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jim350i

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New dude to RAD
« on: February 08, 2013, 11:15 PM »
Howdee doo dee

thought i would poke my face in and take a peep around. I used to ride a Raleigh Aero Pro BITD and loved it!!. Every minute of every day. No play station (Binatone) no Wii (Atari) and no X-box (Astro Wars), well may be a little Astro wars.

Having 2 lads, started to think i would get an old bike, untill i saw the cost, they've gone up!!!! So i stopped. But the more i looked the more i wanted one. So not wanting to ruin my memory of my pride and joy Aero Pro, thought i would look for the one I wanted. Torker 280x and purchased a frame and forks.



My friends all took the pi55 as im the wrong side of 40 void(0) 1 said, you know i have a GT Pro performer in my shed from 28 years ago. So i bought that off him (in a right state). Set it to the powder coaters and gathering bit by bit. I still need Pro Performer Forks though if any one has any for grabs??







I'm not far from completing my 1st 2 builds plenty of Skyways on the pair , suntour, kashimax, Dia compe, CW. I ppost some pics when i've done.

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2013, 11:29 PM »
Welcome to RAD  :daumenhoch:

Looks like the bug has well and truly bitten already  :D  Torker looks very nice  :coolsmiley:

Off topic but has your username got TVR connections  ???
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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2013, 11:31 PM »
Yo ;)

The Older the better  :daumenhoch:
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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2013, 12:07 AM »
welcome Jim,that is a powerful first post!both those frames look ace!You will find all you need here to get them built up.I was wondering what the 350i meant too!must be TVR :daumenhoch:

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2013, 12:10 AM »
Welcome on board jim look like a couple of nice bikes you are on with

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2013, 12:11 AM »
Hello mate. :daumenhoch:

Nice purchase. Where are the forks for the 280X...?!!! :D

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2013, 01:04 AM »
Welcome mate. ^^^^ Ignore everything this man says ^^^^

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2013, 07:10 AM »
welcome to Rad  :daumenhoch:

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2013, 08:30 AM »
Welcome to Rad fella  :daumenhoch:

Nice choice on the rides, keep us posted with them  :)

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2013, 09:10 AM »
Welcome  :daumenhoch:

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2013, 11:49 AM »
Welcome dude. Nice Torker.  :daumenhoch:
"Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time"

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2013, 11:52 AM »
Welcome to Rad Jim, nice Torker. 8) :daumenhoch:


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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2013, 11:52 AM »
Welcome dude  :daumenhoch:

jim350i

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2013, 05:04 PM »
Welcome to RAD  :daumenhoch:

Looks like the bug has well and truly bitten already  :D  Torker looks very nice  :coolsmiley:

Off topic but has your username got TVR connections  ???

well spotted chapper, I'm a massive fan and brought myself a 350i for my 21st birthday (living at home earning good poke) Italian red with a black hood, biscuit interior. I still love the black pool Wedges and hoping to regain a 400SE or SEAC one day (dreaming) or happily take a Griff, love them, love them!! If i went on master mind, my specialist subject would be TVR's from 1982 to 1991. V8 love!

jim350i

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #14 on: February 09, 2013, 05:11 PM »
Hello mate. :daumenhoch:

Nice purchase. Where are the forks for the 280X...?!!! :D

Devilock, they are there just not married yet!

jim350i

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2013, 05:24 PM »
Thanks for the welcomes folks, overwhelmed. Its nice to get some Torker love. Most people were all for the GT?? Though the GT was (and still is) a project and a wise man said "everyone loves a project" . Project ON!


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« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2013, 05:26 PM »
Welcome to RAD  :daumenhoch:

Looks like the bug has well and truly bitten already  :D  Torker looks very nice  :coolsmiley:

Off topic but has your username got TVR connections  ???

well spotted chapper, I'm a massive fan and brought myself a 350i for my 21st birthday (living at home earning good poke) Italian red with a black hood, biscuit interior. I still love the black pool Wedges and hoping to regain a 400SE or SEAC one day (dreaming) or happily take a Griff, love them, love them!! If i went on master mind, my specialist subject would be TVR's from 1982 to 1991. V8 love!

Have you still got the 350i , any pics ?   A lad i know had a 450SEAC , Blue with a cream interior piped in Blue .  One of the fastest cars i have ever been in ..... evil  >:D  ...... the noise it made was something else  :smitten:    ....... he wrote it off in the snow  :D

I have always had a soft spot for the earlier Taimars  :smitten:

Edit ..... just googled the 450Seacs to see if i could find a pic similar to the one the lad i knew had , apparently there were only 17 produced  :shocked:   I don't know now if it was a 450  :-\  he defo had 450 decals on .  It also said a lot of the 400/420's were updated to 450 spec so it could have been one of them . Either way be it a 450 or a 420 it was one hell of a quick motor at the time  8) .

« Last Edit: February 09, 2013, 06:16 PM by NORTY40 »
WANTED : Old school BMX patches/sew on badges ......  please  :)

griff

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2013, 07:44 PM »

 or happily take a Griff

 ???

You'll have to at least buy me a drink first

jim350i

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #18 on: February 10, 2013, 09:35 PM »

 or happily take a Griff

 ???

You'll have to at least buy me a drink first

Cheap friend, I'll have to make it a double  :void(0);


jim350i

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2013, 09:46 PM »
Welcome to RAD  :daumenhoch:

Looks like the bug has well and truly bitten already  :D  Torker looks very nice  :coolsmiley:

Off topic but has your username got TVR connections  ???

well spotted chapper, I'm a massive fan and brought myself a 350i for my 21st birthday (living at home earning good poke) Italian red with a black hood, biscuit interior. I still love the black pool Wedges and hoping to regain a 400SE or SEAC one day (dreaming) or happily take a Griff, love them, love them!! If i went on master mind, my specialist subject would be TVR's from 1982 to 1991. V8 love!

Have you still got the 350i , any pics ?   A lad i know had a 450SEAC , Blue with a cream interior piped in Blue .  One of the fastest cars i have ever been in ..... evil  >:D  ...... the noise it made was something else  :smitten:    ....... he wrote it off in the snow  :D

I have always had a soft spot for the earlier Taimars  :smitten:

Edit ..... just googled the 450Seacs to see if i could find a pic similar to the one the lad i knew had , apparently there were only 17 produced  :shocked:   I don't know now if it was a 450  :-\  he defo had 450 decals on .  It also said a lot of the 400/420's were updated to 450 spec so it could have been one of them . Either way be it a 450 or a 420 it was one hell of a quick motor at the time  8) .

450 SEAC awesome, awesome vehicle. Arguably the fastest fully convertible car of its time (Aston Martin Vantage Volante being the other). TVR people would not badge up 420 to 450. 420's were fine fine vehicles as they were. Its not like putting an M3 badge on a 320. no no no. Why oh why did your pal take it out in the snow??? Thats like going swimming with pirrahnas in a lady ga ga meat suit!!!!! Only ever going to stack it. They were hard enough to in a straight line in the dry. (on the straight)
Sadly mine got wrote off on the M1 some T#at in an Audi ploughed into the back of me rubber necking at accident  on the opposite carridgeway. Boo. I'll see if i can dig out a pic. They do sound wicked.

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2013, 09:58 PM »
welcome TVR man  :daumenhoch:

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2013, 11:11 AM »
hi,welcome to rad  :)

jim350i

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #22 on: February 12, 2013, 09:07 PM »
Hello mate. :daumenhoch:

Nice purchase. Where are the forks for the 280X...?!!! :D

just for you Fork Perv  (LOL) Enjoy! shiny shiny.




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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #23 on: February 15, 2013, 08:49 PM »
welcome aboard

jim350i

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Re: New dude to RAD
« Reply #24 on: February 16, 2013, 09:41 PM »
Welcome to RAD  :daumenhoch:

Looks like the bug has well and truly bitten already  :D  Torker looks very nice  :coolsmiley:

Off topic but has your username got TVR connections  ???

well spotted chapper, I'm a massive fan and brought myself a 350i for my 21st birthday (living at home earning good poke) Italian red with a black hood, biscuit interior. I still love the black pool Wedges and hoping to regain a 400SE or SEAC one day (dreaming) or happily take a Griff, love them, love them!! If i went on master mind, my specialist subject would be TVR's from 1982 to 1991. V8 love!

Have you still got the 350i , any pics ?   A lad i know had a 450SEAC , Blue with a cream interior piped in Blue .  One of the fastest cars i have ever been in ..... evil  >:D  ...... the noise it made was something else  :smitten:    ....... he wrote it off in the snow  :D

I have always had a soft spot for the earlier Taimars  :smitten:

Edit ..... just googled the 450Seacs to see if i could find a pic similar to the one the lad i knew had , apparently there were only 17 produced  :shocked:   I don't know now if it was a 450  :-\  he defo had 450 decals on .  It also said a lot of the 400/420's were updated to 450 spec so it could have been one of them . Either way be it a 450 or a 420 it was one hell of a quick motor at the time  8) .

2 Pic for old times sake, you can pick these up now for next to nothing or Skyway TA??

http://s1356.beta.photobucket.com/user/Jim350i/media/TVR4_zpsbb673d5b.jpg.html




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