Pity the poor Jensen Interceptor owner of today who prepares her or his car meticulously for a vintage car meet only to be greeted with shouts of “Nice Barracuda.” 
Frankly, the 1966-76 Interceptor does bear more than a slight similarity to the ’65 Plymouth Barracuda, most notably in the mammoth curved rear windscreen, and the resemblance doesn’t simply stop there. However, equating an Interceptor with a Barracuda is like equating a Chevrolet Camaro with a Ferrari Daytona. Sure, the two cars share a certain sweep of line, but they’re not precisely the same thing now, are they?
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The son of an Irish musician-turned-piano-repairman, Lyons was a motorcycle fanatic who was fond of racing his Harley-Davidson in local events during the gloomy years of the First World War. He wasn’t particularly enamored of working the piano shop, so his father helped him acquire an apprenticeship with Crossley Motors, a Manchester-based car builder. But at just 17, Lyons was not ready to settle into the drudgery of the machinists business. 
Geneva Auto Show in 1961. For one thing, equipped with the potent XK six-cylinder engine, Jaguar had gone sports car racing in a most successful way. With the aerodynamic D-Type, the marque had prevailed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s most prestigious road race, three years in a row. Jaguar had transitioned from offering the public a reliable sports car for the street based on sedan mechanicals to building very specialized sports racing machinery, and then, finding the cost of world-class competition rising ever-higher, it had pulled back from its racing commitments to concentrate again of cars the market could buy. 
sanctioning body that has become one of the hottest success anecdotes of the Nineties and now the new millennium. But, unfortunately, Hudson Motor Car Company was the exception that proved the rule in the early 1950s. The 
The Corvette was displayed at the 1953 Motorama, and immediately Ford designers pulled out their drafting pencils and went to work. But the real story is that the Ford Thunderbird was just the kind of car that many designers dream about, so when the formal call to work on a 2-seater came from management, Ford designers just reached into their desk drawers.