• In previous long term ownership for 36 years • Sounding well with stainless steel exhaust • Benefiting from recent works • Offered with history file and current V5C Jensen’s C-V8 replacement debuted in 1966 reviving a name first employed in the 1950s.

However, several of the firm’s traditions were broken in that the design was outsourced to Carrozzeria Touring, and the bodies made of steel, not glass fibre.

Early shells were built in Italy, by Vignale, before production was established at Jensen’s Kelvin Way plant in West Bromwich.

Power came from a 6276cc Chrysler V8, driving through either a four-speed manual or three-speed Torque Flite automatic transmission to an LSD Salisbury rear axle.

The specification included electric windows, reclining seats, a wood-rim steering wheel, radio with twin speakers, an electric clock, and reversing lights.

MkI production ran for three years before being supplanted by the MkII.

The MkIII followed two years later and was still in production ...