SEM - Public Apology
Posted By : Craig Harris, 08-May-2005, 07:28pm
My first time to any TSSC shows and it was great!
Lots of very nice car's (way better than mine) and friendly owners who gave me lots of advice. Thankyou
My Car was the white herald 13/60 conv, next to the immaculate white herald 13/60 conv(which I drawled over all day, but never got to speak to the owner)
Craig
Lots of very nice car's (way better than mine) and friendly owners who gave me lots of advice. Thankyou
My Car was the white herald 13/60 conv, next to the immaculate white herald 13/60 conv(which I drawled over all day, but never got to speak to the owner)
Craig
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SEM - Fantastic Weekend
Posted By : Julie Sewell, 09-May-2005, 08:48am
Hi,
May I just say a what a fantastic weekend !!!!
The sun shone, there were many great cars to look at and for me personally my mk2 spit made it there and back, some 300 miles after only just coming back on the road after being laid up for 30 years and not much work being done to put it back on the road!!! Didn't miss a beat!!!
Many, many thanks to Susie and her team for all their hard work which has made the show a successs that it has had in previous years.
Julie
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SEM - Fantastic Weekend
Posted By : Ian Palmerino, 09-May-2005, 09:52am
Great news Julie, your car made it with no probs, just hope mine does the same when the time comes for going back on the road, it was a good show, excellent auto jumble, picked up a few bargins.
Just a little shame the Spitfire seemed to dominate the show,there was some very nice heralds and vitesse's there but only one acclaim and one dolomite? (and that was on club triumphs stand) but i gess it was a tssc show after all.
Ian
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SEM - Public Apology
Posted By : Philip Brammer, 08-May-2005, 08:46pm
Ok James, what car and just how much noise? For such a quiet laid back sort of bloke it sounds very much as if you had a nice day!
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SEM - Public Apology
Posted By : James Carruthers, 09-May-2005, 00:20am
As much noise as an unsilenced 2.5PI can make... which is very loud...
It's in a Spitfire - 200bhp - squeals the wheels in 3rd gear if the ground is dusty... you get launched forwards in 1st, 2nd and 3rd... you get to 100mph before you know it... and 120 creeps up all too soon...
Basically - it must be one of the quickest Spitfires ever made...
I really must apologise - in hindsight - I hope the club doesnt get told off by the leisure centre for making too much noise! It passes its MOT anyway!
And oh yeah - it doesnt have a windscreen - just a 5 inch high wind defector type thing...
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SEM - Public Apology
Posted By : Christopher How, 09-May-2005, 11:31am
Sounds good! how did you get hold of that then?
I was there on saturday, was a good event, unfortunately the rain caused a lot of the nicer cars to leave early, looking back, i probably should have entered into the concourse, might have stood a chance of winning if all the nice cars left
My car only seemed to get any comments made about it when i left it with my girlfriend sat in it. :/
Nice bodywork etc.... hope they meant the car or there'll be trouble.
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 09-May-2005, 12:50pm
It's the bosses - he couldnt attend - and Club Triumph needed some cars for their stand - I think it did the job nicely
A superb array of cars we had too - concours Mk2 Spit - gorgeous GT6 Mk2 - 2000 with a V8... lovely stuff...
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SEM - Public Apology
Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 09-May-2005, 01:03pm
"Basically - it must be one of the quickest Spitfires ever made..."
If it has a 2.5Pi then it isn't a spitfire... it's a kit car!
...and I betchya Paul Lucas, John Thomason and Andy Vowell could put it all in the shade with their Spitfires *insert smiley*
*you know you shouldn't make comment's like that 'cos I will bite *nuvver smiley* *
As soon as you mentioned coming in something 'unusual' I knew it would be Dave's open-top - and how can it possilby pass an MOT if it's unsilenced?
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SEM - Public Apology
Posted By : James Carruthers, 09-May-2005, 01:51pm
Actually - I wouldnt say it's a kit car... I admit it's not really a Spitfire... but it's all Triumph parts - and to me that's what matters... it's more of a Triumph experimental special... you tell the 10-15 people at the SEM on Sunday who own Gitfires/GT6C or whatever you want to call them that they're not a Triumph...
It is NOT a race car - and it has never EVER pretended to be - it's just a road going beast. And as a road going beast it does it's job nicely... turns heads and is a total riot to drive - I had a grin on my face all day - and the couple of passengers I took around the block didn't stop smiling either... the world doesnt end with race regulations...
You wouldn't take your race car to Le Mans every year - that is what this is designed to do - the idea is to compete with all the Porsche/TVR/Caterhams etc etc etc by way of being a Triumph - on that level it does its job superbly.
MOT states something along the lines of "noise level to a similar car" - it has no similar...?
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SEM - Public Apology- the spitfire saga
Posted By : Ben Ferguson, 09-May-2005, 02:42pm
I have to say I kinda agree with James on this one, it IS all triumph and mostly (if not all) period. Its only a slight move on from a gt6, with a longer throw crank and the fuel injection, but obviously a lot more powerfull. I do see your point that it isnt a spitfire in its purest form, i.e small 4 pot with around 70bhp, but is the best combination of components in the triumph parts bin that would have been available at the time - the le mans spit is still considered a spitfire even with an enclosed cockpit and 130 odd bhp, far removed from the mk1 spit in my opinion.
Cars such as spits with rover V8's (sorry chris, I do like it a lot though!) or heralds with ford v6's etc are far more removed from triumphs to me and could maybe considered kit cars... but a spitfire using all period triumph parts - I'd say it was a development of the model, or at least an experiment.
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SEM - Public Apology- the spitfire saga
Posted By : Chris Gray, 09-May-2005, 03:08pm
The Rover V8 may not be Triumph, but it's still a BL engine - and was used in the TR8, so it's not like it's completely un-Triumphish.
Actually, you know what? I don't care - it rocks
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SEM - Public Apology- the spitfire saga
Posted By : Chris Gray, 09-May-2005, 06:35pm
Hey, where did my smileys go?
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SEM - Public Apology
Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 09-May-2005, 07:25pm
no one ever said anything wasn't a triumph - don't put words in my mouth!
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SEM - Public Apology
Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 09-May-2005, 07:30pm
No one ever said anything wasn't a triumph - don't put words in my mouth!
No one mentioned anything about cars having to be race cars.... ditto!
I would take my car to Le-mans to race if they would let me, but it isn't FIA Appendix-K and I don't have the cash to do that
How does it compete with these Porsche/TVR/Caterhams if it doesn't compete at all?
BTW- great roadgoing car yes - (as it was intended to be) especially when it rains *insert biggest smiley you can find*
If you make these claims about being 'possibly' the fastest you should be prepared to back it up... I know Binman has different ideas at the moment *I want my smileys back*
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SEM - Public Apology
Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 09-May-2005, 07:49pm
"If you make these claims about being 'possibly' the fastest you should be prepared to back it up... I know Binman has different ideas at the moment "
I do?
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SEM - Public Apology
Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 10-May-2005, 08:36am
You are the 'one' trying to find out all the triumph speed records aren't you? So you should know!
137mph = Le-mans spitfire is the highest recorded that I know of - but those cars were really 'works specials' 8-port head, TR4 gearbox (allegedly) fastback roof, alloy skin +++
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SEM - Public Apology
Posted By : James Carruthers, 09-May-2005, 08:30pm
You said it was a kit car... a kit car to me is a mash up of different parts... with a few custom bits... so you were calling all the Spitfires with 2 litre and 2.5 litre engines kit cars?
I didn't mean taking your race car to Le Mans in terms of racing - I meant driving there... part of Le Mans is the drive there with all the other cars...
It doesnt rain in France
Shall we just say it's very quick...
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SEM - Public Apology
Posted By : Colin Wake, 10-May-2005, 10:25am
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and how can it possilby pass an MOT if it's unsilenced?
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Same way my GT6 engined Kit Car did. Old cars make lost of noise, so it is OK!!!!
I have succumbed to a silencer now (the exhaust exitted next to my right ear!!) and so I don't set off too many alarms now. Chrysler PT cruisers are my favourite (As they are with my local car sales yard), even my spitfire will set them off.....
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Posted By : Jason Chinn, 17-May-2005, 08:11pm
Having just spent an afternoon with my Vitesse on the rolling road I can say they even with a couple of silencers on, you can't stand next to it on full chat without your ears hurting - somehow when you're driving it doesn't seem that loud (OK it is loud but not uncomfortably so) An open exhaust - hmmm, I must get to hear this thing - it has to be said that it does look the business. As for being a "kit" car, yup it's just as much a kit car as those plastic race cars in the TSSC series <insert grin>-
SEM - Public Apology
Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 17-May-2005, 10:31pm
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SEM - Public Apology
Posted By : Andy Vowell, 18-May-2005, 08:15am
"those plastic race cars in the TSSC series "
We prefer the term 'composite' actually.
Andy
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