TVR Tina

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Tina
Presentation year:	1967
Vehicle fair:	London Motor Show
Class :	Sports car
Body shape :	Coupé , convertible
Engine:	Petrol engines : 0.9 liters (51 kW)
Length:	3658 mm
Width:	1524 mm
Wheelbase:	2083 mm
Empty weight:	707 kg
Production model:	none

The TVR Tina was the prototype of a 2 + 2-seater sports car that TVR had built in Blackpool ( England ) in 1967.

technology

Mechanics and motor came from the Hillman Imp . The built-in the rear, 10: 1 compressed in-line four-cylinder engine with an overhead camshaft had a capacity of 875 cm³ and provided with the single Solex carburetors 51 hp (38 kW) at 6100 min ^-1 .

The bodies were made of sheet steel. A coupé and a convertible each were built at Fissore in Italy. The rear wheels were suspended on trailed trailing arms, the front wheels on a swing axle . Unlike the larger TVR, the Tina had small 12 ″ wheels with 5.5 ″ × 12 ″ tires.

Its top speed was 160 km / h and it consumed 8.1 l / 100 km.

development

The car is said to have been named after the daughter of employee Gregor Marshall of the Barnet Motor Company , which also belonged to TVR owner Martin Lilley. According to other sources, the name came from the shortening of the model name Ford Cortina .

The cabriolet designed by Trevor Fiore was presented at the Turin Motor Show in 1966 and revised again after criticism of the non-US regulations. The new version, together with the coupé, graced the TVR stand at the London Motor Show in October 1966. In 1967, only the coupé appeared at the Turin Motor Show and TVR announced series production for the following year. Even the price for the sports cars with GRP bodies was already fixed: £ 998 including VAT.

The two cars would have been TVR's cheapest and smallest products, and profitable production would only have been possible in large numbers that would have exceeded TVR's manufacturing capacity. Therefore, Lilley turned to various British car manufacturers, such as Jensen Motors , Aston Martin and the maker of the Hillman Imp, the Rootes Group . Ultimately, however, there was no collaboration, so the project had to be abandoned.

Todays situation

The convertible finally ended up with a US collector, while the coupé remained at the TVR plant in Blackpool and is currently being restored for the Marshall family.

Web links

• History and photos of the TVR Tina (English)

swell

• David Culshaw & Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895–1975 , Veloce Publishing plc., Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cars & Convertions , Vol. 10, January 1967, p. 377
2. ↑ TVR Tina - The Story , website of the Marshall family (English) ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.