S? Launceston Cornwall

S? Launceston Cornwall

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greymrj

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3,316 posts

203 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TVR-280S-convertible-/15...
Hmmmm,seller doesnt know the car very well! Would need some serious checking. 280S but with 2.9 engine? Mentions electric windows...on a 280! G reg? Chrome bumper trims?
Interior looks pretty grubby.
Engine looks awful! From what little bits of the chassis can be seen then the rest of the unmaintained metalwork might well be a nightmare.

Dont like the sellers feedback or that he is keeping some information 'private' which makes it harder to check if honest.

greymrj

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3,316 posts

203 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Even less happy, the owner is apparently The Maya Trust, with website http://www.mayatrust.com/. But they are not a trust! The actual name is rather 'naughty'; The Maya Truste.

yknot

8,950 posts

137 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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My goodness, that engine bay looks a mess!!eekeek

MisterTee

319 posts

108 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Item has now ended! scratchchin

Looking at the triumph herald that is listed on their website as "sound", I'd be very wary!

Andy

Edited by MisterTee on Thursday 23 February 18:49

Kitchski

6,514 posts

230 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Quite a nice looking car. Price is steep if the chassis needs doing (which, you'd assume it would, being that it hasn't already been done).

Is the interior that grubby? I think it's just the colour (awful colour for an interior, really).

upperthong

109 posts

100 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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Think I would have stayed well clear of this one. Don't mind a bit of a tidy-up, but think this is ready for a full strip down and start again! And like you say, an S1 with a 2.9 engine? And were the spotlighted bonnets available at the time of S1's? Could it be a car that has had a front ender .......... new engine, bonnet??

Kitchski

6,514 posts

230 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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It's not an S1. Lots of S' are listed down as 280S'. I've even seen a V8S registered as a 280S!

It's a late-S2, for my money. The fact he's actually stated it has a 2.8 engine is harder to defend though! hehe

magpies

5,129 posts

181 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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Kitchski said:
It's not an S1. Lots of S' are listed down as 280S'. I've even seen a V8S registered as a 280S!

It's a late-S2, for my money. The fact he's actually stated it has a 2.8 engine is harder to defend though! hehe
My S1 does not have a model on the v5 only TVR !!

TVR didn't care less what they stated on the v5

Kitchski

6,514 posts

230 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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magpies said:
My S1 does not have a model on the v5 only TVR !!

TVR didn't care less what they stated on the v5
I know. Mine's listed as...

Make: (blank)
Model: TVR280S (no spaces)

Not only does it make finding the thing on car report websites and the like difficult, it gives me an OCD stroke every time I see it. Couldn't they have got someone in the office who actually gave a fk to fill the forms out? hehe

ianwayne

6,243 posts

267 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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There's over 1800 TVR cars registered at DVLA with the model as "missing" according to howmanyleft.com. Makes accurate numbers of models pretty difficult.

DamianS3

1,803 posts

181 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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I've not tried but even worse is that DVLA apparently won't change it if
You ask either. frown

Damian 290S

glenrobbo

35,061 posts

149 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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Austin, my ( very early first batch ) S1 was registered by TVR in 1987 as a Tasmin, body type: Sports, at the sane time as a batch of actual Tasmins.

After buying the S1 in 2011, I wrote to DVLA to get the model name on the V5 corrected to "280S". They said all they needed was a written declaration from the manufacturer. So no problem at all really, except the factory had closed and TVR had ceased to be 5 years previously. rolleyes

So Austin remains a Tasmin to this day. But a really un-wedgelike curvaceous Tasmin. smile
Yes, in true TVR chaotic fashion, a complete enigma!


DamianS3

1,803 posts

181 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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glenrobbo said:
Austin, my ( very early first batch ) S1 was registered by TVR in 1987 as a Tasmin, body type: Sports, at the sane time as a batch of actual Tasmins.

After buying the S1 in 2011, I wrote to DVLA to get the model name on the V5 corrected to "280S". They said all they needed was a written declaration from the manufacturer. So no problem at all really, except the factory had closed and TVR had ceased to be 5 years previously. rolleyes

So Austin remains a Tasmin to this day. But a really un-wedgelike curvaceous Tasmin. smile
Yes, in true TVR chaotic fashion, a complete enigma!
Maybe the new TVR could help here.?

Damian S3

TVRees

1,080 posts

111 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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Same problem here ...... My 1989 S2 is on the V5 as a 280S frown

The "new" TVR charge £250 for a CoC, so let's not ask how much a model name correction costs !