1st ever registered Chim up for sale

[L33]

I don't know how true the advert is mind...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TVR-Chimaera-4-0L-V8-with-un...

Can anyone vouch that this was the motorshow car and the first ever customer chimaera?

[Jasandjules]

I don't know how it can be, there are a few K plates out there? So unless that one got registered before them in the list?!?!

[anonymous-user]

mmm, I'm a bit dubious about this. My Chim is a very early car. It is actually registered as a Griffith as the Chimaera designation didn't even exist in the DVLA database at the time! (I have the documentation from the DVLA for this). I had been advised by the PO that mine was in fact the motorshow car. The pics I have in some of my TVR books certainly show a green car on the TVR stand back then. Anyway, who really knows? I just drive it and enjoy it !!!

[pwd95]

I remember seeing a white one in Earls Court back then, i.e. before they introduced them. I think it must have been the year after they had the prototype Griff in Birmingham. (saw that too )

[Markh]

Jasandjules said:

I don't know how it can be, there are a few K plates out there? So unless that one got registered before them in the list?!?!

My first Chimaera was on a K plate

[v8_steve]

Mines a K

[T_Pot]

My ocean haze is a K

[garfys v8s]

I am thinking of buying this car does anyone know anything about it? it does look nice and my old s3 was white so i dont have a problem with the colour,gary

[pena]

I very much doubt it's the first registered car.
Here's mine (K Plate) - in it's early life.
And mines one of the first off the line.

Edited by pena on Monday 9th June 18:04

[Timja]

Does it show the build date in your cars handbook? - It does in mine. That should clear up who has the earliest car surely... or are chassis numbers in numerical order?

[pena]

Yeah..I'll check and see

[Andy Graham]

Saw this car with its new owner at the Oxfordshire meet last thursday, all the usuall early features , only unusual thing was the front grill looks to be bonded to the bodywork from the inside ( no rubber chanel like my '93 )
Could this be a clue to its early history ??
Whatever its history....very smart car in the flesh

[900T-R]

From the photos the front grill seems to be a set a bit further back into the bodywork than on the later cars (mine was first registered June 11th, 1993, dates on parts suggest an April/May build).

It does look rather nice in pearlescent white.

[anonymous-user]

Mine was registered 25th Feb 1993.

[K4TRV]

BagOfOldRats said:

Mine was registered 25th Feb 1993.

Dag-nab-it mine registered 23 Mar 1993.

Last 4 chassis are 1188, what's yours ??

Trev McM

[pena]

Mine's registered 16th march 1993.

[900T-R]

Weird, mine is 1159 1359 sheesh, my memory is starting to go already at least, this does explain it, though...

Edited by 900T-R on Tuesday 10th June 14:10

[peteA]

When it was built (and then shown...?) and when it was registered are not the same thing...

Maybe it was dispatched to the shows etc and registered later?

Chassis build number should clear it though...?

[anonymous-user]

K4TRV said:

BagOfOldRats said:

Mine was registered 25th Feb 1993.

Dag-nab-it mine registered 23 Mar 1993.

Last 4 chassis are 1188, what's yours ??

Trev McM

I'll have a look later.

[anonymous-user]

Actually, I have the details with me It's 1106.