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The Griffith was a lightweight, high-power, and well-balanced car. A low-cost speed six Griffith proposal never became a production reality; by the time it was launched alongside the Griffith in 1999, it had morphed into the Tuscan Speed Six. A special edition Japanese market Griffith 500 was made dubbed the Blackpool B340.
Grantura Ltd of England designed the independent suspension for the TVR automobiles which later became the Griffith 200 and 400. The Griffith 400 had then state-of-the-art unequal wishbone suspension on all four corners and the car weighed significantly less than its contemporary, the AC Cobra, making it a very potent racing car.
Griffith served in the United States Army during the Second World War. Griffith drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1950–1952, 1956 and 1961 seasons with 19 starts, including the Indianapolis 500 races in each of those years except 1950. He finished in the top ten 8 times, with his best finish in 4th position, in ...
First debuted at the 1992 Earl's Court Motor Show, the Chimaera is an open-top roadster and uses the same backbone chassis and Rover V8 engine derivatives as the TVR Griffith. The car was intended to be the long distance tourer of the range and as such was longer, more spacious and had slightly softer suspension than its sister car.
Griffith Building, Newark, New Jersey Griffith Stadium , sports stadium that once stood in Washington, D.C. Griffith Barracks , Dublin, Ireland, a former military barracks
TVR Griffith 200 front TVR Griffith 200 rear. The Griffith Series 200 could either be fitted with a 195 hp (145 kW; 198 PS) 289 cubic inches (4.74 L) overhead-valve Ford smallblock V8 engine as standard (of the type fitted to Ford Mustangs of the era), or an optional "K-code", "high-power" or "HiPo" V8 of similar displacement that put out 271 hp (202 kW; 275 PS), like those fitted to the ...
The Toalean (or Toalian or Toala in Indonesian) [2] people were hunter-gatherers who inhabited the Indonesian island of Sulawesi during the Mid- to Late-Holocene period [3] prior to the spread of Austronesian Neolithic farmers some 3,500 years ago from mainland Asia.
Charley Griffith (September 4, 1929 – November 22, 1999) was a NASCAR Grand National Series driver. He finished 3rd at the 1959 Daytona 500. [1] It is controversial that he finished 3rd, he was still a lap down from race winner Lee Petty. According to NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobby Allison as well as other drivers who were there, Charley Griffith ...