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SquashedCat
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Hi Ladies and Gentlemen,
Thank you for the nice welcome. I was lucky enough to purchase by accident a 1978 TVR 3000S this past spring. And I was even luckier a former Ford Dealer owned the car in the early 1990's and spent a lot money on the car with safety and engine performance upgrades to the original engine. The car is rare, only 67 left hand drive models originally made mainly for the US market. Sixty left hand drive units where originally shipped to the US in 1978. Forty Nine of the cars where made US compliant. Eleven were not. After impounds and fines, four of the 11 original LHD units returned to the UK were converted to RHD units and were sold in the UK in 1979. The balance of the LHD units were reworked and sold on the continent, mainly in Germany in 1979. The 3000S was first convertible made by TVR, and the UK Ford V6 Essex engine is a real reliable power plant, and car has a 45/55 weight distribution and handles as one person called it, "a cat on velcro". They are fun. But like most fibreglass bodied cars, with tubular frames, they suffer from electrical grounding issues. The car is a real "Heinz 57 Varieties"
of standard Ford and British Leyland production cars. Which thank goodness makes finding most of the parts not too difficult and the support network of forums like BCF make ownership much easier and more enjoyable with shared experiences, good and not so good to help others.
Thank you for the nice welcome. I was lucky enough to purchase by accident a 1978 TVR 3000S this past spring. And I was even luckier a former Ford Dealer owned the car in the early 1990's and spent a lot money on the car with safety and engine performance upgrades to the original engine. The car is rare, only 67 left hand drive models originally made mainly for the US market. Sixty left hand drive units where originally shipped to the US in 1978. Forty Nine of the cars where made US compliant. Eleven were not. After impounds and fines, four of the 11 original LHD units returned to the UK were converted to RHD units and were sold in the UK in 1979. The balance of the LHD units were reworked and sold on the continent, mainly in Germany in 1979. The 3000S was first convertible made by TVR, and the UK Ford V6 Essex engine is a real reliable power plant, and car has a 45/55 weight distribution and handles as one person called it, "a cat on velcro". They are fun. But like most fibreglass bodied cars, with tubular frames, they suffer from electrical grounding issues. The car is a real "Heinz 57 Varieties"
of standard Ford and British Leyland production cars. Which thank goodness makes finding most of the parts not too difficult and the support network of forums like BCF make ownership much easier and more enjoyable with shared experiences, good and not so good to help others.
