TVR Golf on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/…ZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Shame it's not complete.

Wouldnt touch it with a barge pole, ugliest mk1 in't world  

look at the interior? What does he expect you to do, buy another TVR engine?

What a waste of a car!!!

Fugly! Bet it was quick tho  :wink:

It looks like crap in bits but I kind of like it in it's complete form, a good bit of engineering has gone into it, way beyond what I could ever do.

I'd love to have it, TVR motor and all, and floor it along the M1….GET OUTTA THE WAY!!!!!!

….I am a sensible driver though  :roll:  ops:

MK1_Arron said

look at the interior? What does he expect you to do, buy another TVR engine?

To sit on?!  

Just seen the sellers other ebay ads, one of them is for a scorpio cosworth engine and the ad says:

perfect for a kitcar or old tvr convertion

 

GavB95, three post in a row is officially talking to yourself, so to save it being four I've posted for you.

I think even when it was complete it was ugly and pointless, now the owner has come out of his delusion and taken it apart it only looks worse.

Tian

Tian said

GavB95, three post in a row is officially talking to yourself, so to save it being four I've posted for you.

I was thinking exactly the same thing!  

I go on volkszone now and again and the guy who owns this is doing a bay window camper in the same vein. I wonder if the TVR engine has gone into that?

I must admit it's a kind of butchered/fillered approach to modifying.

i dont understand, ive seen the video on youtube and it looks so expensive,

why has it now ended up like this?

8O

What was the point of building it  :dontknow: Might as well scrap it .

GavB95 said

MK1_Arron said

look at the interior? What does he expect you to do, buy another TVR engine?

To sit on?!  

haha my bad, was meant to be in two different questions like

MK1_Arron said

GavB95 said

MK1_Arron said

look at the interior? What does he expect you to do, buy another TVR engine?

To sit on?!  

haha my bad, was meant to be in two different questions like

I know mate, no worries  :wink:

So is anyone going to buy this ex TVR engined/maybe ford scorpio engined, extra wide MK1?

I wonder what happened to the bonnet/front panel as the car's been made 7" wider so it can't be on another car…

…front end shunt? or used as sheet steel for the next project?!

What's with the cabby doors in a tintop?  8O   Ventilation?  

Still, if you've set your heart on a TVR Golf (with the TVR bits removed, and not much Golf left either) then I guess it's one of the, er, best around

 :dontknow:  :roll:  :dontknow:

if i read that listing correctly it hasn't got a v5!  wonder if it didn't pass the test to be road legal? with all new safety laws tests etc  i guess it would be like registering a new car so there for point less!!!

I don't think it ever was registered for the road - with no V5, and a TVR-related chassis number, it would have had to be registered with the TVR registration (was it scrapped already?) and passed a VIC then an MoT on the requirements of that year. Or, be given a Q plate then a SVA test, which it would have probably failed. So, probably an administrative nightmare if ever you wanted to get it back on the road. In other words, only useful as a drag racer or similarly unregistered etc….. (parts?)

I never saw the car in the flesh but the pics don't look too promising. It could have been so good to see a V8 engined Mk1, properly done and fully road legal, to be a kinda "top dog" Mk1 that others can aspire to. But its not quite hit the mark. If I'd have done it, I'd have kept the bodywork looking more original, including keeping the standard width.

In any case, its all been done before, 10 years ago, except on a Beetle - does anyone remember Outrage III (fastest ever aircooled Beetle), which then went on to be developed into Eightrage, an alcohol powered dragster with around 2500bhp? Can't really do better than that, unless you up the stakes with a jet engine or a nitromethane motor.

That's just scrap metal.

scrap 50?

don't really see the point in that car at all. it doesn't look like a mk1, it won't feel like a mk1.
it isn't a mk1.
if he wanted a TVR, he should have got a TVR.
it'd look 10 times better than that, and be road legal.
and actually be worth something.

"all you need engine box and loom front discs and calipers two wings and bonnet set of wheels and a bit of polycarb for windscreen"

Not much then