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

1997 TVR Chimaera 450

 I photographed this car in one of the car parks at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2018.

It's a 1997 TVR Chimaera 450, one of 5,256 produced between 1992 and 2003. There were four different sized engines available over the lifetime of the Chimaera, all based on the 3½ litre Rover V8 unit, and this one has the 4,546cc version.