TVR Factory Pics and shut down info. Help please!!
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Hi all.
I remember around 2008 someone, somewhere on PH someone posted internal pics of the TVR factory. I distinctly remember someone had pics of the unfinished cars just sitting in one of the factory hangers/halls just simply left, unfinished when the doors finally closed for good. I can remember a photo taken from over above of roughly 25 cars just sitting unfinished, redundant.
1) Can anyone remember/know where i can locate these pics. Would really really love to see them again.
2) Does anyone know what exactly happened to these cars when the factory closed for good in Blackpool. They must have gone somewhere and surely are not just still sitting in the building, unfinished.
Does anyone know?
Thanks guys.
Justyn
I remember around 2008 someone, somewhere on PH someone posted internal pics of the TVR factory. I distinctly remember someone had pics of the unfinished cars just sitting in one of the factory hangers/halls just simply left, unfinished when the doors finally closed for good. I can remember a photo taken from over above of roughly 25 cars just sitting unfinished, redundant.
1) Can anyone remember/know where i can locate these pics. Would really really love to see them again.
2) Does anyone know what exactly happened to these cars when the factory closed for good in Blackpool. They must have gone somewhere and surely are not just still sitting in the building, unfinished.
Does anyone know?
Thanks guys.
Justyn
extremekiter said:
Hi all.
I remember around 2008 someone, somewhere on PH someone posted internal pics of the TVR factory. I distinctly remember someone had pics of the unfinished cars just sitting in one of the factory hangers/halls just simply left, unfinished when the doors finally closed for good. I can remember a photo taken from over above of roughly 25 cars just sitting unfinished, redundant.
1) Can anyone remember/know where i can locate these pics. Would really really love to see them again.
2) Does anyone know what exactly happened to these cars when the factory closed for good in Blackpool. They must have gone somewhere and surely are not just still sitting in the building, unfinished.
Does anyone know?
Thanks guys.
Justyn
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/sims.dm/TVRFactory?f...I remember around 2008 someone, somewhere on PH someone posted internal pics of the TVR factory. I distinctly remember someone had pics of the unfinished cars just sitting in one of the factory hangers/halls just simply left, unfinished when the doors finally closed for good. I can remember a photo taken from over above of roughly 25 cars just sitting unfinished, redundant.
1) Can anyone remember/know where i can locate these pics. Would really really love to see them again.
2) Does anyone know what exactly happened to these cars when the factory closed for good in Blackpool. They must have gone somewhere and surely are not just still sitting in the building, unfinished.
Does anyone know?
Thanks guys.
Justyn
Edited by cuneus on Sunday 25th April 23:15
This one ? 
Factory photo thread image a third down on page 8.
Go careful with the thread though, its 52 pages and can be quite absorbing......
Factory photo thread image a third down on page 8.
Go careful with the thread though, its 52 pages and can be quite absorbing......
Decided to get myself all wound up by looking through the whole album, and came across this:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/sims.dm/TVRFactory?f...
F'k. They actually got as far as making a model (albeit a small one).
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/sims.dm/TVRFactory?f...
F'k. They actually got as far as making a model (albeit a small one).
As has been said the cars in the picture and others where originally put into storage by TVR after NS bought the company back from the receiver. There were other unfinished cars not shown in that picture which may or may not have been in the factory when it closed. 
Some of the nearly complete cars were finished by TVR themselves and sold a couple of years ago, the green LHD Sag in the pic was used as the basis for the infamous TVR relaunch preview Sagaris II. That was given to a middle eastern business contact last year.
Other, less finished ones, where sold off to people like Str8six to finish, others where handed over to Multipart in a 'contra' deal for rent etc and most are available through Racing Green. Others were dismantled for parts I understand and some stuff went recently in NS's UK clearout.
The unoccupied buildings at the factory are more or less empty so they're not like a 'Marie Celeste' anymore. It's actually quite busy with various TVR and car related businesses with some non car related so it's not as sad and forlorn as it was 3 odd years ago.
Some of the nearly complete cars were finished by TVR themselves and sold a couple of years ago, the green LHD Sag in the pic was used as the basis for the infamous TVR relaunch preview Sagaris II. That was given to a middle eastern business contact last year.
Other, less finished ones, where sold off to people like Str8six to finish, others where handed over to Multipart in a 'contra' deal for rent etc and most are available through Racing Green. Others were dismantled for parts I understand and some stuff went recently in NS's UK clearout.
The unoccupied buildings at the factory are more or less empty so they're not like a 'Marie Celeste' anymore. It's actually quite busy with various TVR and car related businesses with some non car related so it's not as sad and forlorn as it was 3 odd years ago.
Edited by V8 GRF on Tuesday 27th April 09:28
V8 GRF said:
The unoccupied buildings at the factory are more or less empty so they're not like a 'Marie Celeste' anymore. It's actually quite busy with various TVR and car related businesses with some non car related so it's not as sad and forlorn as it was 3 odd years ago.
Not forgetting TWO Gyms .... I wonder want PW would have thought about Gyms ... with his 60 fags a day. 
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