Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 28)

[GOG440]

lucido grigio said:

In other TVR talk......I joined the TVRCC sometime in the 90s for a few years as I wanted to buy the fire breathing hotrod

that is/was a TVR 200, a Tasmin with a Pinto engine.

Deffo the poverty model of all Trevors.....

A rare car cos nobody wanted them.

Nobody wanted them new either, according to wiki only 61 were made in total
I know of 2 TVR 200s
One was owned by the lad who sold me my 2.8 , it was used a lot, he went to Le Mans in it. Nippy but not fast with only 100bhp.
The other is on its way back from spain to be restored by a TVR specialist called RT racing.

Dicky the TVR S's are less divisive than the wedges and there was a fair amount of overlap in production, even though they are usually only the 2.8/2.9 cologne engines they seem to be fairly popular and are probably more expensive to buy than 350 wedge.
The v8 S are sought after and are worth a good amount of money.

Transplanting the 2.5v6 from a mondeo into a wedge or v6 S is probably not worthwhile, they arent much more powerful and it would be a hell of a lot of work. An easier and more worthwhile transplant would be the 2.9 24v Cosworth BOA or BOB from a scorpio. More powerful than the mondeo lump and less work to fit as it is a derivative of the cologne.

I do know of someone overseas that is considering putting the 4.0 litre v6 from a ford explorer in as apparently it is very closely related to the cologne and easily available where they are.

Edited by GOG440 on Friday 28th April 15:29

[lucido grigio]

So many tv channels ,so little to watch..........and stuff that is on is inaccurate........

"Supercar superbuild " a repeat on Quest ,on the Alfa Romeo 4C ,starting going on about Modena being the centre

of interesting car manufacture.

"Lamborghini are based here"

Since when ?.....always been a few miles away in Sant Agata Bolognese.....

[Bomma220]

Sant Agata Bolognese ?

[lucido grigio]

Bomma220 said:

Sant Agata Bolognese ?

Yep, it's the full name ,Sant Agata in the region of Bologna.

Nothing to do with a long stringy pasta meals.

[Bomma220]

lucido grigio said:

Bomma220 said:

Sant Agata Bolognese ?

Yep, it's the full name ,Sant Agata in the region of Bologna.

Nothing to do with a long stringy pasta meals.

Thanks old chap, I didn't know that. Just goes to show the perils of ordering from an Italian menu without fully realising what you're doing...

Anyhow,

ali_kat said:

We own a house



Many, many thanks to Champers for all his help

Congratulations Ali. I hope you'll be very happy there

[TheChampers]

ali_kat said:

We own a house



Many, many thanks to Champers for all his help

Happy to be of service, even happier it's done!

Year end at work today, all round good cheer, so Champers had a glass of you know, champers

[ali_kat]

You'd have had a bottle of we'd got there in time!!

Thanks all xx

[DickyC]

GOG440 said:

Dicky the TVR S's are less divisive than the wedges and there was a fair amount of overlap in production, even though they are usually only the 2.8/2.9 cologne engines they seem to be fairly popular and are probably more expensive to buy than 350 wedge.
The v8 S are sought after and are worth a good amount of money.

Transplanting the 2.5v6 from a mondeo into a wedge or v6 S is probably not worthwhile, they arent much more powerful and it would be a hell of a lot of work. An easier and more worthwhile transplant would be the 2.9 24v Cosworth BOA or BOB from a scorpio. More powerful than the mondeo lump and less work to fit as it is a derivative of the cologne.

I do know of someone overseas that is considering putting the 4.0 litre v6 from a ford explorer in as apparently it is very closely related to the cologne and easily available where they are.

Thanks, GOG. Knowledge tucked away for a rainy day.

[lucido grigio]

Look at this wacky Italian thing.



15 Barchetttas at Brooklands today,good turnout,good day out,all good.

Good.

[Bomma220]

Jolly good.

One of the neighbours is having some building work done.

I'm not sure if I'm being cruel, but that yellow thing looks a bit like the skip on their driveway.

[DickyC]

Bomma220 said:

Jolly good.

One of the neighbours is having some building work done.

I'm not sure if I'm being cruel, but that yellow thing looks a bit like the skip on their driveway.

Thin ice! Thin ice!

Bomma, Luci has already said it's one of fifteen Barchettas. Be careful what you say.

[lucido grigio]

Info on the car is,it's a Ferves,built by Ferrari apparently.

I asked one of the people who brought it,she said it tops out at 40 mph,they drove a relatively short distance from Gerrards Cross.

Scary.



Rear view.

[lucido grigio]

As per usual,I've completely forgotten any of the details of that yellow skip thing.

Just the name stayed in my memory bank.

[DickyC]

Transverse twin-supercharged 600cc V12 feeding power to the wheels via mahogany pulleys and leather belts. Considered quite advanced in its day. Brakes from the Short Skyvan.

[DickyC]

You'll never guess but yesterday I saw Andy Warhol driving a coach near Hermitage.

The whole pretend-to-be-dead-and-live-incognito-in-another-country thing would have better executed if he'd disguised his appearance. He hasn't thought it through.

[DickyC]

Could be a mobile art installation, I suppose. Or performance art. You can never tell.

[lucido grigio]

Yo.

A little more about that car cum skip cum wtf ,Google Ferves Ranger and it explains all ,including one sold recently for,

,wait for it 29,000 GBP.

And you can tell it's not a serious car as the wheels are off a golf cart.

Slight disappointment of yesterday was that the most "super" of Ferraris attending was 1 F40 ,no F50,Enzo ,LaFerrari ,288 GTO

and older stuff was limited to a couple of 250 Lussos ,a 275 an a 330 or two ,no older racing stuff lime TRs or MMs.

Too valuable for the public to get close to ?

[Bomma220]

£29k for a skip? Good God. I'll ask my neighbour how much his is costing him.

Not a lot I'd wager, the chap's from Yorkshire and very careful with his money. I believe he's still waiting for the Bible to be issued in paperback.

Andy Warhol driving a coach?

[DickyC]

Bomma220 said:

Andy Warhol driving a coach?

Odd, I know. Coincidentally I once saw Lou Reed waiting on Goldhawk Road Underground Station. He wasn't claiming to be dead at the time so there was no stigma attached. I was on a train going the other way so we didn't speak. He'd probably been to Cookes Pie and Mash shop. It's near the station.

[ali_kat]

3 rooms stripped of wallpaper today - 2 left then we have to strip the kitchen & bathroom of tiles

I hurt, and I just did paint stripping !!