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tipo158 · Postby **tipo158** » 16 Oct 2011 18:44

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Originally posted by V8Wedgehead

Troy-All I can say is dont be expecting any endorsements by Buffum......he is not happy about replicas of "his" cars at all. I found out first hand. I think your far enough away unless he shows up at a WRC event that is possible to also hear his opinion on replicas.
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Interesting. When was this?

That is not the answer that I got when I asked him about it. Then again, maybe I get different answers from him because I work on the rule set for one of the series that he has a team in and I am also a senior official at one of the events in that series.

alan

V8Wedgehead · Postby **V8Wedgehead** » 16 Oct 2011 21:21

Alan,

I enquired about his two cars and the different colors numerous times via email and a phone call and a friend of mine that writes articles for Moss & Classic Motorsports magazine interviewed him and mentioned my project and he voiced his disapproval of replicating any of "his" cars.

Michael
1980 TR8 FHC #0020 Rally Conversion & 1981 TR7

tipo158 · Postby **tipo158** » 17 Oct 2011 00:09

I guess another difference is that I told him that I was intending to build a replica of the works/Tony Pond cars.

alan

FI Spyder · Postby **FI Spyder** » 17 Oct 2011 04:04

[quote]Originally posted by John Wood

If you notice on the RAC rally pictures the car was badged as a TR8.

TR7V8 or TR8? That is the question.
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They N/A V-8 ralley cars were rallied as TR8's and in Europe raced as TR7V8's as the TR8 wasn't introduced into production there.

There is rally/road race info of the day on the TSOA newsletters.

http://www.templeoftriumph.org/tsoa/tsoa.html

Also interesting/funny story of 2 TR7's and TR8 rally cars brought into Canada by BL in this newsletter.

http://www.obcc.ca/Exhaust%20September%202010.pdf

- - - - TR7 Spider - - - - - - - - 1978 Spitfire - - - - - - 1976 Spitfire - - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - - Yellow TCT

tr8 · Postby **tr8** » 17 Oct 2011 04:31

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by FI Spyder

Also interesting/funny story of 2 TR7's and TR8 rally cars brought into Canada by BL in this newsletter.

http://www.obcc.ca/Exhaust%20September%202010.pdf

- - - - TR7 Spider - - - - - - - - 1978 Spitfire - - - - - - 1976 Spitfire - - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - - Yellow TCT

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Interesting article about the Canadian cars, do you know who wrote the article? It does not give credit from what I can see in the newsletter.

Thanks

Paul

silverseven · Postby **silverseven** » 17 Oct 2011 09:57

sad story in the end though ........

would love to see some pics of these cars!

Ron.

Bendder · Postby **Bendder** » 17 Oct 2011 14:38

Paul

Have you heard of any of these local(to us) names before? I have never heard of any of them. I would guess that maybe David might know the names or perhaps Terry Dale would know of them.

Interesting though

Mark
1977 TR7 FHC
1978 TR7 FHC
1980 TR7 DHC
1980 Rover SD1 4.0L

FI Spyder · Postby **FI Spyder** » 17 Oct 2011 15:10

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by tr8

Interesting article about the Canadian cars, do you know who wrote the article? It does not give credit from what I can see in the newsletter.
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N0 I don't. The OBCC is a separate car club from us (OECC) so we don't have any contact to speak of. OECC has chapters in cities throughout BC but for some reason Kelowna isn't part, strange as the founder of OECC is from that area (although now living in Victoria). We did donate money for a brass bell for their BL antique fire truck they are restoring.

- - - - TR7 Spider - - - - - - - - 1978 Spitfire - - - - - - 1976 Spitfire - - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - - Yellow TCT

tr8 · Postby **tr8** » 17 Oct 2011 15:41

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Paul

Have you heard of any of these local(to us) names before? I have never heard of any of them. I would guess that maybe David might know the names or perhaps Terry Dale would know of them.

Interesting though

Mark
1977 TR7 FHC
1978 TR7 FHC
1980 TR7 DHC
1980 Rover SD1 4.0L
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Hi Mark

Yes, I have heard of the names, a lot of history local.

silverseven · Postby **silverseven** » 18 Oct 2011 01:41

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Bendder

Have you heard of any of these local(to us) names before? I have never heard of any of them.
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I'm surprised you never heard of these guys before Mark !!

the likes of Cam Champion and Bob Armstrong are fairly well known here in the east, they raced very often in many road racing series both at Mosport and Tremblant....I even have a pic (in a shoe box somewhere) of Cams TR8 at the Montreal car show circa approx. 1981
If I remember correctly, Cam was also racing in the Rothmans Porsche series in the eighties/nineties....I know his Toronto based company PerformanceCars was a popular sponsor of a few 944's

Jean-Paul Perrusse is still somewhat active even today in rally and iceracing , and has a few championships in both series !

Ron.

tipo158 · Postby **tipo158** » 18 Oct 2011 05:05

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Bendder

Have you heard of any of these local(to us) names before? I have never heard of any of them. I would guess that maybe David might know the names or perhaps Terry Dale would know of them.
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I know Doug Woods (Walter Boyce's co-driver).

It seems that not all of the cars were crushed. John Shirley (an official with NASA RallySport) in Tennessee has an ex-Boyce, ex-Perusse TR. I think the last time that he ran the car at STPR (central PA) in the 90s.

alan

fiveliters · Postby **fiveliters** » 20 Oct 2011 18:22

V8Wedgehead-I dunno...I think it needs more lights on the front[:o)]

I have a book that has the pics Michael put up,but they are in B&W,so it was nice to see these in color and know what they really looked like back then. Thanks again!

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