Gosh oh golly, I bought a Dolly.

Author
Discussion

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Friday 26th June 2015
quotequote all






Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 9th April 09:39

eldar

21,614 posts

195 months

Friday 26th June 2015
quotequote all
Looks a good onesmile Nice clear dashboard,

sim16v

2,176 posts

200 months

Friday 26th June 2015
quotequote all
Phew, for a minute I thought you meant a 2cv!

Car looks mint!

Keep it stiff

1,762 posts

172 months

Friday 26th June 2015
quotequote all
Love it, one of my first cars as a teenager. The style has aged well, wish I could say the same of self!

Riley Blue

20,915 posts

225 months

Friday 26th June 2015
quotequote all
A real beaut!

alpha channel

1,386 posts

161 months

Friday 26th June 2015
quotequote all
Looks in cracking condition, there's one knocking around me that's in similar state (same colour as well) and boy it doesn't half shift.

GT6 Jonsey

845 posts

121 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
quotequote all
Cool car and one of the few triumphs I haven't had the pleasure of owning ( hope to change that one day ). Check out my favourite driver doing what he does best SIDEWAYS in a Sprint
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AD8SlqqKocA

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
quotequote all
Good video, thanks!

dartissimus

938 posts

173 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
quotequote all
Around 1983, a V reg in Sandglow fitted with 1 3/4 SU's and a Peco fat & loud exhaust, it would rev off the clock, but I always felt that I sat on it, not in it. Eventually the heating system airlocked, fried the engine and when put back together, I think had a warped head and overheated very easily.
Traded it in against a manual 3500 SD1 which was great fun.

Happy days

MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

136 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
quotequote all
One of my earliest memories is drooling through the window of a Triumph dealers over a brand new Stag in that colour. Must have been 1973/4.

a8hex

5,829 posts

222 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
quotequote all
Great cars Dolly's, I had a 1850 for few years before getting a company car and then a bit later a Sprint for the then Mrs. Lots of happy memories. Dad had a Mk2 2000 and a mate got a Stag in just that yellow.
I never got our Sprint running quite right, but the 1850 went like a bomb, it was much faster than a friends 2L Capri, but I seem to remember it liked to be tuned differently depending on the type of driving you expected to be doing.
Happy memories

I hope you enjoy it as much I enjoyed mine.

strummerville

1,014 posts

126 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
quotequote all
I had a Carmine red one back in '83 when I was 18. OAU 570P. Still remember it now!

AARONM3

415 posts

215 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
quotequote all
Very nice. My dad had one of these in the same colour and I fondly remember him doing the occasional 'bat turn' (I was a fan of the batman TV show) which I later realised was just him doing a donut smile. Only when my mum wasn't with us of course! Simpler times!! It seemed like a rocket ship back in the day.

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
quotequote all
Period bumf with car. Service stamps continue up to 27,000 miles.


anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
quotequote all

Spydaman

1,499 posts

257 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
quotequote all
I had one just like that back in the day. Same colour Mimosa Yellow but no sun roof. It was rusting away even then and it was only ten years old. I got another one later which must have been one of the last XFX832V in orange. My first proper car after my Hartwell Stiletto. Mates had an Avenger Tiger and RS2000 but the Sprint was always much more civilised with its comfy seats and wooden dash and it had 16 valves. Wish I still had it and the Stiletto come to that.

Daggsy

892 posts

251 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
quotequote all
Saw your Jensen, Elan +2, and Eclat.

Seems like you are moving through my own 'Classics to own at sometime' list.

Is a 1600E on your list ?

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
quotequote all
This one was Ziebarted when new.

Fords leave me unmoved, I'm afraid.

grumpy52

5,565 posts

165 months

Sunday 28th June 2015
quotequote all
Where have you been ?
Cracking car , like many real time cars all the statistics don't reveal how quickly these can be hustled across country .

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Sunday 28th June 2015
quotequote all
It is a lovely drive on a country road, with very classic RWD handling. It would have been a fair match across country for a contemporary BMW or Alfa saloon, but would have been left behind by a Lancia Beta. The Dolly would have trounced many Brit sports cars of its day. I do not know enough of 70s hotbox Fords to say how they would have compared with a Sprint. My Dolly is a bit lowered at the back (adjustable Gaz shocks), and handles pleasantly. The exhaust is throaty, but not yobbish loud. The rev counter needle is sticking a bit, but otherwise everything is working well.