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dhf said:
I've learnt something new this afternoon that the Speed 12 was going to be called the Mageara,so whats your bit of TVR Trivia,a pic, a titbit of info not widely known,whatever, lets see what it throws up and hey might even chuck in a prize for the most interesting.....
That's my contribution and entry 
edo said:
My uncle taught technical drawing at Blackpool college. He and his students did various drawings for the TVR S manual.
What was his name Edo, it wasnt Phil bracewell or Mel Broadbent, they too worked at the blackpool & Fylde college in mechanical engineering, and were my tutors, ask you Uncle if he knows these 2 if you can ? small world, sorry to go off topic, the moderators will not be happy with me " Big Al"Mark
portzi said:
edo said:
My uncle taught technical drawing at Blackpool college. He and his students did various drawings for the TVR S manual.
What was his name Edo, it wasnt Phil bracewell or Mel Broadbent, they too worked at the blackpool & Fylde college in mechanical engineering, and were my tutors, ask you Uncle if he knows these 2 if you can ? small world, sorry to go off topic, the moderators will not be happy with me " Big Al"Mark
How about the fact that the Tasmin was going to be a Lotus designed car built in Austria by redundant mineworkers!! This is true apparently, Colin Chapman was asked by the Austrian Government to come up with a design for a car that could be contructed over there. They were closing some of their mines down and wanted to be able to re-deploy the workforce. I have copies of correspondence between the Austrian Gov. and Lotus and some pics of an original scale model of the car as proposed, all via an engineer who worked at Hethel at the time. Obviously something happened and the deal didn't go through, Lotus sidestepped the car and it pitched up to ML in Bristol Avenue, and the rest as they say, is history!
Lots of other trivia stored away after nearly 33 years of selling these cars! Just need to get the old grey matter working a bit harder....
Best regards to all, Tony
Lots of other trivia stored away after nearly 33 years of selling these cars! Just need to get the old grey matter working a bit harder....
Best regards to all, Tony
How many people remember that when the 3000M had to be put through the mandatory crash test ( Block of concrete at 30MPH back in the day) it was duly crashed, then they started it and drove it back onto the transporter, much to the amazement of the chaps at MIRA who were more used to shovelling up the remains
Jasper Gilder said:
How many people remember that when the 3000M had to be put through the mandatory crash test ( Block of concrete at 30MPH back in the day) it was duly crashed, then they started it and drove it back onto the transporter, much to the amazement of the chaps at MIRA who were more used to shovelling up the remains
On that matter, I have been told that the reason the Tuscan never got a European CoC was because of the fact that it had been crashed, but failed to reach the minimum surface impact needed by about an inch, and Peter Wheeler refused to actually do the test over as the car passed clearly. Anyone who could confirm this?PascalBuyens said:
On that matter, I have been told that the reason the Tuscan never got a European CoC was because of the fact that it had been crashed, but failed to reach the minimum surface impact needed by about an inch, and Peter Wheeler refused to actually do the test over as the car passed clearly. Anyone who could confirm this?
I was shown a video of a couple of crash tests and while I can't remember any detail it seemed to have come out of it rather well and iirc the doors still opened.Hexhamhc said:
How about the fact that the Tasmin was going to be a Lotus designed car built in Austria by redundant mineworkers!! This is true apparently, Colin Chapman was asked by the Austrian Government to come up with a design for a car that could be contructed over there. They were closing some of their mines down and wanted to be able to re-deploy the workforce. I have copies of correspondence between the Austrian Gov. and Lotus and some pics of an original scale model of the car as proposed, all via an engineer who worked at Hethel at the time. Obviously something happened and the deal didn't go through, Lotus sidestepped the car and it pitched up to ML in Bristol Avenue, and the rest as they say, is history!
Lots of other trivia stored away after nearly 33 years of selling these cars! Just need to get the old grey matter working a bit harder....
Best regards to all, Tony
Please post some more Trivia :-) Whats been your best selling TVR?Lots of other trivia stored away after nearly 33 years of selling these cars! Just need to get the old grey matter working a bit harder....
Best regards to all, Tony
Hexhamhc said:
How about the fact that the Tasmin was going to be a Lotus designed car built in Austria by redundant mineworkers!! This is true apparently, Colin Chapman was asked by the Austrian Government to come up with a design for a car that could be contructed over there. They were closing some of their mines down and wanted to be able to re-deploy the workforce. I have copies of correspondence between the Austrian Gov. and Lotus and some pics of an original scale model of the car as proposed, all via an engineer who worked at Hethel at the time. Obviously something happened and the deal didn't go through, Lotus sidestepped the car and it pitched up to ML in Bristol Avenue, and the rest as they say, is history!
Lots of other trivia stored away after nearly 33 years of selling these cars! Just need to get the old grey matter working a bit harder....
Best regards to all, Tony
I think the common link between Lotus and TVR is Mr. Winterbottom, who designed the Elite, Eclat and Tasmin...Lots of other trivia stored away after nearly 33 years of selling these cars! Just need to get the old grey matter working a bit harder....
Best regards to all, Tony
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