Where are my old Tasmins?

[Yardelli]

I used to own two Tasmins years ago and have been surfing globally to try to find out what happened to them?
The first was a white Tasmin 280i FHC. In my youth I fitted some dodgy white Halfords mirrors to it - at the time it was registered as 7676 EL but that no longers matches on the DVLA site so presume the plate was sold on......
Owned from around 1987'ish....
The second was a 280i DHC in black with the later 'spoked' Alloys. It had a silver pin stripe down the waist and was registered as 41 VBB? That still exists as being registered on the DVLA though is now confusingly listed as being Blue?
I got involved with the TVR club when I had that visiting the Blackpool factory and club meets in the Coventry area with a regular meet at the Bulls Head in Meriden if anyone recalls? From that time I know that some initial research revealed that car had a very early - possibly pre-production chassis number? Owned from around 1990'ish and was sold to a TR6 owner in Leamington Spa?

Anyone know where they are now?

[Yardelli]

Incidentally I have some factory photos from around 1988 showing S, 400 and even SEAC production if anyones interested?

[cuneus]

Yardelli said:

Incidentally I have some factory photos from around 1988 showing S, 400 and even SEAC production if anyones interested?

Did someone say SEAC

Would love to put those on http://www.theseacpages.co.uk

[beacon]

Yardelli said:

Incidentally I have some factory photos from around 1988 showing S, 400 and even SEAC production if anyones interested?

Yes I would be keen to see the pics also

[dickymint]

Piccys please

[stainless_steve]

Pics would be great

[mark387mw]

Yardelli said:

The second was a 280i DHC in black with the later 'spoked' Alloys. It had a silver pin stripe down the waist and was registered as 41 VBB?

I remember For One Very Big Boy - in Blackpool at the Back Home event and you helped when my alternator packed in. Helped with a few as well .

[Yardelli]

Wow Mark - did you have the Blue 350i?

[mark387mw]

Yardelli said:

Wow Mark - did you have the Blue 350i?

Yep, still got it. Got to be 18 years ago in Blackpool??

[Trickie Dickie]

Yardelli said:

Incidentally I have some factory photos from around 1988 showing S, 400 and even SEAC production if anyones interested?

Would be good to see the photos as I have some from 1990ish

I passed them thru to several people a long time ago & expecting them to be published in Sprint etc
or at least on the archive on the website - yet still nothing
I will put them on photobucket and link from here asap

Anyone know how to convert BMP to Jpeg as I scanned them wrong?

Cheers
Richard

[cuneus]

Trickie Dickie said:

Anyone know how to convert BMP to Jpeg as I scanned them wrong?

Cheers
Richard

http://www.irfanview.com/ is free open the bmp save as jpg or use the batch method

Edited by cuneus on Monday 9th August 10:01

[Yardelli]

mark387mw said:

Yardelli said:

Wow Mark - did you have the Blue 350i?

Yep, still got it. Got to be 18 years ago in Blackpool??

Unbelievable Mark! The web is amazing! Glad to see you are still around and have the car!!!!
I only wandered onto here in a bored moment at work at the weekend after coming across the Tasmin photos last week for the first time in years!
Boy did I love that back then.... I sooooo wanted a V8 after seeing yours.
Think it might even be a little more than that long can you beleive. Hope alls well m8.........

I'll try to work out a scanner and get the photos added as time permits. I recall theres a load going right through assembly of S and 400SE/SEAC production. Did you ever see VBB again?

Edited by Yardelli on Monday 9th August 11:23

[cuneus]

Be more than happy to scan the pics for you if needed

[AM400]

Yardelli said:

Incidentally I have some factory photos from around 1988 showing S, 400 and even SEAC production if anyones interested?

Yeah I would love to see those. My 400 is one of the first 5 88 cars, never know it might be in the picture!

Andy

[Yardelli]

I'll definately dig them out guys.... IIRC theres a Met.Green 400 in assembly and I'm sure there was a red 400 that was being upgraded at the owners request to SEAC spec? Would that ring any bells?

[AM400]

Mine is white, so maybe not then still like to see the pictures though.

[Trickie Dickie]

cuneus said:

Trickie Dickie said:

Anyone know how to convert BMP to Jpeg as I scanned them wrong?

Cheers
Richard

http://www.irfanview.com/ is free open the bmp save as jpg or use the batch method

Edited by cuneus on Monday 9th August 10:01

Thanks for this David woked great
Wanted to know how to do that for ages

I have managed to convert them so will upload to photobucket
then load onto here

Cheers
Richard

[pwd95]

You should also be able to open them in 'Paint' and do a 'Save As' & where it says 'save as type' click the drop down list & it should have JPG as an option.

[Trickie Dickie]

pwd95 said:

You should also be able to open them in 'Paint' and do a 'Save As' & where it says 'save as type' click the drop down list & it should have JPG as an option.

Tried that Wyn and it wouldn't let me do it
jpeg was not an option for some reason

Richard

[pwd95]

Trickie Dickie said:

pwd95 said:

You should also be able to open them in 'Paint' and do a 'Save As' & where it says 'save as type' click the drop down list & it should have JPG as an option.

Tried that Wyn and it wouldn't let me do it
jpeg was not an option for some reason

Richard

Ahh. Couple of good free packages here......I've been using the bottom one, Photo Resizer 3.0.
Jeff put me on to them.

http://www.faststone.org/