Knight fire beauty

[dave tvr]

The red cerb titled knight fire beauty has been for sale on here for just about as long as I can remember, not that I'm interested it , but does anyone know why it's been there for so long ?? Just curious .

[jamieduff1981]

The one at Hexham?

[N7GTX]

I saw that for sale when I first started looking in the summer last year. It was parked in the showroom in front of the office. Very clean and tidy but at that price way out of my league.

[dave tvr]

jamieduff1981 said:

The one at Hexham?

Yes Jamie, the one at Hexham. It's just been there forever!

[jamieduff1981]

I haven't viewed the car, but first impressions from the advert are that it's too expensive for a car that lay idle for 7 years and has a 25k pre-2004 Speed Six engine and little mention of maintenance/service history other than a new clutch. If it were advertised at half that price I'd have a look, but I wouldn't be remotely interested in that car for £20k minus usual haggling margins because I'd assume I had £10k of potential/probable work ahead of me on potential engine rebuild and probable renewal of most bushes and hoses which will have aged regardless of disuse as well as all the usual upgrades of dampers, geo setups etc.

[robsco]

I fear it's the engine. That car, at that price and mileage, with a V8 wouldn't have been for sale for anything like as long. The Speed Six in a T-car is all well and good as there was no alternative, but many people (wrongly) perceive the Speed Six in a Cerbera to be the baby of the range. They've had their Halcyon Heather 4.2 for a good while too, although that's probably more to do with the colour combo; I briefly considered viewing that car back in August but decided against it on those grounds.

[PuffsBack]

I have a similar age, mileage, history S6 Cerbera. In 2 and a half years it's cost me nothing more than a new battery and alternator other than standard servicing where both a 6k and 12k showed it need nothing and that the engine was in rude health. The Chassis is perfect, no rust anywhere, even the wishbones are perfect.

So not really a believer in all this doom mongering about stuff rotting if it's not used. Admittidly I do push it a couple off feet back and forth ever few weeks in the garage and pump the brakes and the clutch a few times. But other than getting a full tank of fuel I take no other special measures.

[jamieduff1981]

Doom mongering is maybe a little negative. Nevertheless, it's fairly top-end money for a car without a top-end story to go with it. I wouldn't be afraid of a Speed Six at all, not even an unrebuilt one. I'm just not sold on the idea of paying top-end money for a car that doesn't sound like it really has anything particularly compelling about it mechanically.

[PuffsBack]

PuffsBack said:

that the engine was in rude health

LOL so wish I hadn't typed that - envisioning a big cloud of smoke and rattles when I start her up in spring

[scotty_d]

robsco said:

I fear it's the engine. That car, at that price and mileage, with a V8 wouldn't have been for sale for anything like as long. The Speed Six in a T-car is all well and good as there was no alternative, but many people (wrongly) perceive the Speed Six in a Cerbera to be the baby of the range. They've had their Halcyon Heather 4.2 for a good while too, although that's probably more to do with the colour combo; I briefly considered viewing that car back in August but decided against it on those grounds.

The halcyon heather car has been sold and returned in a very short period, I know the last 2 previous owners, and the reason I bought a cerb as I used to hear it rumble around my home town!

I was speaking to the last owner also a ph'er "tvrgit" who informed me at the last tvrcc meet I was at, the cerb must have just not been for him so brought it back within weeks!