New purchase - fun on the drive home!

technoholic

picked this up this afternoon, 100 mile drive home was a lot of fun!

                                                                       

The Dreamer

Nice!

Much as I love most TVRs, I’d probably write it off in pretty short order.

One came onto the dual carriageway ahead of me a few years ago, and accelerated as he joined the main carriageway from the slip-road - he didn’t appear to be doing anything silly, just accelerating quite hard - a split second later, and the back end stepped out, gained traction again (but now pointing about 30 degrees left), and shot up the embankment, shedding body panels on the way. The whole episode took no more than 10 seconds or so! He was OK, but the car appeared to be totalled.

We all like to think we have the skills to prevent that from ever happening to us, but the truth is, I most likely don’t. So I’ll continue to just admire other people’s TVRs such as yours!

technoholic

Honestly, of course you can do something like that in a TVR however they aren’t the killing machines people make them out to be. As long as you treat them with respect and don’t take silly risks on a public road or in the wet then it should be ok. I’ll take it to a track to drive like that, on the roads it’s just such a raw driving experience that you don’t even need to be going fast to have fun. Although the power does come in ha day showing up the posers at the traffic lights!

djbsom

Oh the irony.

mjn

Did you also purchase comprehensive AA breakdown cover?

mij

Lovely car, hope you enjoy it

Foster

I do like a TVR.

DOBLY

I was looking at getting a Sagaris in 2013/14, but chickened out as I couldn't find anyone who could/would service it here in NZ.  Perhaps I should have done, as they now sell for almost three times what I was going to spend...

technoholic

Yep, I wish I’d bought a Tuscan/sag or even a Cerbera a few years ago, would have been a great investment and a lot of fun. I don’t think the Chimaera will achieve the heights of those but maybe it will as they are getting rarer.

davepuma

Years ago, one of my neighbours had a boyfriend with a TVR.  It brought a smile to my face each time I heard its V8 start up.