Can You Remember When......?
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While contracting in Hedge End.
A car would drive by most weeks and be gone before I could get a glimpse. It sounded utterly fantastic (roundabouts at both ends of the building
), but I could never run accross the office fast enough to catch a glimpse. Those nearest the windows told me it was a TVR Wedge.
A car would drive by most weeks and be gone before I could get a glimpse. It sounded utterly fantastic (roundabouts at both ends of the building
), but I could never run accross the office fast enough to catch a glimpse. Those nearest the windows told me it was a TVR Wedge.Saw a photo/advert in some car magazine when i was a kid. It showed a red wedge sprinting past some shops,
hood down, drivers hair swept back in the wind,big grin on his face.This picture has been in my mind ever since and I would love a copy of it.
I never actually saw one in the flesh till i bought my 350i....20 years after.
Have owned it 7 years and have only seen one other (Jeff Morgans 400 on the A449 about 6 months ago)
PS.Anybody got that advert?
hood down, drivers hair swept back in the wind,big grin on his face.This picture has been in my mind ever since and I would love a copy of it.
I never actually saw one in the flesh till i bought my 350i....20 years after.
Have owned it 7 years and have only seen one other (Jeff Morgans 400 on the A449 about 6 months ago)
PS.Anybody got that advert?
dickymint said:
Saw a photo/advert in some car magazine when i was a kid. It showed a red wedge sprinting past some shops,
hood down, drivers hair swept back in the wind,big grin on his face.This picture has been in my mind ever since and I would love a copy of it.
I never actually saw one in the flesh till i bought my 350i....20 years after.
Have owned it 7 years and have only seen one other (Jeff Morgans 400 on the A449 about 6 months ago)
PS.Anybody got that advert?
Maxell ad wasn't it. Showed lad and ladess in car with the hair blowen back as if it was the stereo.
Remember it well. Lived just outside Blackpool and a guy up the road must have worked for TVR. He regularly turned up at the video shop (pre-Blockbuster) next door, in what I presume was a works car. Sat in the lounge one night and heard a banging and a popping coming down the road. Wasn't the badly mis-firing car that I assumed it would be, but a fine looking white 350. Why he wanted to get a video and sit indoors watching it when he had a car like that on the drive I'll never know. Luckily, this became a regular event until the video shop went bust and became a flower shop.
)Ended up bumming a lift for a meeting from Chiswick to Newbury with "Brian" - the boringest looking bloke you could imagine - when I was on a work placement on my Uni course back on 1989.
Turned out that he *DIDN'T* drive a Fiesta but an "arrest me quickly" red 350i...
...I have no idea whether we ever made it to the meeting - after that ride who would have cared?
Phil
Turned out that he *DIDN'T* drive a Fiesta but an "arrest me quickly" red 350i...
...I have no idea whether we ever made it to the meeting - after that ride who would have cared?
Phil
First pictures I can remember seeing were on the web. First time I heard one in the flesh was a few seconds before buying the 350 I own now. Music to the ears or what. Mind you the ears got a bit chilly driving 70 miles with hood down on Sunday night, the exhaust note is a little to muffled with the hood up.
Remember very clearly seeing a white Tasmin convertible in Torquay in June 1981 and thinking that that was the car for me. But what was it - a Triumph with attitude? I hate to admit it now but I'd never heard of TVR!!
It was six years later before I was introduced by a friend to Steve Ackrill who owned Ackrill Automotive in Canterbury who were then the Kent main deler. He threw me the keys to a bright yellow 350 and told the wife and I to go and play but bring it back by 5pm it was about 10am). I used a whole tankful of petrol and have never driven around with such a grin on my face. I would have bought that demonstrator there and then but for the fact that Mrs D couldn't depress the clutch. And I've been a devoted wedgie fan ever since despite a brief 2.5 year affair with a Chimaera in the mid 90s.
Ralph
It was six years later before I was introduced by a friend to Steve Ackrill who owned Ackrill Automotive in Canterbury who were then the Kent main deler. He threw me the keys to a bright yellow 350 and told the wife and I to go and play but bring it back by 5pm it was about 10am). I used a whole tankful of petrol and have never driven around with such a grin on my face. I would have bought that demonstrator there and then but for the fact that Mrs D couldn't depress the clutch. And I've been a devoted wedgie fan ever since despite a brief 2.5 year affair with a Chimaera in the mid 90s.
Ralph
jmorgan said:
Saw a photo/advert in some car magazine when i was a kid. It showed a red wedge sprinting past some shops,
hood down, drivers hair swept back in the wind,big grin on his face.This picture has been in my mind ever since and I would love a copy of it.
I never actually saw one in the flesh till i bought my 350i....20 years after.
Have owned it 7 years and have only seen one other (Jeff Morgans 400 on the A449 about 6 months ago)
PS.Anybody got that advert?
Maxell ad wasn't it. Showed lad and ladess in car with the hair blowen back as if it was the stereo.
Maxell..Thats the one Jeff Cheers mate,Its all come flooding back to me now. I had an Avenger at the time painted metal flake gold,silver below and side winder pipes Oh and jacked up rear suspension
(forgot all about that car-must update my profile) Will email them tommorrow and see if I can get a poster off em.
First had a ride in one when we were doing a mates house up. He wasn't there but due back that day from his honeymoon
. It was a 280 Tasmin. Remember thinking it was a nice car. Even got the ladders in to decorate the upstairs window
Then a good few years later when we had the Vixen, seeing a 400 at a local meet and the owner saying it was too loud for track day's. Me thinking it can't be that loud? I know better now.
>> Edited by jmorgan on Tuesday 30th September 23:21
. It was a 280 Tasmin. Remember thinking it was a nice car. Even got the ladders in to decorate the upstairs window Then a good few years later when we had the Vixen, seeing a 400 at a local meet and the owner saying it was too loud for track day's. Me thinking it can't be that loud? I know better now.
>> Edited by jmorgan on Tuesday 30th September 23:21
dickymint said:
dickymint said:
Saw a photo/advert in some car magazine when i was a kid. It showed a red wedge sprinting past some shops,
hood down, drivers hair swept back in the wind,big grin on his face.This picture has been in my mind ever since and I would love a copy of it.
I never actually saw one in the flesh till i bought my 350i....20 years after.
Have owned it 7 years and have only seen one other (Jeff Morgans 400 on the A449 about 6 months ago)
PS.Anybody got that advert?
Maxell ad wasn't it. Showed lad and ladess in car with the hair blowen back as if it was the stereo.
Maxell..Thats the one Jeff Cheers mate,Its all come flooding back to me now. I had an Avenger at the time painted metal flake gold,silver below and side winder pipes Oh and jacked up rear suspension
Will email them tommorrow and see if I can get a poster off em.
I have a photocopy of the ad somewhere: the 'shops' you mention are a London bus and a cyclist. I think it may be at my mate's with a load of other mag reviews and stuff that I lent him...
Ian
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