1989 TVR Tuscan Challenge

This car didn't take part in any of the races, but was in one of the public car parks at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2019.

It's a 1989 TVR Tuscan Challenge and this note telling the history of the car was on the windscreen:

1989 TVR Tuscan Challenge

Walking past the local Shell filling station on the way to buy my morning paper recently I saw this car, looking a bit different from the usual rather more mundane vehicles seen there.

It's a TVR, and the DVLA record says that it's a 1989 model with a 5 litre engine. It's a TVT Tuscan Challenge, a car that was developed for a one-make race series, initially using a 4,441cc Rover V8 engine but when BMW took over the Rover company TVR developed their own 4,500cc V8 TVR Speed Eight engine. A number of the cars were converted for road use and the DVLA say that this particular car, though built in 1989, was first registered for road use in 2001.