K, My first introduction to Jensen was in the form of the CV8 I mentioned, it had lain in a garage at the back of a large house for a number of years, the exhaust had mostly ended up on the floor as all bran flakes. A pal was asked to see if he could get it running and I went along to give him a hand... There was a problem with the fuel system, and being young and stupid my pal handed me a milk bottle with some fuel in it and asked me to gently pour some down he four barrels of the Carter carb while he spun the engine... I performed as instructed till the bugga spat back flames and I was outa there sharpish with a bottle of fuel still in my hands and a few scars to remind me to think a bit more about handling fuel..(-: Think the CV8 was the first time I came across Dunlop brakes..

Some years later while in an Aston Martin frame of mind I made some enquiries re spare parts for another abandoned fuel guzzling car, needles to say I gave up on that idea pretty quickly, but came across an Interceptor and phoned Croperdy Bridge garage who informed me they had every part I might need and the cost of a whole engine was less than an Aston crank... I was persuaded I put £60 worth of petrol through the Interceptor during it`s restoration, just to fire up the engine and listen to it now and again... On the road it was silent death, on it`s original cross ply tyres and with 6276cc of relaxed V8 and Torqueflight auto box you could easily be doing over a ton and think you were merely cruising gently along... Not something that ever happens in a Trad...? laugh2