Early TVR Pictures

[oliverb205]

prideaux said:

This I very poor quality and Robin is trying to find someone that has a better Quality copy but this really needs adding to the TVRCC Archive I think you need to be on facebook to view.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1469615646650...

Edited by prideaux on Sunday 21st September 21:14

That was truly awful, I can see why I have never heard of him. Sort of Ten Pole Tudor does the Eurovision Song Contest.

Oliver.

[prideaux]

oliverb205 said:

prideaux said:

This I very poor quality and Robin is trying to find someone that has a better Quality copy but this really needs adding to the TVRCC Archive I think you need to be on facebook to view.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1469615646650...

Edited by prideaux on Sunday 21st September 21:14

That was truly awful, I can see why I have never heard of him. Sort of Ten Pole Tudor does the Eurovision Song Contest.

Oliver.

the good bit was the Car though cool to see it in a Video
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[oliverb205]

Don Ensley's Grantura Mk "Ole Blue" is a lovely car, and was identified by Gerry Sagerman as being the car he raced at Sebring in the 1960s. However in the last photo you will spot a model of a Grantura on the roof - here is a closer shot I took of it at Indianapolis in 1997.



Don is far to modest to tell you about it, if he was on here, but here is the story as well as I can remember it. He has had Granturas since they were new, and when he was conscripted to Vietnam shared a dorm with a guy who had been sent an E-Type kit model. The guy played around with and really wasn't getting anywhere, so Don said "I bet I could make that into a model of my TVR". The guy replied that if he wanted it he could have it, so Don took it and spend the next few months modifying the entire model until it was a very good replica of a TVR that he owned on the other side of the world.

He's darn good at keeping real TVRs on the road too.

Oliver.

[oliverb205]

Another from "Out of the Woodwork", Indy 1997.

[prideaux]

oliverb205 said:

Another from "Out of the Woodwork", Indy 1997.

Thanks for the update and info there is so much history about or cars out there is fantastic to hear little bits each day.
That ML wide bodied Tuscan is for sale i believe by the family of the long term owner not advertised yet i believe.
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[oliverb205]

Yes, I believe the long time owner died fairly recently. It is a quite wonderful car, as is the Jomar he had.

Oliver.

[GTRene]

good story, did not know that it came out the factory like that, a shame they did not make more of those

Its not a Griffith I guess, but I have that file with pictures in my griff 200 documents, my bad.

[Grantura MKI]

oliverb205 said:

Yes, I believe the long time owner died fairly recently. It is a quite wonderful car, as is the Jomar he had.

Oliver.

Not as far as I know. You have it right about Don....top man and logs many a mile on the old girl.
Best,
D.

[Granturadriver]

Great to see these Out of Woodwork pics. I recently found the reinstalled old TVR Car Club North America page under http://tvrna.tvrccna.org/index.html with lots of pics from early TVRs!

[alphaone]

oliverb205 said:

Don is far to modest to tell you about it, if he was on here, but here is the story as well as I can remember it. He has had Granturas since they were new, and when he was conscripted to Vietnam shared a dorm with a guy who had been sent an E-Type kit model. The guy played around with and really wasn't getting anywhere, so Don said "I bet I could make that into a model of my TVR". The guy replied that if he wanted it he could have it, so Don took it and spend the next few months modifying the entire model until it was a very good replica of a TVR that he owned on the other side of the world.
He's darn good at keeping real TVRs on the road too.
Oliver.

Great story cheers for sharing it

[oliverb205]

Grantura MKI said:

oliverb205 said:

Yes, I believe the long time owner died fairly recently. It is a quite wonderful car, as is the Jomar he had.

Oliver.

Not as far as I know. You have it right about Don....top man and logs many a mile on the old girl.
Best,
D.

Oops, have I prematurely announced his death?! Very sorry if so, I was sure I posted something on here or the club website a few months ago and was told that he had recently died. And with Andrew saying that the car was about to come up for sale...

Oliver.

[oliverb205]

The only photo I can find of the aforementioned Jomar, there is some great info on Jomars and this car in particular in Automobile Quarterly Vol 35 No 2.

Oliver.

[oliverb205]

It's about time we showed another shot of an orange Vixen, so here's Dick Edwards' S2 at Indy in 1997 with "Ole Blue". I wish we could have registrations like that over here...

Oliver

[oliverb205]

And since today is Bruce Springsteen's 65th birthday, what better excuse to show a couple of shots of Nick Beagley's converted Tuscan V6 at Blackpool in April 1990. Anyone know what happened to it?

Oliver.

[oliverb205]

Here is the second shot, which for some reason didn't post with the first.

Oliver.

[GTRene]

poor Tuscan V6...

another really lovely looking Griffith 200 without sunroof.

pictures from the time it seems to be in the hands of>

said:

Marshall Labow's 1965 Griffith 200

[Grantura MKI]

GTRene said:

Originally from my neck of the woods when owned by P Gallant. Car was sold after my Vixen beat him at a local concours...not to worry, as PG has Cobras, etc in his collection.
Best,
D.

[oliverb205]

Wasn't the Griffith with the tubular bumpers owned by "Fast Freddie" McKinley? He was at the second Woodwork I went to in 2002, and lived up to his nickname...

Oliver.

[Grantura MKI]

Yes, a true master when it comes to Griffiths over here. His car is alway very well sorted!
Glad that I have eluded the camera this far!!!
Best,
D.

[GTRene]

MNY-879 = griffith 200



























edited to ad plate numbers so google can find them back.

Edited by GTRene on Friday 3rd April 01:28