Lightweight Interceptor - is this truth?

[Frankoid]

As far as I can work out the chap doing the filming is the chap who has now bought the Car, becuase he calls him at one point Duncan and the new owner is called Duncan.

Then I must apologize (possibly)- I mistook him for one of the esoteric entourage... sorry!!

I thought it may have been his doppelgänger. There might be 2 of him, the evil one with a demon Jensen and the meek one with a Rover P5

BTW I have just seen "The man who haunted himself", a great film starring the even greater Roger Moore .

[Grant]

As far as I can work out the chap doing the filming is the chap who has now bought the Car, becuase he calls him at one point Duncan and the new owner is called Duncan.

Then I must apologize (possibly)- I mistook him for one of the esoteric entourage... sorry!!

.. Yes, filming man we think is the new owner and then there was the other chap getting the mani's.. don't know who he was and also have no idea who owns the shopping trolly behind the car either FelixMan

[felixkk]

I take exception with the term bastardize. The owner has done the same thing most of the people who are restoring their Interceptors are doing i. The ultimate restoration searching for the most available.

Here in Switzerland you can only get by with the subtlest of modifications if you want a street legal car, or you build a race car and trailer the car to events or tracks. Other European countries may not be quite as strict, but I‘m not sure.

[Pymmie]

Tim Rifat is somewhat of a ‘character’

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John P

[johnw]

Tim Rifat is somewhat of a ‘character’

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John P

Obviously quite a successful superbeing. Undisputedly an owner of one of the legendary super perfect manual Interceptors for at least 31 years, Mopar fanatic, talking to Rejen for trim advice/help, nice paint job, gorgeous set of wolfies, fibreglass bonnet - possibly ex Jensen parts and service - would need to take a close look at that. What more could a man want? An 18K Rolex President and your own semi religious cult perhaps? Nice T Shirt BTW.

"Beers were drank in the making of this film. A best of British classic car."

[Julian]

Cast iron radiator removal saved weight .... 350 000lbs .... he could speak underwater ...
But happy. And sure made me laugh.

[Joe Schiavone]

Cannonball with due respect to your knowledgeable imput here in the States most stock race cars were bought bare bones no insulation the cheapest strip down car then they start to build their race car. In fact one of my good customers from the past just bought a 1953 Rocket 88 2 door with a Post cloth seats No heater Radio rubber mats no carpet with the V8. 18,000 miles. Basically the start of a Drag or Stock race car. People with money built them this way. Who in there right mind would buy a luxury European Interceptor totally base model to drive everyday. I have seen it done this way. RacerJoep

[cannonball]

Cannonball with due respect to your knowledgeable imput here in the States most stock race cars were bought bare bones no insulation the cheapest strip down car then they start to build their race car. In fact one of my good customers from the past just bought a 1953 Rocket 88 2 door with a Post cloth seats No heater Radio rubber mats no carpet with the V8. 18,000 miles. Basically the start of a Drag or Stock race car. People with money built them this way. Who in there right mind would buy a luxury European Interceptor totally base model to drive everyday. I have seen it done this way. RacerJoep

Joe sorry mate but ffs, this is a Jensen end of, it came out the factory just like all the others it had no special parts nothing, do you think I do not know about light weight yanks, ??/ I know it all super stock dodge darts and barracudas 1968 light weight seats thin corning door glass no window regulators you just pulled em up with a strap heater delete glass front fenders and hood, underseal delete I know all this stuff, this interceptor is being sold by a bull shitter its a con no such car ever left Jensen its a hack job believe it,

[johnw]

http://www.theinterceptor.ru/

The original owner required an Interceptor manual which was as light as possible. To this end Jensen built the 1968 manual Interceptor with: no soundproofing, no power steering, no air conditioning, including a custom glass fibre louvred bonnet and a special manual radiator and considerable weight reduction, with no padding (that fills the normal cars), with lightweight aluminium road wheels. Only 23 right hand drive manual Interceptors were built. This car is the only original one-of-one unique, Lightweight Racing Interceptor.

Reading this as a lawyer would, there is little to dispute if that was a private sale. Maybe the original owner specified no power steering, and said to Jensen, "I would like it to be as light as possible so no power steering for me please." Not much to dispute there, because without PS it would be a few KGs lighter. The Vignale cars were a bit more noisy than the West Brom cars with less sound proofing. This isn't a Vignale, but later cars probably had more soundproofing than 68s. There was no factory aircon on Mk1s. Jensen "parts and service" did supply fibreglass bonnets, to Interceptors and FFs. If the original owner kept it for a while and had work done at Jensen parts and service, 7" wolfrace wheels etc, and had Parts and Service eventually swap the motor out for a 440. At no point does he say the car actually did go racing, had racing history, or left the factory in 1968 with a 440 and fibreglass bonnet. The radiator setup is different on a manual, no heavy "iron" pipe with coiled fins for the auto box. Can we prove that the owner didn't once talk about wanting to race the car, even if in the pub, etc. No. I bet he probably did.

"To this end Jensen built the 1968 manual Interceptor" This could arguably be referring to work Parts and Service did after it had left the factory the first time.

The guy is a Jensen fanatic, he was selling a Vingale Interceptor project recently and a few other barn find cars.

[Grant]

None of the manual cars had power steering as standard anyway John.. it was before they were fitting power steering

[MikeWilliams]

JohnW,

The ad says "To this end Jensen built the 1968 manual Interceptor with: no soundproofing, no power steering, no air conditioning, including a custom glass fibre louvred bonnet and a special manual radiator and considerable weight reduction, with no padding (that fills the normal cars), with lightweight aluminium road wheels." Lawyer or not, that is simply not true (except for the lack of a/c which was the norm anyway). As has been said here many times, it was built as a standard car.

If the ad said "Jensen REBUILT the 1968 Interceptor with ..." the just maybe it is nearer the truth, perhaps.

Mike

[Pymmie]

I wonder if the Interceptor registrar or Richard Calver could produce the first owner to prove once and for
all that this guy is talking from his butt ...

John P

[Pymmie]

Just thought I would update the forum on this now infamous car.

The new owner Duncan Davis (a follower of magic man Tim Rifat) has

posted a few videos in social media of the car running.

Yesterday (Fri 24th July)I started to message him on FB about details etc.

His replies were typically vague before he got real nasty.

Being a ‘sparky’ my sarcasm holds no boundaries, see what you think

John P

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[Richard Calver]

Reminds me why I'm not on social media. What's "social" about that?

[RAP72]

Pymmie

next time you are talking to him could you get the chassis number of the MK1 he is using