JENSENPOSTEN Nr. 8 - June 2014 - Members Magazine for Jensen Owners’ Club Norway
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Welcome to the 8th issue of Jensenposten, This issue is dedicated to our UK Tour in June to the Intl.Meeting in Milton Keynes. We found it interesting to add some texts about Norway, Norwegians, habits and Vikings to honour our English friends.
Editor: Harald Gulbrandsen
posten@jensencars.org
Tour to
England JOC
UK
International
Meeting
As this is written we will be 16 people from Norway and total 6 cars, not bad for a
summer season. 2 cars, one FF Torgeir Seim and one Convertible Harald Gulbrandsen travel together on the Brevik(N) to
Immingham ferry. We drive 14.6 via York, Kirkby Stephen, Lakeland Motormuseum and from there to Nottingham, Ilkeston visiting Andy at Richard Appleyard. We all have been invited to a barbeque at Chipping Norton at Martin Ritchies.
Per Eie and Pål Rønning will meet after picking up a GT from Zac. Also they will be in Ilkeston. Others come via Harwich.
Ole Jon Tveito fly over as well and join Torgeir and Harald in Ilkeston. Arne Paulsen and his wife in his CV8 meets us during the week also. A common visit to Martin Robeys on 20.6 is planned. NRK the state television is joining part of the tour and the Intl. meeting with a film crew.
All Norwegians look forward to the trip
with excitement. After more than 1000
years after the Vikings ruling in
England we come back again, this time
not with longships but fine Jensens
and we indeed come with peace this
time..
Facts about Norway
and the Jensen
Owners’ Club cars
The club
was established in 2006,
There are now 102 known Jensen cars
in Norway. Not very bad for a country
with 5 million people. Jensen was
selling only 1(one) Interceptor to
Norway when the factory operated.
Kjell Quale
the Norwegian owner of
Jensen may have had some influence
on later interest. The following cars are
documented so far
not
including
Finland, Sweden and Denmark.
5 x 541
3 x CV8 III
9 x FF I and II
2 x Interceptor 4 litre
1 x Interceptor Vignale
12 x Interceptor I and II
13 x Interceptor III
2 x Interceptor SP
9 x Interceptor S4
1 x Interceptor Coupe
6 x Interceptor Convertible
36 x Jensen Healey
1 x Jensen Ford V8
1 x Avon Standard
Per today 24 of our 132 members also has joined membership at JOC UK. We try harder to get more to join.
Jensen Norway
activities
We try to meet for meetings and trips on a regular basis but since the club is small our economy doesn’t allow a lot. The last 2 years JOCN has participated with great success on the Oslo Motor show in October and when Fast & Furious 6 was shown in Norway we had 2 cars at 3 different cinemas in Oslo, Lillestrøm and Rjukan. Each year we meet at the NSK exhibition in Oslo(May) where all
sports cars are welcome. Some pictures of the above events:
Sign text. We still play with cars! Haralds car.
Odds Coupe(1x in Norway). And Haralds Convertible at the NSK.
Arne Paulsens nice CV8
The 2 photos above: FF – CV8 – Interceptor II – Healey - Conv
At a summer meeting and nice weather.
Øvrevoll NSK meeting Interceptors, Healeys
Oslo Motorshow 2013
Oslo Motorshow 2013 Nice view and colours
Good marketing for our brand at the red carpet premieres of Fast & Furious 6.
Small guys fancy Jensen too.
Oslo Motorshow 2012, CV8, 541, Convertible.
Nice row of beauty at Øvrevoll 2011
What is Norway
actually
famous for?
Of course we have the Vikings Harald Bluetooth, Eirik Blood axe
and several others.
Then we invented the cheeseknife especially for brown goat cheese = geitost.
We have the midnight sun, northern light. Then of course people like Magnus
Carlsen(chess world champion), Sonja Henie (figure skating),
Nansen and Amundsen polar discoverers. We actually discovered North
America(Wineland) 5 centuries before Columbus, and there is the oil-gas of
course, they call us blue eyed Arabs. But oil made us rich. $$$$££££
AHA was a good rock group but they stopped when they were around 30; Rolling Stones just had a concert in Oslo and they are in their 70´s… incredible.
Bunad is various clothing used at special
occasions:
Fish of course, salmon and cod, national dish is LUTEFISK wind dried cod..hmm good once a year served with the famous Aquavit.
Nature is beautiful here but then it is an expensive country :
Pint = £8 Whisky
bottle : £50
Wintersports, no:2 in last winter Olympics.
Some say that Norwegians are born with skis on.. must be difficult!
We also give on behalf of Alfred Nobel the Nobel peace prize which not always
brings peace. Big nations like China do not like us very much..so what,
more…..yes of course…………
Trolls.. we love trolls
Most Norwegians like to have a hytte(lodge) at the sea or in the mountains.
Hytte
and knekkebrød we all eat.
Viking history in England
Typical longboats which were very
seaworthy. In the Vikingship museum in Oslo you can see 3 refurbished ones dug out in the 40-50´s from clay reasonably well preserved.
Vikings from Norway and Denmark attacked and besieged England and Ireland as from
793 and the long period of raids and also settlement ended in 1066 at the battle of Stamford bridge.
The Viking Age began on 8 June 793 when Vikings attacked the abbey on Lindisfarne, a centre of learning that was famous across the
continent. Monks were killed in the abbey, thrown into the sea to drown, or carried away as slaves along with the church treasures. The Viking devastation of North Hubrias Holy Island was reported: "Never before in
Britain has such a terror appeared" .The North sea rovers were also traders,
colonisers and explorers, as well as
plunderers.York(Jorvik) and Dublin were main settlements. At the most more than 100
longships with each 100 viking warriors at the same time attacked the coast and the rivers of England.
A Jensen Interceptor under
restoration by JOCN member
Erik Lund in Oslo
Erik has been so kind to send us some photos of his Interceptor under restoration. Right now he is
busy with the interior upgrading to Recaro CSE
Ortoped (nice) and cooling fans from Audi. A lot of work doing the leather interior himself. Did you know there are a total of 42 different pieces of leather + the front seats in a Jensen! We wish him strength in his efforts.
Engine bay, new enhanced engine is also part of the plan + lots of work….keep on.
Nice Recaro seats, all automatic. Good job Erik!
Per Eies Jensen FF where it
belongs: The snowy roads of
Norway
Per Eies FF, nice colour in the snow! And its not a one time shoot. Per is normally driving his FF in Norway in winter. That’s what 4-wheel drive is all about…getting there.
Project by Torgeir Seim and
Ole Jon Tveito
Their Interceptor being totally restored now in its original colour.
Torgeir Seim at work, good garage!
To all members and our good friends at JOC UK thanks for reading! Editor Harald