GTC60 TVR Griffith Series 200

3d model by pctm Jack Griffith had a long-term passion for sports cars and racing, perhaps fueled by his 1947 purchase of a new MG TC. At one point a Jaguar franchise was added to Griffith’s dealership lineup, and when Carroll Shelby announced the Cobra in 1962, White-Griffith Ford was one of the car’s early retailers. Jack even campaigned a factory-prepared 289 Cobra in SCCA competition, but soon realized a career as a racing driver was not in the cards. Through the SCCA, Griffith met Dick Monnich, a distributor for the low-volume British sports car brand TVR. In the fiberglass-bodied TVR Grantura III, Griffith saw potential, but not enough power. Borrowing a page from Carroll Shelby’s own playbook, Griffith and Monnich shoehorned a Ford 289 V8 into the TVR, with the help of a dealership mechanic and some design work from a young New Jersey engineer named Mark Donohue, who also served as a (brave) test driver. Jack Griffith came up with the idea for the car in 1964, and secured rights to market the cars in the US. Griffith ran a car repair workshop in the US for patrons such as Gerry Sagerman and Mark Donohue who had both driven a TVR Grantura at Sebring International Raceway i