Group 44 Guys

[V8Wedgehead]

Well so far about 3 cars have been made recently with the Group 44 body kits for the TR7/8. The first was Tim Lanocha's white with green stripes powered by a Chevy V8 from Maryland.



Then Canadian Benoit Laflamme build a road race TR8 with a Rover V8 white with orange & red stripes.




Finally Jay Fox finished his yellow TR7 with a Ford 302 using the small rear fender flares. He recently took the car to Summit Point in West Virginia and took a few laps. Jay fox was one of the crew for the original Group 44 TR8s and had hands on experience with the cars. From this he was able to build the rear small SCCA flares out of pieces left over from another totaled TR7 with the body kit and missing parts from the molds.




Even the original Group 44 #4 TR8 owned by Bill Warner got some new spare panels in exchange for some molds made from his panels. The Canadian TR8 built with help and parts from group 44 back in 1980 after a bad crash needed panels. I love knowing that somewhere in traffic you might see a white or yellow blurrrrrrrrrr! Preserving the breed!

Michael
1980 TR8 FHC #0020 Rally Conversion

[Marsu]

All stunning!
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I particularly like Jay Fox's yellow car.

[tr8]

The yellow car really looks like a Porsche 944.

[trv8]

Marvelous!! [:p] [:p] [:p].

[Beans]

All very nice indeed [8D]

And now please stop showing these pictures, or I might be tempted to built an open top race replica using one of my spare shells [:p]

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1981 TR7 FHC Sprint (better known as 't Kreng)</font id="blue">
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[frankman]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">The yellow car really looks like a Porsche 944.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"> haha lol

I have exactly the same thought

Hello from Switzerland

Frank

[trv8]

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All very nice indeed [8D]

And now please stop showing these pictures, or I might be tempted to built an open top race replica using one of my spare shells [:p]

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1981 TR7 FHC Sprint (better known as 't Kreng)</font id="blue">
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I've been playing around with that idea for some time.
First hurdle passed [:)].
The Mrs thinks the Group 44 kit fantastic [:D].
Just got to save a bit harder [;)].

[rocky_679]

all stunning cars.... just goes to show that it was an is a cool looking car id love mine to look like any 1 of those [:D] an i agree it does look like a porche however id still have the 7 anyday

stephen j dark

[Wayne S]

Grrrreat more porn on the forum!!! [:D]

<b>Red 4.0 Litre V8 DHC Grinnall (with huuuuuge arches...!)</b>

[Hasbeen]

Yes Wayne, but the right sort of porn this time.

I did think this lot just may appeal yo you.

Hasbeen

[V8Wedgehead]

Here is one built back in the 1990ies that became a donor for the Lanocha TR8 and Jax Fox to make some panels from the shards for his Yellow Canary.



Ken Slagle bought panels from Group 44 for his SCCA GT1/C Production TR8 along with Peter Bulkowski from Canada


This is a tail shot of a car put together at Mount Joys in Maryland that is in a sad state now requireing a full rebody but was done back in the 1980ies.


Michael
1980 TR8 FHC #0020 Rally Conversion

[john]

yummy we definetly could do with one over here now where's my money box

[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
1981 Black FHC
1979 & 1980 Black Premium FHC(laid to rest) Sorry


John

[Spectatohead]

Okay, now you've got me thinking that my flares are too small. [:D]

Jim Clark
'80 TR8
'97 Maxima 5spd

[PeterTR7V8]

The blue stripe on the side of that white car is very fetching. The way it ties the swage line with the sill is a (brush) stroke of genius. I can't believe it hasn't been done before.



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