3 early tasmins on ebay one the original press car

[coolmartin80]

I see there are 3 tasmins on ebay two of them pinto 2 litre and one an early car the owner is saying is the original factory press car with the road tests included, the starting bid is 5,000 buy it now price 8,000 but it has been restored to a very good standard, selling because of ill health, anyone interested.

[stevoj]

exhaust set up
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TVR-Tasmin-Wedge-/251934...

[uglymug]

mmmmmmmmmm ! an anodised chassis ??

[Wedg1e]

stevoj said:

exhaust set up

You mean the twin wheelbarrow handles? It was the fashion for a while, god knows what they were thinking

[mrzigazaga]

uglymug said:

mmmmmmmmmm ! an anodised chassis ??

I should imagine this is what it has had...It certainly is a fine example of a 34 years old hand built British sports car..So how many "Press cars" were there?...It would be good to know the chassis number..Could it be the first DHC?

I know i "Whinged" about the scruffy 350i for 4K but this is an early Tasmin....And in the words of Oliver Winterbottom who we all know was the original designer of these cars..."These are the true Tasmins...Not those V8 thingy-ma-jigs"...

Some of the stories that he told us were really interesting even though it took a few G&T's to loosen him up...The funniest thing i heard him say was when he was judging the concourse car comp at the fest a couple of years back and John Box stood in front of the one he was judging..He said.."Get out the way you silly old sod..And your still wearing those red trousers"..Funny thing was the following year when John came again he was wearing the same red trousers.......Unless he has about ten pairs...Bit like me with my black T-shirts...

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[Wedg1e]

It's not impossible to anodise steel but you wouldn't normally do it; anodising is more associated with alloys. Do they mean galvanised?

[coolmartin80]

hi Mark, Yep would love to know that chassis number also its got to be in the first handful of dhc made, i would love to put in a bid myself but i would have to sell some i already have first, maybe Mr Tank will take it on now he is keeping his cars and showing them at shows again its just his sort of thing.

[hallsie]

if you can find out the original number plate Ill be able to tell you what number it is

Stu

[coolmartin80]

Hi Stu, i contacted the owner who replied that he is more than happy to help with any info he has on the car, he says the original reg was TVR 22. As that reg is a private one i dont know if you can just put a number plate like that straight on a car from the TVR factory, so i dont know if thats its first reg or just the one on it when he first got the tasmin but maybe you know about factory regs. Martin.