Why This Retired Policeman Bought A Rare TVR 420 SEAC 

Remington Steele Was that Peter Wheelers Elephant with the Holden V8... or the one off 660 SEAC? I’m probably wrong on both, my memory gets worse as I age lol.. Had a 450 SEAC before this 420, loved them both.. Now regret selling them of course ;)

@@woooster17 It was the one off 660 SEAC. The Buyer or Buyer agent from Sweden had a turbocharged BMW, probably was Alpina, and took me for a crazy drive in his car before leaving with the tow track that flatbedded the 660 SEAC to Sweden if I recall correctly.

@@LenaKatinaManager Ahh, ok yes I remember that car.. a guy who owned a silver 450 SEAC at the same time as me tried to buy the 660, sadly unsuccessfully. I seem to remember it had a big wing spoiler, different to the normal SEAC wing? A monster SEAC!

@@woooster17 That'll be 'Stainless Steve' Wayne - I'm 'Dickymint' by the way hope your well buddy 👍

Thanks 1Man! We put a lot of effort into these Readers' Rides, so awesome to see the work appreciated :)

Yeah this is like a very good quality mini movie

dad had a Grif, Cerbera and Chimera... I miss them tbh

*ba-dumb tss*

5:44 there is even a 420 on the car itself

vivalaphill Because that's totally not what he was referring to

i just want to point that out...

Thank you, very kind!

jharris947 Thanks, I love driving this car, it never fails to put a smile on my face!

Just to point out, the engine in my SEAC is a modified Griffith 500 engine with just over 300bhp, the original block cracked in 2000 whilst competing in a TVR sponsored Sprint event.

waynester71​ that's awesome. I couldn't get my rover v8 to make power for the life of me. It was a 4.6 with a big cam, big valve ported heads, modified intake manifold, long tube headers, straight piped with no cats and a full remap with bigger injectors. The result? Well you can see my channel for a 0-60 with my disco, and uh.... It made almost 280whp.  The biggest problem I had was the fact that even though I had put 4000$ into it, my 2000$ prelude with bolt ons and cams was easier to work on, much faster, better mileage, sounded just as good, and was more fun to drive in general due to being a manual :/

+Alex Fry They are notoriously difficult to get big power from. The biggest restriction to the SEAC is the exhaust manifolds, the space is marginal due to chassis interference so the bore size is smaller than in the equivalent TVR Griffith. My engine has had more money than I care to mention thrown at it over the years. The enlarged throttle body, larger carbon fibre plenum, intake trumpets and bigger bore full stainless steel exhaust being the latest. Power is good enough..for now, I rarely push the car hard. I simply enjoy the spine tingling engine noise! Cheers.

And that's why I bought this TVR.. they are great cars. This is my 6th!

Wait, are they reliable? If I remember correctly, Jeremy Clarkson said they were very unreliable, but then again, my memory could be fooling me or he could be wrong.

MrMrMaran Depends if you buy a good model, if you're no good with cars and buy a bad one, you will spend a fortune repairing it.

TVR's are teribly unreliable, i've head some right horror storys.

They make great cars, but they really aren't reliable, but they're so basic which means that repairs are simple!

Thank you

markmywords312 Kinda wish I’d not sold it.. love my Mk2 Focus RS, but that V8 soundtrack is something else

Final salary so 30k plus a year

nice cars

Because there is no such thing as a good sounding 4 banger...

Because a V8 would beat a 4 cylinder piece of crap anyday

Joe Barbaro And here we see the wild douchebag

Cory Brayshaw >muh V8

Joe Barbaro V8 Rules you get the BHP and the Tourque

MakingMoney.Tv The 450 was G968 DWP, bought from a chap in Liverpool.. I sold it to buy a new at the time Focus ST.. then sold that, and bought another SEAC, this car ^ Hope that helps.

far too generous

Designed by the same guy.. Oliver Winterbottom

I did.... bought a Mk2 Focus RS.. Yep, I’m missing the SEAC 😏

Fitting the new larger bore exhaust did the damage to the edges.. it's on my short list of things I want to fix over winter.

Zane Drummond you must be to the top

Now that made me laugh.. like pet owners when they start looking like their pets!! ;-)

They are still really cool though

David Kraan Yeah. But it's too unusual for my taste, but I must have ocd I guess.

Probably he street race when he's not doing his job

Awesome car though:)

About £18-25k.. condition dependant of course.. Paid £22k for mine 2 years ago

Reconsider this

Christian Waters crap... the page reloaded before i was done commenting xD false alarm brain

How can you be subbed to Car Throttle...

Lucas Scaife I'm from America and we don't have TVR's here, I never really looked into it, that's my bad

gandi69 I thought it had been done with a hammer and a long run up! ;D

Sorted now, painted and ally plate added.

That's good, didn't mean to be so scathing in my remark. The car is lovely

gandi69 No problem, it did let the car down. I'm happy it's sorted now.

waynester71 lovely car but take that v8 Halfords badge of the boot.