Griffith 200/400 Market price ?

Griffith 200/400 Market price ?

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timjohn

5 posts

182 months

Sunday 12th April 2015
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Hi Guys,
Just read the story of my old Griffith 200 JNP 616 C. Glad it's still around as I had 7 fantastic years in it doing track days at good wood and driving it to Le Mans in 1995 to watch the mclaren F1 win.
Chris Shirle did indeed work on it doing the cooling system and yes I did spend loads on it but throughly enjoyed it. I only sold it when my daughter was born as I'd had my time and I knew having kids wouldn't allow that pleasure again.
I bought it in silver and basically restored most of it as it was in a pretty poor state . I had the brilliant manifolds and exhaust system made by a company called RRT which was a motorbike performance outfit in brands hatch and they'd all done there early apprenticeships on American V8's and their work was superb but as is the way they went bust.
The hurst shifter to the ford top loader was very fast and I had the gearbox and diff restored as well.
I remember taking the car down the mulsanne straight on the Friday before the race in 1995 and going flat out,which was about 140mph and being overtaken by a GT 40 at great speed!
My brother met me at Lemans and on the drive home he passed out due to the fumes.
I had a double high riser manifold with twin 750 com Hollys on it.
Who's got it now ?
Great memories. I've now got a 996 Porsche turbo which I've had for 8 years and just had a £20K engine rebuild with Carillo Rods and full Mathay upgrades,bigger hybrid turbos, euro pipe exhaust,bigger inter coolers,remap and now just over 600 bhp - not bad for a practical "family" car.
I also had KW suspension,Alcon brakes,six pot calipers,BBS 19'wheels,Raid steering wheel lapis blue with black leather- just like the Top Gear tested car which I loved when I first saw it in 2000.
Cheers,
Tim

GTRene

16,369 posts

223 months

Sunday 12th April 2015
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GTRene said:
Anyone know what happened with this lovely barn find?

said:
"I’m a real recluse," he said as he opened the first set of shed doors. A fiberglass-bodied green Griffith 200 coupe sat waiting for a fresh Ford 289 Hi-Po engine

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/cars/article1091961.html#sto...
I maybe know what happened with that Griffith 200...

came across this last week, could be this one? no picture yet on their site though >>

http://www.wirewheel.com/1965-Griffith-series-200....

Griffith007

43 posts

114 months

Thursday 16th April 2015
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The car Wirewheel has for sale is from Illinois, this is what I was told.
One owner, 20.000 miles etc. but still in need of a complete restoration.
According to Hayes it´s all there and the car is complete, which is nice
and the price will be around $60K.

GTRene

16,369 posts

223 months

Thursday 16th April 2015
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ah, they have a picture now, looks indeed like another Griffith, nice.

Fiscracer

585 posts

209 months

Wednesday 29th April 2015
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Here's a starter for 10 - or 9.5 in this case

http://racecarsdirect.com/listing/59377/tvr_griffi...


Slow M

2,726 posts

205 months

Wednesday 13th May 2015
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Slow M

2,726 posts

205 months

Thursday 28th May 2015
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Fifth car down. I can't remember, if we've mentioned it, on this thread, at an earlier time. It seems to be a bargain.
http://www.historicracing.org.uk/historicracecars....

Best regards,
Bernard.

Dollyman1850

6,316 posts

249 months

Thursday 28th May 2015
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Slow M said:
Fifth car down. I can't remember, if we've mentioned it, on this thread, at an earlier time. It seems to be a bargain.
http://www.historicracing.org.uk/historicracecars....

Best regards,
Bernard.
It would have been even about 10 years ago when it was for sale!!
N

GTRene

16,369 posts

223 months

Thursday 28th May 2015
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funny, yesterday I posted a picture in classic picture thread about another griff and this one was also on that page, its a picture from a picture in the dark, so bad quality biggrin anyways, this car, but in that book it says Griffith 200-010 (note the RHD and 400 body style), but in those days they seem to call it such in the UK even when it looked like a Griffith 400 ala US.?

And indeed a good attractive price.



Edited by GTRene on Thursday 28th May 10:18

GTRene

16,369 posts

223 months

Saturday 25th March 2023
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yes thread resurrection biggrin

just saw this 1965 TVR Griffith 200 kamm tail racer/road car for sale, compared to some other race cars about half the money, is it half the car? maybe, still they ask 95k euro and its RHD (converted) so not for me :-) there is even a video with James driving this car in a TVR Porsche story, looks like James is Big/cramped in the TVR :-)

Sadly I can't easily take the pictures to post here, but all is their on that page.

its car with number plate JNP-746C and I believe he's also a member of PH I just saw in a old 2015 reaction were he posted here> under Dimension

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=14...

the ad is here>

https://tvrcarclub.de/1965-tvr-griffith-200-kamm-t...