Lindsey Bishop - Jensen Healey MKI
Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 6:46 pm
The car of the month is Lindsey Bishop's fantastic Jensen Healey. Thanks Clive and Lindsey for the write up and the photographs below.
About the car
It was manufactured on 19th February 1973 but not sold until the 18th May 1973 to a customer in Cumbria. Cumbria was its home through 4 owners including previous JOC members and a colour change in May 1980 from its original blue to Jensen Magenta, which I understand at the time was available on the Interceptor but not the JH.
From around 1992 (guess) it was with an owner in the home counties area, where the car sat for 15 years in a “slow restoration” before making its home in Essex where it sat for another few years before the last owner then started to do a home restoration, around 2012 and then in March 2017, Lindsey became the new owner and we then started the whole process again of bringing her up to scratch.
Since that time, predominantly due to the fact that she has been largely unused since the late 80’s and has just done 53000 now, money has been invested in a full engine going over by Martin Shirley, refurbished wheels, replacement suspension and all bushes, new interior (seats and door cards and seat cushions) and a new off the shelf vinyl hood.
Future plans are to replace the windscreen as it is separating in some places, fit the front and rear anti roll bars, bigger front discs and bigger callipers (we have the Mendip hills close by and tend to get a bit of brake fade due to the speeds the car sails up and down the gorges). There are also a few other jobs to do as well and over the next year we hope to get all of these things done before starting on the Interceptor and another Jensen Healey Mk1 we have which needs a full restoration.
Why this choice
This car is registered to Lindsey as her classic car. The car was chosen after so many years of driving a long wheel base VW T5 van as a daily driver, Lindsey has always wanted a convertible. So having tried various new cars, the decision was flipped by her (of her own free will) to a Jensen Healey as she spent some time at events with Helen Newby and also seeing various “tall” gentlemen driving them as well decided that scrap the new tuff and so the hunt for a decent JH started.
So in March 2017, we travelled to Essex with Rob Heydon to see this car and to check out the good and bad points. As they say the rest is history and the car has resided alongside the interceptor of a similar age since that time. It is driven hard and travels around quite a bit both locally and in the south west region though a continental trip is not quite on the cards yet until we sort out a gear box more in line with motorway cruising than the original 4 speed box.
Front view
Front Headlight view
Back side view
Back roof down
Passager side view
Side View
Side view
Interior
Roof Down
Feel free to message Clive or Lyndsey if you want to know more via the Club Forum.
About the car
It was manufactured on 19th February 1973 but not sold until the 18th May 1973 to a customer in Cumbria. Cumbria was its home through 4 owners including previous JOC members and a colour change in May 1980 from its original blue to Jensen Magenta, which I understand at the time was available on the Interceptor but not the JH.
From around 1992 (guess) it was with an owner in the home counties area, where the car sat for 15 years in a “slow restoration” before making its home in Essex where it sat for another few years before the last owner then started to do a home restoration, around 2012 and then in March 2017, Lindsey became the new owner and we then started the whole process again of bringing her up to scratch.
Since that time, predominantly due to the fact that she has been largely unused since the late 80’s and has just done 53000 now, money has been invested in a full engine going over by Martin Shirley, refurbished wheels, replacement suspension and all bushes, new interior (seats and door cards and seat cushions) and a new off the shelf vinyl hood.
Future plans are to replace the windscreen as it is separating in some places, fit the front and rear anti roll bars, bigger front discs and bigger callipers (we have the Mendip hills close by and tend to get a bit of brake fade due to the speeds the car sails up and down the gorges). There are also a few other jobs to do as well and over the next year we hope to get all of these things done before starting on the Interceptor and another Jensen Healey Mk1 we have which needs a full restoration.
Why this choice
This car is registered to Lindsey as her classic car. The car was chosen after so many years of driving a long wheel base VW T5 van as a daily driver, Lindsey has always wanted a convertible. So having tried various new cars, the decision was flipped by her (of her own free will) to a Jensen Healey as she spent some time at events with Helen Newby and also seeing various “tall” gentlemen driving them as well decided that scrap the new tuff and so the hunt for a decent JH started.
So in March 2017, we travelled to Essex with Rob Heydon to see this car and to check out the good and bad points. As they say the rest is history and the car has resided alongside the interceptor of a similar age since that time. It is driven hard and travels around quite a bit both locally and in the south west region though a continental trip is not quite on the cards yet until we sort out a gear box more in line with motorway cruising than the original 4 speed box.
Front view
Front Headlight view
Back side view
Back roof down
Passager side view
Side View
Side view
Interior
Roof Down
Feel free to message Clive or Lyndsey if you want to know more via the Club Forum.
