TVR's destroyed in Fire

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At least seven TVRs have been destroyed in a fire at a car service garage in Coventry. Some owners had only brought their cars in for a service but found they were melted almost beyond recognition.

The fire is thought to have broken out at TVR Performance and Service Centre in Longford around 1am. Around 45 firefighters tackled the blaze but many cars were ruined and others were badly damaged. The fire was finally put out around 4.30am.

The blaze is understood to have been caused by an electrical fault and a fire investigation officer attended the scene during the day. No one was in the building at the time and it is thought nobody was injured.

Watch Commander John Anderson, of Foleshill Fire Station, said: "The fire was quite severe and the building was extensively damaged. TVRs are very expensive cars and about seven of them were badly damaged by the fire."

Richard Peacock, 21, is a company director who owns one of the damaged cars. His car had recently undergone around £35,000 worth of work, and was due to leave the garage next week. He said: "It's heart-breaking, being my pride and joy."


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A video about this story can be found here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/7560096.stm
 
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Bad news, covered by insurance though and as damaged as the cars are they're replacable if the damage is beyond repair.
 
Gosh, those things will burn for days!
 
Ouch, thats gotta hurt. So how much did the total damage cost? Did anything else get caught in the fire? Bah, that was really unlucky for the garage to get caught on fire.....
 
Oh I dunno, Matte Black doesn't look to bad on that T350 :lol:
 
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Richard Peacock, 21, is a company director who owns one of the damaged cars. His car had recently undergone around £35,000 worth of work, and was due to leave the garage next week. He said: "It's heart-breaking, being my pride and joy."
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How the hell could someone spend £35k on work on a TVR. You'd be hard pressed to spend £40k on any very low milage TVR. Unless the car was a total write-off to begin with.
 
TheCracker
How the hell could someone spend £35k on work on a TVR. You'd be hard pressed to spend £40k on any very low milage TVR. Unless the car was a total write-off to begin with.
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he must be including his insurance premiums in that statement.

21yr old insuring a TVR must be atleast 4-5 grand.
 
A Griffith? Lord above, that's ridiculous.
 
Not unless it was tuned or unique in some way. You can buy a decent 2nd hand griffith for little over £10k.
 
Or he was just exaggerating on camera to look cool or so that insurance pays him more! seriously the guy is probably a pillock driving a TVR at that age anyway.

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Dave A
Not unless it was tuned or unique in some way. You can buy a decent 2nd hand griffith for little over £10k.
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I'd of thought that when it comes to TVR's, the more standard they are, the more valuable they are on the used market.

Even if the guy has spent £35k on it, and i presume from the articles wording that it means he already owned the vehicle and spent that money on top of his initial purchase cost, i still can't see it being worth any more than £25k. Perhaps £30k for a pristine delivery milage last off the production line one.
 
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I agree, modifications to TVR's lower thier value. But you can still spend £35k on modifying one quite easilly. You won't get that money back on sale, but you can spend it on modifications. There's some specialist tuning companies that do TVR's and they can turn your already fast TVR into pretty much a road legal GT car. Not safe and not cheap though.
 

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