The build-quality was fine on my 5 different TVRs....considering they were hand-built in small numbers, at not too big a price. All of my cars were over 20 years old too, and still delivering the goods for very low running costs.
Not many classic cars in daily use that could have that said about them.
The company I worked for for many years also owned a (sports and luxury) car showroom and I often went along to the 'top car' auctions and drove various vehicles back 'home'.
My best friend, a racing driver, had a string of exotic supercars, including a Ferrari 246 Dino, a Maserati Bora, De Tomaso Pantera, Ferrari 308GTB ...with factory Fibreglass body and reg No. 308GTB, plus a couple of Porsche 911 Turbos, one of which was a very special (930 ?) Flatnose in Guards Red and with major factory upgrades.
Always nice to ride down to the pub with him.
I've lots of friends in motorsport, with TVRs, Fezzas and Porsches etc.
Here's some of them last summer showing the continental cars the way home:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/t...ris+wins+again
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I like my TVRs (and Lotuses) because they're exclusive, BRITISH and I can tinker with them. They're also faster and better-sounding than most of the foreign mass-produced competition.
In their day both the racing versions of the Lotus 7 and the TVR SE were 'banned' from racing against their contemporaries because they were considered 'too fast'.
At least I haven't paid over a hundred grand to be humiliated....
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