Charge Of The Fight Brigade: Big, Bad & Blown - Speedhunters (blog)
Take an ultra-rare factory built British classic, wedge a 650hp blown V8 in the front, leave it in bare metal to show the world your skills and then hot rod the crap out of everything else. It drives purists mad, but could this Jensen FF be the best muscle car ever. So I sat patiently waiting for the day when I could drive the short distance to their workshop and take it all in. Which I’ve done now, so let’s get down to the details…. And because this is no backyard, overnight project, I pinned down Gregg, who physically built it with his team at Bavarez, and Mike Robins, who actually owns it and has mixed in with his own ideas, to help me tell the story. So what is an FF. Jensen was a UK-based car manufacturer that could have still been here, but didn’t quite make it. It was successful with this model, so called because of the Ferguson-manufactured 4WD system. Although they look similar, this isn’t an Interceptor, which was 2WD. Mike’s father had a business unit right opposite the Jensen factory gates. “I remember often seeing and hearing the Interceptors roaring along the road with their distinctive panoramic rear windows,” Mike says. “There was a VW Golf VR6, Porsche Boxster and 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet, Mercedes CLS 63AMG, Range Rover Vogue, Aston Martin Vantage and DBS, and a Bentley Azure,” he says. Source: www.speedhunters.com
