Cobra killer

[Gliderman8]

I must look away.....
https://m.ebay.com/itm/221904891713?_mwBanner=1

 

[GTP1960]

I must look away.....
https://m.ebay.com/itm/221904891713?_mwBanner=1

Lets pool our money's & buy it in shares......
You can be the managing partner, since you found it.
the shares will be x 2. ( half for the purchase & half for the restoration)

it's a done deal.

 

[HealeyRick]

Another one of those British V8 oddballs I've always been drawn to. I understand handling with that short wheelbase could be "interesting."

 

[Boink]

Move on along... nothing to see here.

 

[Gliderman8]

Lets pool our money's & buy it in shares......
You can be the managing partner, since you found it.
the shares will be x 2. ( half for the purchase & half for the restoration)

it's a done deal.

Interesting proposition but my "managing partner" who has the majority of the shares in my household would kill me

 

[HealeyRick]

If she didn't, the car probably would.

 

[anarchy99]

I have never heard of that car but I absolutely love it... agreed, if only I could win the lottery.

 

[pdplot]

"Give an Englishman a piece of sheet metal and he's sure to do something ugly with it".

 

[Mickey Richaud]

"Give an Englishman a piece of sheet metal and he's sure to do something ugly with it".

Yeah - like this:

 

[HealeyRick]

"Give an Englishman a piece of sheet metal and he's sure to do something ugly with it".

But the Griffith is fiberglass!

 

[HealeyRick]

Yeah - like this:

I need a cigarette ... and I don't even smoke.

 

[Gliderman8]

Move on along... nothing to see here.

Mark, the car is in Portland. Don't be cruel, give it a good home

 

[PC]

Cobra killer?

Well, that's half right.

"Griffith substituted his own surname for the TVR badge, and a great, chuffing 289 Ford V-8 for the MG part, thus changing it from a passive little car that did nothing wrong to a manic little car that did nothing right." -David E. Davis


"The V-8 in Griffith's Griffith sat right over the front wheels, by God. On a wheelbase of of only 85 inches, the 1,400-pound Griffith 200 pretty much pivoted on the front wheels to go around corners, with the insignificant weight of the rear just sort of fluttering out behind. ...... ....... I've driven a Griffith once, and vowed never to do it again. My racing Yamaha motorcycle at 150 mph on the high banks of Daytona is safer than a Griffith sitting in your garage." - Rich Taylor, Modern Classics

 

[martx-5]

Jack Griffith built these cars in Plainview, Long Island and I used to go up there as a kid and ogle them. They even had a plaid painted one there.

Yeah, the Griffith 200 was quite a beast, but a lot of the handling problems were sorted out with the Series 400 Griffith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmqVd30zoT0

I never drove a TVR Griffith, but I did get to drive a Griffith 600.

https://www.conceptcarz.com/z19654/Griffith-600.aspx

Here's the plaid Griffith :glee:

 

[Tiger]

My racing Yamaha motorcycle at 150 mph on the high banks of Daytona is safer than a Griffith sitting in your garage." - Rich Taylor, Modern Classics

That quote comes to mind every time I hear of a Griffith.

 

[DrEntropy]

Brutal old lump!

 

[anarchy99]

It's just destroying other cars in the straight aways in that you tube video.... Holding its own in the turns also

 

[AngliaGT]

Elliot,

$50,000 (DOLLARS!) - you can look back now.

- Doug

 

[glemon]

When I was 15 or so there was one of these perpetually on a lift at a service station (remember those?) garage not far from where I lived. Across the road from the garage there was often a Pantera parked on the street. This was not an affluent neighborhood. Man, those were the days.

 

[glemon]

That quote comes to mind every time I hear of a Griffith.

Love that book, love that quote, I always think of that when I hear a Griffith mentioned too. But I still want one....