so long and thanks for all the fish

[ssavill]

so.... it appears my time for owning a cerbie has been and gone... After a long and loved time, it went down to Dr Fernhurst today and was found with a chassis that was in a nasty way and fuel lines that were in all sorts of trouble....

Confronted with a large bill - I have decided it is time to bail out.

I would like to say thanks to all of you here, for all tips, advice and fun times over the past years and what can i say its been real...

Cheers, and keep well...

I will own a TVR again!!! For sure.

Stuart.

[TT Tim]

Does that mean you've flogged it to Furnhurst?

Their mark up is seems huge.

Was the car really that bad?

Tim

Edited by TT Tim on Thursday 8th May 07:27

[RUSSELLM]

Ouch....

What are you doing with it Stuart ? Trading it in or selling it outright as is ?

[eLSerbera]

Well the condition you describe is exactly what I have been looking for as my project start car... shame about the colour though...

YHM

[amazon]

YHM

[BCA]

Body off rebuild time, as many of us are facing shortly... thankfully, im pretty confident we can rust proof it so that it actually lasts - rather than using the 10p wilkos finest possibly-rust-proofing-we're-not-sure TVR choice.

[RUSSELLM]

Another 98 model.

First rotten one I saw was a Green S plate 98 4.5 in Birmingham, ten years old now, but rotten at only seven years old, when I saw it.

What a fking disgrace.

British car manufacturing at it's best.

[BCA]

Russ, our late 97 is pretty bad - it'll be off the road later this year for a complete body off rebuild. It has done 75/76k in all weathers/lived outside for most of its life though... still unacceptable, but we'll rebuild it to outlast the sodding fibreglass... Is your '96er fairing any better?*

• must try and avoid joking about it never seeing bad weather as its always in TVR powers garage...

[RUSSELLM]

I'm waiting for the phone call..... "Your engine's back in & running beautifully, by the way it's failed it's MOT, while it's been sat here, the chassis's rotted away"

Wouldn't be so bad, but they've started breaking the frigger.

I picked the 4.5 up from a service last week, and to cure the battery light being on for the first few seconds of a journey, they've nicked the new alternator off the Blue one.

I keep seeing threads along the lines of ..."Anyone know of the whereabouts of a 4.2 crank case" followed by "I've found one at TVR Power"

I've got a feeling they're going to send my car back on the 962 bus, neatly compacted in to eighty Sainsbury's shopping bags.

[BCA]

That'll explain the offer of a relatively solid 96 chassis when we gave them a call then?















Joking...

[caduceus]

S**t! Sorry to hear your predicament Stuart

Reading this makes me now wonder whether to carry the restoration into a body off and beyond job :|

[marcus1970]

ssavill said:

so.... it appears my time for owning a cerbie has been and gone... After a long and loved time, it went down to Dr Fernhurst today and was found with a chassis that was in a nasty way and fuel lines that were in all sorts of trouble....

Confronted with a large bill - I have decided it is time to bail out.

I would like to say thanks to all of you here, for all tips, advice and fun times over the past years and what can i say its been real...

Cheers, and keep well...

I will own a TVR again!!! For sure.

Stuart.

Thanks for all the fish?

MB

[tvrolet]

marcus1970 said:

Thanks for all the fish?

MB

42

[caduceus]

tvrolet said:

marcus1970 said:

Thanks for all the fish?

MB

42

42?

[Cerbdog]

caduceus said:

tvrolet said:

marcus1970 said:

Thanks for all the fish?

MB

42

42?

HGTHG

[JensenA]

Cerbdog said:

caduceus said:

tvrolet said:

marcus1970 said:

Thanks for all the fish?

MB

42

42?

HGTHG

WTFIATA?

[Scrooloose]

Don't forget your towel!

[Ballsy]

Lol thats one of the craziest books av ever read!!

[TT Tim]

Life? Don't talk to me about life!

Tim

[Mr.Cerbera]

Cerbdog said:

caduceus said:

tvrolet said:

marcus1970 said:

Thanks for all the fish?

MB

42

42?

HGTHG

Duh ? Shouldn't that be HGTTG ??

Mmmmmmm, sunglasses with the Reflective Face on the inside so that you can't see what's coming at you and can remain looking cool in all confrontational situations.

The ultimate Cerb driving glasses