Thursday 14th August 2008

TVRs Destroyed In Fire

Fire at TVR workshop leaves seven TVRs destroyed and others badly damaged

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At least seven TVRs have been destroyed in a fire at a car service garage in Coventry. Some owners had only brought their cars in for a service but found they were melted almost beyond recognition.

The fire is thought to have broken out at TVR Performance and Service Centre in Longford around 1am. Around 45 firefighters tackled the blaze but many cars were ruined and others were badly damaged. The fire was finally put out around 4.30am.

The blaze is understood to have been caused by an electrical fault and a fire investigation officer attended the scene during the day. No one was in the building at the time and it is thought nobody was injured.

Watch Commander John Anderson, of Foleshill Fire Station, said: 'The fire was quite severe and the building was extensively damaged. TVRs are very expensive cars and about seven of them were badly damaged by the fire.'

Richard Peacock, 21, is a company director who owns one of the damaged cars. His car had recently undergone around £35,000 worth of work, and was due to leave the garage next week. He said: 'It's heart-breaking, being my pride and joy.'

 

[donaldhunter]

Oh man. I'm due to collect my car from them tomorrow. Does anyone have a contact number so I can find out if it's worth going?

[lazyitus]

No number but have a nosey on here.

Some PH'ers are affected.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Edited by lazyitus on Thursday 14th August 17:05

[Shnozz]

big thread running in the TVR general forum

[sebo]

Fair play to the 21 year old for blowing 35k on his pride and joy.

such a shame to lose a loved one. My thoughts are with the owners.

[OllieBirmingham]

What a shame, be difficult to replace those cars.....

[humperdink]

sebo said:

Fair play to the 21 year old for blowing 35k on his pride and joy.

such a shame to lose a loved one. My thoughts are with the owners.

I would suspect it would cost him that to insure his car!

[911deutschmarque]

humperdink said:

sebo said:

Fair play to the 21 year old for blowing 35k on his pride and joy.

such a shame to lose a loved one. My thoughts are with the owners.

I would suspect it would cost him that to insure his car!

He was having £35,000 worth of work done on his TVR?

By doing what exaclty? Turning it into a Cayman?

Maybe he was paying to stop it setting on fire?

[R5GTTgaz]

I'm sure the credit crunch will see more dealerships burning down.

[im]

911deutschmarque said:

humperdink said:

sebo said:

Fair play to the 21 year old for blowing 35k on his pride and joy.

such a shame to lose a loved one. My thoughts are with the owners.

I would suspect it would cost him that to insure his car!

He was having £35,000 worth of work done on his TVR?

By doing what exaclty? Turning it into a Cayman?

Maybe he was paying to stop it setting on fire?

Er what? Turning it into a Cayman???

[shirazjiwa]

Here's the vid of the workshop:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7560995.stm

[tomTVR]

What a waste of good cars. That and with these idiots constantly crashing them theres going to be none left in ten years time.

[911deutschmarque]

im said:

911deutschmarque said:

humperdink said:

sebo said:

Fair play to the 21 year old for blowing 35k on his pride and joy.

such a shame to lose a loved one. My thoughts are with the owners.

I would suspect it would cost him that to insure his car!

He was having £35,000 worth of work done on his TVR?

By doing what exaclty? Turning it into a Cayman?

Maybe he was paying to stop it setting on fire?

Er what? Turning it into a Cayman???

He could have been, a Cayman is much less likely to go up in flames!!!!

[MonkeyHanger]

Gazboy said:

Christ there are some poisonous people online today.

Only today ?

[Stuart J]

Gazboy said:

Christ there are some poisonous people online today.

Im afraid its typical these days

Its becoming known as Penisheads on many other forums

[tomTVR]

Stuart J said:

Gazboy said:

Christ there are some poisonous people online today.

Im afraid its typical these days

Its becoming known as Penisheads on many other forums

Is it really or are you just saying that?

Anyawy lets not go off topic too far but there is bound to be plenty of dheads on here simply because it is such a huge site. If you look at percentages i bet this is one of the best forums on the entire net when it come to to quality folk.

[malman]

911deutschmarque said:

He could have been, a Cayman is much less likely to go up in flames!!!!

On another thread 911deutschmuppet said:

What a strange thing to say with no rationale to back it up?

[chizzle]

i would really like to know how on earth a 21 year old had enough money to firstly buy and insure and then spend a further £35k on repairs or mods?

seems crazy to me!

[esso]

Stuart J said:

Gazboy said:

Christ there are some poisonous people online today.

Im afraid its typical these days

Its becoming known as Penisheads on many other forums

TOO RIGHT MATEY~I WOULD AGREE WITH THAT STATEMENT ENTIRELY!!!

Edited by esso on Thursday 14th August 18:41

[jmorgan]

chizzle said:

i would really like to know how on earth a 21 year old had enough money to firstly buy and insure and then spend a further £35k on repairs or mods?

seems crazy to me!

Maybe they earned it?




Back on topic. Oh eck!

[Simond001]

sebo said:

Fair play to the 21 year old for blowing 35k on his pride and joy.

such a shame to lose a loved one. My thoughts are with the owners.

I'd assume that the £35k included buying the car. Even then he'd b hard pushed to spend that much.

Maybe just a little pub talk for the camera.