How many left?

[V8 Animal]

Trawling through pages on fleabay quiet a few TVR's breaking and reading posts of cars being written with relativly small damage due to high costs and the value of our cars.
Begs the question just how many are left?
Just curious.
How do you find out?
V8 Animal

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Write to DVLA under freedom of information? (That'll only tell you how many are registered in UK obviously )

[Chimjunkie]

Mine had a front end a few months back. It has taken 8 weeks to get a very good offer from the insurers and they are paying out much more than the repair cost. I have chosen to buy the car back and repair privately since it is only bodywork, wishbone, rad and fans, shock and a few other easily changed bits. I love the car and the car was in very good condition pre-accident. I wont let the car be scrapped when it is one of the better examples on the road! Insurers are far too quick to write off and scrap.

[Hoover.]

Chimjunkie said:

I wont let the car be scrapped when it is one of the better examples on the road! Insurers are far too quick to write off and scrap.

I think it is down to insurers not understanding the cars and insisting on their repair shops who are not specialtists and hence stick in high prices to the risk of dealing with the unknown......

also IMHO some specialists are charging inflated costs because its TVR (I believe most garge s charge +30% becasue of the TVR badge...go to other marque dealers dealing with RV8 engines(morgan/land rover/MG/marcos/kit cars) / grp body works(kit car/marcos/lesser known tvr repairers) and see where I'm coming from

Edited by Hoover. on Wednesday 9th April 23:45

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

V8 Animal said:

How do you find out?
V8 Animal

What did you do in the end?

[V8 Animal]

Nothing slipped my mind lol

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

V8 Animal said:

Nothing slipped my mind lol