Older TVR's to cheap to wave at????
Discussion
Let me first state that I am not trying to offend anybody, but there is something I would like to ask all of you because it wonders and at the same time concerns me.
We (Me and 2 other dutch friends) were in the UK last week (and week-end)to buy some TVR's. We bought 3 older TVR's from which 2 were driveable, a wedge and an M. The third we took on a trailer behind the van.
Here in Holland we (the dutch TVR-club members)are very proud and anthusiast about TVR, so if we are driving them we use to wave at each other whenever we meet somebody driving his/her TVR. Is it that TVR is that common in the UK that you get used to it (or it even gets boring)and that you ignore each other? Or is it that Chimaera and Cerbera owners can not identify themselves with older cars? Or is a TVR in the UK that common and normal that you don't pay any attention to it anymore, in that case we might better not move to the UK, we could lose our enthusiasm and hobby.
We understood from several people driving older TVR's that they don't feel welcome on UK or regional meetings because of the age of their cars,but i could never believe or even imagine it. One guy (i believe it was Pistolar) even mentioned on the PH forum that he liked the fact so much that on the continental meeting on Zolder racetrack in Belgium (organised by the Dutch TVR-club) everybody was talking to everybody !!! As if that should be something special??? The reason I like TVR is that it gives everybody, rich or poor(er) the ability to share the same passion and respect eachother just as they are.
I waved at 7 TVR's in slow city traffic(6 chimaera's and 1 Cerbera) last saturday as I drove the wedge from Southend on Sea to Hull and NOBODY showed any attention to us. (My friend was driving a yellow 3000M, so we must have drawn any attention). We were overhauled by one Chimaera and he blinked his warning lights to both of us once, nice!
For people who think I am a frustrated person who is fanatically trying to become part of the TVR-community, you could check my profile.(BTW: I did not mention the 9 TVR's me and my friend Cantus own together at the moment because we share them and I therefore don't consider them mine.)
It's just that I think we own something special and I don't understand why I should be less than the ordinary Chimaera driver just because I am not driving my Maranello toy or a new Tuscan S (which I cancelled because I don't like the new interior)
Am I seeing/understanding something wrong?
We (Me and 2 other dutch friends) were in the UK last week (and week-end)to buy some TVR's. We bought 3 older TVR's from which 2 were driveable, a wedge and an M. The third we took on a trailer behind the van.
Here in Holland we (the dutch TVR-club members)are very proud and anthusiast about TVR, so if we are driving them we use to wave at each other whenever we meet somebody driving his/her TVR. Is it that TVR is that common in the UK that you get used to it (or it even gets boring)and that you ignore each other? Or is it that Chimaera and Cerbera owners can not identify themselves with older cars? Or is a TVR in the UK that common and normal that you don't pay any attention to it anymore, in that case we might better not move to the UK, we could lose our enthusiasm and hobby.
We understood from several people driving older TVR's that they don't feel welcome on UK or regional meetings because of the age of their cars,but i could never believe or even imagine it. One guy (i believe it was Pistolar) even mentioned on the PH forum that he liked the fact so much that on the continental meeting on Zolder racetrack in Belgium (organised by the Dutch TVR-club) everybody was talking to everybody !!! As if that should be something special??? The reason I like TVR is that it gives everybody, rich or poor(er) the ability to share the same passion and respect eachother just as they are.
I waved at 7 TVR's in slow city traffic(6 chimaera's and 1 Cerbera) last saturday as I drove the wedge from Southend on Sea to Hull and NOBODY showed any attention to us. (My friend was driving a yellow 3000M, so we must have drawn any attention). We were overhauled by one Chimaera and he blinked his warning lights to both of us once, nice!
For people who think I am a frustrated person who is fanatically trying to become part of the TVR-community, you could check my profile.(BTW: I did not mention the 9 TVR's me and my friend Cantus own together at the moment because we share them and I therefore don't consider them mine.)
It's just that I think we own something special and I don't understand why I should be less than the ordinary Chimaera driver just because I am not driving my Maranello toy or a new Tuscan S (which I cancelled because I don't like the new interior)
Am I seeing/understanding something wrong?
Podie & Zippee (who BTW has a Ferrari as a fantasy car in his profile) let's not start the whole Ferrari/Porsche/TVR fight again it might get boring and eventually end up in the invention of car-hooliganism when drivers of rivalling brands are starting to fight each other.
I was just questioning the difference's between drivers of ONE brand.
>> Edited by infinity on Monday 7th February 13:02
I was just questioning the difference's between drivers of ONE brand.
>> Edited by infinity on Monday 7th February 13:02
Thanks for all the mostly denying and therefore positive replies. However I think the truth will be in the middle and I think we have to keep in mind the fact that most people on PH are enthusiasts, there is a whole bunch of guys out there just buying TVR's because their friends tell them to do so.
For example I met a guy at a petrolstation near Amersham this weekend, he just blew up the SP6 engine from the factory-demonstrator Tuscan S ("S6 TVR")he received as a courtesy-car while his cerbera 4.2 was with Jamie from TVR power for service, he for example did not even have a PH-profile he told me when I asked him.
For example I met a guy at a petrolstation near Amersham this weekend, he just blew up the SP6 engine from the factory-demonstrator Tuscan S ("S6 TVR")he received as a courtesy-car while his cerbera 4.2 was with Jamie from TVR power for service, he for example did not even have a PH-profile he told me when I asked him.
Here in Blackpool aan den Rijn the guys buying the newer ones also want to own some history and are starting to buy the older ones as well. One friend of us has a new Tuscan S, a Griffith 500 and now also bought an old Tuscan V6. Than there is one guy owning A 400 SE, an S1 and a Tuscan Challenge racer. The Long Kenian has an old Tuscan V8 racer, a 420 SEAC and some grantura's. The long Kenian and I own 6 TVR's together. FYI we all live in the same place which is called Blackpool aan den Rijn by the Dutch club because of the high concentration over here. Are there any collectors known in the UK as well? And what line up do they own?
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