Tuscan Prototype, Where is it..?
Discussion
I've just been reading an old copy of 'Car' magazine which had a feature on the [then] newly launched Tuscan. The car was clearly a prototype, but still had most of the features of the Mk 1 Tuscan.
It was painted a flip copper color with a grey interior, and had some concave spoked 16" wheels.
Clearly a tuscan, but the details were very different, the service bonnet came further up the car, the alloy speedo was a different shape, and the interior lacked a central consol, also the rear indicators were mounted in a verticle tube running up behind the rear screen and the nose lacked the cheese-cutter holes too, looking more like the Mk 2!
Just wondering what had happened to this car and if it survived the usual TVR chainsaw?
Paul
It was painted a flip copper color with a grey interior, and had some concave spoked 16" wheels.
Clearly a tuscan, but the details were very different, the service bonnet came further up the car, the alloy speedo was a different shape, and the interior lacked a central consol, also the rear indicators were mounted in a verticle tube running up behind the rear screen and the nose lacked the cheese-cutter holes too, looking more like the Mk 2!
Just wondering what had happened to this car and if it survived the usual TVR chainsaw?
Paul
I think the same car was used to advertise some paint that TVR were using .. I remember seeing a tuscan similar to that which you're describing on a poster/advert on the wall of the paint shop at harrogate horseless carriages. the wheels were really lovely, wonder why they never made it onto production cars?
trackcar said:
....the wheels were really lovely, wonder why they never made it onto production cars?
Are they not Ford RS Cosworth wheels?EDITED to add before anyone points it out, no they're not I mis counted the number of spokes..... doh!
Edited by V8 GRF on Monday 29th October 15:25
Those are the pictures used in the 'Car' article, and agree about the plain looking centre consol, not one of it's best features.
Also, those wheels are the same design as used on the pale yellow 'speed 6' prototype, could they have shared a chassis
Thanks for posting the pics, and it sounds like another development car which got chopped up. I can understand why they wouldn't want these being released to the public, but its a shame that they were destroyed.
Cheers
Paul
Just googled the Griffith Speed 6 prototype and the wheels are the same in design, but not in stud pattern.... Paul
Also, those wheels are the same design as used on the pale yellow 'speed 6' prototype, could they have shared a chassis
Thanks for posting the pics, and it sounds like another development car which got chopped up. I can understand why they wouldn't want these being released to the public, but its a shame that they were destroyed.
Cheers
Paul
Just googled the Griffith Speed 6 prototype and the wheels are the same in design, but not in stud pattern.... Paul
Edited by The Surveyor on Monday 29th October 15:50
V8 GRF said:
trackcar said:
....the wheels were really lovely, wonder why they never made it onto production cars?
Are they not Ford RS Cosworth wheels?EDITED to add before anyone points it out, no they're not I mis counted the number of spokes..... doh!
Edited by V8 GRF on Monday 29th October 15:25
Cheers,
FT.
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