Early TVR Pictures

[luckycarter]

Dont want to be picky but UPY 777J is a converted V6 Tuscan not a wide bodied, very nice all the same.

[GTRene]

luckycarter said:

Dont want to be picky but UPY 777J is a converted V6 Tuscan not a wide bodied, very nice all the same.

It is wide body, but not a WB in name, I ment to say, I like that wide body(ed) TVR other wise I would put WB after the name

@Hansoplast, thanks, I still have enough pictures for some time, at least a few months or so.
the good thing is, the longer the thread is going, the more people can come across it, and so the greater chance some of those visitors have some old pictures or pictures with older TVR's that never went online, and scan some in and drop them here.

part 2 of 2 with a lovely made wide body. UPY-777J

[Fishermt]

oliverb205 said:

GTRene said:

555-PT I have those in the same file as the KPT-555K but forgot why, I guess they are the same car.

Not the same car, but the same owner. The wide one was hillclimbed by Paul Tankard in the early 80s, and was a brighter blue when I first saw it in 1987. The more standard car is road car he used just a few years ago.

Oliver.

I went to test drive this car in its non racing guise a couple of years ago when it was up for sale. Paul told me he had owned the car from new. Apparently, he had the car delivered as a V6 and quickly found it under-powered and managed to get it re-built to v8 spec by someone working at TVR (he told me the guy's name but I can't remember it now). He then had the car modified for racing - which he said he had done quite successfully - before eventually returning the car to road going spec with his sons. He had sold the personalised number plate 555 PT. Though perched up on the MR2 seat with my head tilted at an angle, the test drive was still very impressive. Unfortunately, it still needed too much work for my budget. It took a few outings in my Vixen to get over the lack of power feeling (now successfully banished from my head).The new owner must be out there somewhere...it would be very interesting to see how the car looks now/what was done with it.

Marc

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a few years ago it was for sale and those race car wide thing pictures (a few and i already had a few) were in the sale ad...so Thats why I thought, it might be the same car (555-PT & KPT-555K) , one before in race trim and one after a big make over.



and TUH-800J


and NVN-229F


and JAU-583




and SPP-216J


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and

[Slow M]

GTRene said:

Can anybody shed any light on this one, or will that requre a call/email to Hayes?

Best regards,
Bernard.

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all I can say is that I wrote this by that car you mentioned >> 1967 TVR Tuscan V8 <<

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CGU-635H

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500-ML


WYY-2G


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and


NVN-229F


and

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WYY-2G




and

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BM-T1633H

[sunbeamtiger65]

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SWR-9F


CYO-2H




VWX-891F

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NVN-229F


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and


and


BM-T1633H


JTF-222K

[Dollyman1850]

GTRene said:

and SPP-216J

This is a very very interesting car for many reasons!!
N

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Dollyman1850 said:

GTRene said:

and SPP-216J

This is a very very interesting car for many reasons!!
N

Good looking little beastie too

[davepen]

GTRene said:

SWR-9F

A few years later, although about 30 years ago....

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481-LRT

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76-PRT Grantura mk3 1963

[Slow M]

E. H. M. Paul,
Griffith 200, Ford 289,
Redex Trophy, Brands Hatch, 30.8.1965
archive James Yrvuol



Jason + Louise Kennedy
`65 TVR Griffith 289
2012 Historic V8 Racers Association (HVRA) FIA class
archive Dave Smith



Ed Stephens, Aintree (1977?)
archive Simon Arron



Havin' fun, in '71.


Best regards,
Bernard

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AK-264-HZ Grantura mk2 (a)






CGU-639H Vixen S2