OOh, your gonna like this !!

[Solitude]

Thanks lads, cracking aren't they ?
Sadly, its all i was given (but what a gift !!) and its on a disc.
I think they will be doing the rounds for a while yet !!

Gavin

[Trickie Dickie]

Great Pics Gavin and thanks for sharing

Amazing similarity to the ones I posted a while ago
from 1990 when I toured the factory.

I love seeing the shells all lined up ready for starting

There were a couple of 400SE shells still there last summer

Cheers
Trickie

Mikeb - let me know if you want the 1990's factory pics

[tempus]

Fantastic Gavin,could it have been early `84? just so I can figure out how fast they were selling.

[taz turbo]

Mike Brewer said:

Great pictures .Just a quick question.When the chassis is removed from the jigs is the surface rust removed ?Also noticed powder coating missing near rear trailing arm .I have just got a thing about my chassis LOL.As my dear wife tells me when i crawl underneath with my paint brush etc .Mike

Light grey chassis = early 80s proper job, sub contracted out to be properly coated, there probably as good now as when they left the factory, or am I just lucky?

Chris.

[Mike Brewer]

Hope so Chris.Great car you have there.Interesting pictures .So sad no more TVR.Cheers Mike

[Campbell]

Cheers for sharing these great pics a nice oice of TVR history

Cambelt

[adam quantrill]

mikeb said:

adam quantrill said:

Errrm - surely the originals would be film negative, not digital, from 1983 ;^)

....'Returns 30mins later and has these on a CD for me'.

MikeyB

adam quantrill said:

originals

[Mr Tank]

mrzigazaga said:

Looks like Mr Tanks No 1 production..Same colour..Top photos..

It may be, best bit see the vac in the forground. A Jack Sealey vac and in 1983 I was the national service/parts manger for them!

Andy

[Mr Tank]

Hi

Just had another look at pics think the color is to Green to be mine!

The chassis are all 280i's and the White car may be the 350i used in the original sales brochure!

Andy

[grahamw48]

Fantastic find !

Also a little sad I suppose.


TVRCC archivist may be interested in these too.

[c pryor]

Excellent pictures. Makes you wonder if there was an annual school visit to the factory !!

[jmorgan]

Superb.

On a side note, a colleague had a book on fibre glass repairs (and construction?) and if memory serves me there were a few pics from the Wedge era in there

[hallsie]

taz turbo said:

Light grey chassis = early 80s proper job, sub contracted out to be properly coated, there probably as good now as when they left the factory, or am I just lucky?

Chris.

Not lucky, I have a grey chassis aswell, and its minty apart from the leading edge of the outrigger which has got a tiny bit of chipping and surface rust.
Ill be sorting that today!

Stu

[mikeb]

Trickie Dickie said:

Great Pics Gavin and thanks for sharing

Amazing similarity to the ones I posted a while ago
from 1990 when I toured the factory.

I love seeing the shells all lined up ready for starting

There were a couple of 400SE shells still there last summer

Cheers
Trickie

Mikeb - let me know if you want the 1990's factory pics

Yes please. Any pics of the factory wanted, preferably with loads of wedge's around.

Please send them to [e-mail]

MikeyB

[Wedg1e]

hallsie said:

Chassis 5703 is quoted in the 'Bible' as being @ USA car VIN DH1105, start of trimmed cross tube behind seats..

Whatever that means!


Stu

Early cars didn't have a brace between the 'B' pillars. It's at the top of the slope behind the seats on a DHC, the trim was modified to hide it.

[Wedg1e]

Big Daft Lad said:

Fantastic photographs! Great photographer for a school kid!

I love the chassis numbers and the related info on the blackboard, does anyone have one of these chassis?

I was interested to see the manifolds on the V6 engines, that's confirmed to me that they are not standard Ford item but look like they've been modified.

IIRC one of them was definitely a special casting, it had the TVR logo cast-in. Can't recall if the other side (o/s?) was a standard part though.

[Big Daft Lad]

hallsie said:

Have you got anymore of the silver FHC outsids the factory? Stu

Looks like it's a 2+2 and it has had one of Comandis’ cheap, nasty, pronetoleaking after market sunroofs fitted directly at the factory…

[grahamw48]

Shocking !

[hallsie]

I knew it was a 2+2, but i didnt look at the 'nastyboughtfrom halfords, comedydis' sunroof, so its not mine.
It does have the same 'aftermarket' wing mirrors though!!

Mine started off this colour too, but its now ford mercury grey.

Stu

[Trickie Dickie]

Here is the link to my pics from 1990

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

Cheers
Richard

Mikeb - they are too large for emailing so pm your address and I will post a CD