Ignore the description and look at the pictures
"This a museum condition vehicle with no modification at all"
...By which they mean "Here's a beautiful, perfect, low miles car with a front end hit and some free duct tape"...
I'm great at fiberglass work and have the money. I'm also buried under cars, projects, renovation, a shop to finish and having just enough sense to not buy this but also to regret that later.
Why do you tease me so? I love me some wedge.
I had to resist pretty heavily from sending the guy a snarky e-mail. Even a vintage TVR won't catch $3k with such an obvious contradiction. Passed on a wedge 3 years ago for $1200, total basket. Wouldn't say I regret it, but it's an occasional "what if" thought if nothing else.
If you're one of the gifted that can do fiberglass, well...either way, if that's "museum condition," that probably means the motor is blown or absent or other problems are abound...but the glass is the hard part, the rest is parts binning. Tough call!
There are a fair amount of those that turn up for sale around here. As I recall, they were hugely expensive when new, but I don't see that one fetching three grand. I doubt that a "good" one would cost much more than that.
Woody wrote: There are a fair amount of those that turn up for sale around here. As I recall, they were hugely expensive when new, but I don't see that one fetching three grand. I doubt that a "good" one would cost much more than that.
A good one is 8 to 12K.
http://newlondon.craigslist.org/cto/2800109300.html
1986 TVR 280i - $7800 (Old Saybrook, CT) Date: 2012-01-19, 5:40PM EST Reply to: see below [Errors when replying to ads?] For sale: 1986 TVR 280i, 36,000 original miles, very clean, $7800.00 Call 860-388-1429
I have had two of these in the past. Great cars. Handling and braking can only be described as awesome. Power is a little underwhelming. Because of the lack of torque and the four speed tranny, you still get to 60MPH in a hurry, but once your there, you have no recollection of how you got there. They are made out of a collection of parts bin pieces, and have a very thick fiberglass body. You sit so low, that even with the top down, there is little turbulence in the cockpit. My buddy use to joke that we could play cards while driving on the center armrest with the roof down. If you have a girl that doesn't like the wind messing up her hair in a convertible, this is the car for you.
seems like the perfect car for a lS1 swap?
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