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17 messages, Last post on Dec 10, 2001 at 11:37 AM
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HELLO - I'M NEW HERE. I WANT TO KNOW IF ANYONE HERE REMEMBERS THE OLD JENSEN INTERCEPTORS SERIES III
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The interceptor had a cooling system for the brake fluid. Shock absorbers could be adjusted by the driver to suite the road conditions. The original concept car used a De-Dion rear axel/suspension set-up where-as in final production a conventional live axel was chosen.
Ferguson Formula also produced a limited production Mustang based on the same components as the Jenson FF. However, power came from Fords superb 427 Over Head Cam (Cammer) motor.
I read a road-test on a restored Mustang 427 FF last year. Although the owner of the car wouldn’t allow the magazine to do any quarter mile tests or to push the car to anywhere close to its limits, he did allow some trial 0-to-100 runs against a Ferrari Testarossa and the Mustang FF was over a second quicker to 100 mph.
One quote was that the amount of traction the FF 4 wheel drive system, give the car was phenomenal. And if they had been allowed to run the car to, its full potential then who knows just how fast the car would really be.
As for the styling of the Jensen, I have to admit it takes some getting used to! Admittedly, I’m not a fan of European sports car styling of that period, (I’m much more a muscle car fan myself) but still the back is a bit bizarre!
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The Jensen Interceptor convertibles are really (I think) kind of nice looking. Probably why there worth 2x as much. OK. So on the SOHC Mustang I'm thinking, what in the heck?, I'll look this up. Do a web search on 'Ferguson Formula' and... FERGUSON FORMULA 361 hemorrhoidal ointment shows up about 1 million times. Are we talking 'Ford' Mustang here? It would suprise me if a SOHC would fit anything but a Boss 429. |
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| Just to be totally off topic. Has anybody ever seen any pictures of that mid-engine Boss 429 engineering prototype. Pretty darn interesting car (engine was bolted to a kind of C6 transaxle deal if I remember correctly). I have no clue what happened to that thing. I expect it was converted into a 1 cubic yard chunk of steel. | |
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| Yer!I think they are better looking than the standard car | |
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| I asked a friend of mine who’s a bit of a Mustang nut, and he thinks he might have seen something about it years ago in a British magazine called Street Machine. Although, he was under the impression that it was something some-one had built themselves although he couldn’t be sure. | |
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