Bye bye my wonderful V8S

[Tall_Blk]

Sadly after 10 years of owning my v8S, I have now sold it and watch it drive down the road without me in it. It have enjoyed it over the period, had one one puncture and no breakdowns nor MOT failure.

Now to off to start enjoying my next phase of V8 engine

[lordofthewings]

.....will it need to start speaking German by any chance ?

[Tall_Blk]

Lol

[lordofthewings]

....and will also have a few other TVRs to chat to, glad it's gone to a good home. I was similarly devastated when I said goodbye to mine 13 years ago, but I know where it lives.

[germantvr]

Hi,
yes it´s correct, the wonderful V8S will learn some german words.
After around 600 troublefree miles she arrived in my garage.
She spent the weekend at the Oldtimer-Grand-Prix Nürburgring among the other TVR´s at beautiful weather.
Four new tyres are ordered for pleasure miles around black forest county.

[germantvr]

Many thanks for the previous owner for taking care on the baby.
To be sure that she comes to a real good home, with some other TVR´s

[glenrobbo]

It is good to hear that you are enjoying your V8S, Reinhard, but it is a shame that Tall.blk did not show you how to fold down the roof.

Perhaps ChrisWilly can show you?

We love those Black Forest twisty roads.

[germantvr]

Unbelievable, the hood is removable?
I should read the manual......

[lordofthewings]

glenrobbo said:

We love those Black Forest twisty roads.

... and the gateaux !

[RayTVR]

or why not have a black cherry car?

[lordofthewings]

Makes me feel so nostalgic. My first TVR was a (new) Taimar for which I specified Ford black cherry, with cream of course. It was restored about a decade ago in Switzerland then seems to have vanished, my daughter who is proudly displaying one of the chromed rocker covers is 39 today.... Later I bought a new S3C for which I also specified black cherry, sadly written-off by the subsequent owner. Superb colour (although it looks a bit muddy in these scans of pre-digital photos from my albums).

[RayTVR]

Amazing - that answers a question which has been around for a while.

I'd always understood that there were 3 S3 in this colour and I have seen Jacksocket on here who has one living in Yorkshire. Someone did tell me once that there had been one up in Aberdeen area, but I was never able to confirm.

Shame that its written off, such a beautiful colour.

(Sorry for the thread hijack)

[lordofthewings]

My S3C was bought through the TVR Centre in Barnet as I was working in London at the time, and they sold it on for me with low mileage to (I believe) someone in the Home Counties -- not Aberdeen though. It was written off on ice the following winter (1991/92 from memory), so the new owner was probably trying quite hard. All the documentation went with the car, and I have no record of chassis number etc. I have tried tracing the TVR plate (which I bought for the Taimar) through dealers, but they say "it's not available", so I guess that particular plate has gone to the great irretrievable number plate store in the sky.

[TwinKam]

I use an App, 'My Car Check' (others are doubtless available...), that can be used to instantly see what car is registered on any particular number or if, as in this case, the number is out of circulation.
Quite handy to identify unknowns, and also fun to see what's got your own initials followed by a 1 ! ...mine's a V12 Vanquish