Only road-legal TVR Speed 12 "W112 BHG" still around
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Is it the pinkish/reddish one that featured in Evo a few years ago? It was definitely in fine health then. 👍
It actually went up for sale maybe a year or two ago. I'd love to see that thing, so I'll settle for living vicariously through any members who attend and take a gander.
It actually went up for sale maybe a year or two ago. I'd love to see that thing, so I'll settle for living vicariously through any members who attend and take a gander.
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- ReTyger
The same, but i'd formed the impression that it had dropped off the radar a little, from another thread.
I still need to up a scan of my old-school photo of a prototype at the Birmingham Motor Show from back in the day, plus a rather more tragic one of a discarded bodyshell of a very early example, presumably in the yard at TVR in Blackpool (basically the "original" Speed 12 as seen in early GT games and raced briefly)
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I still need to up a scan of my old-school photo of a prototype at the Birmingham Motor Show from back in the day, plus a rather more tragic one of a discarded bodyshell of a very early example, presumably in the yard at TVR in Blackpool (basically the "original" Speed 12 as seen in early GT games and raced briefly)
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Is that the only one left? looks different from the one in GT
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Yeah the pre-production models were cannibalised for parts for the GT series it took part in, that one started out in life looking like the proposed production version you see in GT, but eventually had to be rebuilt with some parts snatched back from the GT versions, hence the additional vents, ducts and whatnot. Also it didn't start out with the rear spoiler (there are pics of the early incarnation of that car if you Google) but the advantage was that it had more downforce and handled better when the race bits were added.
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Oh you learn something new everyday ,still looks crazy 
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Is it the pinkish/reddish one that featured in Evo a few years ago? It was definitely in fine health then. 👍
It actually went up for sale maybe a year or two ago. I'd love to see that thing, so I'll settle for living vicariously through any members who attend and take a gander.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=136616
I preferred the red coat it had before, but I guess whoever bought it decided it would look better in Chameleon Orange or whatever it's called.
Still, it's nice to know that W112 BHG is still in one piece these days.
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Needless to say, I would love to see any pics if you can up them. Did you by any chance see the owner and ask if it's still driven?
Would love to see Tiff Needell or the Stig putting that car through its paces, or take it to Essen or Ehra-Lessien to see if it really can top 240, but if anything went wrong, it would be extinct
As well as the driver, most probably.
Would love to see Tiff Needell or the Stig putting that car through its paces, or take it to Essen or Ehra-Lessien to see if it really can top 240, but if anything went wrong, it would be extinct
As well as the driver, most probably.
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Heard the Speed 12 was so powerful it broke TVR's dyno and that one of the reasons it was never road legal was because its mouth is large enough to swallow children.
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All but one road car/prototype was cannibalised for parts for the race cars. The one remaining road car we see in that video ended up cannibalising a race car for parts instead, as it had been damaged over time.Looks like she's been hardened a little bit since PD modeled it back in the day. Whatever happened to this silver car?
Edit: Presumably it was dismantled to support the race cars.
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£400-£500k should do it when it goes to auction.
I agree on the engine, it's phenominal. But it's also one that needs TLC, you can't just hop in and start it up, you need to warm the oil for about 30 minutes before you start it up if you want it to last which is part of what was meant the current owner talked about it needing care when he was explaining why he was selling.
Epic car, as practical as a choloclate fire guard, but epic all the same.
I do still prefer the cleaner lines of the original road car to the race car body it wears now though.
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No, they raced in FIA GT1, and then later GT2.
I wrote all about it in the article for the auction for this car, for which DT filmed the video:
You Can Buy Gran Turismo's Insane TVR Cerbera Speed 12 When it Heads to Auction in May
Image via Silverstone Auctions One of the most spectacular and certainly rarest vehicles ever made is heading to auction in May, with the only original TVR Cerbera Speed 12 getting ready to find a new home through Silverstone Auctions. The story of the Speed 12 is an incredible slice of automo
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Specifically there was an original Speed 12 GTS which was a GT1 class race car car, based off the Project 7/12 concept.
Its life was relatively short lived though, changes in the GT1 regulations killed off the road and race car though it did managed to complete in a few rounds of he FIA GT1 championship. Following this, TVR moved on to the Cerbera Speed 12.
The Cerbera Speed 12 also had a racing programme (as noted in the posts above), this time in GT2. By this point GT1 had been killed off due to the excessive costs that had crept in with cars like the 911 GT1, GT-One and R390. It competed in this class for 3 years (I think).
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Specifically there was an original Speed 12 GTS which was a GT1 class race car car, based off the Project 7/12 concept.
Its life was relatively short lived though, changes in the GT1 regulations killed off the road and race car though it did managed to complete in a few rounds of he FIA GT1 championship. Following this, TVR moved on to the Cerbera Speed 12.
The Cerbera Speed 12 also had a racing programme (as noted in the posts above), this time in GT2. By this point GT1 had been killed off due to the excessive costs that had crept in with cars like the 911 GT1, GT-One and R390. It competed in this class for 3 years (I think).
Really wish they kept that body style as it looked so much better, but I recall seeing a few years ago a purple race car with that same body style with yellow wheels, was that the same car as the red one being sold ? Or is that a replica of some sort of the #12 White/Blue GT1 variant ?
This one:
