Early TVR Pictures

[GTRene]

bluezeeland said:

GTRene said:

nice one, not seen before I believe (can't remember )

Must be the dementia kicking in Rene.....(14 posts back, one of your own.....)

aaaaaaaaah yes its going faster then I thought help... ;-)

[Grantura MKI]

Time to stop collecting pictures and buy yourself a TVR?
Best,
D.

[prideaux]

Grantura MKI said:

Time to stop collecting pictures and buy yourself a TVR?
Best,
D.

He is the only one that will already have a File on whatever car he does get one day
A

[Grantura MKI]

prideaux said:

He is the only one that will already have a File on whatever car he does get one day
A

I heard that, plus pictures are not as expensive to keep!!!
Best,
D.

[thegamekeeper]

Grantura MKI said:

I heard that, plus pictures are not as expensive to keep!!!
Best,
D.

What price boredom?

[prideaux]

thegamekeeper said:

Grantura MKI said:

I heard that, plus pictures are not as expensive to keep!!!
Best,
D.

What price boredom?

A little Cheaper Than a glass of Night Nurse
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[prideaux]

GTRene said:

oliverb205 said:

Not sure if this Griffith 400 has been posted before, but it is a real one. I think...


Oliver.

Nice, I thought that licence plate looks familiar to me, I have 16 pictures on my pc from that car, later on it looks like this>



and I guess later then that like>



will post more of that car later when I'm in that Griff 400 file.

This car is from what i have been told a TUSCAN V8 not a Griffith and was the sister car to Matins ML500 and was used as a factory demonstrator and was one of the first cars fitted with the Chromed Window frames no Quarter Lights if not the first not sure if Martins car was first or this one
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[GTRene]

could be so, the vents in the side wings can indeed fool you, last night while reading a few pages in a TVR book euhm success against the odds, I also read from such car with those side vents different then the later Tuscans...so there could be interesting story behind that.

edit, found it, page 138 with a picture of a flared wheel arches LWB Tuscan V8s owner by then Martin Bolsover.
plate "SWR 9F"





OUU-4F = griffith 400



and others





this one is very nice too>







166-EPB = griffith 200



and



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

Edited by GTRene on Friday 3rd April 01:57

[RobMk2a]

My father / brother own the Ex Martin Bolsover Tuscan SWR 9F - I believe there is some documentation saying the side vent was changed to the old style probably at the same time as the other body modifications.


Rob

[Adrian@]

2/10/14.. a Mk1 and a Mk2a



Adrian@

Edited by Adrian@ on Friday 3rd October 12:01

[GTRene]

[RobMk2a]

Adrian,

Do you have the rest of the cars?

Rob

[Adrian@]

Both local ...the MK2a needed the lower central part of the bonnet replacing, so I've used the MK1 as a fill/splash mould then grafting that in and a repair prior to making a new MK2a bonnet mould.

A 'fulfilling' piece of work
Adrian@

Edited by Adrian@ on Friday 3rd October 12:07

[luckycarter]

The car is the last Griffith, chassis/No 200/10, last of the 10 built by the Lilleys from the Griff bits left in the factoy

prideaux said:

GTRene said:

oliverb205 said:

Not sure if this Griffith 400 has been posted before, but it is a real one. I think...


Oliver.

Nice, I thought that licence plate looks familiar to me, I have 16 pictures on my pc from that car, later on it looks like this>



and I guess later then that like>



will post more of that car later when I'm in that Griff 400 file.

This car is from what i have been told a TUSCAN V8 not a Griffith and was the sister car to Matins ML500 and was used as a factory demonstrator and was one of the first cars fitted with the Chromed Window frames no Quarter Lights if not the first not sure if Martins car was first or this one
A
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[prideaux]

luckycarter said:

The car is the last Griffith, chassis/No 200/10, last of the 10 built by the Lilleys from the Griff bits left in the factoy

prideaux said:

GTRene said:

oliverb205 said:

Not sure if this Griffith 400 has been posted before, but it is a real one. I think...


Oliver.

Nice, I thought that licence plate looks familiar to me, I have 16 pictures on my pc from that car, later on it looks like this>



and I guess later then that like>



will post more of that car later when I'm in that Griff 400 file.

This car is from what i have been told a TUSCAN V8 not a Griffith and was the sister car to Matins ML500 and was used as a factory demonstrator and was one of the first cars fitted with the Chromed Window frames no Quarter Lights if not the first not sure if Martins car was first or this one
A
A

Do you have interior early shots of the car as talking to a certain young man he believes it was finished to Tuscan V8 se spec as a demonstrator for the following Tuscans
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[luckycarter]

I will have to look but yes i seem to remember it did have a Tuscan interior. As for the window frames i ve seen pics of 200/2 and 3 and they both have chrome surrounds with no quarterlights. Earlier UK Griff 200/gb/5043 also has a Tuscan interior

[vixen1700]

Unfortunately not as nice as the above pictures:







The top picture is the most recent: July

[prideaux]

luckycarter said:

I will have to look but yes i seem to remember it did have a Tuscan interior. As for the window frames i ve seen pics of 200/2 and 3 and they both have chrome surrounds with no quarterlights. Earlier UK Griff 200/gb/5043 also has a Tuscan interior

I think that if you go back to the time they where made they would have been sold as Tuscans not Griffith as that was the latest model and customers would have been buying into the latest model which was basically a Griffith 400 with cosmetic changes even keeping the Bonnet on the early Tuscan V8SE they would have used up the remaining Griffith Chassis that would have had that numbering.
Chassis Numbering etc was not as important to new car customers but new features where ?
Makes it even more interesting IMOP as its both a Griffith Heritage car and a Tuscan Development car very special
I think there where a couple of Griffiths that when crashed around that time when they went back to the factory where given the latest features ie Tuscan as I guess we would do today if we owned a 12 month old Morgan or Nobel that went back to the factory if there was the opportunity to upgrade to the latest spec
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Edited by prideaux on Friday 3rd October 20:14

[prideaux]

vixen1700 said:

Unfortunately not as nice as the above pictures:







The top picture is the most recent: July

Very Nice someone has been a Busy Boy keep the pictures coming
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[GTRene]

593-KGO = griffith 200



and others









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

Edited by GTRene on Friday 3rd April 01:59