May be of interest to some of you (Longers especially!)

[King Fisher]

Nick's had to sell the S, due to a new arrival......



I'll give you a clue, it's yellow..... ;-)

ETA

No link to adverts in the forums.

Edited by Big Al. on Sunday 15th July 14:04

[King Fisher]

Now nick didn't know about removing the throttle pot, will this enable him to get the timing spot on? Also, his insurance has now moved onto the Chim, so surely any road test would be uninsured, as even third party requires a policy on the car does it not? Or am I mistaken?

As for it being the most expensive, there are other cars on there that are more, and that haven't had the level of work done that this car has, it's been rebuilt from the ground up, and I can also testify that it's a bloody quick little car, as can many other PHers who've encountered it on hoons. Nick really wants it to go to a good home too, so if anyone is interested give him a bell.

[King Fisher]

scotty_d said:

You are correct and if the car has no insurance under the new rules as of this year the car can not have a tax disc, A total pain in the back side to classic car owners.

So there you go, it'd be extremely difficult for Nick to insure and tax two cars. I hope the fact it just walked through its MOT first time is of some comfort to prospective buyers too. He will however sort the timing out now he knows a way of tricking the ECU, thanks for that folks.

[King Fisher]

mycroft said:

True but when i bought the Tam and still had my S my insurer let me have the S on my Tam policy for a small fee , they understood that i couldn't drive both but needed to keep the S insured . Once i sold the S i cancelled the addition on my main policy and got a refund . However you talk up the car only a fool would pay the asking price for a car that they can not road test and doesn't run properly .
Yet again your telling us what a quick car this is , its 911 eating exploits are legendary ,heaven help any super cars he meets a his new Chim .

It cost him £70 a month to have it as an addition to his current policy. Didn't make sense when he can have it on its own policy with 1500 annual mileage limit for a smidge over 500 quid, so that's what he's going to do. The throttle pot idea seemed to work, the timing is fine now and touch wood it's running fine. It does run rich, but that's how the rolling road set it up, and the dyno figures speak for themselves.

As for your rather sarcastic attitude, is that really necessary? All I get is negativity from the community on here, shouldn't you be encouraging TVR ownership, not putting the younger owners down and shunning them?

[King Fisher]

phillpot said:

I'd disagree. From my experience of reading many threads you get a lot of sound advice from here (much of which you seem to ignore) and maybe a little wit, humour, sarcasm, winding up or whatever you choose to call it, but when a young lad comes on here asking how to get huge BHP from an S, how to make it madly loud and tales of "racing" Porsches etc.he is perhaps "asking for it" ?

Over the weekend you emailed me about borrowing the Star Tester, I got straight back to you explaining it was with another owner and if you'd let me have your address I'd ask him to forward it on to you. No reply then today I read you've fixed it and presumably don't need it ? Thanks for letting me know.

Back to the insurance, I appreciate Nick is young and insurance is expensive but you're a little older, could you not sort something so you could give prospective buyers a run round the block? Did Nick buy his Chimeara without a test drive?

Nice looking Chimaera,tempted to ask if it's egg custard yellow but don't don't think you'd appreciate it

Sorry Mike that is my fault, I've been busy and forgot to tell Nick the email had come through, he's just replied from my account. Apologies.

And he has taken the advice on here, hence why he's about to insure it so it can be test driven by prospective buyers.

[King Fisher]

glenrobbo said:

Mike,
At least you're not a non p/h troll infestation like the rest of us.
I'm wondering why Chris's S sold so quickly, & Nick's hasn't?

He's had interest from a few different parties, one of his old college tutors fancied it, but was sadly told he wasn't allowed the car by his Mrs, and another of his friends (TomTVR) was interested, but again financial constraints meant it was a no go. Does anybody think the car is overpriced, or is it a fair price considering the work done? It was valued at £6500 by a TVR garage when he had to renew the agreed value of the car after his rebuild!

[King Fisher]

jwoffshore said:

Coming back with my helpful hat on... You have certainly made the car more attractive now that it is a drive away proposition. The main thing I think is missing from the advert is any comment on the cosmetic condition of the car. The paint looks OK in the photos, but maybe you should comment on that in the text. There is no clue provided on the colour or condition of the interior.

Done! The interior is actually in fantastic condition, I wouldn't have said it looks 23 years old. Like all these things, it may have been replaced at some point in the cars life, you never know!

[King Fisher]

phillpot said:

Much better ad (imho) But I'd still put 6 months tax on it. When it comes to the "haggling" stage straight away I'd be looking for £200 off coz no tax !

These cars look good, sound good, but it's the blast round the block that sells 'em.



now just the spelling mistake to sort

disc...disc...disc...disc...

Edited by phillpot on Thursday 12th July 11:13

Once he's sorted the insurance out he's going to tax it (criminal offence now to have a car taxed with no insurance). I reckon he may take it for a little drive too to see its old owner whom he bought it from 3 years ago. His last words to Nick were 'look after it lad'. I hope he did him proud!

[King Fisher]

Now now gents. Graham is not a troll, I can confirm he is infact a human and not a large ugly creature from Middle Earth. He has also been in the car on a number of trips to TVR races, and helped with the fitting of the Gazs back at the start of Nicks rebuild (the rebuild had two halves, a first patch up to get it through the summer, doing the vitals, and then a complete strip down later in 2010 and continuing into 2011).