BLIMEY! DEPT
This 1970 British Jensen Interceptor hits our Insanity list with pro-built 6.1 Hemi after a big-buck 9-year build.
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by SCOTTY “INSTIGATOR” LONGMAN
EMEMBER THE 1960S “BRITISH INVASION”? Probably started with the Beatles, but it also morphed into British sports cars—Triumph, MG, Lotus, and a whole bunch more. Most of them were comically underpowered, running four-cylinder motors where all fifty horsepower had been snatched out of a tractor. Oh, there were a couple of quality departures (that dude Shelby built some modifieds), but generally, Sixties British sports cars meant looking good but moving with the speed of your eggplant ex-mother-in-law, and with an even worse electrical system. Except for Jensen. Jensen didn’t give a good rat’s whisker: they devised a sports/Grand Touring ride that they christened the “Interceptor,” and just went ahead and did it. And the “it” was taking this beautiful bunch of sheetmetal, then giving a transatlantic call to none other than The Excellence in Engineering Boys at the Chrysler Corporation. (Allegedly) Them: “The only thing that sucks worse than our motor industry is our dentistry.”
