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SVELTE STRAIGHT-8

To many, the pre-Second World War era was a golden age of motoring design. Fuel consumption and aerodynamics weren't priorities. The exuberance of car design back then resulted in some of the most ostentatious and elegant carsto have graced our roads. A prime example, this 1939 Jensen Continental Tourer Straight Eight in the year the war broke out. The factory in West Bromwich, bombed and only two of the built are believed to have survived.

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