Griffith 200/400 Market price ?
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Hello maddog993
"David Gerald Ltd brought the car to the UK in 1990 and completed the initial restoration -(Chris Schirles might have had a hand during this ?)- it was resprayed silver and remained this way until Tim John "
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sorry for my bad english. I know also that David brought a Griffith 200 at 1989/1990 from USA to UK. But this car was sold to a german man in 1990. Do you know which car it was?
Gruß
Toni
"David Gerald Ltd brought the car to the UK in 1990 and completed the initial restoration -(Chris Schirles might have had a hand during this ?)- it was resprayed silver and remained this way until Tim John "
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sorry for my bad english. I know also that David brought a Griffith 200 at 1989/1990 from USA to UK. But this car was sold to a german man in 1990. Do you know which car it was?
Gruß
Toni
Hi Toni, sorry for the delay in replying (only just noticed there was a new addition to this thread!)- don't think it would be the same car - the first owner, after David Gerald brought it to the UK & restored it, was Michael J Abraham who owned it from 1991 to 1993 (unless he was German?), at which point it was picked up by Tim John. As far as I know it never left the UK after it was brought over from the US.
Rob
Rob
Hello all. I've been reading the posts on Griffiths with much interest. I owned 200-091 years ago and sold it to a fellow from the UK; I've since forgotten his name- David I think. I was kept informed of its whereabouts by a fellow American, Joe Rauh, who for a while, had a website dedicated to Griffith. He contacted me after the sale to place my name in the ledger of ownership for a compilation of history he was doing. He sent pictures of 091 "restored" to a racing behemoth with mods everywhere including fender flares, massive rear tires, open induction hood and a 500bhp engine. It was a great looking fire-breather but sad to see her cut like that. In its last incarnation, it was being circuit raced throughout Europe by a wealthy Austrian industrialist (as told by Rauh)in blue with white stripes. Joe has disappeared it seems and I've had no further notion of where this car is. Does anyone here know of the car or who may have her now? I've rued the day I sold that car but am comforted by looking at the original window sticker from Jack Griffith and the original type-set owner's manual. Both may well be rarer than the car. Any thoughts are appreciated.
spike091 said:
Hello all. I've been reading the posts on Griffiths with much interest. I owned 200-091 years ago and sold it to a fellow from the UK; I've since forgotten his name- David I think. I was kept informed of its whereabouts by a fellow American, Joe Rauh, who for a while, had a website dedicated to Griffith. He contacted me after the sale to place my name in the ledger of ownership for a compilation of history he was doing. He sent pictures of 091 "restored" to a racing behemoth with mods everywhere including fender flares, massive rear tires, open induction hood and a 500bhp engine. It was a great looking fire-breather but sad to see her cut like that. In its last incarnation, it was being circuit raced throughout Europe by a wealthy Austrian industrialist (as told by Rauh)in blue with white stripes. Joe has disappeared it seems and I've had no further notion of where this car is. Does anyone here know of the car or who may have her now? I've rued the day I sold that car but am comforted by looking at the original window sticker from Jack Griffith and the original type-set owner's manual. Both may well be rarer than the car. Any thoughts are appreciated.
According to the now defunct JR Db 200-5-091 was last owned by a Henrik Lindberg. Can't say I have heard of this one (not heard of it rcaing since I've had mine (5 or so years). There was a well know 200-5-191 that was a top fia car in the 90's and there is a very mildly modded 400-5-191 that races in the UK.FYI a good fia car like you are say will have about 400-430bhp. But yes Massiveley fast. Sad to see those mods!! Those are the best things that could possibly happen to it (IMHO).
Google and Griffith
I think you might have this confused with the 191 fia car (Dark Blue) race alot in Europe in the 90's.
See http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1...
Edited by jellison on Sunday 6th February 19:43
Tuesday 30th November 2010
Depends what you car a Road version
Mine will be "driven" on the road.
Interesting news just out on the first 3 Griffiths made - more later Friday 3rd December 2010
Hands are tied More post 31 March 2011.
It might even look like a car again by then (proper engine and box now in ).Just a reminder! 
(I'm guessing you've used all three cars in the making of yours. Tsssk, how wasteful.)
jellison said:
Depends what you car a Road version
Mine will be "driven" on the road.
Interesting news just out on the first 3 Griffiths made - more later
jellison said:
Hands are tied More post 31 March 2011.
It might even look like a car again by then (proper engine and box now in ).
(I'm guessing you've used all three cars in the making of yours. Tsssk, how wasteful.)
Slow M said:
Just a reminder!
(I'm guessing you've used all three cars in the making of yours. Tsssk, how wasteful.)
haha (I'm guessing you've used all three cars in the making of yours. Tsssk, how wasteful.)
Er no but in contact with the owner of 015 and think I have info of who has 016 somewhere.
As for a Road car - in the UK - if it has a registration plate and doc and passes and MOT safety (yearly) check you can "drive" it on the road. So in theory if you can get past the above you can drive on the road (even if it is a weekend racer
Edited by jellison on Thursday 17th February 08:57
Resurrecting this thread to show the pics of 200/6/176 that Joe Rauh recently sent;
In it's original green (with the Cragars- so maybe they were on from scratch after all);
and in it's subsequent 'hot-rod' guise with side-exit exhaust - (as correctly identified in the earlier pics by Oliverb205 and Fiscracer) ;
(I was obviously imagining the 'flame' graphics and the wire wheels, but at least I did remember the De Tomaso Pantera correctly!)
In it's original green (with the Cragars- so maybe they were on from scratch after all);
and in it's subsequent 'hot-rod' guise with side-exit exhaust - (as correctly identified in the earlier pics by Oliverb205 and Fiscracer) ;
(I was obviously imagining the 'flame' graphics and the wire wheels, but at least I did remember the De Tomaso Pantera correctly!)
Edited by maddog993 on Sunday 24th April 22:50
I love this wide one, is it still around somewhere?
could not find any pictures with the plate number search, only that it was some sort of race car back in the old days around 1964.
Those pictures are in/from the book from Peter Filby so I mentioned that in the pictures.
where is it and what happened to it, its wide and mean looking and lovely
I also read in the book that it was crashed during some testrit to a show in 1964 and was a write off, but I also have read that the car was a race car? see here>
http://www.racingsportscars.com/chassis/archive/20...
would love to own such sort wide curved Griff or replica one day when the numbers come up ;-)
could not find any pictures with the plate number search, only that it was some sort of race car back in the old days around 1964.
Those pictures are in/from the book from Peter Filby so I mentioned that in the pictures.
where is it and what happened to it, its wide and mean looking and lovely
I also read in the book that it was crashed during some testrit to a show in 1964 and was a write off, but I also have read that the car was a race car? see here>
http://www.racingsportscars.com/chassis/archive/20...
would love to own such sort wide curved Griff or replica one day when the numbers come up ;-)
Edited by GTRene on Thursday 2nd January 12:10
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