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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TVR-CLASSIC-WEDGE-400SE-...
No connection to the car or seller, but on the face of it, it looks nice.
No connection to the car or seller, but on the face of it, it looks nice.
I am 90% sure that is my old car - if the registration ends FLA. If it is my car I had the roll bar fitted by tower view race in north London.
It was a brilliant TVR - I owned it for 7 years and it only died on me once when the connection I had fitted to the fuel pump came loose so my fault entirely.
I did a huge number of track days and sprints in it and used to win in it regularly. It really was a well sorted wedge. I sold it about 10 years ago.
It was a brilliant TVR - I owned it for 7 years and it only died on me once when the connection I had fitted to the fuel pump came loose so my fault entirely.
I did a huge number of track days and sprints in it and used to win in it regularly. It really was a well sorted wedge. I sold it about 10 years ago.
jesfirth said:
I am 90% sure that is my old car - if the registration ends FLA. If it is my car I had the roll bar fitted by tower view race in north London.
It was a brilliant TVR - I owned it for 7 years and it only died on me once when the connection I had fitted to the fuel pump came loose so my fault entirely.
I did a huge number of track days and sprints in it and used to win in it regularly. It really was a well sorted wedge. I sold it about 10 years ago.
Also has a battery cutoff switch near the battery..It was a brilliant TVR - I owned it for 7 years and it only died on me once when the connection I had fitted to the fuel pump came loose so my fault entirely.
I did a huge number of track days and sprints in it and used to win in it regularly. It really was a well sorted wedge. I sold it about 10 years ago.
jesfirth said:
I am 90% sure that is my old car - if the registration ends FLA. If it is my car I had the roll bar fitted by tower view race in north London.
It was a brilliant TVR - I owned it for 7 years and it only died on me once when the connection I had fitted to the fuel pump came loose so my fault entirely.
I did a huge number of track days and sprints in it and used to win in it regularly. It really was a well sorted wedge. I sold it about 10 years ago.
So, never raced or rallied then. Lol.It was a brilliant TVR - I owned it for 7 years and it only died on me once when the connection I had fitted to the fuel pump came loose so my fault entirely.
I did a huge number of track days and sprints in it and used to win in it regularly. It really was a well sorted wedge. I sold it about 10 years ago.
Bobhon said:
jesfirth said:
I am 90% sure that is my old car - if the registration ends FLA. If it is my car I had the roll bar fitted by tower view race in north London.
It was a brilliant TVR - I owned it for 7 years and it only died on me once when the connection I had fitted to the fuel pump came loose so my fault entirely.
I did a huge number of track days and sprints in it and used to win in it regularly. It really was a well sorted wedge. I sold it about 10 years ago.
So, never raced or rallied then. Lol.It was a brilliant TVR - I owned it for 7 years and it only died on me once when the connection I had fitted to the fuel pump came loose so my fault entirely.
I did a huge number of track days and sprints in it and used to win in it regularly. It really was a well sorted wedge. I sold it about 10 years ago.
Bobhon said:
jesfirth said:
I am 90% sure that is my old car - if the registration ends FLA. If it is my car I had the roll bar fitted by tower view race in north London.
It was a brilliant TVR - I owned it for 7 years and it only died on me once when the connection I had fitted to the fuel pump came loose so my fault entirely.
I did a huge number of track days and sprints in it and used to win in it regularly. It really was a well sorted wedge. I sold it about 10 years ago.
So, never raced or rallied then. Lol.It was a brilliant TVR - I owned it for 7 years and it only died on me once when the connection I had fitted to the fuel pump came loose so my fault entirely.
I did a huge number of track days and sprints in it and used to win in it regularly. It really was a well sorted wedge. I sold it about 10 years ago.
Competition cars are usually much better under the skin than road standard cars. The reason is simple. To be competitive on the track the components including large ones like engines, gearboxes, diffs, suspension, bushes, steering etc are usually upgraded, regularly rebuilt and meticulously maintained. If they aren't you are either slow or the car breaks and you don't get to the end of a race day.
by way of example if you look at pictures of my griff (used for sprinting) it looks rough - nothing a new boot and bonnet and a respray would not sort out - but under the skin it is perfect. The money spent is considerable - it has a repainted chassis, an uprated engine, new diff, new nitrons, new bushes, new steering rack, upgraded wishbones, upgraded ARB's, oil coolers etc etc.
Naturally competition biased cars are not to everyone's taste most people just want a nice drive on a Sunday and I get that - just putting over a different point of view (-:
Number 7 said:
If it's the car I think it is, it was bought by one of my friends in the mid-'90's as a damaged repairable. He put the bits of body work back together and got it painted. Then sold it to a young guy whose dad had bought it for him as a graduation present, and he took it with him to live in Greece.
yes that's the one. I bought it after it came back from the Greece in 98. It had loads of unintelligible maintenance receipts from a Greek Landrover dealer.jesfirth said:
LOL Yup - so true - the perception that raced or tracked cars are not good is a strange on though born out of, I suspect, lack of understanding. My view on track biased cars is the opposite to the perceived wisdom.
Competition cars are usually much better under the skin than road standard cars. The reason is simple. To be competitive on the track the components including large ones like engines, gearboxes, diffs, suspension, bushes, steering etc are usually upgraded, regularly rebuilt and meticulously maintained. If they aren't you are either slow or the car breaks and you don't get to the end of a race day.
by way of example if you look at pictures of my griff (used for sprinting) it looks rough - nothing a new boot and bonnet and a respray would not sort out - but under the skin it is perfect. The money spent is considerable - it has a repainted chassis, an uprated engine, new diff, new nitrons, new bushes, new steering rack, upgraded wishbones, upgraded ARB's, oil coolers etc etc.
Naturally competition biased cars are not to everyone's taste most people just want a nice drive on a Sunday and I get that - just putting over a different point of view (-:
Competition cars are usually much better under the skin than road standard cars. The reason is simple. To be competitive on the track the components including large ones like engines, gearboxes, diffs, suspension, bushes, steering etc are usually upgraded, regularly rebuilt and meticulously maintained. If they aren't you are either slow or the car breaks and you don't get to the end of a race day.
by way of example if you look at pictures of my griff (used for sprinting) it looks rough - nothing a new boot and bonnet and a respray would not sort out - but under the skin it is perfect. The money spent is considerable - it has a repainted chassis, an uprated engine, new diff, new nitrons, new bushes, new steering rack, upgraded wishbones, upgraded ARB's, oil coolers etc etc.
Naturally competition biased cars are not to everyone's taste most people just want a nice drive on a Sunday and I get that - just putting over a different point of view (-:
I totally agree with this,, take a road ca to a track and you'll find its faults in seconds,, to win anything g in cars the minimum requirement will be a solid car that can handle the demands, most road cars with an mot would not cope at all well.
Jes is a winning machine, he'd win nothing without the car upto what he as a driver can do, it stands to reason the fastest guy is also likely to have one of the best cars or he can't do his magic.
The problem arises when you get people ragging them around tracks without spending the the money to get/ keep the car at a top standard then after so much fun, fobbing the car off to an unsuspecting person who finds out the cars worn out.
There's experts and there's amateurs.
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