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From: jlw@ariel.UUCP (J.WOOD)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Re: Anybody heard of a TVR?
Message-ID: <1033@ariel.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 11:49:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 11:49:16 1986
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> In article <6758@duke.UUCP> jk@duke.UUCP (J. D. Knott) writes:
> >A local "British" auto dealer (dealing in classic and semi-classic
> >British automobiles) has 73 a TVR ?? for sale.  It is a good looking 
> >car (reminiscent of a Saab Sonnet) and the ad claims that only 21 
> >were brought into the US.  
> 
> TVR have been making low-production sports cars for at least 20 years.
> In the early 60's they exported the "Griffith", a toady-looking fastback
> with a Ford V-8 that was faster than a Cobra in a straight line, but even
> worse handling.  They currently export a very sophisticated coupe and
> roadster called the Tasmin.
> 
> The pleasures involved in owning a '73 TVR will be:
> 
> 	Having people ask what it is.
> 
> 	Telling them.
> 
> 	Going helplessly from junkyard to junkyard trying to find parts
> 	that will more or less fit.
> 
> 	phil

Actually TVR  running gear is mostly Triumph.
Earlier versions such as the Griffith used
TR3, TR4, and TR4A suspensions and the Tasmin
uses the TR7.



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