TradeMe car thread

[Kiwi Carguy]

Kiwi XTR2 said:

Like I said . . . nice cat

Haha your funny. I never even saw the cat,

It is actually quite nicely engineered. Especially the exhaust fabrication probabably due to limited space. Very TVRish. I personally wouldn't own it but think it's a well executed project. From what I can rememember these things were quite competative back in their day. My old boss runs one with a twin cam Lotus in it which has or is featuring in NZ Classic Car mag.

You could look at the heat issue two ways. In the front the headers would get much more airflow over them reducing their temperature but it'd be a *&^%#& doing any work on the front of the motor if the cars been running. Nice pipe work tho

[Izza]

jamieheasman said:

I actually like some aspects of it (which I'm slightly ashamed of) but it must be said that it's been done very,very well. Lovely engineering.

Let me guess, the colour matches your "man-bag"

[mark387mw]

Not on TradeMe but if only I had $49,000 spare
TVR Tuscan Racer

[Roger A]

300hp / what does it weigh? 300 seems modest when you can often see 200+ from a 4 cyl. Does that mean it'd be ultra-reliable? Oh, no -that's right, it's British

[Kiwi Carguy]

mark387mw said:

Not on TradeMe but if only I had $49,000 spare
TVR Tuscan Racer

That was for sale for quite some time last year and has competed in the NZ Targa. Looks like a bit of fun.

[GravelBen]

Hmmm, Tuscan racer + Targa NZ + Rain (which it usually seems to) = driftastic!

[jamieheasman]

It would have to be a modified 4.6litre Rover to produce 300bhp (they normally only put out about 200-220bhp). Standard TVR 5.0litre engines don't produce this (more like 260bhp for a good one). Not that that really matters, Rovers are all about torque and they produce shitloads.

With 380bhp a Tuscan racer was tested by Autocar in 89/90 (I think) and did 0-60mph in 3.6 seconds and 0-100mph in 6.0 seconds so yeah, they're quite nippy!

That's a lot of car for the money especially if it's road legal. I exchanged emails with the owner at one point and he'd had to remove the road legal part from his add as the LTSA had refused it because it had no racing history in NZ!

[v8sag]

jamieheasman said:

he'd had to remove the road legal part from his add as the LTSA had refused it because it had no racing history in NZ!

I thought it was a little bit fishier than that,i'll swap stories see thread below

[Kiwi Carguy]

Not often you see this stuff come up...wish I had more money and purchase it for my Automania Cafe

www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=94372431
www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=94373599

[GravelBen]

Quick (or mental)... www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Specialist-cars/Competition-cars/auction-93986228.htm

Interesting... www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Specialist-cars/Competition-cars/auction-94375418.htm

Slightly odd... www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Specialist-cars/Competition-cars/auction-92960480.htm
(any idea what it actually is, whether its any good, what its worth?)

Edited by GravelBen on Tuesday 3rd April 10:58

[Kiwi Carguy]

Family hack wagon www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Cars/Toyota/auction-94666572.htm

[Kiwi XTR2]

GravelBen said:

Slightly odd... www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Specialist-cars/Competition-cars/auction-92960480.htm
(any idea what it actually is, whether its any good, what its worth?)

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