Mr Pond was an PR dream, articulate, clever, hilariously dry, enormously likable and above all, a fantastic and spectacular driver in what ever he was driving at anytime. Sad loss and gone much to early.

Tony Pond was a legend. Such a shame we lost him so soon and unbeatable a lot of the time. TR7 V8 a great tarmac rally car. So so cool.

I love Tony Pond's driving style, clean and aggressive in the same time.

Yes a classic and that V8 sound in the forests!

Tony Pond could hustle a car,he chucked a Rover 827 round the Isle of Man at frightning speed.....Much missed.

4:35 TR7 Belting through a high street flat out - with headlights "up" in daytime - while "Clog Dance" by Violinski played. Late 70's in it's glory.

I owned four of these cars in the eighties and nineties including a TR7 Sprint and two convertibles  i loved them .They never let me down and i did a lot of miles .

Pond was a great driver, highly entertaining and always giving it some! Nice guy too.

Met Tony a few times via a family member who was a mate of his. What a great guy he was and a real gentleman who loved his sport.

There's driver's and there was Pond.

My mate and I have built a few Rover V8 engines, the last one we built is a 4.6 litre fitted into his Rover SD1, it runs with a T5 gearbox running Quaife internals, it also runs a Quaife LSD. We built the exhaust too from the headers down to the tail pipe.  I would say that its in 'sports' tune, the 4.6 could push out more BHP BUT you would have to change most of the internals if you want it to hold together for any length of time. On the rollers it knocked out 315 BHP, the reason for my post is that sounds just like the TR8 in this video! 😀

What a gentleman sadly missed.

Brilliant driver and that wonderful V8 engine - so tuneable 😍

So fun to watch and HEAR! Todays cars are faster, but more boring.

The fantastic Tony Pond, Could have won driving anything.  Bob

❤ Fekkin BL management. TR8 was as spectacular as a Stratos. And a worthy successor to the TR6. But no, we shot ourselves in the foot again.😢

I cannot for the life of me figure out why so many people criticized the TR7 as being a crap car, and supposedly "very ugly"  - even Jeremy Clarkson absolutely trash-talked it on an early episode of TG. He seemed to carefully avoid mentioning it's Rallying success.
I'd always thought it was an awesome looking car since I was a child, driving past all the Sports car shops in Sydney. It reminded me of the Fiat X19 but I thought the TR7 was better looking (that's just my taste) I finally bought one age 17 - had shiny new black paint and the Rover 3.5L V8 conversion - my friends didn't even know what it was (it had all badges removed) but they were impressed when I'd take them for a drive and it broke traction in all 5 gears ...
I miss it so much.

Two Legend's Tony and Murray

Murray Walker is the Keith Lard of Motorsport.

Why the hell didn’t they just make it only with the V8 what a tool awesome ,just shows how good it could have been 😢