Luke Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Was on the other night. Never seen a car look so good from the outside and be so totally rotten underneath. Needed a new chassis! Powder coating peels off after a while and then the whole think rots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Yeah saw that, amazing what hides under the plastic, as you say, it looked great, buyer beware! I always preferred the Griffith personally, and can't say i'm a huge fan of the sound of the Cerbera either, very un-V8 like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted April 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 They were raving over the noise but it didn't sound that great to me either. Rust was unbelievable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bangle Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 They did a Morgan too, where Ed replaced the wooden chassis. BTW, MB's new spin-off series, Trading Up starts tonight: Mike Brewer – Wheeler Dealers | The Official Website Noticed he's set up a car dealership in Sheffield: Mike Brewer Motors | Used Cars Dealership in Sheffield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chody Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 I thought they would have put a galvinised chassis in to stop the same thing happening again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patently Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Nah, real collectors want originality. They want their car to be just like new, i.e. unreliable, full of gremlins, and liable to disintegrate all over again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinspark Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 patently said: Nah, real collectors want originality. They want their car to be just like new, i.e. unreliable, full of gremlins, and liable to disintegrate all over again And that's just before you get your car to the starting grid... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 On the TVR they did actually use a different process on the chassis to the factory, can't remember what it was, or even if they told us, but the end result was a chassis that was powder coated like the original, but shouldn't succumb to rust again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patently Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Twinspark said: And that's just before you get your car to the starting grid... We did share the paddock once with a TVR championship. It was hilarious. We saw them line up, made all the obvious TVR jokes, then watched them all come true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patently Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Tipex said: On the TVR they did actually use a different process on the chassis to the factory I think it's called doing it "properly"? (For some reason, I still hanker after a nice TVR. Maybe it's because nothing I could do to it would be worse than what would happen to it naturally?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bangle Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Meanwhile, on a TVR forum somewhere in a parallel universe: Quote We did share the paddock once with a Caterham championship. It was hilarious. We saw them line up, made all the obvious Caterham jokes, then watched them all come true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinspark Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Andy_Bangle said: Meanwhile, on a TVR forum somewhere in a parallel universe: I'm sure not all of them crashed at the first bend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted April 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 They sprayed the chassis first with a galvinised paint and then powder coated it after. Shouldn't rot underneath now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patently Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Fictional TVR Forum said: We did share the paddock once with a Caterham championship. It was hilarious. We saw them line up, made all the obvious Caterham jokes, then watched them all come true. He, probably true One didn't make it to the grid on its own; stuck in the assembly area refusing to start, it needed a complete pit crew to come and push the gearbox back together (no, I'm not joking...). Sadly, the gearbox came apart again during the race and dropped all its oil on the racing line at the exit from a corner, in front of a large pack of chasing cars. I'll hand it to them, they knew how to handle their cars while sideways. Except for one of them. Beautifully, he just about managed to hold it together and get off the oil, then drove all the way round the circuit back to the same corner, put himself back on the same bit of oil and span off into the armco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 There was a chap driving a yellow Cerbera about locally a few years back, rumour was it was heavily tuned, but i'm not convinced there was any truth in that, or that it's even possible to tune the TVR lump much, i'm not convinced it's a particularly good engine anyway to be honest, but it had a stupidly loud exhaust on it, ear splittingly loud in fact. Still sounded rubbish though, it's not a happy sounding engine, it has no harmony to it, usually a decent engine will start to sing at higher revs, these just sound rough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_C Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Tipex said: I always preferred the Griffith personally, and can't say i'm a huge fan of the sound of the Cerbera either, very un-V8 like. [anorak mode] The AJP V8s ran a less common flat plane crank set up which would likely mean it fires two cylinders (one on each bank) simultaneously, hence they sound different. [/anorak mode] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted April 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Loving the detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m4ttm4son Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Ian_C said: [/anorak mode] Lies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Ian_C said: [anorak mode]The AJP V8s ran a less common flat plane crank set up which would likely mean it fires two cylinders (one on each bank) simultaneously, hence they sound different. [/anorak mode] Yeah they mentioned the flat plane crank on Wheeler Dealers, but i've heard other stuff with flat plane cranks that sound great? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_C Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Yep. 355. Aluminium having an orgasm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontyslapper Posted April 3, 2013 Report Share Posted April 3, 2013 Luke said: They sprayed the chassis first with a galvinised paint and then powder coated it after. Shouldn't rot underneath now. Well, it might in the places that the lanky spanner was using a pry bar when dropping the body on the chassis! He'd taken great gouges out of the powder coating - you had to be quick to notice. I have also noticed that a few of the cars have been sold to the crew rather than 'proper' punters - one that sticks out was a guy named Tobin - such a strange name and it happens to be in the credits regularly. Hmmm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bangle Posted April 3, 2013 Report Share Posted April 3, 2013 Watching them do a 928 at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theduisbergkid Posted April 3, 2013 Report Share Posted April 3, 2013 I've always fancied a Cerb, I actually had a Chimaera for a few days quite recently (for a story), a perfect-looking car from a very well known TVR specialist who shall remain nameless. It was such a disappointment, noisy but not that quick, dismal brakes, cr*p interior and really shoddy trim and finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patently Posted April 3, 2013 Report Share Posted April 3, 2013 theduisbergkid said: It was such a disappointment, noisy but not that quick, dismal brakes, cr*p interior and really shoddy trim and finish. Concours condition, then? As it left the factory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chody Posted April 4, 2013 Report Share Posted April 4, 2013 pontyslapper said: Well, it might in the places that the lanky spanner was using a pry bar when dropping the body on the chassis! He'd taken great gouges out of the powder coating - you had to be quick to notice.I have also noticed that a few of the cars have been sold to the crew rather than 'proper' punters - one that sticks out was a guy named Tobin - such a strange name and it happens to be in the credits regularly. Hmmm! Yes a couple of years ago almost all the cars from one series turned up on someones ebay garage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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