find out who owned it? There's only one interceptor with reg starting UGK still on the road and that's UGK574M. I wonder if it's that one? My first guess as to the lead number was "...

I have been scanning b&w negatives and saw, for the first time, that I had serendipitously caught an Interceptor in the background of this photo, taken in about 1978. For many years, my research in London was funded by the Muscular Dystrophy Group and one of their fund raising events was a bed r...

nothing special - just thought the Jensen and the blossom looked good.

Chevrolet Corsair Monza. The Corvair was the target of Ralph Nader's car safety campaign in the mind-1960s.

I showed the Jensen at the annual high end show, primarily of European cars, at Americana, here on Long Island. The Jensen gets a lot of attention despite the competition from multi-million dollar classic Ferraris, Lamborghinis etc.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1971-jensen-interceptor-5/?utm_source=dailymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-09-28 I liked this comment: "Hitchhiking in England in 1973, I got a ride in one of these. The driver took it up to 140. Assuming this was kilometers per hour, I calcula...

I'm never sure if cars at a show count as being "on the road." Still, here are some from the Long Island Jaguar and MG clubs show at the Vanderbilt estate.

thank you!

Best wishes
Jan

I love the color - what is it?

All the best
Jan

The Jensen in good company although unfortunately not on the road, but at the mechanics

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trucks outside my Friday evening dry-martiini-with-a-twist bar.

seen this morning:

A very pretty BMW 2002.

Perhaps there could be another survey of (1) how old we were when we first obsessed over a Jensen, and (2) the gap between getting obsessed and getting the object of our desires. For me (1) is about 23 and (2) 40 years!