ES, I think you do the old beast a bit of a dishonour. The bodywork design was very elegant, the bits added in/taken out were to allow things like four wheel drive and anti-lock braking to be squadged into an extra 7" in the body. About 2 years ago as I walked down a small road near me, there was one parked on a layby, the twin louvres in the boddywork showing it to be an FF (Ferguson Formulae) model. Way out in the countryside, like finding a Coelcanth in the local brook. (Not many remember the old Isotta Fraschini Coelocanth, famed for having Caterpillar tracks for final drive and the only 16 track Stereo deck ever made.)
A friend had a Jensen CV8 in about 1970, the furious thirst both it and we had made it a car to be sold cheap. Either it or our beer had to go.
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