The chassis/cage is a development of that used in the Tuscan Challenge cars.
After several months of negotiation, the guys at GTF have secured the licence, premises and workforce to build new Tuscan Challenge based racecars at Bristol Avenue in Blackpool (http://www.tvrmonster.com).
Here’s a few pics of the GTF workshop, taken in the last couple of days, ten chassis have been commisioned and the bodies are done. New Chevy LS and a couple of dry sump AJP engines are awaiting installation.
There’s still a hell of a lot of work to do , but the buzz around the place is fantastic. The TVR marque as we knew it is gone, and the GTF’s are pure race cars , to be built in tiny numbers… but still, it’s going to be a great moment, when the first one rumbles out of the workshop
What is significant though , is that these are newly fabricated at Bristol ave (same engineer as built them originally), and not ex challenge car chassis. The body shape is evolving from the Sagaris road car, in much the same way that the Tuscan Challenge shape evolved from the TVR ‘S’ series. The engines are predominately new Chevrolet LS derivatives, although a rather special AJP is earmarked for at least one of the cars.
These Bristol Ave cars are GTF’s, these will be Pure Race Cars (as said before, crafted in very small numbers), there is no intention to build road cars. The bonnet has been designed for function and not to emulate an Alfa – it will look much more resolved when allied to the new front splitter that has been designed for it – wait to you see a fully finished car evil.
The cars that have been raced by Tim Hood, Steve Glynn and Fred Tonge (and beautifully built by Terry Lee and Tim at JetBlack Motorsport) are the pre-cursors and were built from TVR Tuscan challenge cars.
These cars have been racing since 2006 , using dry sump Tuscan challenge engines.
For 2009 , they’ll be running Chevrolet engines.
