Mystery Chassis???
Discussion
Hello all.
I fell for it again and have bought yet another Mk 2 Vixen. I am in a quandary though. The chassis is all constructed out of square tubing with round section outrigger sill runners only. It to my knowledge is not an m series chassis, since this had round section main rails? The car is bodied and stamped a series 2 1970 vixen and is running a series 2 body. Does anyone know of any odd ball replacement chassis that were constructed for the cars? or is it just another peculiarity of the TVR make?
The chassis number is LVX1676/4 with an engine number of D9092/8
I would be gratefull if anyone could shed some light. A previous owner was John William Davies, Morley in leeds. and previous to him was Nigel Thomas Griffiths in High Wycombe.
If anyone knows of some of the history to the car and its odd chassis please drop me a line?
I fell for it again and have bought yet another Mk 2 Vixen. I am in a quandary though. The chassis is all constructed out of square tubing with round section outrigger sill runners only. It to my knowledge is not an m series chassis, since this had round section main rails? The car is bodied and stamped a series 2 1970 vixen and is running a series 2 body. Does anyone know of any odd ball replacement chassis that were constructed for the cars? or is it just another peculiarity of the TVR make?
The chassis number is LVX1676/4 with an engine number of D9092/8
I would be gratefull if anyone could shed some light. A previous owner was John William Davies, Morley in leeds. and previous to him was Nigel Thomas Griffiths in High Wycombe.
If anyone knows of some of the history to the car and its odd chassis please drop me a line?
Someone has just sent me a piccy of Nigel Warners chassis on his car which is exactly the same as mine! All of the bracketry etc is identical to my other round tube vixen chassis. I am therefore confident it is a TVR chassis as opposed to a custom fabbed one after a crash for example. The condition of it is good, but the outriggers are pretty pitted so it is a good few years old itself.
I have stuck a couple of pictures up on the yahoo pre 1980 website
Anyone know how to post piccys here and I will do same
Anyone know of the experimentation with square tubing / how many cars built etc.
Neil.
I have stuck a couple of pictures up on the yahoo pre 1980 website
Anyone know how to post piccys here and I will do same
Anyone know of the experimentation with square tubing / how many cars built etc.
Neil.
I would like to think that it is, but I think it probably isn't. More a home build or chassis company / car repairers job. It is quite faithful to a Vixen S2 chassis though in square as opposed to round.
Do you have any photos / scans of the Bigland chassis I could have a look at?
Neil.
heightswitch at supanet dot com (wrote as such to stop trojans)
Do you have any photos / scans of the Bigland chassis I could have a look at?
Neil.
heightswitch at supanet dot com (wrote as such to stop trojans)
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