TVR

I usually buy my morning paper from a Shell filling station close to where I live in Hyde, and this summer on several occasions at weekends I've seen one or two TVRs filling up when I get my paper at about 7am. It seems that it's members of the local TVR Owners Club on their way to their weekend meeting. On the morning of the Monday Bank Holiday, 30th August, I found five TVRs there, on their way to the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park. Here are photographs of those cars, which I hope I have identified correctly.

1987 TVR 390SE with a 3,905cc Rover V8 engine

1997 TVR Chimaera with a 3,950cc Rover V8 engine

1973 TVR 3000M with a 2,994cc Ford Essex V8 engine

2000 TVR Chimaera with a 4,546cc Rover V8 engine

1997 TVR Chimaera with a 4,546cc Rover V8 engine

1987 TVR 390SE

Saw this car at a local filling station in the early morning recently when I was on my way to buy my morning newspaper.

It's a 1987 TVR 390SE, about 100 of which were built in the 1980s. It has a Rover V8 3,905cc engine the output of which TVR, with the assistance of tuning specialist Andy Rouse, increased to a claimed 275 bhp.