Blown Griff for sale...beautiful car!

[Guillotine]

Didn't think this one would come up for grabs.

I know the owner and that is a properly ballistic Griff. Pretty as the come too.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TVR-Griffith-SC500-/3208...

[FactBV]

Guillotine said:

Didn't think this one would come up for grabs.

I know the owner and that is a properly ballistic Griff. Pretty as the come too.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TVR-Griffith-SC500-/3208...

It is a cracking car for the money, a great buy for someone with the price change. If only I hadn't just bought one

[Hoover.]

FactBV said:

Guillotine said:

Didn't think this one would come up for grabs.

I know the owner and that is a properly ballistic Griff. Pretty as the come too.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TVR-Griffith-SC500-/3208...

It is a cracking car for the money, a great buy for someone with the price change. If only I hadn't just bought one

wow... at that price poor chap must be desperate to sell... heart goes out to him

[JazzyO]

Excuse me for saying this, but what he has done to the looks of that car is making the price seem expensive.

Surely it will be a great car mechanically but what is up with a spoiler on a Griff? The cleanest looking design since dawn of time has been marred by Tupperware cellotaped onto it.


Onno

[clive f]

a 1996 griff in standard form is getting that sort of money, the supercharger install must have cost £4k to £5k plus, if you dont like them the spoiler and rear diffuser can be removed, a cracking car for the money I`d say!

[jfjfjf2]

I like the look of the aero package and it works. If you want a 400 bhp Griffith then presumably it's going to get some track time and it makes sense to improve handling. If you want originality it's not the car for you.

JF

[Jammy Dodger]

JazzyO said:

Excuse me for saying this, but what he has done to the looks of that car is making the price seem expensive.

Surely it will be a great car mechanically but what is up with a spoiler on a Griff? The cleanest looking design since dawn of time has been marred by Tupperware cellotaped onto it.


Onno

as per the advert, the cost of modifications ALONE is almost certainly more than he's asking for the car. And from what i know of it everything was done properly. I know exactly how much it cost to do it properly, having been through the process myself.

It's cheap at that price.

ETA "alone"

Edited by Jammy Dodger on Monday 12th March 12:27

[Guillotine]

£12k for all the bits and setting up/sorting.

NOT a std Griff...goes MUCH faster! Go's handles and stops like a modern supercar.

Not my car...no financial interest

A

[hiltonig]

Who's car is it ?

[900T-R]

Guillotine said:

NOT a std Griff...goes MUCH faster! Go's handles and stops like a modern supercar.

A bit hard to believe frankly as the only suspension mod listed is a mere set of Gaz Golds...

Much as I love Chims and Griffs, it's going to take a bit more than a set of budget/mid price coilovers and a bit of aero to make one handle anywhere near a modern supercar - especially a 360+ bhp/tonne one...

[Jammy Dodger]

hiltonig said:

Who's car is it ?

hamish's isn't it ?

[Springbok]

Does a Corsa (for example) with a souped up engine and a body kit add to its value - not that I am aware.

It matters not what has been spent making this classic shape look like something from MaxPower. Give it more power and make it handle and stop better but please leave the external beauty of this shape alone.

Would you take an E-type and do this to it?

Just my opinion.

[Chilliman]

External beauty? Another candidate for specsavers

[SAGRIFF]

Jammy Dodger said:

hiltonig said:

Who's car is it ?

hamish's isn't it ?

Hamish has a JE engine and Nitrons,

[LordGrover]

SAGRIFF said:

Jammy Dodger said:

hiltonig said:

Who's car is it ?

hamish's isn't it ?

Hamish has a JE engine and Nitrons,

Bluebottle's is green too.

[7 TVR]

JazzyO said:

Excuse me for saying this, but what he has done to the looks of that car is making the price seem expensive.

Surely it will be a great car mechanically but what is up with a spoiler on a Griff? The cleanest looking design since dawn of time has been marred by Tupperware cellotaped onto it.


Onno

Hi, So is your Griff finally finished? Will you be bringing the car over to the UK, have checked your post in the TVR forums and wandered whats happened?

[Jammy Dodger]

LordGrover said:

SAGRIFF said:

Jammy Dodger said:

hiltonig said:

Who's car is it ?

hamish's isn't it ?

Hamish has a JE engine and Nitrons,

Bluebottle's is green too.

doh ! Dean's then.. (slight clue in the eBay seller name )

[Jammy Dodger]

Chilliman said:

External beauty? Another candidate for specsavers

well, you can't deny that the skip is a simple uncluttered design

supersonic wheelbarrow anyone ?

[Jammy Dodger]

Springbok said:

Does a Corsa (for example) with a souped up engine and a body kit add to its value - not that I am aware.

It matters not what has been spent making this classic shape look like something from MaxPower. Give it more power and make it handle and stop better but please leave the external beauty of this shape alone.

Would you take an E-type and do this to it?

Just my opinion.

Eagle e-type you mean ?

The Corsa comparison is unfair. Can't speak for this car but mine (and at least some of the others ) has a significantly improved new engine, loom, ECU, DIS, cooling, transmission, drivetrain, dampers, revised spring rates, brakes etc. etc. etc.

The aero is a matter of taste, granted, but if and where the owner intends to use the car at 120mph+ the aero is of benefit. Function first, form second. The SC Power aero kit was at least subject to analysis and development rather than a schoolboy MaxPower reader's wet dream. The standard griffs and chims get uncomfortably light relatively early into 3 figures.

ETA - If you don't like it, don't buy it !

[900T-R]

Jammy Dodger said:

The standard griffs and chims get uncomfortably light relatively early into 3 figures.

Apparently the Harveys did not develop aero stuff for the Chimaera because it's much more stable aerodynamically than the Griff and thus 'doesn't need it'. ;o)

Mine doesn't give raise to complaints at speeds up to a lepton and a half (on a private runway. obviously).

It doesn't even have a splitter (as a very early car, probably never had - at least no evidence of there ever having been one)...