TVR Madness is it an illness?
TVR Madness is it an illness?
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nrick

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1,866 posts

192 months

Wednesday 13th October 2010
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So I have had a Tuscan for a few weeks, and love or hate the speed six it is different if nothing else, then last night I start justifying to myself that maybe it is lonely and if I gave up my company car and took the allowance I could justify a Cerbera with a V8 for ferrying around the kids. Is this behavior natural? Should I even be looking at the classifieds?

N

Broke and addicted


Grey Ghost

4,610 posts

249 months

Wednesday 13th October 2010
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Don't worry about your illness you are amongst friends here biggrin

Frenchda

1,343 posts

262 months

Wednesday 13th October 2010
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Need to sell the Chim, need to sell the Chim, need to sell the Chim.

I bought the Tuscan with a firm resolution to sell the Chim, but that V8 noise.

Need to keep the Chim, need to keep the Chim.

I am also drawn to the practical family wagon that the Cerb is!!!!

Need to buy a Cerb!

.Mark

11,104 posts

305 months

Wednesday 13th October 2010
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1 TVR is never enough!

S6 ROR

1,590 posts

294 months

Wednesday 13th October 2010
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I keep taking the tablets, but the illness does not go away, now have 3 Tivshehe

TvrJohn

1,070 posts

284 months

Wednesday 13th October 2010
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Deep seated emotional illness
I have Cerb and V8S with no logical reason to keep either, have owned both for about 10 years

Certainly more fun than money in the bank

Mr MoJo

4,698 posts

245 months

Wednesday 13th October 2010
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S6 ROR said:
I keep taking the tablets, but the illness does not go away, now have 3 Tivshehe
Hi Nigel wavey I've seen the SE, know about the Sag, whats your 3rd ?

Hope you're well smile

Simon.

SEN 18

1,247 posts

241 months

Friday 22nd October 2010
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If its in the blood one can not do a thing about it,16 TVRs and 38 years of ownership.

AlexanderV8

1,487 posts

232 months

Friday 22nd October 2010
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I love the way that one minute you are out there playing with and embarassing expensive exotica, or rumbling around town feeling really proud of your machine, and the next you pull up on your drive, slam the door shut and the wing mirror glass drops out and the boot solenoid sticks.

S6 Devil

3,556 posts

262 months

Friday 22nd October 2010
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Mine is definately an illness.

I have spent the last two weeks trying to find why my door ECU's have blown and the door and boot solenoids are working intermittently. Then taking the dash to pieces hunting for a metalic tapping sound that has started to annoy me inside the cabin.

I seem to spend every spare minute out in the garage, or pondering what could be causing my current niggle, or searching PH, or test driving to see if the noise has gone, or popping out just one more time to check that the doors and boot are still popping open.

I just can't leave the darned thing alone...note to self, must get out more!

It is a maddening love/hate addiction but I wouldn't change it for anything else.

S6 ROR

1,590 posts

294 months

Saturday 23rd October 2010
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Mr MoJo said:
S6 ROR said:
I keep taking the tablets, but the illness does not go away, now have 3 Tivshehe
Hi Nigel wavey I've seen the SE, know about the Sag, whats your 3rd ?

Hope you're well smile

Simon.
Hi Simon, yes, had a mad moment a few weeks ago, and have brought a Tamorabiggrin no logical reason(but when does logic come into buying a TVR), just had the opportunity and took ithehe

jimed

1,508 posts

235 months

Saturday 23rd October 2010
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Its an incurable illness once you get it .... but then who cares cloud9
Jim

blueg33

46,409 posts

253 months

Saturday 23rd October 2010
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The only trouble with a cerb as a family car is that your kids have to be amputees

nrick

Original Poster:

1,866 posts

192 months

Saturday 23rd October 2010
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They are small :-), and there is a Grand Voyager in the house for domestic duties, it is the one needs to go to football and at the same time one needs to go to rugby, so never at full capacity. Sounds like a plan to me........

Englishman

2,253 posts

239 months

Saturday 23rd October 2010
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I even tried giving up a couple of times, but have now given up giving up!

Pretty sure I'll own TVR's until I'm no longer able to drive now.