A sign of pedigree
Discussion
I think the white elephant is no more than a few months older than my 350sx but there must have been a PW influence on the interior of two of the SX's, mine and Martins(as it was originally) were exactly the same and very similar to the White elephant. I don't think there are too many wedges with this colour combination and they are all on rare cars.
Hope I've not broken any rules posting the pic from sprint, but it's an excellent article and probably the most worthwhile restoration of a very rare, awsome and historic TVR.
I love it! And the interior looks tops! Great combo me thinks!!!!
It had to be posted;-)
And a happy new year to you all
Adam
I think you spot on there Adam and I only wish I had seen your refurbished interior before I had mine done because I would of definitely kept to the original colours that yours and mine shared but when I viewed the SX in January 2010 the interior was in a very bad state so hence decided to change the colour 
! Oh well its done now so it will have to stay for the time being....I must say both yours and Nellies interiors look real classy and well done to the both of you !!!
! Oh well its done now so it will have to stay for the time being....I must say both yours and Nellies interiors look real classy and well done to the both of you !!! Hi Adam
The wrap around dash was a PW influence and it has an interesting history.
It was original designed for the USA market but was first seen on the 280i S3. With TVR's own design of heater controls and a revised heater box
It had four gauges in the central panel and was then adopted for the SEAC (I think from num 5.) A time clock was also fitted on the right side of the panel plus they changed the heater box and controls on later cars, using a more conventional system. This style of dash was also used for the White Elephant.
But the clock being at the side was not an ideal so the five gauge dash was evolved. It was a simple idea to get the five gauges into the same area TVR just angled the dash giving a longer surface area in the same length, thus you could fit in the four gauges and a clock.
A simple but great idea and this dash was used for the 400/450SE's as well.
There were a couple of variants of the layout with the heater controls moving from one side to the other (I have never worked out the reason for this does anybody know.)
The other difference was the handbrake, the auto 280i, SEAC and White Elephant had the handbrake fitted under the dash, were the 400/450 had the handbrake in the normal place.
The work done on the White Elephant and your car are a credit to both of you plus it shows TVR's simple way of dealing with a problem.
Andy
The wrap around dash was a PW influence and it has an interesting history.
It was original designed for the USA market but was first seen on the 280i S3. With TVR's own design of heater controls and a revised heater box
It had four gauges in the central panel and was then adopted for the SEAC (I think from num 5.) A time clock was also fitted on the right side of the panel plus they changed the heater box and controls on later cars, using a more conventional system. This style of dash was also used for the White Elephant.
But the clock being at the side was not an ideal so the five gauge dash was evolved. It was a simple idea to get the five gauges into the same area TVR just angled the dash giving a longer surface area in the same length, thus you could fit in the four gauges and a clock.
A simple but great idea and this dash was used for the 400/450SE's as well.
There were a couple of variants of the layout with the heater controls moving from one side to the other (I have never worked out the reason for this does anybody know.)
The other difference was the handbrake, the auto 280i, SEAC and White Elephant had the handbrake fitted under the dash, were the 400/450 had the handbrake in the normal place.
The work done on the White Elephant and your car are a credit to both of you plus it shows TVR's simple way of dealing with a problem.
Andy
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