Sunday, June 24, 2007 Jensen Motors - Who Could Forget The Healeys and Interceptors Of the 70's Jensen Ltd. was a British manufacturer of sports cars and commercial vehicles, based in West Bromwich (in the West Midlands west of Birmingham), that produced fascinating sportscars and touring coupes from the 1930's to 1976. Jensen began as a small coachbuilding firm. They built exclusive customised bodies for standard cars produced by several manufacturers of the day including Morris, Singer, Standard and Wolseley. In 1934 they were commissioned by American film actor Clark Gable to design and build a car for him based on a Ford V-8 chassis. The resultant car won them much acclaim and stimulated huge interest in their work including a deal with Ford to produce a run of Jensen-Fords with Jensen bodywork on a Ford chassis. Production of cars ceased over the war years. In 1946 body designer Eric Neale joined the company from Wolseley and his first project was the more modern coupe which followed in 1950, named the Interceptor, which was built until 1957. In 1955, Jensen started production of Neale's masterpiece, the 541, which used the then-revolutionary material of fiberglass for its bodywork. For its replacement Jensen turned to the Italian coachbuilder, Touring, for the body design, and to steel for the material. The bodyshells themselves were built by Vignale of Italy and later by Jensen. The Interceptor was offered in saloon, convertible and coupe versions. The saloon was by far the most popular with its large, curving wrap-around rear window that doubled as a tailgate. Related to the Interceptor was another car, the Jensen FF, the letters standing for Ferguson Formula, Ferguson Research being the inventor of the full-time all wheel drive system adopted, the first on a production sportscar. Jensen also won the BMC contract to build the bodies for the resultant Austin-Healey 100 from 1952 until 1966. Jensen Motors ceased trading in May 1976. High gas prices around the world killed a beauteful design. Take a look at some of the Jensens in todays newsletter, we are sure you will enjoy it. Racingdeal.com provides you with a wide variety of classic cars on a day by day basis and we are proud to do so. For all your advertising please do not hesitate to contact me at massier@racingdeal.com. I am happy to assist you. Sincerely yours Matthias J. Massier racingdeal.com Jensen Interceptor 3 Fuel: Petrol Number of doors: 2 Transmission: Automaat Color: Brown Mileage: 57.000 miles Year of building: 1975 VAT/Merge: Merge Over 250 Classic and sportscars in stock.More info/pictures:www.thegallerybrummen.nl Or contact us by phone:0031-575-564055 Nick Aaldering Price:11.950,00 EUR * 8.094,14 GBP 15.993,16 US$ Jensen Interceptor S3 Rare SP model.Tax exempt.Dark Metallic Blue with Black leather interior.Recommissioned last year after 15 years storage in a private collection.Under 60000 miles recorded.Low ownership.Some history.Correct original louvred SP bonnet.All usual refinements including PAS,air-conditioning,e-windows, refurbished alloy wheels.Absolutely superb condition throughout. Price:21.842,99 EUR 14.795,00 GBP * 29.233,35 US$ Jensen Interceptor III Convertible Transmission: Automatic Color: Dark red Mileage: 59.000 km Specific Jensen Interceptor 3 convertible LHD in a stunning restored condition! Mechanically complete rebuild and in a superb driving order.Very beige full leather interior,wirewheels,ac etc etc TOP condition original LHD Interceptor!Over 250 Classic and sportscars in stock.More info/pictures:www.thegallerybrummen.nl Price:57.500,00 EUR * 38.946,70 GBP 76.954,55 US$ Fine Motor CarsBlenheim Palace, Oxford on Saturday 14th July 2007 at Blenheim Palace Monterey Sports & Classic Car Auction sale dates: August 17 - 18, 2007 preview dates: August 16 - 18, 2007 location: The Portola Plaza Hotel and Monterey Conference Center 2 Portola Plaza, Monterey, California OFFERING OVER 200 OF THE WORLD'S FINEST MOTOR CARS, MANY AT NO RESERVE. Pebble Beach Retroauto – Celebrating the Motoring Lifestyle Friday, August 17, 2007 to Sunday, August 19, 2007 The Lodge at Pebble Beach / California / USA Vintage Motor Cars At Meadow Brook Hall sale dates: August 4, 2007 preview dates: August 3 - 4, 2007 location: Shotwell Gustafson Pavilion at Meadow Brook Hall Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan It is the unique combination of rarely seen, unusual, and historic cars at both the Concours d’Elegance and the RM auction that has and will continue to attract thousands of automobile enthusiasts and participants from around the world. Fiskens - Fine Historic Automobiles Gregor Fisken is one of of the most famous dealerships in the world. His fine selection of motorcar and competition automobiles is a unique collection. Quality, value and longterm experience are Gregor's assets. Call Gregor at +44-(0)20-7584-3503 During the seventies, under the leadership of Paul Grant, who acquired growing responsibilities in the family business, the Vandervekens decided to turn to selling collection cars and proposes a high-standard permanent catalogue of used cars in which many Belgian and foreign amateurs find their happiness. Today, Paul Grant is still on the lead of the family business, recently assisted by Laurent Dassel, his stepson. The Vanderveken Establishments are famous all over Belgium and also abroad which is the ultimate reward for their achievements. PS Automobiles is one of the mayor dealerships for classic Porsches in Germany. Whether you are looking for a 356 B Coupe or a 911 Carrera Convertible, they are the ones to contact. PS has one of the best selections of classic Porsches in Germany and will also take care of all your servicing and restoration needs as well. Please contact them at info@psautomobile.de or via http://www.psautomobile.de Cars International Kensington Limited, now located in the heart of London's West End in South kensington, is a highly specialized UK based company, that has been trading worldwide for over 20 years. Their business is to supply the very best high performance cars to discerning clients. They specialize in Ferraris and F1 cars as well as sports and racing cars from every top quality marques. If you are looking for this special car, that is very hard to find, they are the ones to contact. Alex Finigan has successfully brokered many of the great classic European cars: Mercedes Benz, Ferrari, Porsche, Jaguar, BMW and Alfa Romeo. His guidance is given with an emphasis on building long-term relationships, and a reputation for integrity brings him the private-sales opportunities not available to the general public. Call Alex at 001-978-768-6092 or mail him at alex@paulrussell.com You are looking for a topcar? Marreyt Classics has it or will go on carhunt for you. A professional guidance at your purchase, comfortable but necessary! Marreyt Classics provides you with high quality historic cars on a daily basis and is well known for its quality of service all around Europe. Please contact Marreyt-Classics at http://www.marreyt-classics.com Enthusiasm turned into passion and when you ad 20 years of experience you understand why many of the finest, most exciting cars in the world have passed through Axel Schütte´s hands. His stock of vehicles tends to be small, but the individual exhibits are quite special.The main quality criterion, in his view, is authenticity in terms of condition, restoration and history. First-class service and courtesy when dealing with their customers are what matters most to him and his team. With 20 years of specialist experience in Collectors Cars, Martin Chisholm has been able to build up an extraordinary resource of knowledge. About cars, about the market, and about who knows what. It’s the kind of knowledge that can offer huge benefits for anyone interested in collecting. Whether you are looking for the right car for investment, or whether you are searching for something rare and special. We will know just how to go about it. The strong relationships we’ve already built up stretch around the world, and we have a direct line to all kinds of sellers and buyers, experts and collectors. This lets us find just the right cars and just the right people, so you get the best options possible. Ferrari SpA Ferrari Year Book 2005 A very glossy,picturial softback of Ferrari's 2005 activities http://www.ferrariworld.com Christopher Hilton / Haynes Grand Prix Century This history book with 496 pages runs from the French Grand Prix in 1906 to its equivalent in 2005- A real comprehensive documentation of all the Grand Prix races http://www.haynes.co.uk 2 Shores The market for classic cars has grown significantly over the past decade and has become a place where passion and fun meet with serious financial decisions. 2shores Classic Cars is set up to assist serious buyers, sellers and collectors to make sound investment decisions and make the experience of classic car ownership a most pleasant one. We provide information to the international seller or buyer and share our experience in the international trade. 2shores Classic Cars is not your typical dealership for classic cars. We don't run a fancy showroom with a lot of inventory to sell, which gives us the independence we need, to concentrate on the individual needs of our customers. We understand our company as a service provider around the classic car industry. We can help you sell and we can help you buy. Worldwide! We guarantee personal attention and commitment. If you're looking for the car of your dreams, we can help you locate the car in the market and make sure it meets or - better yet - exceeds your expectations. Our worldwide network consists of dependable and knowledgeable experts in the market, most of them serious collectors themselves. We usually have a few selected vehicles in our database which are currently for sale by their owners. Please see if anything in our Garage sparks your interest. If we don't have what you are looking for, we guarantee personal and professional attention and of course 100% discretion. We take also pride to be involved in classic car event marketing. If you plan an event in the classic car industry, we can help to promote it. Talk to us about the exciting possibilities of worldwide marketing. For our international friends, wherever you are located, 2shores Classic Cars offers an inspection service. If you have found a car in Germany or neighbouring countries, we can personally check it out and inspect it for you, verifying condition, serial and engine numbers along with a detailed inspection report. 2shores Classic Cars also offers additionally a B2B representation service for Classic Car dealers based in North America interested in approaching the European market seriously. We offer a large variety of services ranging from market analysis on a project basis to full business representation. We also offer to represent you on major Classic Car Shows in Europe such as the Techno Classica or Retro Classic in Germany. Please request our total scope of services along with our fee structure and you'll be surprised how affordable and quick you can have total access to the European market. 2shores Classic Cars is here to assist in any way we can. The winner of Le Mans Classic 2004 in a Porsche 908 passing a Lola T70 in the straight   racingdeal.com 45133 Essen Germany info@racingdeal.com www.racingdeal.com This newsletter is a service of www.racingdeal.com. Click here to cancel your subscription and you won't receive any more newsletters. All material remains the copyright of racingdeal.com. No part of this newsletter may be reproduced without prior permission. racingdeal.com is not accepting responsibility or guarantee for the advices and information in this newsletter.