Oh dear - another sucker hooked!
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Just relaying a little experience I had on Friday afternoon.
Doing the weekly trundle home from Northampton to Reading when I noticed a strange looking beast lurking in the outside lane of the M40, and then I noticed the reg plate - S6 TVR, ah the stuff of dreams.
Managed to get level with the beast in the traffic in the trusty Astra. Did the usual sad thing of turn the radio down and even opened the window to listen. Then the pilot tickled the throttle and I was no longer level, but some distance behind (due to the poor throttle response of the Astra - reckon I could have had him in the top speed stakes
). The funniest thing was the way in which the door lining of my car rattled as the Tiv revved. I knew I was a fan of the cars, but now I am hooked. I can't wait until I have the cash to buy such a monster and set off BMW and Porker alarms at the touch of the throttle. I now understand what you guys mean when you comment on the soul of the cars. The sheer road presence and noise seems more than enough to put up with the odd build niggle.
I wonder what the chances are of getting a student loan in the reason of £50k ish?
Anyway, back to dreaming about the day when a: I have a bit of spare cash and b: Tamoras depreciate into my price bracket. Look after them you lot, I WILL have one some day.
Colin
Doing the weekly trundle home from Northampton to Reading when I noticed a strange looking beast lurking in the outside lane of the M40, and then I noticed the reg plate - S6 TVR, ah the stuff of dreams.
Managed to get level with the beast in the traffic in the trusty Astra. Did the usual sad thing of turn the radio down and even opened the window to listen. Then the pilot tickled the throttle and I was no longer level, but some distance behind (due to the poor throttle response of the Astra - reckon I could have had him in the top speed stakes
). The funniest thing was the way in which the door lining of my car rattled as the Tiv revved. I knew I was a fan of the cars, but now I am hooked. I can't wait until I have the cash to buy such a monster and set off BMW and Porker alarms at the touch of the throttle. I now understand what you guys mean when you comment on the soul of the cars. The sheer road presence and noise seems more than enough to put up with the odd build niggle. I wonder what the chances are of getting a student loan in the reason of £50k ish?
Anyway, back to dreaming about the day when a: I have a bit of spare cash and b: Tamoras depreciate into my price bracket. Look after them you lot, I WILL have one some day.
Colin
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Great to see that TVR's still have the 'wind the window down' effect on other road users.
My Tuscan certainly does - but unfortunately it's my window which winds down of its own accord...oh and then the door opens - irrespective of speed!
Anyone else experienced the same bizarre phenomena?
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Vindaloo
I take it you haven't had the modification done which moves the button to next to the radio? (I thought they had to make this change for safety reasons)
Oh, and last night my passenger window stopped going all of the way up. Nice! Looks great covered in cling film.
the moving of the button is that by law? ps like the idea of cling flim
Nick,
The problem I have at present is I am a pikey, tax bludging, good for nothing mechanical engineering student. Finding £11 is a struggle at times, but after 3 and a half years of student-hood I'm not quite in debt yet - thats not bad going I think. The other thing is at the tender age of 21 the insurance companies tend to ask for rather large amounts of my hard earned weekend job wage, even for my Ashtray, let alone a fire breathing Blackpool beast.
But the old saying goes 'If you don't have a dream how you ever gonna have a dream come true'.
Maybe the ideal situation would be to get an engineering job with TVR. I would gladly work on the design and development side of things for them, if they asked nicely (expected 1st in MEng mechanical engineering degree - graduating June 2002). Any offers welcome!!.
Colin
The problem I have at present is I am a pikey, tax bludging, good for nothing mechanical engineering student. Finding £11 is a struggle at times, but after 3 and a half years of student-hood I'm not quite in debt yet - thats not bad going I think. The other thing is at the tender age of 21 the insurance companies tend to ask for rather large amounts of my hard earned weekend job wage, even for my Ashtray, let alone a fire breathing Blackpool beast.
But the old saying goes 'If you don't have a dream how you ever gonna have a dream come true'.
Maybe the ideal situation would be to get an engineering job with TVR. I would gladly work on the design and development side of things for them, if they asked nicely (expected 1st in MEng mechanical engineering degree - graduating June 2002). Any offers welcome!!.
Colin
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