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JENSENPOSTEN Nr. 8 - June 2014 - Members Magazine for Jensen Owners’ Club Norway
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..
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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
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.
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
Interceptor III…
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
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Oslo Motorshow 2013
Arne Paulsens nice CV8
Oslo Motorshow 2013 Nice view and colours
Good interest for Jensen at NSK
The 2 photos above: FF – CV8 – Interceptor
II – Healey - Conv
At a summer meeting and nice weather.
Øvrevoll NSK meeting Interceptors, Healeys
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What is Norway
actually
famous for?
Good marketing for our brand at the red
carpet premieres of Fast & Furious 6.
Of course we have the Vikings Harald
Bluetooth, Eirik Blood axe
Small guys fancy Jensen too.
and several others.
Then we invented the cheeseknife
especially for brown goat cheese =
geitost.
Oslo Motorshow 2012, CV8, 541,
Convertible.
Nice row of beauty at Øvrevoll 2011
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
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course, they call us blue eyed Arabs. But
oil made us rich. $$$$££££
Some say that Norwegians are born with
skis on.. must be difficult!
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.
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…………
Bunad is various clothing used at special
occasions:
Trolls.. we love trolls
Fish of course, salmon and cod, national
dish is LUTEFISK wind dried cod..hmm
good once a year served with the famous
Aquavit.
Most Norwegians like to have a
hytte(lodge) at the sea or in the
mountains.
Hytte
We even eat sheephead, at least some do:
Nature is beautiful here but then it is an
expensive country : Pint = £8 Whisky
bottle : £50
Wintersports, no:2 in last winter Olympics.
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and knekkebrød  we all eat.
Viking history in England
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
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.
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.
The Viking Age began on 8 June 793 when
Vikings attacked the abbey on Lindisfarne, a
centre of learning that was famous across the
The car when on the road, nice colour Erik
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Project by Torgeir Seim and
Ole Jon Tveito
Their Interceptor being totally restored now in
its original colour.
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 4wheel drive is all about…getting there.
Torgeir Seim at work, good garage!
To all members and our good friends at JOC
UK thanks for reading! Editor Harald
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