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I have never had one of these cars, never driven one, and don’t understand if I’ve ever seen one – but something is draining me towards getting one.  By some devious sequence of state of affairs, I finished up looking at a throw out one, 1973, last obscurity, and it somewhat caught my consideration. 

It was $2500, which seemed controllable if it was the right value.   It necessarily a new master cylinder, ‘mainspring it doesn’t close up right now.  Draw near to think of it, that’s a darn serviceable way to stop family taking a car you are selling out – equitable tell them that it won’t close up, and they won’t be able to find out all those running problems that you have!  The photos show it as distinctly tatty – at 35 years old, that’s not too extraordinary.  By the way, this car is advertized on the internet – I’m not going to count you where, in case I defect to go for it!

The Jensen Healey was only produced for a few years in the seventies, so is wholly rare.  Having that Jensen name is bonny sweet, too.  I muse it had a Lotus developed machine, which is another name that I’d like my car to be associated with.  I reasonable can’t for the life of me call to mind why it wasn’t a vast success, and that worries me.  Does anyone apprehend of any great problems that it had?

If you don’t recollect it, it was an open sports car, and with Healey, Jensen and Lotus involved, that should have been a bang-dunk issue.  To my eye, it’s in some degree reminiscent of the later TRs, a fairly flag sort of produce (sorry if I offended any enthusiasts there).

So I e-mailed the guy, and have got an say in reply already.  I asked if he knew where to get mind – as I have an Austin-Healey still being restored (at times), I know where  to go for those, and I truly don’t think I have the duration or the contacts to get abilities manufactured from mark with a scratch scratches.  He didn’t seem to have any archetype, but was earnest enough to say that it needed the fern master cylinder replaced, and the carburetors (which I see from the drawing are SUs) rebuilt, and he gave me more photographs.

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