Early Interceptor in Norway

[nem]

Hi,
Saw this add for a 1954 Interceptor coupé (project?) sold from new in Norway:
https://www.finn.no/car/used/ad.html?finnkode=156982942" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Cheers,

[nem]

....also an add in Sweden for the same car: https://mobil.blocket.se/annons/varmlan ... r/86369980" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[VFK44]

That's £24,000 or £27,000 depending on which advert you read.

[John Staddon]

Euro 33,500, or more or less £30,000 where advertised in Germany

see topic https://www.joc.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=29819" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

John

[mikebyrne]

A photo sent to me by the owner in the 80's. From memory he lived in the northern part of Norway. He came over to UK to see me to purchase a set of pistons and cylinder liners I believe and a half shaft.
I am not sure, but he might have sold the car to his friend who I also met, named Knut Knutsen, a car dealer who dealt in USA cars and also had a 541 on his books for a while.
For some weird reason car appears to have been sat on by an elephant!! VFK can probably correct it ?

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[John Staddon]

An elephant occasionally sits on some of my photos, I don't know why, but I've learnt how to correct them

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This is probably correct based on a standard 'chemist shop' print size with a width to height ratio of 3:2.

John

[mikebyrne]

OK John, don't keep me in suspense, how do you do it ?
It normally happens when I save the photo from a pdf file.
Mike.

[VFK44]

For some weird reason car appears to have been sat on by an elephant!! VFK can probably correct it ?

I've asked him nicely to climb off. What more can I do?

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[VFK44]

I do love these "old smoker" style early cars. They look good with a "lived-in" appearance, in a way that wouldn't work with a 1970s car. You feel there are some good stories that go with it!

One of the original links has stopped working - here is a newer one:
https://www.blocket.se/varmland/Jensen_ ... 388656.htm

[John Staddon]

Hi Mike

You can do it in Paint using Image then Resize/skew which allows you to to alter the aspect ratio i.e width and height as a percentage, it will be 100/100 when you start so that is something you have to do by eye, not easy. For more control you can copy the image into Microsoft Publisher then use the Format Image command to either alter the aspect ratio or actually specify the size you want, so in this case the photo measures 10.416" wide when imported into Publisher but only 4.135" high, change the height to be 2/3 of 10.146", to achieve a 3 to 2 ratio of width to height (use a calculator to work that out, it's 6.943"), untick the 'lock aspect ratio' box, or it will adjust the width as well as the height, and click OK. Then of course copy the resized photo back into whichever album it came from using the 'save as picture' command (you can't use copy or paste from Publisher to another application, but 'save as picture' allows you to save the image as a GIF, PNG, BMP or JPEG) and delete the copy left in Publisher.

Publisher can't remove an elephant so it only works on the original image.

John

[johnw]

I do love these "old smoker" style early cars. They look good with a "lived-in" appearance, in a way that wouldn't work with a 1970s car. You feel there are some good stories that go with it!

I too love the lived in, usable but unrestored look. I think the early Jensens look especially nice because the Aluminium coachwork hides all the rot superbly, and makes the car look like it just needs a bit of a polish and some paint. Bristols and Pre War Rolls Royces are the same. Decaying 70s steel bodywork, bubbles popping out under stainless trim, doesn't have the same appeal. 70s cars need a slightly different approach to get the Shabby Chic look, but the younger generation see these "before their time" cars, and don't need them to be perfect.

[johnw]

I do love these "old smoker" style early cars. They look good with a "lived-in" appearance, in a way that wouldn't work with a 1970s car. You feel there are some good stories that go with it!

I'm into Mk1 FFs, and I find this absolutely perfect:
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1162566" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Ideally the mechanicals would be as good as the interior, and the bodywork all solid, just looking like this. Being a press car this will have some stories too. It is a 1969, so right on the edge of 1970! I remember seeing 70s FFs at Medway Interceptors in the condition this was before it was recommissioned, and I loved them.