I’ve been really busy getting some practical hands on stuff done at tallbloke towers over the last few weeks. I’ve been harvesting and preserving my home grown food. I’ve also built an extension to my workshop to accomodate another of my transports of delight, a gas guzzling V8 sportscar which was handbuilt in Blackpool in 1984. I mechanically restored it a few years ago to good running order. Now it needs a full revamp of the cockpit to make it fit to be our wedding and honeymoon car. It’ll be getting a full wool recarpeting, and restoration work on the Walnut dashboard veneer, leather seats and the Mohair droptop hood.
tallbloke's TVR Tasmin 350i
It has been a frantic time at work too, with the new semester intake of fresh students and graduation of successful students. So as a reward for all our effort, I’m taking milady Kath away for a week to the south of France, where we will be backpacking in the Pyrenean foothills around the ancient kingdom of Septimania, having a look at Cathar castles and medieval mountain villages.
Thanks to all of you for keeping this blog alive while I’ve been AWOL. If anyone has a good idea for an interesting post then put it in the suggestions box today and I’ll find time to post it before we go on Sunday morning.
Tallbloke's Talkshop 
Sounds like you’ve been busy Rog. Enjoy the break 🙂
I see you have one of those plastic cars made in Blackpool – AKA TVR. Is it a Tasmin 350i? These make a lovely noise with the old Rover 3.5 litre lump under the bonnet and are nice to drive too – although getting all the non-essential bits work at the same is always a challenge!
Have fun!!!
Thanks Tenuc,
Yes, it’s a very early 350i. One of the first batch of 35, which used the old 280i chassis which housed the Ford V6 lump. Advantage is, this shell was the same as the U.S. export approved version, so nice and strong thick fibreglass, and the famously good grey powder coat job on the tubular chassis.
The ancilliaries are an assortment of end of production run parts bin oddments. Fortunately, there is a very active owners form where bits can be found, and the knoledge flows free.
@tallbloke:
having a look at Cathar castles and medieval mountain villages.
Your magnetic center takes you there. Enjoy it!. This post made me think about our relation to “our center”, our “home”, our closest belongings that are part of that microcosmos closer to the center, away from the multiplicities which have confounded us and submerged us in the confusion of oblivion. That is why the saying “the devil is in the details”, in order to continuosly attract us away, to dis-attract us, to dis-connect us.
TVR! one time a friend of mine and I (this is the 1970’s were going over a twisty
stretch of road in NE Oregon known as The Tollgate mtn. rd. We were in his Porsche
914 (he bought it in Germany, had it shipped over when he mustered out of th US Navy.)
We were being followed by this UGLY little fiberglass lump. Thinking it a kit car we continued on in to a nice series of S curves (now gone thanks to humorless Oregon State
Highway Dept.) That thing ate our lunch! It nailed our tail-then in a short straight,
blasted by us like were setting on jacks! On the back were the words TVR….
This was the Chopped and Channeled TR-6 engine and frame version..
Have fun…!