Jensen Interceptor, $1900, PA

Not mine...

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1971 Jensen Healey Interceptor 383 project or parts car - BEST OFFER! - $1900 (Douglassville, PA) Date: 2012-10-09, 6:45PM EDT Reply to: see below

1971 Jensen Healey Interceptor Coupe. Rare English-Italian-American hybrid: Italian design with American muscle built in England. Originally silver-blue, now primer grey. Black leather interior. Chrysler 383 with 4-barrel, TorqueFlite automatic. Mostly complete but in rough shape. Great for partscar or ambitious restoration. NOT running. Clear title. Come take a look and make an offer. It would be a shame to leave the car outside all winter, so let's get it to a new owner. Looking for $1900...it's worth much much more than that in parts. Come take a look and make an offer. Call me (Shaun) between 8AM and 10PM (Eastern, for you distant folk) at 610-385-7433. Can deliver to you for cost of fuel.

Will consider trades (up or down) for ONLY any of the following: Full-deck aluminum car hauler (Featherlite, Trailex, Aluma, Tommys, etc.) 1-post or 4-post auto lift 1998-2002 Audi A6 Avant (Wagon) Excavation services and/or retaining wall construction Wierd, unusual, antique, classic, or collectible car

Also will be selling: 1971 Jensen Healey Interceptor II parts car 383 Automatic $1900 1974 Porsche 914 partscar or restoration project $1700 1981 Fiat X1/9 partscar or restoration project $1250 1990 Wildernest full-size shortbed truck shell pop-up camper $1250 1996 Chevy Centurion custom Silverado Suburban pickup $6900 1988-1998 Chevy stepside bed with tailgate, bedliner $750 1964-1966 Ford Thunderbird interior in silver/white $1000 1964-1966 Ford Thunderbird doors $250 each Huge black multiperson bathtub (add jets for spa) $750 Carpeted storage benches for rear of 8' pickup bed $200 Old fullsize (rusty) truck bed/rear/trailer project $400

PHONE CALLS ONLY: 610.385.7433 Thanks.

The rear glass alone is worth 2x his asking price, IIRC.

i am going up to look at 914 tomorrow anybody want more pics of the jensen or x1/9 this guy has a collection of a 102 fiat and lancias should be fun

Lash me to the ship's mast, men, and ignore my cries until after we've passed!

I would do the excavating and retaining wall swap is I were 2000 miles closer.....

I really want that. I've always wanted a Jensen Interceptor.

While the first thought is an LS1 swap. I would keep it in the Chrysler family.

The idea train is arriving on Track 3..........

In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid:

Think 5.7-6.4 3rd gen Hemi.

I am so glad my plate is more than full or I'd have to take a look at it.

In reply to Rob_Mopar:

That was my thought. A 5.7 has more than enough gusto to make that haul ass.

Well, hello there!

Soooooooooo anyone here ever restore a car like this? Just wondering

This is the next town over from me, if anyone wants me to look at it, though that might be dangerous, as this would be an amazing lemons car...yet I have to keep telling myself "I will not build another lemons car this year, I will not build another lemons car this year...."

I have wanted one for years, a report on the car might sway me. hint hint

Get thee behind me, Satan.

Donebrokeit wrote: Soooooooooo anyone here ever restore a car like this? Just wondering

Are you being a smartass or are you asking for real?

Kind of for real, I might call about this tomorrow.

I keep hoping someone buys the dam thing.

Paul B

In reply to Woody:

"Rare English- Italian- American hybrid" eh? Wonder if that means it leaks twice as much oil ;)

I'm friends with Shaun the seller. He's got quite a collection, mostly project cars but he's realizing the folly of that and getting some nice survivors now. Click the link Shaun's page and then go to FiatLancia and you can see all of his stuff. I drove the '59 Lancia Flaminia (with non-working brakes) for his wedding several years ago. I'm particularly fond of his Bitter SC's. His warehouse has to be seen to be believed (think, that Portugese car barn found several years ago).

How solid is the body, I am interested in the right one, yeah they're my folly too

aussiesmg wrote: How solid is the body, I am interested in the right one, yeah they're my folly too

I have a bit of room at the Atomic Hairball Research and Development Center, if you need some free indoor storage for the winter... You know, if (once) you buy it.

i was going to post but didnt think anyone would believe it. you have to see his place to believe it. and small world back in the 80's i use to do a lot of business with lancia parts consortium in pittsburgh and spoke to Shaun many times back then about parts. the jenson could be saved its just more of a project than i want same as the 914

Rob_Mopar wrote: In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid: Think 5.7-6.4 3rd gen Hemi. I am so glad my plate is more than full or I'd have to take a look at it.

Ditto. Very tempting, but I have no room for such a project. While a modern hemi sounds enticing, the oe big block is such a solid engine it would be hard to justify swapping it out. One driving reason would be to swap in a manual or a matching modern automatic. For a car like this (GT cruiser more than a sports car) an automatic has its place.