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£103,754

1965 TVR Griffith

United States • 24 Oct 2020 • Lot Lot 2205

Vehicle Details

AI Listing Summary

This 1965 Griffith Series 200, chassis number 200/5/002, is a historically significant vehicle as the third factory development car and the only one delivered with a Ford 260 V-8 engine. Having been with its second owner for 50 years, it comes with a collection of spares and subtle modifications, making it a unique find for collectors.

Condition

6

While the car has been modified and has some wear, it was maintained in good running condition for 50 years by its second owner and has had some recent updates. The listing mentions it needing some reconditioning.

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Transmission:

Manual

Chassis No:

2005002

Odometer:

[Odometer Reading]

Reg Number:

[Reg Number]

RHD/LHD:

[RHD/LHD]

The Ford-powered, TVR-bodied Griffith may be best described by the prior owner: “Take a Cobra, make the tires skinnier, keep the power, and put it in a fiberglass shell that’s very lightweight...around the 1,900 [pound] mark with the drivetrain in it.” The Series 200 offered is chassis no.

200/5/002, the third “development car” built, used as a factory test platform by Dick Monnich, the importer of the TVR bodies upon which the car was based.

The design of this car was used for the 261 production Griffiths that followed.

Chassis no.

200/5/002 was the only Griffith delivered with a Ford 260 V-8, rather than the 289 used in later examples, backed up by a top-loader four-speed manual transmission.

In 1966 Monnich returned the car to Griffith Motors, which repowered it with another 260 V-8 removed from another prototype.

With the new engine, the car was sold to a dealer in Virginia, who passed it to its first private owner.

It was then acquired by its second owner in California in 1...