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No I didn't C that until you showed the V8 when I remembered my F1 mate Mr Button had one!! :-D
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Some beautiful stuff.................all gone. :(
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mickthemaverick wrote: 25 Feb 2022, 18:37 No I didn't C that until you showed the V8 when I remembered my F1 mate Mr Button had one!! :-D

To paraphrase Henry Higgins "I think he's got it!"

Well done Mick yes a Jensen C-V8. Wiki has some info on it here, designed by Eric Neale, A Chrysler 361 V8 under the bonnet, and made in West Bromwich.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_C-V8

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Sean Connery Owned one, a later version than our whatsthisthen? and there is quite a detailed article about it here, and is preserved at the Jensen Museum, which oddly perhaps is not open to the general public.

https://www.jensenmuseum.org/sean-conne ... -104-2158/

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A nice interior for a bit of Sunday searching? :-D
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mickthemaverick wrote: 27 Feb 2022, 14:09 A nice interior for a bit of Sunday searching? :-D

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Maybe a Gilbern Invader, dash of some incarnations pretty similar but cant find an exact picture match.

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Bullseye there Neil, well done, TOH or much searching? :-D

Here are the full details!

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mickthemaverick wrote: 28 Feb 2022, 09:51 Bullseye there Neil, well done, TOH or much searching? :-D
I thought it looked a bit "Triumphy" TR sports , or Herald/Vitesse but on a restricted image search more on the steering wheel area, up popped in the similar images a few Gilbern examples. Wouldn't have known it TOH. Fascinating trivia where did the name Gilbern come from :?:

Not much imagination as it turns out...
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Gilbern Sports Cars (Components) Ltd was founded by Giles Smith and Bernard Friese and was one of the few cars to be made in Wales.
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Here's one without a picture.

An earlier post mentioned observers book of aircraft, dug mine out but couldn't find that big transport plane, maybe it is post 1964. Anyway, next to it was my observers book of automobiles, the most recent one I have, also 1964. They have photos and descriptions. So what's this then ....

"Appearance: Unusual combination of streamlining with stark utility. Bonnet slopes down to slot air-intake for radiator with further intake below wrap around bumper. Headlamps faired into front wings which flow into front doors. Angular utility type body with large window area. Rear wheels placed well aft. Vertically mounted triple rear-lamp clusters. Plain disc wheels."

A clue? 16ft 6in long .....
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Could that be
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an Aston Martin DB5
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Richard_C wrote: 02 Mar 2022, 20:01 So what's this then ....

"Appearance: Unusual combination of streamlining with stark utility. Bonnet slopes down to slot air-intake for radiator with further intake below wrap around bumper. Headlamps faired into front wings which flow into front doors. Angular utility type body with large window area. Rear wheels placed well aft. Vertically mounted triple rear-lamp clusters. Plain disc wheels."

A clue? 16ft 6in long .....

I expect Mick will have nailed it....haven't looked at his spoiler, but in my spoiler I have the page!
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Interestingly I didn't get that right toh. After research I discovered that my pick was only 15ft long, but I would say the headlights on my choice are far more faired than the one I now know it to be. And the rest of the description fits too, except the length!! :-D
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And Neil has it, too easy really for this group. I must admit I never thought of it as "stark utility", unlike some estate cars of the era which looked like they had taken a perfectly good saloon car, reversed it into a shed and driven off with the shed attached. The Safari always struck me as elegant.
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Richard_C wrote: 03 Mar 2022, 10:56 And Neil has it, too easy really for this group. I must admit I never thought of it as "stark utility", unlike some estate cars of the era which looked like they had taken a perfectly good saloon car, reversed it into a shed and driven off with the shed attached. The Safari always struck me as elegant.
Thanks Richard,

Never too easy and always interesting keep them coming. :-D I just hit lucky because on another forum, in a thread about the observers book of Automobiles, had a couple of editions, and the random element was one of them was a 1963 edition which he took a couple of photos of and one of them was at the very page you referred to. Not easy at all....pure chance :-D

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The thread I stumbled on is here for the record...

https://autoshite.com/topic/41469-obser ... utomobile/

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