British car fest Waiuku this weekend

[Kylie]

Anyone going for a gander?

If all goes to plan I should have my car out there on Sunday. May see you or may not.

[SimJen]

my plan was to go in the Lotus 7 rep, but the missus has decided her friends wedding is more important unfortunately....
its the other end of the country too
i'd been planning to go all year!

[Fraster]

So join the Fraser club (we're very lenient about non-Frasers) and come for the odd tootle with us!

[Fraster]

Hi Kylie. I may be there-but it's my Birthday and if the weather is good I may be out on the water instead!

[Kylie]

A few pics. Quite a windy day but it wasnt raining and very warm.
Plenty of cars and action.



Simon and Tony checking the straight cut pipe work. Perverts!!!






Got my own regalia kit made up!

[Fraster]

Saw yr car, Kylie, but didn't see you until you left ( I was hogging a late lunch at the Pizza place as you all pistoff. See that lovely Griff is for sale-65k.

[Kylie]

Shame we didnt catch up Roger Good thing we left when we did, as I closed the garage door and it started pissing down, we were lucky!

[Omerta]

Thanks for those pics Kylie - the yellow Tuscan I assume is the one bought recently by the French chappie up north that was posting on PH a few months back about its history. Did you talk to the owner - would be interested to know what his plans are for it.

$65k for the Griff seems a bit on the high side now there is an import route for them, but I guess not everyone can be bothered with the hassle.

[Esprit]

Is the Griff for sale the Dark Blue one?

If so, that's one of the original press "500"s, and was used in much of the publicity material for the Griff 500 model. It's a good deal angrier than most Griffs in terms of its tune.

[Kylie]

Omerta said:

Thanks for those pics Kylie - the yellow Tuscan I assume is the one bought recently by the French chappie up north that was posting on PH a few months back about its history. Did you talk to the owner - would be interested to know what his plans are for it.

$65k for the Griff seems a bit on the high side now there is an import route for them, but I guess not everyone can be bothered with the hassle.

No I didnt talk to the owners sorry, I am not sure if 65K is a good price for that model r not. Not my cuppa though, but if I was presented with a new Sagaris......

[CRM]

Tuscan Racer now road legal so intends to take it to the supermarket to get milk.

[Omerta]

CRM said:

Tuscan Racer now road legal so intends to take it to the supermarket to get milk.

...and arrives home several hours later with a carton of nicely churned butter

[CRM]

Omerta said:

CRM said:

Tuscan Racer now road legal so intends to take it to the supermarket to get milk.

...and arrives home several hours later with a carton of nicely churned butter

Precisely!

[SimJen]

looks like it was a good day, wish I could have been there.
Still got a few jobs to do to the Seven before I travel too far in it tho.....valve stem seals for one!
Fraster I will be joining the Fraser club, cheap enough and the odd blast out in a group would be good.

[Kylie]

Hi, see our other thread thats developed into a NZ tour, Toys-pies-L&P? Target this perhaps?

[Fraster]

I'm a bit puzzled. There seems to be a consensus on this forum that a Cerbera(say) is now importable, but Jim G, who i spoke to in Waiuku (an acknowledged expert in TVRs) says it's still not possible to get a TVR on the road here, unless it is 20 yrs-plus OR built in 2006. He says there may be a loophole, but isn't elaborating just yet....So how did Pascal get the Tuscan vin-ed I wonder?

[Fraster]

...and, George, yes, it's the blue one.

[Esprit]

Was talkin to Jim about this the other day... seems there's some minor ting with the way TVR displays their type approval data that doesn't meet with our legislation... something to do with some bits being on one label and some on another.... whereas the wording states the two must be on the same label.... something like that anyway. It's purely a red-tape thing, absolutely no REASON for it, but Jim's been talking to some fairly high up people to get it changed as it seems there's no reason for it.

[CRM]

Jim Gamsby is your best point of call for all TVR registration questions and issues as he has devoted dozens and dozens of hours of his time working through the various issues helping owners get there cars on the road.

PM me if you require his contact phone details or email him at
gamsby at xtra dot co d nz