cerbera ownership

[cerby 4.2]

to anyone whoose interested,also please excuse my grammer,i brought my 1996 4.2 starmist chianti cerbera back in september 2006,i brought the car off of a friend of a friend the very nice man knocked £1500 off of the asking price,i thought thats a nice start in to my journey into the unknown of tvr ownership,i did think at the time when buying the cerb the fact that the previous owner had only covered 200 miles in a year this might be a problem,the cerbs mileage was 31000 it is now 35000,during the first couple of weeks of owning the cerb i felt it was running a bit rough,this wss confirmed when i noticed smoke commimg from under the car one morning when warming the car up, the exhausts were glowing red, onto my first contact with dan at levens in basildon ,handy for me only 20 mins away,this resulted in new throtle pots,coil pack,plugs and leads,and a tune up, while the car was at levens dan had a good look over the car for me all he could find wrong was the diff bushes needed replacing,when the chap i brought the cerb off heard off my problems he very kindly offered to pay for the repairs,since then i have replaced front springs and dampers,fuel pipe master cylinder,front pads,door and window control box,throttle cable,had a6000 mile service donated by levens london thunder,i have also brought a set of sp 12 wheels from silverstone performance, which i think suit the car,the car came with 18 inch rl7 wheels,i know i am still feeling my way in the world of tvrs,but i have come to the conclusion that as long as ihave money in my pocket i will do my best to keep my car on the road, and why the hell didnt i buy one years ago? wow what a car, if i have bored anyone who reeds this sorry.