Who's got the earliest Griff on here.??

[hillclimbmanic]

...I'll start it off:

Mine(400, in Moonraker Black) was registered on the 14th of February 1992...

Edited by hillclimbmanic on Monday 9th May 20:50

[Toma500]

Mine is an early 500 first registered in September 93 .

[hillclimbmanic]

Toma500 said:

Mine is an early 500 first registered in September 93 .

Looks great...I love the red...

[PeteGriff]

My 4.3 Precat was registered in September 92!

[seaside]

4.3 - May 1992
500 - November 1993

[geeman237]

.....and if someone has an early 1992 Griffith they would consider selling so I can legally import it to the USA in 2017, then get in touch..... just saying....

[Hoover.]

beats mine by a month... March 92

[MPO]

Wouldn’t the chassis number identify the earliest?

[Just Trouble]

geeman237 said:

.....and if someone has an early 1992 Griffith they would consider selling so I can legally import it to the USA in 2017, then get in touch..... just saying....

I suspect there may be a few Griff's heading over to the States on a one way ticket making the remaining UK Griff's even rarer. Anybody considering selling their P&J to the American market?

JT

[geeman237]

Just Trouble said:

geeman237 said:

.....and if someone has an early 1992 Griffith they would consider selling so I can legally import it to the USA in 2017, then get in touch..... just saying....

I suspect there may be a few Griff's heading over to the States on a one way ticket making the remaining UK Griff's even rarer. Anybody considering selling their P&J to the American market?

JT

In my case you would be selling your P&J to a Brit now resident in the US. I'm happy keeping the British end up over here when it comes to cars. I have no plans to convert to the 'dark side' of American muscle cars. I expect the number of cars going stateside to be very small because most American's don't like RHD cars.

[Griffer]

My 400, also Moonraker Black, is May 92

[neutral 3]

Geeman, huge choice out there of some very nice 65 - 72 Stingrays ( I bought a lovely 69 T Top manual 350 back in 91, jeez where has the time gone ???? ) or are you set on a Griff ?

[geeman237]

Yes, I am set on a Griffith. I recently drove a friends restored '70 Corvette big block 427 convertible with a manual gearbox. Not impressed. Sure it was powerful but felt really poorly made. No offence. I've been in the US 12 years now and just can't get into the American car scene. I'm a sucker for a trad Brit wood and leather interior. This is kind of hijacking the thread a bit. But back to the earliest Griffith, it seems registration date will have to the benchmark as actual date of manufacture records don't appear to exist. I'd bet most early Griffiths were registered within weeks of being built due to early high demand.

I seem to be in a plastic fantastic phase with my cars, owning a Daimler SP250, Reliant Scimitar and Lotus Turbo Esprit so a Griffith seems fitting.

neutral 3 said:

Geeman, huge choice out there of some very nice 65 - 72 Stingrays ( I bought a lovely 69 T Top manual 350 back in 91, jeez where has the time gone ???? ) or are you set on a Griff ?

[Toma500]

hillclimbmanic said:

Looks great...I love the red...

Cheers Maniac i have had her 12 yrs now im 54 was a bit of a midlife crisis purchase .
Most people love it ,though with my hair gone grey now friends are saying i look like
A 70s porn star when im driving around and about . I did look at a couple of black ones
When i first started looking at Griffiths but i settled on this red one 12 yrs many £ later
Im finally getting it the way i want it , they are a bit of a forth bridge car mind you !

[lockhart flawse]

Yup - looks a very nice car indeed.

[griffdude]

This is up for £19,995 on a popular auction site, 13th Feb 1992.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TVR-GRIFFITH-400-PRE-CAT...

[geeman237]

griffdude said:

This is up for £19,995 on a popular auction site, 13th Feb 1992.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TVR-GRIFFITH-400-PRE-CAT...

I saw that one and got in touch with the seller. When I asked about getting an independent inspection (because I am in the US) he wasn't keen on the idea.

[gwardman]

More of that to come I think once the us market opens...

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

Advert says inspection welcome lol

Edited by gwardman on Thursday 19th May 23:09

[FlipFlopGriff]

The first customer car (a pastel yellow 400 and the motor show car) was registered on 9th Jan 1992.
FFG

[Toma500]

FlipFlopGriff said:

The first customer car (a pastel yellow 400 and the motor show car) was registered on 9th Jan 1992.
FFG

Is that the one with the normal type of door handles ? Think i have seen that one before either at a previous Growl or at HHC possibly .