Re: Jensen (no Audi content)

[David Head <dave.head@worldnet.att.net>]

Not just any 8 - A Mopar 440 Magnum with a 727 Tourqueflite...

Mike Arman wrote:

> >
> >The first passenger car with AWD was '68(?) Jensen Interceptor. Definitely
> >not a success, neither marketing nor technological. It had a Chrysler V8
> >engine, automatic transmission and Fergusson truck-like AWD system with a
> >huge transfer case.
> >------------------------------
>
> Coupla years ago, I saw a Jensen Interceptor in an exhibit at the London
> Design Museum.
>
> Exhibit was titled "The Automobile and Sex" - I guess the intelligensia
> finally caught up with what EVERY male teenager instinctively knows . . .
>
> Anyway, they had a spec sheet for the car, and it said (among other things)
> "Vee-six engine". I (politely) mentioned this to someone at the exhibit,
> and he immediately went and told the curator, who came and found me
> wandering about and informed me that the Jensen Interceptor did indeed have
> a vee six cylinder engine, and thank you very much.
>
> Since the hood was open, I invited him to count the spark plug wires.
>
> When he got to seven, his face turned red. He then shut the hood and
> stalked off.
> Mike Arman