Old negs found from TVR Factory visit 1990

[Trickie Dickie]

For those who don't know me I own a 1990 TVR 400SE
and have been trying to find where I got the love of TVRs (and especially the Wedges) from
when a few months ago my Dad pulled out the following pic



I thought it was from his old camera, but this weekend my wife was looking for some old pics
and suddenly announced to me " have you seen these pic of TVRs?" from my old negs

They are more pics from the same factory visit, when I went with my Dad
and the Leeds Engineers Society for a look around in about 1990. Scanned and reproduced here






























The pink S should certainly be easy for someone to identify!!!!!
Just sorry I could see either my 1989 350i or 1990 400SE

Hope you like them

Richard

[V8 GRF]

Some good shots there not seem many 'older' pics of the factory.
Interesting to see what I assume is a Tuscan Challenge shell mixed in with the Wedges

Edited by V8 GRF on Monday 11th August 15:08

[jimed]

What an interesting lot of pictures. Not too sure about the pink one though!!
Jim

[Barkychoc]

OK I am an S Anorak.

Those pictures must be about 1993 as there is a mix of V6 bonnets with the central hump and others with the S4 style side slits and no hump (The white one and the red one), so it must have been towards the end of S production.

If they are earlier its really odd that there are bonnets with the side slits - I thought they came much later.

Fantastic pictures thanks for sharing them.

Chris

Edited by Barkychoc on Monday 11th August 19:04

[carl_w]

Barkychoc said:

Those pictures must be about 1993 as there is a mix of V6 bonnets with the central hump and others with the S4 style side slits and no hump (The white one and the red one), so it must have been towards the end of S production.

If it's 1993, where are all the Griffs?

[taimar78]

Thanks for the photos. They are very reminscent of ones I took in 1991 during my first factory visit. And to answer someone else's question, they wouldn't be from 1993 because they weren't still building wedges then.

[Simpo Two]

carl_w said:

Barkychoc said:

Those pictures must be about 1993 as there is a mix of V6 bonnets with the central hump and others with the S4 style side slits and no hump (The white one and the red one), so it must have been towards the end of S production.

If it's 1993, where are all the Griffs?

Sold

It's defo an S4 so 1993-4 I'd say.

[DavidY]

No some S3's had the side vents, so I would say it's the S2/S3 crossover point and therefore 90/91

davidy

[mikeb]

carl_w said:

Barkychoc said:

Those pictures must be about 1993 as there is a mix of V6 bonnets with the central hump and others with the S4 style side slits and no hump (The white one and the red one), so it must have been towards the end of S production.

If it's 1993, where are all the Griffs?

....Round the fracking back! ;-)

MikeyB

[tubbystu]

Barkychoc said:

OK I am an S Anorak.

Those pictures must be about 1993 as there is a mix of V6 bonnets with the central hump and others with the S4 style side slits and no hump (The white one and the red one), so it must have been towards the end of S production.

If they are earlier its really odd that there are bonnets with the side slits - I thought they came much later.

Fantastic pictures thanks for sharing them.

Chris

Edited by Barkychoc on Monday 11th August 19:04

Wow, fantastic photo's - good old transparencies

It sayeth in the bible, (I happen to have it to hand IYKWIM) "the bonnet on the early S3 cars was based on the S2 but later models had a new design, where the air intake was removed and replaced by side slits, similiar to those used later on the Chimaera" page 10 col 1 para 6 - as ever, thanks Steve

However, I concur it cannot be as late as '93 with wedges in build and no Griff's etc.

[Mr Plow]

Great Photo's.

Mine is a 1990 S3C with the side vents in the bonnet.

Not sure about the year on the pink one, it has the older style wing mirrors, I don't know when they stopped using them?

[tinks v8S]

GREAT PHOTOS
rover sd1 mk2 escort mk3/4 cortina estate
what is the year
think granada at back pic 3

Edited by tinks v8S on Monday 11th August 22:31

Edited by tinks v8S on Monday 11th August 22:32

[grahamw48]

My green 1990 400SE is there !
I recognise the chip on the rear spoiler!

[markbigears]

Love the nice tidy working conditions! Did they wash the cars before delivery?

[wheels1]

Great pic's. What is the shell with the round rear lights in the 3/4th pic?

[tubbystu]

wheels1 said:

Great pic's. What is the shell with the round rear lights in the 3/4th pic?

Tuscan race car

[Pupp]

Excellent pics...

[Trickie Dickie]

Thanks for the nice comments guys

All the wedges are 400SEs. so I guessed the year as 1990
as I know the last wedges were built about 1990-91.

No one laying claim to the pink S yet?

Cheers

Richard

[SwanJack]

What about the front fog lights on the 'red' colour S' bonnet. You can just make out that the white one has them also. I thought only the S4's has those?

[Rower]

SwanJack said:

What about the front fog lights on the 'red' colour S' bonnet. You can just make out that the white one has them also. I thought only the S4's has those?

The driving lights were standard on the S3C's which also had cats and LSD, they also carried onto the S4's and V8S's .

Rower