Reg No. TVR 100 - What happened to it?

Reg No. TVR 100 - What happened to it?

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JamieG

Original Poster:

911 posts

232 months

Sunday 19th August 2007
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Have been reading a few books on the history of TVR and the reg no. "TVR 100" appears quite frequently, especially on the Wedge series. Anyone know if this bit of TVR history is still about?

Chassis 33

6,194 posts

289 months

Sunday 19th August 2007
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It was used more recently on the promotional material I've got for the Tamora, afraid that's all I know sorry!

Regards
Iain

madbadger

11,616 posts

251 months

Sunday 19th August 2007
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There was a thread a couple of years ago when NS sold it off. I thought one of the dealers bought it?

Road Hog

2,577 posts

220 months

Sunday 19th August 2007
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it was also on my T350t for a motorshow in 2004 and stayed on car for a while as it was the press car.

Gaffer

7,156 posts

284 months

Sunday 19th August 2007
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Owned by John Kent who sold it to PRW, used on most press cars, sold to a dealer by NS - Mole Valley I think who also had 100 TVR.

Claire

DavidY

4,474 posts

291 months

Sunday 19th August 2007
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It was used prior to PRW ownership, having appeared on the black roadtest 3000S Turbo and early Tasmins.

TVR22 was also used during the 70's and 80's by the factory, then became acquired by Stewart Halstead/Carole Newton, and subsequently got sold on. It now is on a yellow Griff 500 that we use to own.

In the TVR 450SE/TVR S2 promtional video, yes they did shoot one and it's very cheesy, the 450SE wore TVR100 and the S2 wore TVR101 (which nobody can substantiate as being a real released number, so it was probably made up for the video)

TVR100 has also existed on multiple cars at once, as people have been known to visit the factory and seen it on more than one vehicle during their visit!!

It's use fell into decline when TVR purchased S6TVR

davidy

davido140

9,614 posts

233 months

Sunday 19th August 2007
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DavidY said:
It was used prior to PRW ownership, having appeared on the black roadtest 3000S Turbo and early Tasmins.

TVR22 was also used during the 70's and 80's by the factory, then became acquired by Stewart Halstead/Carole Newton, and subsequently got sold on. It now is on a yellow Griff 500 that we use to own.

In the TVR 450SE/TVR S2 promtional video, yes they did shoot one and it's very cheesy, the 450SE wore TVR100 and the S2 wore TVR101 (which nobody can substantiate as being a real released number, so it was probably made up for the video)

TVR100 has also existed on multiple cars at once, as people have been known to visit the factory and seen it on more than one vehicle during their visit!!

It's use fell into decline when TVR purchased S6TVR

davidy
I tip my hat to your stato-like knowledge of TVR number plates! wink

Gaffer

7,156 posts

284 months

Sunday 19th August 2007
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DavidY said:
It was used prior to PRW ownership, having appeared on the black roadtest 3000S Turbo and early Tasmins.

TVR22 was also used during the 70's and 80's by the factory, then became acquired by Stewart Halstead/Carole Newton, and subsequently got sold on. It now is on a yellow Griff 500 that we use to own.

In the TVR 450SE/TVR S2 promtional video, yes they did shoot one and it's very cheesy, the 450SE wore TVR100 and the S2 wore TVR101 (which nobody can substantiate as being a real released number, so it was probably made up for the video)

TVR100 has also existed on multiple cars at once, as people have been known to visit the factory and seen it on more than one vehicle during their visit!!

It's use fell into decline when TVR purchased S6TVR

davidy
Yes - it was owned by John Kent, he then sold it to PRW (obviously when Peter bought TVR) but JK had TVR connections prior wink
It didnt fall into decline - it was sold.

Claire

Daftlad

3,324 posts

248 months

Monday 20th August 2007
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TVR 100 and 100 TVR are both owned by PRW.

hugepiece

724 posts

234 months

Monday 20th August 2007
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I wonder who now owns "7VR", I heard the factory owned that one too - now thats a REALYL good plate....

Daftlad

3,324 posts

248 months

Monday 20th August 2007
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hugepiece said:
I wonder who now owns "7VR", I heard the factory owned that one too - now thats a REALYL good plate....
Dead cool if VR are your initials, a pointless pain if you're going to push them together to make the plate illegal - lots of money to spend to risk loosing the plate to the DVLA...

L33

3,468 posts

231 months

Wednesday 5th September 2007
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Well, according the the RAC website:
100TVR is currently on a 1999 BENTLEY CONTINENTAL R
TVR100 is currently on a 2006 GRAND CHEROKEE SRT-8 A
7VR is currently on a 2005 MERCEDES SL 350 AUTO

Shame none of these plates are no longer on "proper" cars (TVR's)

smile

Edited to say simply add your reg number here to find out what car its on:
http://www.rac.co.uk/web/vehiclechecks/status_chec...

Edited by L33 on Wednesday 5th September 19:17

jagdpanther

19,633 posts

226 months

Wednesday 5th September 2007
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Gaffer said:
Yes - it was owned by John Kent, he then sold it to PRW (obviously when Peter bought TVR) but JK had TVR connections prior wink
It didnt fall into decline - it was sold.

Claire
Howdo Claire, good to have you back onboard!

Dr K

196 posts

222 months

Wednesday 5th September 2007
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To my knowledge it is now owned by Mole Valley. Not certain about this but I seem to remember them running 2 smart cars with TVR100 and 100 TVR on them.

wookie

107 posts

289 months

Wednesday 5th September 2007
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Correct. Both owned by Mole Valley.

Daftlad

3,324 posts

248 months

Thursday 6th September 2007
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wookie said:
Correct. Both owned by Mole Valley.
Sure?

ftasb

229 posts

246 months

Sunday 2nd March 2008
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Both are now on vehicles as posted above.

Bentley Continental and SRT Jeep.

Wanna guess who owns them?. He is quite tall.


Terminator

2,421 posts

291 months

Sunday 2nd March 2008
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ftasb said:
Wanna guess who owns them?. He is quite tall.
Shrek?

smokin2

Griftwood

1,790 posts

234 months

Sunday 2nd March 2008
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Is there not a "TVR 1" or "1 TVR" in existance?

selnic

466 posts

274 months

Sunday 2nd March 2008
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J100 TVR - Immaculate blue grif in Nottingham today!