Very rare TR's for sale

John Wood · Postby **John Wood** » 12 Mar 2012 19:25

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

I won a preproduction TR8 coupe on eBay out of St. Louis for $5,250 but alas it didn't meet the reserve. Seller didn't want to part for that.[:(]

Add quotes 1200+ Spiders built, often thought to be production out of Canley. Bill Piggott's book states about 2,000 (I think based on serial number range). Which would make Solihull production at 800. Most Spiders I've seen/read about are Solihull products. Maybe because they had better under car treatment/preparation?

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Solihull cars didn't have better treatment or preparation they all had the same protection (Speke, Canley, Solihull). None.

1975 TR7
1977 TR7 Sprint

john 215 · Postby **john 215** » 12 Mar 2012 19:26

Hi,

Emailed the gent, apparentley the 74 car is in Tahti Blue and currently in storage pictures will be supplied to anyone serious buyers, i wish i was in that catagory!!

Cheers John

LIVE LIFE A QUARTER OF A MILE AT A TIME!

1976 Speke FHC Beauty

1979 3.5 FHC(STATUS PENDING!!)

1982 2.0 DHC NOW A 4.6,ON THE ROAD NOW KICKING AR5E !!!!

John Wood · Postby **John Wood** » 12 Mar 2012 19:29

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

Very intriguing, maybe that's part of the "no pictures" cunning plan. Love any one especially the Tr7 prototype.... But.. I'd be too frightened to drive a car that should be in a museum.

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I agree Steve, it should be in a museum.

1975 TR7
1977 TR7 Sprint

John Wood · Postby **John Wood** » 12 Mar 2012 19:33

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by birminghamtr7

thats the first Â£50000 of my lottery winnings allocated for,in my dreams. but WoW would love every one

if you factor in the earth's rotation, we are all speeding

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You've already got a Spider, so don't be greedy[:D]

1975 TR7
1977 TR7 Sprint

John Wood · Postby **John Wood** » 12 Mar 2012 19:35

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

Colorado TR8, there were no UK TR8 FHCs, I think the car could be the last ACN car made.

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The C+C Conversions rally car
TR7 Sprint
TR7V8 rally car
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I agree Chris. Probably a 1977 build, registered in 78.

1975 TR7
1977 TR7 Sprint

john 215 · Postby **john 215** » 12 Mar 2012 19:36

Hi,

Pictures on the adverts now 74 -

Cheers John

LIVE LIFE A QUARTER OF A MILE AT A TIME!

1976 Speke FHC Beauty

1979 3.5 FHC(STATUS PENDING!!)

1982 2.0 DHC NOW A 4.6,ON THE ROAD NOW KICKING AR5E !!!!

John Wood · Postby **John Wood** » 12 Mar 2012 19:51

Would like to know the chassis numbers. There were a fair amount of 1974 TR7 LHD cars built. Does it have an X9xx number? or ACL?

The TR8 has US plates from what I can see and an after market sunroof.

The Spider has had a retrim of sorts and a change of stripes by the look of the pictures.

Could all 3 have been sourced in the US by the seller? Need a little more info than claims of "this" and claims of "that".

1975 TR7
1977 TR7 Sprint

trickyx12000 · Postby **trickyx12000** » 12 Mar 2012 20:55

MMMMMM these spiders are getting a bit common in this country... think i'll have to fit a v8 to mine...

birminghamtr7 · Postby **birminghamtr7** » 13 Mar 2012 07:40

if you look at his cars for sale he has a couple of very nice fhc

if you factor in the earth's rotation, we are all speeding

Steve-LPS-Thomas · Postby **Steve-LPS-Thomas** » 13 Mar 2012 08:12

The 74 blue prototype is 7950 Euro on the website Â£6669.

Elsewhere on the website are these..

http://www.britparts.com/tr7-8shop/

Click om "showroom"

Steve

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Beans · Postby **Beans** » 13 Mar 2012 08:30

Dubious to say the least, advert for the TR8 FHC says;
â€¢ First owner;
â€¢ licence plate is clearly from the US;
â€¢ It's location is in Kent (GB?)
â€¢ And the telephone number is in the Netherlands (TR7/8 Shop to be precise)
The blue "preproduction" TR7 has been for sale earlier, not sure about that either.
But all easy to check with the VIN ...

Or am I just a little paranoid [:p]

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1980 TR7 DHC (my first car, now restored and back on the road)
1981 TR7 FHC Sprint (better known as 't Kreng)
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Steve-LPS-Thomas · Postby **Steve-LPS-Thomas** » 13 Mar 2012 09:00

I seem to remember "last TR8 Coupe to be built" being on ebay USA couple months ago. Pretty original and decent car but wasn't there so doubt about the "last" claim as there are a couple of higher chassis numbers known to exist? If this is that car, I also seem to remember a Spider with those seats.. sad or what?

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Beans · Postby **Beans** » 13 Mar 2012 09:14

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

The 74 blue prototype is 7950 Euro on the website Â£6669 ...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
And it's a year younger:
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1980 TR7 DHC (my first car, now restored and back on the road)
1981 TR7 FHC Sprint (better known as 't Kreng)
[url="http://www.tr7beans.blogspot.com/"]My Weblog[/url]</center>

tr8 · Postby **tr8** » 13 Mar 2012 11:30

I have records that indicate TCN160145 was owned by someone in Holland in 1994, and very near to where the current car is for sale. I'm betting that it is the same. Go back to your 1994 TR8CCA members list, which was published in the newsletter and it is there.

FI Spyder · Postby **FI Spyder** » 13 Mar 2012 13:34

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

Solihull cars didn't have better treatment or preparation they all had the same protection (Speke, Canley, Solihull). None.
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My Spider does have a type of paint/undercoating) that is factory as all the underpinnings are on top of it including a strip of dried out tape (that is found through out the car (to hold down wire looms etc.) near the shifter area This has gone a long way to keep the under carriage rust free and looking like new. There was an undercoating in wheel wells and under sills that I scrubbed the road grunge off of and augmented that may well have been applied after factory. I know the car spent it's life in Sacramento which I've been admonished in this forum "IS NOT A DESERT," with it's 170 inches of rain (sure looks it to us nor'westers). The car was driven by former owner as a business vehicle (every day) for at least a period of it's life so was not exactly babied in that sense. I've yet to look under the Canley Yellow TCT to see how it compares.

The windscreen has fine markings from wind blown sand/driving into sand kicked up by vehicles ahead that you can only see when driving into the sun. I wonder if all desert (sorry) cars have that.

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

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