Vixen for sale

[anonymous-user]

Looks nice. Can’t translate the description though!

https://www.automobile.fr/Voiture/TVR-S-2-Vixen-mi...

[Moto]

I like that too. It looks like a very usable car that doesn't need anything changing. Which is unusual for me as most Vixens I look at from barely MOT'd to fully restored usually shout a list of things I'd want to change if it were mine.

It also has an unusual but nice stance with the rear suspension set slightly high.

Moto

[anonymous-user]

Strikes me as a very small radiator, and also an unusual breather arrangement to the air filters.
As with all cars it might just be a Cosworth rocker cover!

[Moto]

The rocker says cosworth but as you say that doesn't mean it's a Cosworth engine. However no filler cap suggests a dry sump engine so it could be something trick and interesting.

Moto

[Andrew Gray]

V6 Pushfit said:

Looks nice. Can’t translate the description though!

https://www.automobile.fr/Voiture/TVR-S-2-Vixen-mi...

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The TVR Vixen is a two-seat sports coupe produced by TVR in Blackpool, England, from 1967 to 1973 as a successor to Grantura.
The first vixen took over the fiberglass body of its predecessor with comb tail. The four-cylinder engine with 1599 cc engine and a power of 90 hp (66 kW) at 5500 min-1 was equipped with a single Weber carburetor and come as well from the Ford Cortina II as the rectangular taillights. The car reaches a top speed of 170 km / h and consumes 10.8 l / 100 km.
in 1968, the wheelbase was extended to 4, 5 "and increased the length of the car. The Ford Kent engine of the Cortina II still served the S2 vixen, was only 88 hp (65 kW) at 5400 min-1.
Rising by a longer rear axle ratio at a top speed of 175 km / h, fuel consumption dropped to 10.7 l / 100 km. in 1970, the performance of the slightly modified S3 86 vixen engine sank bhp (63 kW), consumption slightly increased to 10.9 l / 100 km. The Vixen S4, available from 1972, also kept these values ​​at 1300

[anonymous-user]

Your German is fluent Andrew!

No details of the actual car though, but I didn’t know the S3 was detuned.

[Moto]

V6 Pushfit said:

Your German is fluent Andrew!

No details of the actual car though, but I didn’t know the S3 was detuned.

My understanding was that with the S3 TVR introduced the crossflow from the Capri GT which increased the bhp from 88 to a whopping 90.

But who really knows...??

Moto

[Andrew Gray]

V6 Pushfit said:

Your German is fluent Andrew!

No details of the actual car though, but I didn’t know the S3 was detuned.

As i am in all languages Al apart from English sadly it does not understand my spelling LOL
https://translate.google.com/

I guess we are all different i could find lots i would want to change but others would be very happy with but still a nice car for someone from the pictures but who knows otherwise i have learned that pictures only tell half the story and with at least two people in the last year buying ealy TVRs in the 30k price bracket and attempting to drive them home after purchase and in the end needing a recovery truck to get them home then who knows.
Andrew