Dave Ashworth

I've been interested in British sports cars since childhood and have had quite a few over the years, starting with a Frogeye Sprite when I was 17, closely followed by a Lotus Elan SII. I've always loved TRs and had a TR6 for six years as my everyday car, DAB 333N, which went to Yorkshire when it left me.

I had a TR5 for around 10 years which was permanently in restoration and storage, and was then sold due to difficulties. A big mistake and I don't think I've ever recovered. I was in the TR wilderness for a few years, then one day, when driving alone through western Cumbria on a beautiful day in my Jeep, I suddenly realised I'd lost my mind. How had I managed to find myself wasting my life when I should be driving in the sunshine in the cars I really love. So I bought a Spitfire in May 2009, which then fired up the enthusiasm for TRs again. Bought a 1962 TR4 in Jan 2011.

Been living in Shropshire since May 2010 and its wonderful driving country on the Welsh Borders. Summer evenings with nothing on the roads. Brilliant. We have a great leader in Simon Beresford, always ready to help and offer solutions. I've met some good TR buddies down here too, and we have an active group around Whitchurch. We're always ready to welcome any other TR and classic drivers to our events.

I'm currently running my tuned TR4. It took a fair bit of sorting out (and money) to develop its reliability in its first year, but it's been to the Laon Classic in 2012.

In March, the MOT man asked me had I changed the speedo? I said, "No, why do you ask?" He answered that it had done more than six thousand miles since the last test. I said, "That's probably about right."

Just bought another TR4 to restore and a TR250 that is completely dismantled. Fun, Fun, Fun. Oh yes, and there's now the blue TR6 and the TR5, so now the TR Disease has broken out again.

Time for an Update - December 2014

The Blue TR6 and TR5 have gone. The TR250 is still here. There is an early TR4 up the road in a barn... just waiting and I just bought a TR4A which has been sitting in a garage in bits since 1990. Oh and a mint South African TR4 which is going up for sale any time soon.

All the best.

Dave