Here's a nice collection of period roadtests of Jensen Interceptors and FFs for perusing over a coffee break.
www.british-steel.org/brochure/Road_tests/rt1.htm
Now where's the nice man from National Savings, telling me about my PB win ....?
Edited by craig-pd130 on 08/06/2009 at 14:54
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A rock musician I used to know slightly, a man who liked cars and had enjoyed enough success to indulge his tastes, had a Jensen FF that he attempted to drive to Nigeria. It had to be shipped home from Tamanrasset in southern Algeria - bang in the middle of the Sahara, on the edge of the Hoggar mountains and quite a place - at no little expense. I should imagine that what caused the breakdown was the cooling system, but I never asked. It may be that the FF 4wd system, designed for road use, didn't really like unmade, corrugated tracks.
Later he had a series of Range Rovers which were more up to the job.
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Sorry about the topic drift craig-pd, but the FF story reminds me of a couple of other very unsuitable cars I came across in my Africa days: a Daimler Double Six under a cover in the front yard of a politician's house in Kampala, Uganda, shortly after the fall of Idi Amin and at a time when everything was very abnormal there. Not a very practical car for African conditions at the best of times one would think... Benzes are and so are (or rather were) Peugeots, but Jags...
A month after that, in Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania, saw a Jag Mk II 3.8 at a garage. Decent looking example. When I admired it the owner tried immediately to get me to buy it. At another garage there, also for sale, an MGA twin cam, a car notorious for needing frequent fettling even in its native country.
I love the thought that there were people willing to take such risks just because they loved fine horseflesh... like mike hannon with his XJS, only more so. Bless them.
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Quite so .... I wonder what the supply of 5-star is like in Uganda and Tanzania? All the cars you mention were rather fond of their high-octane brew ....
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