An entertaining thread lads, I only wish I'd picked it up earlier.
Realistically though, I doubt whether I'm in the market for a TVR/vette. But if I was..............I think I'm on Matts side on this one. 30K might look like good value for a car that looks and goes as good as a TVR, but that 30K would start to look more and more expensive each time a piece fell off. I have this mental image of me starting out from home on a nice long drive in my shiny new TVR and arriving at my destination looking like a character from a Buster Keaton movie, sitting on the back axle, with no bodywork left and clinging on to the unattached steering wheel, face blackened and hair standing on end. Besides, the vette looks pretty good to me, and to prove God is on my side (for it was indeed a message) as I drove down the high street last night there was a vette, seemingly identical to the one in Mr Harpers avatar, parked up and looking very mean. They're not as big as you think you know.
As a slight aside, when I was returning from an early nineties LM I bumped into (and I stand to be corrected on the spelling) John Marigoldelettsi, or maybe Magnetosphere. Without checking, I think he had been in charge of the ill-fated BRM entry. He was driving a beautiful C5 (or at least whatever it was in the early nineties, C4?) and it was RHD! I suppose the conversion could have been a Saturday morning job for the boys in the workshop.
I'm in and out of Florida next month, and nothing would give me greater pleasure (well actually, there are quite a few things, but the batteries seem to have died again) than taking Matt up on his offer, but work is work I suppose.
PM she's a brute! Do you have an unofficial arrangement with the local speed enforcement cameras?
H
