4 TVRs on trade me

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Roger A

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1,267 posts

247 months

Thursday 6th April 2006
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common as muck....

Kiwi XTR2

2,693 posts

239 months

Thursday 6th April 2006
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Is there a buy 3 get 1 free discount ?

jamieheasman

823 posts

291 months

Thursday 6th April 2006
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Actually there are six!

Four Chimaeras (two of which can't be used on the road), a two-seater Tuscan racer and a black Griffith.

One of the Chimaeras is only $20k!

My car is on there now but I don't know what I'll end up getting for it. The TVR market is impossible to gauge.

Mustang-man

255 posts

228 months

Friday 7th April 2006
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I have yet to see a TVR. Only ever seen one Aston Martin too i think, might have been an old DB6 (a.k.a. James Bondmobile) down the Southern Motorway in Dunedin.

Roger A

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247 months

Saturday 8th April 2006
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Oops, Ok Jamie-i only counted the soft-tops. by the way, you've spoken of maybe getting a fraser-the one around the corner from my Ma in maraetai is for sale i see for 15k!(on trade-me)

robdickinson

31,343 posts

261 months

Saturday 8th April 2006
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Mustang-man said:
I have yet to see a TVR. Only ever seen one Aston Martin too i think, might have been an old DB6 (a.k.a. James Bondmobile) down the Southern Motorway in Dunedin.


Theres 2-3 trevors around sumner I see regulaly and a DB7 on moorhouse av quite often.

Saw a lotus esprit (4lotus plate) in Bunnings warehouse car park today too. Along with a light blue e-type that lives up somewhere on scarborough hill. Also saw a modern lambo on ferry road, gallardo or murchilago, fraid to say I cant tell the difference anymore, lost intrest after the diablo (sort of).

Theres a metal/green 7 I see around woolston quite often too (and on the sumit road lol...)

jamieheasman

823 posts

291 months

Sunday 9th April 2006
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I wouldn't say no to a Fraser that's for sure although the money from the TVR is supposed to be going towards the barn and the house! There were three Frasers for sale last time I checked - which one is around the corner from you? Is it a good one?

I've added a footnote to my ad' to say I'd accept one as part-ex. In fact I've added a list of several cars which some might be shocked to notice includes a Skoda! Mind you, to anyone that's ever driven a Fabia vRS and covers decent motorway mileage each day it may not be that surprising!

By the way, they are all soft-tops!

>> Edited by jamieheasman on Sunday 9th April 22:17

Roger A

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247 months

Monday 10th April 2006
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Not near me, but near where my elderly mother lives in maraetai beach. It's a very good price but I think the 1600 might be too tame for a V8 graduate such as yourself, Jamie

jamieheasman

823 posts

291 months

Monday 10th April 2006
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Horses for courses. My Chimaera always feels a bit sluggish to me after owning bigger engined versions, a Cerbera and of course a Yamaha R1!

Anyway, who says I wouldn't be putting a nice little 400bhp Rover V8 (I've got kicking around) into my Fraser!

Roger A

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Monday 10th April 2006
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Who indeed!

Esprit

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290 months

Monday 10th April 2006
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jamieheasman said:
Anyway, who says I wouldn't be putting a nice little 400bhp Rover V8 (I've got kicking around) into my Fraser!


To use Westfield's nomenclature that'd be a "Fraser ClubmEight"

jamieheasman

823 posts

291 months

Monday 10th April 2006
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It has a nice ring to it doesn't it? Of course it may ruin the car as you'd have to be very, very careful with the throttle! The Westie was ugly too and I wouldn't want to do that to a Fraser.

Anyway, I've kind of got my V8 earmarked for a Rover P5B Coupe I've been planning for years. I want it to be a sort of Bentley Turbo equivilent. It'll be silver over a gunmetal roof with black hide (increased side-bolsters in the seats) and all the 'orrible wood (and it was horrible in P5s) will be replaced with nice bits of machined ally. It'll have all mod-cons, air-con, leccy seats and mirrors (but not windows - that mechanism is too delicious!) and a nice stereo. Of course this would cost a fortune and take years but you've got to have a dream haven't you? If I won lotto I'd get Beacham to do it and save myself getting dirty fingernails!