Glad to help. TVRs have always been a fascination to me. :-) Once upon a time, I had a serious yen for a 1970 TVR Vixen. Just a superb handling little beast with perfect balance in every particular ... a friend owned one and I drove it whenever I could wrest the keys from him.
Then, a few years later, one of the customers at the shop I mechanic'ed at part-time showed up with a curious little project: He'd stuffed a hotted up Buick 3.5L aluminum V8 and a Jaguar E-type rear end into the Vixen. The little beast was painted signal orange and had big side-pipes since there was no room under the body/chassis to run a proper exhaust for that motor. It was even better balanced than the Vixen, weight and CG wise, but omigosh the power and torque in that small, short and light a chassis made it one heck of a handful to drive. Tremendous fun in a naïve time! Malcolm Trevor has gone on to build some pretty exotic and entertaining cars in the past couple of decades, one of the most interesting small car makers still surviving from that time in the 1960s-1970s. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:31 AM, P N Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Godders. That's definitely the body style. Given the hood bulge, the > car I shot might be a Griffin-reworked TVR. It's probably impossible to > determine for certain. But if it appears in the article, the owner might > respond. > > Paul > > > On Aug 23, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> Without a doubt a TVR Grantura. The taillight and fender configuration >> is similar to the one in these photos: >> >> http://homepage.mac.com/tvr43/history/grantura.html >> >> These were/are all hand-built cars in that period so there are often >> minor differences one to the next in the production run. >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:51 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to ID this car for an article. Does anyone know what it might >>> be? It might be a one off, so identification could be impossible. >>> >>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11479231&size=lg >>> >>> Paul >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Godfrey >> godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
