It starting to appear the seller is likely reading posts here. Changed ad again, removed BS comments about 6 MOT registrations, used the 86 TCS numbers in UK database posted here. Now on revision #19. Latest ignores fact that an unknown number of Europas registered as TC are actually TCS versions, plus fact that 2/3rds of all TC/TCS production was TCS, not TC, while database numbers are roughly a 50/50 split - additional evidence more than a few TCS got entered as TC. Meanwhile, still claims "only 585 cars survived World wide", a number apparently pulled for the six year dormant registry, which was never comprehensive.
There is NO reliable source for that total global count, only for ones that have been recorded somewhere by someone at sometime. Japan? New Zealand? Canada? Australia? Europe? Who knows? Even England and US? I have two TCS sitting just a feet away, and one I promise isn't in any database anywhere. That also doesn't count race car conversions. If I wanted to make wild extrapolations, I'd claim from my own circumstance that 585 is perhaps only half the real number. But I'm not going down that path of making up assumptions. We simple don't know.
Meanwhile, the sales bluster keeps changing, apparently as cockroaches of bad information now scatter to avoid the light. But new ones continue to replace then, and ad still claims tranny is a 336 to garnish the mess. The most hilarious latest ad comment is "As the older generation like myself passes on, these Great cars will become EXTINCT." Well, maybe when gasoline is no longer available, and Cormac McCarthy's dystopian future arrives, we likely won't spot any of them on "the road". But that goes for all other fossil fuel cars. But until then, more than a few people will keep one for display, not counting several museums that already do.
This sale just keeps twisting its false narrative around more and more to sound like a bad late night TV commercial: "This could be the last chance to own a piece of Legendary Automotive History." Yes, if it means you got robbed of the opportunity to own a really good one, or at least an honest one. But that also seems to overlook 10's of 1000's or other desirable cars that will still be out there decades from now until every possible collectible automobile on earth vanishes from existence . . . sometime after all of us car nuts have previously become dust.
Another amusing pitch just added: "prices on Twin Cam Specials in the UK , have SOARED! (see last photo) $53k...$66k...$33k..." Cherry picking only the three top UK "asking prices", then converting those to $US tells us nothing about what willing buyers are actually PAYING for a few top end restored cars, something this one clearly is a ways from being. Nor does it say anything about those asking or sold prices here in the US where the this car actually being offered. This sale appears to be stuck in the spin cycle without ever having first just come clean.
