Was your first love your true love?

[JLF]

I have not been a multi TVR owner, just two, first was a Tamora.

I was looking at a Tamora in the classified adverts tonight and thinking how much I loved my first TVR. I remember buying this yellow beauty and just loving every moment of driving it home. The sound, the feel, the theatre, was all truly fantastic. I had owned some great cars but this was different…it was more than just another fast car….it was unique.

I worked on that car to get it just the way I wanted. Something you just don't do with a Porsche…with a Porsche you buy it, drive it, then sell it. The Tamora was a beauty, the colour, leather, exhaust, engine was all just right. I remember driving it out of the garage just to look at it and sit in it…it was exceptional.

Then I sold it. I was asked if I enjoyed my TVR experience? I then realised I had lost something….an experience.

So was your first TVR your true first love and have you ever managed to repeat that initial excitement of driving your own TVR for the first time? The sound, the power and the theatre. Sentimental memories I know. Also has any other car ever hit the buttons in the same way? For me no….and does that include your next TVR….can you ever repeat the first love? I just think the Tamora is a fantastic automobile.

Edited by JLF on Wednesday 26th November 00:33

[JLF]

The two most memorable cars I have owned or driven are the Noble M400 and the Mitsubishi Evo VI. The Noble is the best car I have ever driven for handling and pure feel…never owned one, came close twice. The second was the first time I drove an Evo. Put my foot down and it just felt like the road was being pushed up behind me like an old carpet…first Turbo car I owned so that was probably why I fell immediately in love.

Thing with these is you would never drive them out of the garage just to look at them…one has dated a lot and the other looks like it has been designed by someone with a Halfords loyalty card and a rivet gun.

I just don’t think there is a car brand that captures the power, unique looks, history and appeal that a TVR does. They all still looked current 10+ years after they were built.

Edited by JLF on Friday 28th November 16:25

[JLF]

nightflight said:

I had my first TVR in 1982 (Taimar), but had to sell that to fund my career. I've had a Griffith 500 for ten years, and will never sell that, although I am considering an LS conversion on it. I recently bought another Taimar, and that is sat on my ramp in the garage waiting for me to start a restoration. Nostalgia is expensive!

I did try and locate my old Tamora in a hope of buying it back………never did... other half would have gone ballistic.

Nostalgia is expensive...then again so is dropping an LS into a TVR….....but worth every penny