Diamond Rock was spread over three days.  It was undoubtedly the most successful TVRCC event of all time and was a fitting way to celebrate 60 years of TVR. It was of course disappointing that Trevor unfortunately could not be with us but he did not feel strong enough to travel   You can download his message to the TVRCC here.

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The gates opened at 1830 for the early birds to start arriving and very soon the campsite started to fill up.  In total over 130 tents were pitched on what looked like preposterously small piece of grass but at least it was better than the Le Mans campsites.  Of course some campers travelled in a little more style...

Saturday was the day for members to use their cars with the trackday, autotest, donut ring and runs out.

Autotest

Moving on then to the Autotest and we are grateful to Simon and Belinda for organising this for the Club.  Unfortunately we don't appear to have many photos of this, not even Tim Marquis' savage attack on one of the Club's brand new cones! Nonetheless we can publish the list of results (at least the top five anyway).

Posn	Name	Car	Time
1	Andy Brown	Griffith 4.x	1:09.25
2	David Combie	Griffith 500	1:10.00
3	Tim Marquis	450SE	1:18.30
4	Roy Bickley	Vixen S2	1:19.20
5	Alan Wood	Chimaera	1:24.87

Doughnut Ring

Some said it wouldn't work.  Some said it was a bit "Chavish" and not in the spirit of TVR.  But we did it anyway and those who participated and those who watched all said that it was brilliant! We are grateful for Bristol RO Sharon agreeing to take on the organisation of this task with her team of helpers.  We hope that none of the particpants - especially the driver of the Cerbera which left the Ring with his rear tyres resembling slicks - were stopped by the officers of the law on their way home afterwards!

You can download videos of the three top cars from the Bristol Region website by following the links below

The results were as follows;

Hopefully Rockingham won't be asking us to re-tarmac their car park!

Fill the Bowl Parade

As a precursor to the following day's Word record attempt, we did a dress rehearsal on saturday lunchtime during a break in the track action to see how many cars we could fit into the Bowl.  The answer, apparently is 363 (plus a TVR powered motorbike and a Maserati thingy!)(sorry Paul)

Concours Competition

The concours competition for the Larner Cup took place on Saturday afternoon.  We are grateful to our judges for giving up several hours of their time to decide who had best prepared their TVR.  Our judges were TVRCC North America President Marshall Moore, former TVR worker John Mlecek, Dulford Automitive's Richard Smith and Club Model Registrar Grant Crouch. 

There were a host of well prepared cars (and some not quite so well prepared!) and the judges' task was not easy.  Even when they narrowed the list down to a final 3, putting them in order was a gargantuan struggle but eventually they settled on:

1,  Roger Coulsey's Taimar Turbo

2.  Chris Taylor's Vixen S2

3.  Andy Hills' V8S

Star Cars/Timeline

The weekend was a celebration of 60 years of TVR and we are pleased to report that we had cars that spanned most of that time from the earliest existing TVR - TVR No 2 (right) that was built in 1952 - right up to some 07 plated Tuscans and of course the Typhon.  It was especially pleasing to see an extremely rare TVR Coupe, which started off life as a Jomar in 1955 but after being raced in the 56/57 seasons, suffered an accident and was returned to Blackpool for repair where it was rebodied as the then new coupe (below).

The star cars included other rarities such as the only Trident in UK, the former TVR press Griffith 4.3 that appeared in the famous quarry advert and was driven around Europe by Jeremy Clarkson and the famous 420 SEAC racer, campaigned by works TVR driver Steve Cole in the 1986 season and was then promptly banned by the 750 MC ostensibly for being to successful.  In addition there was the opportunity to see the Le Mans T440R campaigned in the 2005 race by Peninsula TVR dealer principal John Hartshorne and te very yellow Sagaris that starred in the ITV soap Footballers' Wives.

Press Griffith	Footballers' Wives Sagaris
John Hartshorne's Le Mans T440R	Norman Hawkes' Trident
420 SEAC racer	Typhon
TVR No 2

The timeline included representatives of most of the major model types produced by TVR over the years although sadly there were some gaps (and if anyone has any photos of the cars that are missing we would be extremely grateful.  Please send them to public-relations@tvrcc.com.

1962 Grantura Mk II	1962 Grantura Mk III
1967 Tuscan SE LWB	1969 Vixen S2
1972 Vixen S3	1977 Taimar
1978 3000S Turbo	1979 3000S
1980 3000M	1981 Tasmin FHC
1982 Tasmin 200	1983 350+2
1988 S1	1989 S2
1989 350SX	1990 400SE
1991 400SE	1991 S3c
1992 Griffith 4.3	1993 V8S
1995 Griffith 500	1996 Chimaera 4.0
1997 Griffith 500	1998 Griffith 500
1999 Chimaera 4.0	2000 Chimaera 500
2001 Cerbera Speed Six	2001 Chimaera 450
2002 Tuscan S	2003 Cerbera 4.5LW
2003 T350C	2004 T350T
2005 Sagaris	2006 Cerbera 4.5 - the last produced
2006 Tamora - the last produced	2006 Tuscan IIS
2006 Tuscan IIS Convertible

And then there were the members' cars.  With nearly 1000 TVRs at Rockingham over the weekend it is impossible to put photos of everyone's car up here but hopefully this is a cross section of most people's favourites.  If your's isn't here and you believe that it shouod be, please email a picture to the TVRCC and we will see if we can get it added to this gallery.

Yes - it is a TVR V8 in there

Of course there was much more going on during the day for those who were, shall we say, less interested in TVRs.  There were bouncy castles and other inflatables (for both children and the "young at heart", the climbing wall, archery and the funfair.  Children could have their face painted and although we have no photographic evidence, at least one TVR driver was seen with a painetd face (or was that just the red glow on the Sunday morning from a cracking party the night before!)

The Trader Village

Throughout the weeklend, members had the opportunity to stroll through the trader village. 

The Club would like to thank all those traders who came along for the weekend:

C&N Customs; Car & Bike Installations; Clever Trevor; Drive Style TVR; Dulford Automotive; Guglielmi Motorsport; Hagerty Insurance, James Agger Motorsport; A Manning UK, Newlun Performance; Newtown Motors; PR Wood; RideDrive; Steve Heath Publications; Tower View Race Services and TVR Car Parts plus of course our other event sponsors who were not in the Trader Village:

Absolutely Shocks; Leven Technology; SC Power; Smith & Williamson Solomon Hare; Trigger Events and last but certainly not least TVR Power.

Saturday night saw nearly 800 members fill the marquee for the TVR celebration party and dance the night away to our band Revolution 9 (if anyone has a photo of them performing on the night, rather than the stock library photo below, we would be grateful).  After the problems of last year's Back Home when the hotel failed to proivide sufficient seating for everyone, we are pleased to report that there were more than enough chairs/tables to go around and probably the biggest complaint of the night was that we managed to drink the bar dry of Magners!  It was also a chance to present the prizes for the day and the charity auction, so ably run by Mandy and Corin even if it did seem to drag on for an age, raised over £2000 for our chosen event charity Cancer Research. A guest book was passed around for attendees to sign so that we have a record of all those at this fantatsic event and it is good to see that all of the comments were entirely positive.

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