Just Cool Cars: '73 Jensen Interceptor is fast and furious

LOS ANGELES -- Maybe it's not one of the world's best handling cars, but the Jensen Interceptor certainly made a statement in its day through design and brute-force power.

Though it dates to the 1970s, Jensens are still making a statement. Maybe that's why it was one of the cars given prominent placement in Fast and Furious 6. (Driven by Michelle Rodriguez, playing Letty, Vin Diesel's girlfriend).

Tony Rackley knows all about it. He has a 1973 Jensen Interceptor that he showed off recently at the Queen's English car show here in the San Fernando Valley. Perhaps helped by the movie, or perhaps not, the Interceptor has made a big comeback among car fanciers. He says it's hard to buy one these days for less than $25,000.

Besides the Interceptor's striking design with that huge fastback rear window, the car had a lot of power up front -- a Chrysler 440 engine. "It's like a big yank tank," says Rackley, who lives in Los Angeles.

His Jensen has 78,000 miles on the odometer and he did a lot of the work restoring it himself. Rackley describes it as a "rock 'n roll car," not for its handling, but rather the string of rock musicians who had to have one.

"It takes people's breath away," he says. "It just means business."