Why are wedge owners outcasts ?
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Happy X-mas you lot - I've been following your threads with much merry-ment, so why are wedge owners considered outcasts ? 
PS. My wife keeps finding jobs for me, so to keep me out the garage and away from me pile of bits, so i've changed my nickname to better suit the status of me red wedge
PS. My wife keeps finding jobs for me, so to keep me out the garage and away from me pile of bits, so i've changed my nickname to better suit the status of me red wedge
Who said we are outcasts and surely if it is other people who are on the "outside" looking in ,then hmmmmmmmm!!!!!!????!!!!!££££££%%%%%
All a state of mind me thinks ,I certainly don't think we are and if,I say if, we really are ,then thats the way I like it .
Wedge or no Wedge that definitely is NOT the question.
All a state of mind me thinks ,I certainly don't think we are and if,I say if, we really are ,then thats the way I like it .
Wedge or no Wedge that definitely is NOT the question.
I think that in the Wedges heyday, it was seen as one of THE sportcars to have if you wanted something raw and brutal for not much money (relative to other similar performance cars). I have loads of car magazines here from the 80's all reviewing the Tasmins through to the first 350i's, and finally the "mythical" 450 SEAC. Every reviewer is blown away by the peformance and noise, the simplicity of the hood, the amount of workmanship in the interiors and the quality of the body finish. Build quality obviously gets marked down a point or two, but its the looks which very few of the reviwers can forgive.
Nowadays, with the current crop of cars attracting new "types" of people to the marque who perhaps don't know the model history, I would imagine that the Wedges must look like the ugly duckling. I mean, every other production TVR has had curves and sweeps, right back to the 60's. From an outsiders point of view, I bet the Wedges just get totally ignored. In fact, I've been to literally hundreds of TVR meets over the years, and every now and then I will over hear a comment like "whats that doing in a line up of TVR's", or "Look at that, its so old fashioned" and sure enough that person will have just bought their first TVR from one of the more modern model ranges. Then when you enter into discussion with these people, they automatically think that the car has something like a 1.6 engine or has been built on a Ford chassis etc. When you tell them that the cars are infact not much different in construction and performance to a Griffith or Chimaera for not many £, the whole look of "yeah, yeah, pull another one" comes across their faces. Its not until you fire it up and do a burnout in a wall of noise that they take notice.
Ok, so that doesn't actually make Wedge owners outcasts, but from my experiences over the years, some people certainly get taken by surprise by what they thought were tame little kit cars. On reflection, I do get a devilish feeling when I take someone for a ride for the first time (quiet at the back!). Its normally at a TVR meet when they have been for a ride in one of the new T-chassis cars. Obviously pretty much everyone gets a huge amount of satisfaction from their first ride in a "refined" Tuscan or Sagaris, they are afterall peoples dreams. But when they hop into the Wedge, find themselves sqeezed into the narrow cockpit, and then get flung around in something that accelerates sideways with a dragster soundtrack following them, its this ride which they say is how they expected a TVR to feel. Perhaps this sometimes leads to the people who have spent their life savings on something far newer to hate us slightly
Nowadays, with the current crop of cars attracting new "types" of people to the marque who perhaps don't know the model history, I would imagine that the Wedges must look like the ugly duckling. I mean, every other production TVR has had curves and sweeps, right back to the 60's. From an outsiders point of view, I bet the Wedges just get totally ignored. In fact, I've been to literally hundreds of TVR meets over the years, and every now and then I will over hear a comment like "whats that doing in a line up of TVR's", or "Look at that, its so old fashioned" and sure enough that person will have just bought their first TVR from one of the more modern model ranges. Then when you enter into discussion with these people, they automatically think that the car has something like a 1.6 engine or has been built on a Ford chassis etc. When you tell them that the cars are infact not much different in construction and performance to a Griffith or Chimaera for not many £, the whole look of "yeah, yeah, pull another one" comes across their faces. Its not until you fire it up and do a burnout in a wall of noise that they take notice.
Ok, so that doesn't actually make Wedge owners outcasts, but from my experiences over the years, some people certainly get taken by surprise by what they thought were tame little kit cars. On reflection, I do get a devilish feeling when I take someone for a ride for the first time (quiet at the back!). Its normally at a TVR meet when they have been for a ride in one of the new T-chassis cars. Obviously pretty much everyone gets a huge amount of satisfaction from their first ride in a "refined" Tuscan or Sagaris, they are afterall peoples dreams. But when they hop into the Wedge, find themselves sqeezed into the narrow cockpit, and then get flung around in something that accelerates sideways with a dragster soundtrack following them, its this ride which they say is how they expected a TVR to feel. Perhaps this sometimes leads to the people who have spent their life savings on something far newer to hate us slightly
Here's my take on it from a non wedge owning perspective ,FWIW 
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In TVR circles, it seems, the Griff is usually acclaimed as the definative (Rover) V8 engined Tivver, the Cerbera immortalised as the fastest and most brutal of the road going cars and the Sagaris the pick of the Speed Six cars.
The Wedges , whilst not having the timeless styling of the later stuff (curves basically
)in the first few years ,really came into there own with ( and this is ,of course, my opinion only - so dont flame me too much) the 390SE....
TVR modded V8 engine ,5 spoke OZ split rims ,revised bodywork -arches,skirts,aerofoil etc - which just made the whole car look , lets face it , F
ing Hardcore 
.
From thereon things just got Finer , 400SE,420SEAC,450SEAC
..
As far as im concerned , no road TVR has ever surpassed the SEAC for Balls out Presence , Noise and the sheer Spirit of TVR.
Later cars may be faster , more refined and dynamically superior , but the Big Wedges are where it's at , the uncompromising styling just adds to the F You attitude that the Wedge exudes.
Why dont i own a Big Wedge if i hold them in such high regard ?
I nearly did , own a SEAC .... drooled over it,ruminated over the purchase ,borrowed the money,lost nerve at last minute , regretted it....
... In TVR circles, it seems, the Griff is usually acclaimed as the definative (Rover) V8 engined Tivver, the Cerbera immortalised as the fastest and most brutal of the road going cars and the Sagaris the pick of the Speed Six cars.
The Wedges , whilst not having the timeless styling of the later stuff (curves basically
)in the first few years ,really came into there own with ( and this is ,of course, my opinion only - so dont flame me too much) the 390SE.... TVR modded V8 engine ,5 spoke OZ split rims ,revised bodywork -arches,skirts,aerofoil etc - which just made the whole car look , lets face it , F
ing Hardcore . From thereon things just got Finer , 400SE,420SEAC,450SEAC
.. As far as im concerned , no road TVR has ever surpassed the SEAC for Balls out Presence , Noise and the sheer Spirit of TVR.
Later cars may be faster , more refined and dynamically superior , but the Big Wedges are where it's at , the uncompromising styling just adds to the F
You attitude that the Wedge exudes. Why dont i own a Big Wedge if i hold them in such high regard ?
I nearly did , own a SEAC .... drooled over it,ruminated over the purchase ,borrowed the money,lost nerve at last minute , regretted it....
Eventually got the Chim 500(it was white,unloved,dealer could'nt sell it, got it at right money) developed it into something more hardcore than a standard 500 - a nod to that SEAC..
Even a Tuscan race car has'nt satiated my desire for a BBW , so guys, keep a nice example clean for me 'cos one day im havin' one
..
btw , you're only outcasts because, from what i've seen at meetings , you all look like fing Mutants
.
Even a Tuscan race car has'nt satiated my desire for a BBW , so guys, keep a nice example clean for me 'cos one day im havin' one
.. btw , you're only outcasts because, from what i've seen at meetings , you all look like f
ing Mutants .
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