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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    11/17/09

    In reply to Jaguar Mark IX, Jensen GT Down On The Boston Street
    That GT is perversely beautiful. Knowing that it's a mere hour and a half's drive from me is almost painful.

    The Jag? Hell, it's a classic - and classy - Jag. That's all that needs to be said to explain it. But the GT, hell. #boston
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Jaguar Mark IX, Jensen GT Down On The Boston Street

    That MkIX is a lovely car. It boggles the mind that the likes of Raymond Baxter rallied them. #boston
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    Image of Clown Shoe Pilot Clown Shoe Pilot
    11/15/09

    In reply to Jaguar Mark IX, Jensen GT Down On The Boston Street
    My heart tells me to like the Jensen, but my brain tells me that it'll just break my heart. #boston
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    11/15/09

    In reply to Jaguar Mark IX, Jensen GT Down On The Boston Street
    That Jaguar is a very beautiful car of which I've only seen in photos. The Jensen GT is quite interesting, and this is the first time I've seen one. #boston
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    11/15/09

    In reply to Jaguar Mark IX, Jensen GT Down On The Boston Street
    Lord me, a fantastic shooting brake that is. I nearly wept at the sight of those rear quarter windows. #boston
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    11/15/09

    @A strolling player: I nearly ran into another car when I spotted it.

    "good lord!" #boston
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/15/09

    @Dr. H. F. Danger: No judge in the world would have convicted you. "But, your honor, it was a Jensen shooting brake!"
    "Dismissed." #boston
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    11/15/09

    In reply to Jaguar Mark IX, Jensen GT Down On The Boston Street
    Wow, a left hand drive Jensen GT? How many of these were actually sold in the US? After all, Jensen was already gasping its final breaths when the GT was introduced, and under 500 GTs were ever made. I'll bet the fact that it's based on the near-disastrous Jensen-Healey didn't exactly draw customers either.

    The dowager-empress Mark IX was an impressive beast, but it was very outdated by 1958. I'd rather have a Mark X or 420G. #boston
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/15/09

    In reply to Jaguar Mark IX, Jensen GT Down On The Boston Street
    The Jen is interesting but the Jag is rolling art. Period. #boston
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    11/15/09

    @Novaload: I totally agree. Those curves! That grille! #boston
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    11/15/09

    In reply to Jaguar Mark IX, Jensen GT Down On The Boston Street
    Dang Doc, is your fair Athens, that City on a Hill, a Novo Londinium?

    Jag's by the old John Hancock building, so that figures. #boston
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    11/15/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Only on the streets of Back Bay and South Boston, seems to be where the British steel like to hang out. All the cherry Italians hide in the garages. #boston
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    11/15/09

    @Dr. H. F. Danger: I see some new high buck Italians at the Ritz Millenium. But they don't stay exposed long. Probably worried about being taken down by roving packs of feral cabs.

    Also saw a new Bentley on the street in the Leather District - with a Chrysler 300 side by side.

    Guess I need to limber up my camera. I could be a stalkerazzi, and demand that the glitterati stop blocking my shot of their cars. #boston
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    11/15/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Saw another new Bentley coupe this evening on Newbury. I didn't hold that against it. #boston
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    03/07/09

    In reply to 1974 Jensen-Healey
    This guy is hero material. Cool car.
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    03/07/09

    In reply to 1974 Jensen-Healey
    Very good condition, I like.


    I still do NOT like that there is no weekday DOTS.

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    Image of DrLemming DrLemming
    03/07/09

    In reply to 1974 Jensen-Healey
    Ah, the charm of British sports cars. Too bad they lost the thread in the 1970s. The Jensen-Healey was supposed to herald the revival of the genre but instead was trumped by the Datsun Z-240.


    Sure, the Jensen-Healey's bumpers looked like battering rams, but the bigger problem was that the overall design suffered from British malaise. The iconic beauty of the Austin-Healey could not be summoned from the dead by a design team that may as well have consisted of postal service bureaucrats puttering in a garage on weekends. The Jensen-Healey had little soul and even less stylistic sophistication. Given the legacy of the Austin-Healey, that was an unforgivable sin. The Z may have been merely a good design, but it ate the Jensen-Healey for breakfast. Snap, crackle, pop.


    Let's compare. Whereas the Z sported a lovely tapered front with shades of the Jaguar XK-E, the Jensen-Healey settled for a refrigerator-flat facia with headlight cutouts from a Hasbro toy. Or compare the Z's lovely sculpted hood budge to the Jensen-Healey's dump truck-like protrusion. The Z's back was its weakest design element, but it had much better detailing than the Jensen-Healey's chopped-off pig's butt. Most importantly - and tragically - the Jensen-Healey's profile had the hips of a nun compared to the Z, let alone the pornographic curves of the senior Austin-Healeys of yore.


    How could the Japanese do a better British sports car than the British? Chalk it up to industrial disease.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/07/09

    @DrLemming: Goodness me! Could it be?
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/07/09

    In reply to 1974 Jensen-Healey
    One of my favorite favorites ever.

    Happy the man who has enjoyed that treat for twenty years.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/07/09

    In reply to 1974 Jensen-Healey
    It's a gorgeous car, in the perfect color... hell, even the bumpers can't ruin it for me. But the wheels are my favorite part.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/07/09

    In reply to 1974 Jensen-Healey
    That Jensen is amazingly clean and straight, much less for being on the street and a daily driver. I have a feeling that there's generally a garage involved in this equation. I'm glad this is the fellow that got the one exceptional car that proves the Lucas rule.


    Thanks for the fix Murilee. It's been a rough week, what with the shakes and chills, the gradual recovery of appetite and sanity. This is so much better.

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    Image of sos10 sos10
    03/07/09

    In reply to 1974 Jensen-Healey
    I wonder if people come to Alameda, park their car and look out for that sexy photographer to drive along.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/07/09

    @sos10: That's what I'm going to do. Then flirt shamelessly.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/07/09

    @sos10: Thanks, you've just told the whole world about my secret plan! Now I'm going to have to think of something else.
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    03/07/09

    @sos10, engineerd thinks cannoli is deserving of a star, Novaload Misses Murilee: Should we just go as a pack? Murilee seems to have some sort of cool-car radar; if we all went, he'd be sure to find us, no matter where on the island he was.
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    03/07/09

    @Armand Bengle: never underestimate the power of her Cardar.
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