As many of you know from having read my 1965 Impala Hell Project series, I spent many of my formative junkyard-prowling years in Southern California. San Francisco Bay Area junkyards, 400 miles to the north, are pretty good— you'll find many mostly-rust-free examples of old British sports cars, interesting edge-case Italian machines, and ancient American steel up there— but the self-serve wrecking yards of Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside Counties are so numerous and so vast that you're guaranteed to find some great stuff. I spent a couple of days in Los Angeles last week, and here's what I found at the very first junkyard I visited.
That's right, the first Jensen Interceptor I've ever seen in a wrecking yard. Not only that, it's a pink Interceptor! OK, maybe it was red before decades in the Southern California sun and smog did their work, but it's pink now.
This Chrysler big-block is most likely the sixth or seventh engine to be crudely swapped into this car during its long and no doubt painful downward spiral to basket-caseness.
The Interceptor came with a nice limited-slip Dana 44 differential, and of course some truck guy grabbed that right away.
I don't know enough about Interceptors to tell you what model year we're looking at here, and I couldn't find any VIN or build tags on the thing. The holes where side marker lights once lived suggests a '68 or newer, while the dash seems to be of the pre-1974 type. You can't go by the single-4-barrel engine, for obvious reasons, so I'm going to leave this debate to the 17 members of the Global Jensen Jihad.
I thought about taking some of these Lucas fuses, to put into 24 Hours of LeMons Camaros as a bad-driving penalty, but I'm not that cruel.
It's rough, and the glass is probably the only thing of any value left on the car. Still, one of my all-time favorite Junkyard Finds!
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