TVR Tuscan Challenge - Road Going Versions

Road Going Versions

The Tuscan was originally intended as a road car, and two road cars were produced and the sales brochures even printed, however with the development of the Griffith and the success of the race series road car production ceased and it is though the road cars were converted to racers to fill the demand. Despite this there was still a demand for road going Tuscan Racers and a number of owners have converted race cars for road use. These provide dramatic if fairly uncompromising road cars without the level of comfort and trim quality found in TVR road cars. The majority of these are converted racing cars and fewer have built them from scratch, just by sourcing the chassis and bodywork and adding the level of comfort to suit their needs.

Conversions includes installation of a speedometer (as racing cars do not have them), changes to the lighting system, having the chassis powder-coated, relocating the fuel tank from the original driver's side to the rear of the car to allow for a passenger seat and conversions to protect the fuel cell in an event of an accident. Also installation of traction control is considered to be an option. However obtaining the car plus the prohibitive cost of conversion at £10,000 and the complication of the task makes finding such a model on a public road a rare find.

Many of the converted Tuscans which house the AJP8 engines have engines that are commonly sourced from accident damaged Cerberas as race engines are leased by the factories, though its Rover V8s of the earlier cars can be easily sourced. Although with the end of factory backing for the race series the race engines have now all been sold and there is at least one road going Tuscan with a full race 4.5 ajp engine.