The White Elephant is a 1988 TVR prototype - the only TVR ever to be powered by an Australian 5 litre V8 Holden Bathurst race engine - and one of only a handful of TVR Prototypes to survive today.

Commissioned and driven by Peter Wheeler, the Managing Director of TVR, it was eventually decided that this 185mph TVR prototype was still too dated for the 1990's and that Australian engine logistics could also be a problem; so the project was shelved and 12 months later the new TVR Griffith was born…

The Elephant was rescued from the 'TVR Graveyard' at the rear of the Factory just a week before Peter Wheeler sold the company in July of 2004. A truly remarkable one-off hand built British sports car; this is the story of her restoration...