GTC60 TVR Griffith Series 200

ac_legends_gtc_tvr_griffith_200

Used at THR from 2025 to 2025

Brand: GTC60 Legends
Country: Great Britain
Class: GT 5000
Year: 1963
Author: pctm & Team WSC Legends
Version: 1.3
Power: 306 hp
Torque: 446 Nm
Weight: 891 kg
Top speed: 260+ km/h
Acceleration: 0 - 100 kph in 4.1 s
Power / weight: 2.91 kg/hp

3d model by pctmJack 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 in 1962. The concept for the Griffith Series 200 originated during a dinner with Carroll Shelby, where Griffith declared he could build a car that could outperform an AC Cobra. Griffith’s words to Carroll Shelby came true in 1965, where Tom Lynch in a Griffith 200 beat Shelby’s factory racing Cobras with Ken Miles and Dave Mcdonald at the wheel for about eight laps until a C Production car ended up in the gravel and covered the Goleta race track with rocks, being in first place the Griffith 200 hit the rocks and blew the left rear tire resulting in a DNF!Unfortunately, the Griffiths – which were known to be a rather scary drive for the uninitiated – also became known for overheating issues, undercharging electrical systems, failing rear axles and leaking gas tanks. This on top of the fact that Griffith bodies were mounted to the chassis with strips of fiberglass

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Championships4

Events15

Race sessions20

Drivers12

Years active2025–2025

Starts56

Wins3

Race laps1,708

Race distance6,763 km

Race time47.7 h

Event	Championship	Date	Starts	Wins	Drivers	Race laps
Bridgehampton	US GTC TOUR	18 May 2025	4	0	4	143
Bridgehampton	US GTC TOUR - Practice Races	17 May 2025	2	1	2	34
Watkins Glen	US GTC TOUR	04 May 2025	3	0	3	147
Watkins Glen	US GTC TOUR - Practice Races	03 May 2025	1	0	1	24
Paramount Ranch	US GTC TOUR	20 Apr 2025	3	0	3	105
Paramount Ranch	US GTC TOUR - Practice Races	19 Apr 2025	3	0	2	60
Laguna Seca	US GTC TOUR	06 Apr 2025	6	0	6	272
Laguna Seca	US GTC TOUR - Practice Races	05 Apr 2025	10	1	5	230
Stardust	US GTC TOUR	23 Mar 2025	3	0	3	82
Stardust	US GTC TOUR - Practice Races	22 Mar 2025	2	0	1	34
Riverside	US GTC TOUR	09 Mar 2025	4	0	4	126
Riverside Long, U.S.A.	US GTC TOUR - Practice Races	08 Mar 2025	3	1	2	48
Main Event Race	US GTC Tour at Willow Springs - Fun Event	23 Feb 2025	5	0	5	197
Willow Springs - Big Willow Real – Saturday Practice Races	US GTC Tour at Willow Springs - Fun Event	22 Feb 2025	6	0	3	116
5th THR Endurance Race - 6 Heures du Mans	5th THR Endurance - 6 Heures du Mans	26 Jan 2025	1	0	1	90