LONDON THUNDER AUCTION - start bidding here....!

[V8Smith]

I got to thinking about the lack of people diving into their pockets for what is a very good cause, 'The workers surplus fund'. SO in order to boost the fund I have contacted most of the TVR related garages that we all know around the country and some have been very generous in giving things for free so we can auction them off. Some of them that said no I must say I was very disappointed in to say the least, but I am sure they have their reasons. The auction is going to run until the end of Friday next week and the items will go to the individual highest bidders. PLEASE SEND YOUR 'GENEROUS' BIDS TO ME VIA EMAIL to [e-mail] AND I WILL UPDATE THIS PAGE EACH DAY LETTING YOU KNOW WHAT IS THE HIGHEST BID SO FAR AS THEY COME IN.

ITEMS KINDLY DONATED FOR AUCTION

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1. Offord Motor Company - Cambridgeshire - Basic 6,000 mile service for your TVR

Highest bid so far = £300 from 'sonnylad' Much appreciated

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2. Tower View Race Services - N.london - Basic 6,000 mile service for your TVR

Highest bid so far = £225 from 'cheeky' Much appreciated

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3. Prestige Performance Cars - East Midlands - Basic 6,000 mile service for your TVR

Highest bid so far = £250 from 'V8 Animal' Much appreciated

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4. Torque RVT - Cheshire - 2 yes 2!! Basic 6,000 mile service for your TVR

2nd service highest bid so far = £260 from 'TVRwhoa' Much appreciated
1st service highest bid so far = £250 from 'Barnine' much appreciated


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5. Leven Technology - Essex - Basic 6,000 mile service for your TVR

Highest bid so far = £360 from 'Cerby 4.2' Much appreciated

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6. ACT Performance Products - Sussex - ignition package for RV8 cars consisting of Spark plugs, Dissy cap, Rotor arm & delivery to your door. Also a set of Mikalor S/S hose clips 16 in total enough to do the coolant system on RV8 (examples of which can be seen on my engine pic on my profile ) Retail for this whole package is around £80

Highest bid so far = £100 from 'Repcom' Much appreciated

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7. Absolutely Shocks - Herts - Derek has kindly donated a FULL set of GAZ shocks so FRONTS AND REARS!!

Highest bid so far = £475 from 'mickk' Much appreciated another bid from Mick

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8. RT Racing - Sheffield - Cerbera AJP V8 timing cover clock. One has been donated to us by Richard and he has also kindly agreed for us to buy others at cost, top man. These look fantastic and we are selling them at £300 to avoid the bidding war that has been going on heres a photo



Clock 1 = £300 bid from 'Hoover' Much appreciated Steve
Clock 2 = £300 bid from 'XTR2Turbo' Much appreciated, you got one in the end
Clock 3 = £300 bid from 'nicholas blair' Much appreciated
Clock 4 = £300 bid from 'Tubbystu' Much appreciated
Clock 5 = £300 bid from

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9. APM Automotive - Liphook, Hampshire - 6,000 mile service for your TVR

Highest bid so far = £300 from 'S33 TVR' - Much appreciated

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10. Magini-Lighting - Set of clear indicator upgrade lenses for Griff/Chim/Cerb (full details to follow)

Highest bid so far = £50 from 'Symonab' Much appreciated

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11. Anonymous donor - Special edition boxed-set with 60-page brochure, bound with bespoke steel bolts and hand-finished. Two specially commissioned metallic inks. Beautiful, hand-made box also contains 24-page brochure and separate specification booklet. Only 500 in circulation. (These cost £10 each just to produce, not including photography, copywriting, graphic design, etc.) Got to be worth at least £50 for all those die hard TVR fans...!

We have been given 5 of these and heres a pic so you know what you are bidding on:



Box set 1 highest bid = £100 from 'Eo66' Yet another bid much appreciated
Box set 2 highest bid = £80 from 'H10TVR' Much appreciated
Box set 3 highest bid = £80 from 'TubbyStu' Much appreciated
Box set 5 highest bid = £80 from 'v8smith' Much appreciated
Box set 4 highest bid = £76 from 'Wedgeman' Much appreciated

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12. Mark Adams - Mark has kindly offered 2 hours of his time to tune your car to its optimum, best results are gained by using this in conjunction with a rolling road, I am sure Mark could advise on which is best or nearest you. I know he tunes at rolling roads in Sussex, Cheltenham and Coventry. His time normally costs £60 per hour so £120 worth, so get bidding.

highest Bid so far = £250 from 'victormeldrew' Much appreciated a very generous bid mate

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13. Surrey Rolling Road - Charlie has kindly donated 2 power runs, last about 45 mins, on his rolling road which normally cost £50 so what are your bids...........?

Highest bid for power run 1 = £75 from 'mgaut' Much appreciated
Highest bid for power run 2 = £60 from 'andyoleary' Much appreciated

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14. Airstream UK - Matt Edger has very kindly donated a front of the car protection kit, fully fitted with guarantee, retail price for this is £599. If that isnt enough, he is going to give around £100 for every TVR car that gets done until the end of next March, well done guys fantastic donation. They will be at the Ace cafe on Sunday and the product can be seen at www.airstream.uk.com/

Highest bid so far = £230 from 'Rainman' Much appreciated

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15. PH Autos - Taunton - Toby Holland has kindly donated, a pair of Falken Tyres in the size of your choice, model fk452 I have Falkens on my car they are excellent. The size available is anything around the normal TVR sizes say 245/45x16 any larger tyres can be offered and you can pay the difference. They can fit or mail them to you but retail for 2 tyres has got to be around £200, so get bidding.

Highest bid so far = £100 from 'sonnylad' another bid much appreciated

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16. We have some of the London Thunder windscreen vinyls left, 3 for the moment we may find more, these could become collectors items due to us smashing the world record Start your bids at £5

Windscreen vinyl 3 = £25 bid from 'BoyzToyz' Much appreciated
Windscreen vinyl 2 = £25 bid from 'KirstM' Much appreciated
Windscreen vinyl 1 = £20 bid from 'FunkyGibbon' And another much appreciated

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Happy bidding and remember that TVR services are around £300 so please bid accordingly, this is a fantastic cause and means you can get a service plus feel really good about yourself as you helped contribute so much to the workers fund. The bidding will close at midnight Friday 1st December, winners will be announced on Saturday 2nd Dec and payments can go direct to the donation website.

Send your bids to: [e-mail]

AND please dont forget to give your PH name

PLESAE NOTE: These generous prizes are for basic services and any extra work needed will as usual be charged at the normal garage rate.

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RUNNING TOTAL SO FAR IS AN UNBELIEVABLE ............... £4,531 ............... FANTASTIC GUYS
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GOOD LUCK

Mike

Edited by V8Smith on Monday 4th December 21:58

[amazon]

Great job Mike Very impressed

[V8Smith]

amazon said:

Great job Mike Very impressed

Thanks mate but I only made the calls, I am more impressed by the generous donations, I applaud them all lets see if the bids are as impressive

Mike

Edited by V8Smith on Thursday 23 November 10:30

[KirstM]

Well done that man

Thats the spirit!

[amazon]

V8Smith said:

amazon said:

Great job Mike Very impressed

Thanks mate but I only made the calls, I am more impressed by the generous donations, I applaud them all lets see if the bids are as impressive

Mike

Edited by V8Smith on Thursday 23 November 10:30

You are too modest, methinks! Well thought out to go for servicing, cos' we all need it, so it's easier to justify bidding for it!

[amazon]

I have just read my last post and would like to point out - for the avoidance of doubt - that it's our CARS which need servicing!

[KirstM]

[Mr Sheen]

amazon said:

I have just read my last post and would like to point out - for the avoidance of doubt - that it's our CARS which need servicing!

.....I almost fell off my chair

Edited by Mr Sheen on Thursday 23 November 10:59

[V8Smith]

Mr Sheen said:

amazon said:

I have just read my last post and would like to point out - for the avoidance of doubt - that it's our CARS which need servicing!

.....I almost feel off my chair

Edited by Mr Sheen on Thursday 23 November 10:59

I preferred the before edit "I nearly feel off my chair", seems more accurate

Edited by V8Smith on Wednesday 6th December 10:38

[Mr Sheen]

Each to their own Smithy

[fly boy]

Mr Sheen said:

amazon said:

I have just read my last post and would like to point out - for the avoidance of doubt - that it's our CARS which need servicing!

.....I almost fell off my chair

Thanks Nicky- Anyone know how to get tea out of keyboards??

[e2djh]

This is just absolutely amazing

Every day brings another wonderful surprise

A huuuuuge effort fom Mike, thank you so much.

lets make sure we make it worth his while, get your bids in now

[V8Smith]

Not all items have been bid on yet as its only early days, but the fund has been boosted by £770 already well done guys keep am coming.



Mike

Edited by V8Smith on Thursday 23 November 15:13

[ricardinho]

Mike

YHM

Excellent idea.

Richard

[V8Smith]

I make that now £945 towards the workers fund, and still not all the items have a bid, keep it up chaps.



Mike

[UncleDave]

[V8Smith]

UncleDave said:

THanks Dave, you, KirstM and Billynomates were in a bidding war for a minute there, before I could update the thread and reply another bid came in...thats more like it......

To top it off UncleDave takes us over the £1000 mark, with a running total, which keeps rising to:


£1,005 bid so far, keep it going thats fantastic

[UncleDave]

V8Smith said:

To top it off UncleDave takes us over the £1000 mark

Nice work, still half with no bids!

[V8Smith]

UncleDave said:

V8Smith said:

To top it off UncleDave takes us over the £1000 mark

Nice work, still half with no bids!

Yeah still 2 services with no bids, there must be TVR owners in East Midlands and Cheshire..........

Sorry Dave Phil seems determined to get the clock...

Mike

[BoyzToyz]

Good job on the auction Mike...my bid's in...now let's look at those other lots