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Original Poster:

765 posts

83 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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I drove my Griffith up from Kent to Shropshire on Friday, motored around N Wales on Saturday and drove back to Kent on Sunday.
I didn't see another TVR of any sort over the 3 days & 500+ miles!
The weather was atrocious on the way up & the way back but the Griffith behaved impeccably & didn't let in a drop of water (does need a bit of a clean now).

Oldwolf

994 posts

210 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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I had a similar experience driving from Sussex to Lands End a couple of weekends ago in my Chim 500.
I didn't see another TVR, and it was watertight - which was impressive as it had 2 nights in Cornish storms smile

Awful journey down (A303 - say no more), the highlight of that was when a man leaned out of his camper van and said ' let's here the V8 then mate!'

The roads were much clearer on the run home and I was impressed with an average of 25MPG smile

Happy days!

so called

9,154 posts

226 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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One week too late........................ https://youtu.be/ERw3aDMaohw


Penelope Stopit

11,209 posts

126 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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so called said:
One week too late........................ https://youtu.be/ERw3aDMaohw
Great video

Did you see that nutter scream out of the car park at 1 min 44 secs?

so called

9,154 posts

226 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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Penelope Stopit said:
so called said:
One week too late........................ https://youtu.be/ERw3aDMaohw
Great video

Did you see that nutter scream out of the car park at 1 min 44 secs?
Oh yes. thumbup

Classic Chim

12,424 posts

166 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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I drove my Chim daily for a number of years and could go months without seeing another then two would come along at once, usually signalling a meet up near by biggrin .

Penelope Stopit

11,209 posts

126 months

Tuesday 3rd August 2021
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so called said:
Penelope Stopit said:
so called said:
One week too late........................ https://youtu.be/ERw3aDMaohw
Great video

Did you see that nutter scream out of the car park at 1 min 44 secs?
Oh yes. thumbup
smile

Had to be done having earlier visited


Italian450

96 posts

104 months

Tuesday 3rd August 2021
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Never see another TVR over here in Italy ;-)

Shnozz

29,301 posts

288 months

Tuesday 3rd August 2021
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so called said:
One week too late........................ https://youtu.be/ERw3aDMaohw
How did you get away with playing a soundtrack without youtube police closing off the video?!

TR4man

5,430 posts

191 months

Tuesday 3rd August 2021
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Shnozz said:
so called said:
One week too late........................ https://youtu.be/ERw3aDMaohw
How did you get away with playing a soundtrack without youtube police closing off the video?!
Possibly because they don’t know about it yet.

lancepar

1,074 posts

189 months

Wednesday 4th August 2021
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Italian450 said:
Never see another TVR over here in Italy ;-)
This Griff' should still be around........

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

cool



so called

9,154 posts

226 months

Thursday 5th August 2021
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TR4man said:
Shnozz said:
so called said:
One week too late........................ https://youtu.be/ERw3aDMaohw
How did you get away with playing a soundtrack without youtube police closing off the video?!
Possibly because they don’t know about it yet.
The video was from here -

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Shnozz

29,301 posts

288 months

Thursday 5th August 2021
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so called said:
The point I was getting at was how Youtube have allowed the video with the music. Usually anything you upload with a commercial track quickly gets taken down in breach of copyright. Not being the YT police, but just wondered how this hadn't happened here!

frontfloater

400 posts

159 months

Thursday 5th August 2021
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I live in Blackpool, but can easily go a year or more without seeing another TVR. When I moved here 10 years ago, I thought it would be almost a daily event ; but all the local younger males seem to favour Subaru Imprezas or hot hatches with badly set-up turbos bolted on.

Cascade360

11,585 posts

102 months

Thursday 5th August 2021
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Outside of club events/planned meet-ups I've probably seen 5 or 6 since getting the Tuscan in April. None of which have been another Tuscan. Generally Chimaera's, one Cerb, maybe a Griffith