Random picture thread

[junior340]

"ish" , yes in that its a small little English 'cottage builder' like TVR. I be likin TVRs...
View attachment 1930262

My parents are from England and my Dad always wanted one but never found a nice one.

 

[YY1]

Didn't Jeremy of Top Gear say TVRs were fun to drive but the doors barely latched and might come open on turns and they all reeked of silicone caulk?

Or something to that effect.

 

[Dave6T4]

View attachment 1930402

Jayne was stunningly beautiful! The days before Botox.

 

[Black_Sheep]

 

[68BabyBlue]

Jayne was stunningly beautiful! The days before Botox.

I did a tribute to her for Halloween in 1997, nothing like the original, but good enough that I creeped out the entire corporate office. My wife was horrified, and never wore that outfit again. Had to negotiate a deal with an environmental contractor that day to remove the fuel tanks at the main terminal. My appearance put the other side totally off balance, and we ended with a contract that came in about $100,000 under actual cost. The CEO, on my right, was impressed by my performance, and promoted me to VP a month later.

 

[YY1]

TMI
TMI
TMI

 

[guy gadbois]

Didn't Jeremy of Top Gear say TVRs were fun to drive but the doors barely latched and might come open on turns and they all reeked of silicone caulk?

Or something to that effect.

Well, build quality might be sketchy occasionally and low NVH was certainly not their strong suit, but I dont think they were THAT bad! Mine as actually pretty decent.
Originally, they were basically 'kit cars' , but during the Martin Lilley era, were much, much better, becoming pretty darn nice during Peter Wheeler's stint as owner.
Besides, how can you not love a company with a dog - German Shorthaired Pointer named Ned - listed as VP of Styling!?!

 

[sam dupont]

Through the years TVRs used triumph TR six engines 2800 Ford V sixes and the rover V8. The rover V8, based on the Buick 215 is a good motor. GM decided it was a failure because when turbocharged the bottom end could blow out of it, literally (poor aluminum alloys) and the porting held it back. Rover fixed all that giving it a usable 6000 RPMs. Rover did all the configurations that American hot rodders did, using 300 parts and head combinations to get more compression and the displacement up to 5 Litre.

My triumph has a TVR Griffith differential with the Gleason Toreson LS drive. I think it's 80/20 slippage from side to side.

The video is a 1996 model with the 5 L. I think it's a better looking car than most 96 models except of course, for the Viper
Google Search

 

[Black_Sheep]

 

[Black_Sheep]

 

[dadsbee]

DANG, that reminds me. I guess I'd better get that cleaned up before Sunday night...

 

[Photon440]

 

[Photon440]

 

[Photon440]

 

[icetech]

 

[YY1]

Sorry to post a ford, but these are cool-

 

[YY1]

BTW- it's a real thing...and it's Monday.

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

random

 

[guy gadbois]

Through the years TVRs used triumph TR six engines 2800 Ford V sixes and the rover V8. The rover V8, based on the Buick 215 is a good motor. GM decided it was a failure because when turbocharged the bottom end could blow out of it, literally (poor aluminum alloys) and the porting held it back. Rover fixed all that giving it a usable 6000 RPMs. Rover did all the configurations that American hot rodders did, using 300 parts and head combinations to get more compression and the displacement up to 5 Litre.

My triumph has a TVR Griffith differential with the Gleason Toreson LS drive. I think it's 80/20 slippage from side to side.

The video is a 1996 model with the 5 L. I think it's a better looking car than most 96 models except of course, for the Viper
Google Search

View attachment 1930473View attachment 1930474View attachment 1930475

TVR also used Ford 4 cylinders, BL fours, Ford V8s and 3 litre Ford Essex 6s. Later, TVRs used their own engines too. Customers put all sorts of other powerplants in also.
Speaking of the aluminium GM V8... It is public knowledge that I am NOT a buick person. At all. So I take mild umbrage at people always calling that engine a 'buick' ; Oldsmobile had a version of the same lump, and it was slightly different. The problem that Rover had was they used the buick version; Olds' iteration had less head gasket issues for example. What many do not know is the Oldsmobile version of that engine formed the basis of the "Brabham" that won the World F1 Championship in 1966.
And I certainly agree that the TVR is probably the most handsome of the new cars that year; the 'new' Griffith is one of the better looking open sportscars in any era imnsho.