Jensen's recent announcement is for a completely reimagined version of a Jensen Interceptor.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a69991550/jensen-interceptor-modern-version-teased/

Whoa! I don't think I've ever seen a Jensen built up for Bonneville land speed racing from an autocross car... but then, I've never heard of one autocrossing either!

I haven't looked at Hagerty's website for a long while... and this popped up on my facebook feed... 

What began as a fun project car for the street soon turned into an autocross and time attack machine.

The car is one of only 500 made

To reduce drag going over the car, the grille was sealed up. Without any air flowing through the radiator, the car now relies on a 45-gallon water tank to keep it cool during its five-mile runs at wide-open throttle. 

Thanks to its big turbo and adjustable wastegate, power can be dialed in from 800 to about 1200 horsepower.

The goal is 200 mph, but electrical and mechanical gremlins have kept the car from getting faster than 184

https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/chasing-200-mph-at-bonneville-in-a-british-american-hybrid/

the Jensen Interceptor is a hand-built British GT bodied by Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring,

 with seating for four adults and only 6,408 units were produced from 1966 to 1976

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/1973-jensen-interceptor-barn-find-offered-with-numbers-matching-440-chrysler-v8-157319.html

posting, because I find it interesting that I didn't know (or remember, possibly) until now that Carozzeria Touring made the bodies

Clark Gable, with a Jensen Ford

But Gable never owned the car, and he probably never drove it. The truth, it turns out, is more complicated than that.

Hollywood entrepreneur Percy Morgan, who represented Jensen in the Southern California market, (according to Morgan's story published in Ford Life in 1971),  initially ordered two sporting tourers: one black with tan leather for himself, the other silver with red leather for his “good friend” Clark Gable, who put down a $1,000 deposit.

As shipping costs were less than import duties, Morgan ordered two bare chassis through a California Ford dealer and had them shipped to the United Kingdom from New Jersey.

Gable grudgingly accepted the car but returned it a few days later. The dealer refunded his deposit, and Gable bought himself another Duesenberg, an SJN roadster by Bohman and Schwartz.

According to Morgan, their friendship remained intact, and as an apology, Gable agreed to pose for promotional photos with Morgan's car.
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Jensen replaced the stock Houdaille shocks with André Telecontrol units, which can be adjusted from the cockpit. The steering column is raked back and extended, and a remote shift linkage moves the gear lever about a foot aft. Dual exhausts with Burgess mufflers amplify the Flathead's confident snort.

By riding lower than a stock Ford, with better front-to-rear balance, the Jensen corners more securely.

Jensen produced no more than 30 modified Fords in 1934-36, then debuted its own line of luxury performance cars for 1937—with Ford power at first, then Nash, Lincoln and, after the war, Austin and Chrysler.

Jensen simultaneously supplied bodies for the “big” Austin-Healey of 1953-67 and in 1965 pioneered viscous-clutch control for high-performance all-wheel drive. But another Healey collaboration—the star-crossed Jensen-Healey of 1972 —forced Jensen into bankruptcy in 1976.

https://autoweek.com/article/car-life/1936-jensen-ford-most-famous-car-clark-gable-never-owned
https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/AZ16/Arizona/lots/r138-1936-jensen-ford-tourer/175055

The JAB collection is finally all photographed and online... and they have a ridiculous amount of motorcycles, and some interesting cars

Yeah, that's a variety of interesting cars! A cool 36 Ford, a 78 MG, there are 4 Jensen Interceptors and this 71 is the best looking one, and this Macros is an 86, but they also have a 1969.

http://www.vanderbrinkauctions.com/catalog/?auction=4709

Volvo P1800

were first produced (1st 6000 units) at Jensen motors in England, and designed in Italy by Frua.

When capacity was added at Volvo in Sweden, they moved production there, and added the S to the P1800, so the car became known as the P1800S

Jensen FFF 100, built in 1972 by GKN powered by a Keith Black 426 hemi.

this is the car that held the record for the 0-100-0 in 11.5 seconds, a record it held from 1972 until the McLaren F1 was made.
https://autoweek.com/article/car-life/ultimate-jensen-interceptor

http://www.british-steel.org/brochure/ff/ff.htm
https://www.facebook.com/groups/321577158048111/?fref=nf

Cool stuff I found at the Greystone Concours

Terrific little saddle bag

I didn't expect to see a 440 6 pack at the British Car Council annual All British Car Show

This is a Jensen Interceptor, from the same Jensen company that partnered with Healey to make the Jensen Healey sports car. The Interceptor was more a muscle car, in the same configuration as the AC Cobra. A British sports car with an American big block. The original engines in the Interceptors were built with 383s, but a 440 isn't so different in size, and with a small amount of trouble will fit in any engine bay you pull a 383 out of

Unusual cars I've only seen at the Rolling British Car day