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Old 12-13-2009, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by byndbad914 View Post
umm... no! Won't knock you for being a Chrysler fan, I am a fan of all American Iron, but Ford in the 60s and 70s did some pretty cool stuff with European companies and the Pantera is damn cool. Chrysler? No.
I beg to differ
Read: http://www.allpar.com/cars/adopted/j...terceptor.html
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Jensen offered a four-wheel-drive version of the Interceptor dubbed the FF; the four wheel drive system was developed by tractor manufacturer Harry Ferguson, making the FF one of the most technically sophisticated cars of its era, especially since it was (according to Justin Davies) the first production car to have anti-lock brakes along with a torque-split four wheel drive system more sophisticated than that of the Audi Quattro. The car boasted Girling disc brakes
all around, when four-wheel disc brakes were a rarity.
And see:


Not intended to be a supercar, the big block chrysler powered Jensen's were well ahead of their time.
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