Eight Jensens from the Jensen Owners' Club were splashed across the news yesterday for their role in a PR stunt to promote a new James Bond book.
Launched to a huge fanfare yesterday, Solo by William Boyd (beside an FF in the bottom picture), is designed to be a continuation of the 14 Bond novels penned by Ian Fleming.
In the book the British spy falls for and buys a 1969 Jensen FF, the four-wheel-drive and anti-lock-braked model picked by the author because of its technical wizardry for the era, which combined with its power and looks made it a very suitable car for the hero.
As a result, the eight cars – Interceptors, FFs, a 541 and a C-V8 – met at London's Dorchester hotel on Park Lane for their role in the book's promotion in the glare of the world's press.
Seven glamorous cabin crew then appeared, each with a signed and numbered copy of the book in a specially designed perspex briefcase, and got into the cars.
The Jensens, except one FF that stayed outside the Dorchester all day, each had a flag of the nation the books were destined for and then set off in convoy towards Heathrow so the books could be dispatched to those locations.
