I'm pretty sure this is the car in the brochure. The photo was taken in Roger and Carol's back yard when they used to live in Victoria. We were over from SA for the 6 hour at Calder. It belonged to a mate of Roger's at the time I think. Roger had the red Holden powered Mark 4 parked alongside and barely visible that went to SA via Stratton/Trethewey/Foster. The Mark 5 also went to SA - McAskill/Wilson then God knows where. The last time I saw it it was painted yellow and lived in Burnside. It was a long time ago. My kids were in the photos I took and they look like they were aged 8 and 4.
This is another one. It lived in a country town in NSW, so long ago that I can't remember which one.
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Nice. Not a big fan of the NSW car's faux wide grille and vents, but Mark 5's do 'classy' (with their E-Type front and Jensen Interceptor rear bubble) than 'tough', in my humble opinion. Although the period mags on the orange one pictured elsewhere on this blog (and crazy upswept pipes) look very cool indeed. Would like to hope the brochure car is still residing in SA somewhere, waiting to be brought back to spec. Did anyone ever convert the bubble rear end to a hatch?
The Wall Mk 5 has a button on top of the rear glass but cannot see if it operated the Espada like rear screen or the rear window as a hatch. JL would you know? Even E 38 chargers came with crazy upswept pipes standard in 1971. The Interceptor was released AFTER the Mk 5 as Mk 5 released in 1964 while Interceptor was released in 1966 so perhaps we should refer to the Jensen's Mk 5 rear bubble? Just like all those pesky pommie cars with Nagari rear lights. The black around the grille may have been an attempt to cater for continual nose damage as people were always reversing into my Mk 5's and 7's noses and the Nagari's detachable nose cone was I believe a solution to the problem of cretins with normal cars with tow bars.
Re: the Nagari detatchable nose cone, it also made a great trademark that the company neglected to follow up with the Ikara and the new 'cockroach' Nagari...something most manufacturers would kill for (i.e. Aston Martin grille, BMW kidney beans, Mini weld seams, etc). Such a shame.
I'm pretty sure the big flat window didn't open but the smaller vertical one did.
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