C5 Manual Gearbox

[mark r skinner]

How many in the UK?

[viperdave]

I’ll start the count at one

[vetteheadracer]

2 more here

[sayerbloke]

The one I drove that Mithrill own is a manual

[Colvette]

I used to have one - red with black interior 2000 W plate. Sold to Chris Graham Corvette in 2004.

[te51cle]

Another one here.

Not a lot of people know this but Mithril acquired that C5 on 6th April 2001.

[anonymous-user]

te51cle said:

Not a lot of people know this but Mithril acquired that C5 on 6th April 2001.

...and it tends to jump out of third gear of you give it some beans!

[sayerbloke]

5 USA said:

te51cle said:

Not a lot of people know this but Mithril acquired that C5 on 6th April 2001.

...and it tends to jump out of third gear of you give it some beans!

Ok, I give up, how'd you two know so much about this car?

http://inlinethumb44.webshots.com/305

Edited by sayerbloke on Thursday 1st March 21:08

[seefive]

Colvette said:

I used to have one - red with black interior 2000 W plate. Sold to Chris Graham Corvette in 2004.

That'll be mine then... Two

[seefive]

sayerbloke said:

5 USA said:

te51cle said:

Not a lot of people know this but Mithril acquired that C5 on 6th April 2001.

...and it tends to jump out of third gear of you give it some beans!

Ok, I give up, how'd you two know so much about this car?

http://inlinethumb44.webshots.com/305

Edited by sayerbloke on Thursday 1st March 21:08

Sorry don't know much about the car, but know how hard it is to push a TVR Griffith around Goodwood. We did a Red Nose Day stunt some years ago, and I think we still hold the record for the slowest lap ever of Goodwood

[te51cle]

I was the first person to drive it "properly" after it arrived off the transporter. I had wanted to test drive a manual car and it took over 6 months for the old dealer network to set up a test drive for me. When they finally did it was in the car that they were giving to Mithril. Also had a play in an Alfa Romeo, a 911, a DB3 and a formula 2000 car (they firmly showed me the 'slow down' board with that one ).

There was also some kind of 4WD Bronco or something that drove like a canal boat. Wouldn't touch one of those things with a barge pole !

[GTWayne]

te51cle said:

There was also some kind of 4WD Bronco or something that drove like a canal boat. Wouldn't touch one of those things with a barge pole !

Right tool for the job though

Edited by GTWayne on Friday 2nd March 08:27