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... trips in fast cars. Such a trip, perhaps, as the rare plum which fell our way earlier this year: to take the Jensen FF to Switzerland and try to find some snow on which to assess its fourwheel drive. Not until we were safely on the night boat for the Hook and out of reach of recalling telephones could we believe the Editor really meant it. Craned on like a crate of oranges was "our" deep blue Jensen FF, worth nearly a pound for each of its 6,276 c.c. and with its 1 6-gallon tank full of pre-Budget fuel. Pending hovercraft, this Harwich-Hook night crossing is one of the less tiresome ways of crossing the moat, and as our brief also included "Wot'll she do?", a starting point on Dutch motorways seemed to suit well. Unless almost free of other cars twolane Continental motorways are inevitably less safe for maximum speed runs than Britain's 36-footers, so when we emerged from a fairly calm night in one of ss Arnhem's first class "cupboards" our first task was to find an empty stretch of motorway on which to unleash the full 325 bhp. Early morning proved a bad time for Holland, busy with rushhour traffic and swarms of sleepy cyclists, and although we found it easy to cruise at 90-100 mph on the autoweg, allowance had to be made for such contingencies as traffic lights, a cheap substitute for a flyover at the ...
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