Wedge prototype for sale...

[L33]

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-pa...

Can anyone varify this or is someone telling porkies?

[trackcar]

prototype of what though? first convertible wedge? why is it a 1982 car though? there's a very similar looking wedge which is turboed .. maybe it's that car .. rumoured to be a factory development sister car to teh silver FHC? or did i get those many wires crossed?

[chedder]

Porkys I think, later bonnet and later fuel cap than the early series one rag tops.

[grahamw48]

I think the bonnet is the correct one.

- Had my Series 1 bonnet on and off often enough, albeit a FHC.

[chedder]

Got to argue the point about the bonnet, the very first sries ones have 5 slots in the center at the rear of the bonnet, mine is th 13th ragtop (1980) to come out of the factory and thats how mine is shaped

[L33]

Also for sale here and this time also fitted with a turbo:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C31606

[grahamw48]

chedder said:

Got to argue the point about the bonnet, the very first sries ones have 5 slots in the center at the rear of the bonnet, mine is th 13th ragtop (1980) to come out of the factory and thats how mine is shaped

Ayup lad sithee....don't know whether we're agreeing or not,
but here's me old one....Chassis no.10, 1980 (not registered 'til 1983) with lots of holes in't bonnet.

[cuneus]

Here is a picture of the 350 prototype being piloted by John Kent around Donington

[TVR 3X]

Every TVR made was a prototype - except the last of the series.

Russ

[broadside]

I think the bonnet on the prototype 350I is the American Export version as found on the Federal Spec 280i's. But this is a TVR so it was probably fitted with whatever was lying around :-)

The black one as advertised looks like the DHC Turbo which was in need of a bit of TLC I remember from the Sprint Article it was featured in a couple of years back.

Edited by broadside on Sunday 29th June 23:20

[SEvans]

Fairly sure this is the other 2.8 Tasmin Turbo. If I am correct then this was a genuine car from the factory. It was for sale in the UK a few years ago, when I went to see it. Cheers Steve

[jmorgan]

I was going to add turbo prototype?

[JR]

SEvans said:

Fairly sure this is the other 2.8 Tasmin Turbo. If I am correct then this was a genuine car from the factory. It was for sale in the UK a few years ago, when I went to see it. Cheers Steve

The Gamekeeper sold that one. There was a third one (third 2.8 turbo that is) that surfaced a few months ago in Africa; maybe this is that one.