The #44 TR8 is alive!

[V8Wedgehead]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NMa-63xe9o8

Michael
1980 TR8 FHC #0020

[tr8]

Beauty...thanks

[john 215]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for posting AWESOME video [8D], having seen most of the rally cars in the flesh plus the Le Mans car I would love to enter this too the list.

interesting they removed 5th, had heard and read that before on competition cars, the factory did actually produce 4 speed LT 77 boxes, although very rare now.

Cheers John


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[dursleyman]

Hands up everyone who wants a go in that car!

Russ

1980 TR7 Sprint DHC
Dursley
UK

http://tr7russ.blogspot.co.uk/

[DNK]

Wow- Thanks Michael.
My only thought
Whomever put that together needs a lesson in media.
Car to loud for the voice.

Don
Stick a Wedge In It
80 TR7 V8 Kick in the pants

[FI Spyder]

The 1979 car was actually a TR7 that was gotten from the auto wreckers as Bob could not be sure that BL could/would deliver a TR8 on time to build the car (not that that would make any difference). The following year he made a new car from a TR8 and switched series from SCCA to IMSA so he wouldn't have to carry the extra 400 pounds weight penalty the other cars didn't have. That year it won 5 of the 6 Trans Am races (among others). On the last race he was purposefully run off the track preventing a clean sweep. The offending race car driver lost his racing licence.

The 1980 version was for sale a year or so ago for $250,000. I don't know if it was sold.



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

[V8Wedgehead]

This was the car for $250,000.00 a few years ago which is the 1979 car that had the 400lbs. When they went to IMSA they built a second car that Bill Warner owns. That was when the 400lbs was removed from the #44 car. This was the car that was at Bob Tullius's shop in Sebring. This car was NEVER for sale until 4 or 5 years ago when it was sold and recently resold for restoration. The car Bill Warner owns was never advertised for sale either.

Michael
1980 TR8 FHC #0020

[tr8]

I understood that one car was 43 and the other was 44 when they ran together and that one had an orange light mounted to the front so that the pits could recognize it quicker when it came around, and also that Peter Bulkowski's was 42. It that right Michael?

[V8Wedgehead]

The car built in 1979 was #44. The car built in 1980 for Bill Adam was #4 with the orange nose light. Now depending on what track and who had reassigned numbers the #4 could end up as either #4, #04 or #40. The never used any other numbers but typically it was #44 & #4. Bob Tullius would never put any other numbers on his cars.

Michael
1980 TR8 FHC #0020

[tr8]

http://www.racingsportscars.com/type/ar ... h/TR8.html

We could do trivial pursuit on Group 44...you are right, again.

[john]

Great video thanks for posting

[8 whole cylinders worth of punch to ram the world through the windshield and out the rear view mirror. Car & Driver]
1981 Grinnall TR7 v8
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John