Early TVR Pictures

[GTRene]

1971 TVR Tuscan V8


and 2 Grantura's


and


and


and


CYO-2H = Tuscan V6, raced by Peter Shaw


DNJ-154K = Vixen 2500


DNP-151H = Vixen S2?

Edited by GTRene on Wednesday 11th February 19:14

[alphaone]

[quote=GTRene]HOY-11K =Boss302 4wd Tuscan V8




4WD? Any more info on this car, what running gear did it use to acheive 4WD?

[jim3000s]

I believe CYO 2H is a Tuscan V6, and is raced by Peter Shaw.

Cheers, Jim

[Terminator]

alphaone said:

4WD? Any more info on this car, what running gear did it use to acheive 4WD?

HOY11K

edited to make linky worky

Edited by Terminator on Wednesday 11th February 12:22

[alphaone]

Cheers for the link, some very interesting reading.

[Thurner Fan]

GTRene said:

OPD-297D = Grantura 1800s

This racer actually started life as a MkIV 1800S [Source : TVR Sprint magazine, model register].

It may even have been a display car at the 1966 Motor Show.

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

Edited by Thurner Fan on Wednesday 11th February 18:51

[GTRene]

jim3000s said:

I believe CYO 2H is a Tuscan V6, and is raced by Peter Shaw.

Cheers, Jim

Thanks, I've changed it, its very hard to see if such is a Tuscan or S2 from the outside, every time I get confused

Thurner Fan said:

This racer actually started life as a MkIV 1800S [Source : TVR Sprint magazine, model register].

It may even have been a display car at the 1966 Motor Show.

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

Ah thanks, chnaged it and added those extra pictures, I always called such Grantura 1800S
as in mk4, but I guess its not called Grantura anymore but only mk4 1800s?
also sometimes confused with the Vixen S1.

[GTRene]

some more with V-11967 = Vixen S1 daimler V8

[GTRene]

so, now I'm gonna show a lot Vixen 2500 cars and or based as, so also V8 cars etc.

starting with 10-28580 = Vixen 2500

[GTRene]

22-VXN = 1971 Vixen 2500

[The Surveyor]

The Surveyor said:

Just seen these, my Dads old S3 1600 Ford Vixen was KTF 778K. Originally dark green then painted nightfire red with a blue powder coated chassis as below.

I've found some more old photographs of KTF 778K, firstly when it was British racing green



And later on during it's refurbishment in it's fresh nightfire red.



And finally, back home

[Sonus]

Might be stupid, but in Norway the cars chassis number is public information. Do we know the chassis numbers of the cars posted in this thread?

Could we then make out which cars has survived and which are missing in action? Which are modified and which are original?

Or am I throwing stones in a glass house now?

[Arnage14]

Sonus said:

Might be stupid, but in Norway the cars chassis number is public information. Do we know the chassis numbers of the cars posted in this thread?

Could we then make out which cars has survived and which are missing in action? Which are modified and which are original?

Or am I throwing stones in a glass house now?

Very difficult in the UK. In fact impossible to research without applying to the DVLA and we go by registration numbers unless the owners volunteer the information. Also some classic cars have been stolen/recovered/missing and found etc in their lifetime and so people can get nervous about giving chassis numbers out. A Policemen I know reckons theres also the possibility of cloning if someone has the chassis number (I dont know how).

[The Surveyor]

Arnage14 said:

Sonus said:

Might be stupid, but in Norway the cars chassis number is public information. Do we know the chassis numbers of the cars posted in this thread?

Could we then make out which cars has survived and which are missing in action? Which are modified and which are original?

Or am I throwing stones in a glass house now?

Very difficult in the UK. In fact impossible to research without applying to the DVLA and we go by registration numbers unless the owners volunteer the information. Also some classic cars have been stolen/recovered/missing and found etc in their lifetime and so people can get nervous about giving chassis numbers out. A Policemen I know reckons theres also the possibility of cloning if someone has the chassis number (I dont know how).

It shouldn't be an issue, most modern cars have the chassis number displayed at the bottom of the windscreen these days so that's already in the public realm, and they are much easier to clone than rare individual low-volume cars. My Maserati is listed on the Mexico Register which is publically accessible, and IMHO that helps to protect it's identity as there is no ambiguity over which car is which.

[Arnage14]

The Surveyor said:

It shouldn't be an issue, most modern cars have the chassis number displayed at the bottom of the windscreen these days so that's already in the public realm, and they are much easier to clone than rare individual low-volume cars. My Maserati is listed on the Mexico Register which is publically accessible, and IMHO that helps to protect it's identity as there is no ambiguity over which car is which.

I agree for modern cars. Somewhat different for classics or the ones referred to in this thread though!

[GTRene]

29WL = Vixen 2500

[Fiscracer]

[/quote] I always called such Grantura 1800S as in mk4, but I guess its not called Grantura anymore but only mk4 1800s?
also sometimes confused with the Vixen S1.
[/quote]


Not to be confused with a Grantura MkIII 1800 of course

[GTRene]

oooo, now I'm lost and confused even more with those 1800s types...


063-964 = Vixen 2500

[GTRene]

299-AMM = Vixen 2500 gone Tuscan V6

[GTRene]

333-VFX = Vixen 2500