TVR’s Owned by Forum Members (Past or Present)

There have also been a number of calls for a picture of Susan Shaw, who unfortunately passed away about three years back…

But getting back to the subject at hand, here is my 1971 Vixen 2500 (M series tribute)…

This has the Triumph straight 6 TR6 2500cc motor, with triple Weber 40DCOE carburetors…

This one was a car I owned for about a year, and sold to Costa Mesa, CA.  It was fully refurbished, and then sold via Bring-A-Trailer recently to somewhere on the East Coast.

It is a 1974 TVR 2500M.

Somewhere out in Motorland is a frightening TVR-Griffith built by POCA member and my partner-in-crime Rich Agiorni in San Jose, CA. We worked on it together a bit. Last I saw it, the thing was stripped to bare fiberglas and had a Ford top loader 4 speed & Boss 302 (possibly with a Magnusen dual-supercharger) replacing the original hi-po 289. And gigantic fiberglas fender flares to house four 10" x 15" wheels within the tiny body. Any knowledge?

Here are some photos of my 1996 Griffith 500.

Rover-sourced V8 engine, itself Buick-sourced, all-aluminum, stroked by TVR to 5 liters (305 CI) of displacement with a custom crankshaft, custom connecting rods, etc., etc. Power is advertised at 340 hp, but in reality it's more like 280, comparable to an OEM Pantera, but with a weight, verified with mine, of only 1060 kg (Thanks to the aluminum engine and the laminated bodywork) compared to 1400 kg for the Pantera.

Unfortunately, unlike the 351 C, it's difficult to significantly increase the Rover's power; even in competition, it barely exceeds 320/330 hp. The bore, only 94 mm, doesn't leave much room for the valves, which are too small.

A very good, very rigid tubular chassis with four independent wheels via double wishbones. With the engine positioned at the front but well back from the front wheel centerline (front center position), the weight distribution is 50/50.

The problem with these cars is the perforating corrosion of some of the chassis tubes, especially with those from England, which is the vast majority, where there is a lot of salt on the roads in winter. When I bought mine, there were holes much bigger than my thumb in some of the tubes, and it's IMPOSSIBLE to see them without removing the body. I know many sellers claim otherwise, but it's false. Without removing the body, you can't see the areas that rust the most, just as you can't protect them from rust.

Sweet car Rene – Thanks for posting!

I thought that in the mid 70s, the TVR corporation guaranteed their frames for five years from corrosion and they would leave oil inside of the tubes and they weld them shut.

I do know the early Granturas had the fiberglass wrapped around the tubes and it was a huge nightmare to remove the body from the frame, to fix any corrosion…

Rocky