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...
Latest Elephant News...
November 2009 - The last of the engine bits - the big end bearings and gasket sets - are now with the engine builder who hopes to have the lump together by the new year, barring any other parts shortages that is. It will be interesting to see where the Holden dyno's to when it's complete...Having had the inner nose, engine compartment and front end primed and sprayed by Surface & Design, D&C Trim are now setting about the first part of the re-trim. PW's ocean green leather and oatmeal carpet comes back to life!
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