Jensen Shite

4,504 · Sunday at 12:04

Reason I love them is when around 7/8 ish - the local shopkeeper Mike had a brand new white L reg one. Must have been money in sweets!! Us schoolkids used to swoon over it. He drove it every day.

18,646 · Sunday at 13:16

Do not paint.

For sale.

https://share.google/43tN6mnrWkFFPB7aX

24,062 · Sunday at 16:54

My first "good" job; the chief engineer drove a 'B' suffix doom-maroon CV8.

I'd never seen one before, didn't know spit about them.

But he was a fantastically creative electronic design genius.

And I've liked the CV8 ever since.

(Noel Ed****s and that jumping tragedy killed the Interceptor for me. And the rust. The only bit of an Interceptor that doesn't rust seems to be the glass...)

26,320 · Sunday at 18:16

4 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

Do not paint.

For sale.

https://share.google/43tN6mnrWkFFPB7aX

Yeah, that's got all the paint it needs... 😎

1.6k · Sunday at 21:02

Saw this one through work - Apparently one of the earliest surviving cars still in original/unrestored condition. That might be wrong though. I'll admit, before seeing this car I didn't realise they were fibreglass.

2,554 · Monday at 07:50

Dont worry fibreglass cars can still rust ☹️ let me introduce the next car currently in the workshop.

Another CV8 which used to belong to a friend of mine and changed hands as he had 2 off them, this one was mechanically pretty good with lots of “patina” to the body and trim. The paintwork had maxiblistering all over it (ive never seen any this big). The chrome was past its best and the interior of the car had been very damp at some point in its life as the carpets were all rotten as were all the trim backboards and the interior chrome was more rusty than the external chrome.

Anyway it arrived with me to sort out a few mechanicals as the new owner wanted it perfect and to go for a respray, the mechanicals list started to grow quickly as the owner decided he wanted a full engine rebuild a new wiring loom and lots of other work which were not strictly necessary but would ensure the car would be good for many years to come. It had previously had a gearbox rebuild, new s/s fuel tank and brake callipers refurbished under its last owner.

Whilst on my ramp being stripped for the bodywork the underneath looked pretty good with only a few minor repairs needed, but when it went to the bodyshop it was decided to remove the body from the chassis to do the job properly and many horrors were discovered then. The metalwork that could not be seen like the tops of the sills was non existent, it was then decided to fully strip the chassis and put on a rotisserie, the chassis was then shotblasted revealing even more problems including many pinholes in the floors and now we were into a major restoration. Lucky for me I had recently found this great bodywork guy who did welding and paint so I knew it was in safe hands.

Here are the photos of the bodywork progressing.