Remember this being the fastest saloon of the day after getting the brochure in1975 , my 1974 2cv is my everyday car which I have being driving for 35 years.
@grahamdraper665 yeah! And BMW countered with our 2.0 is six pot cos they didn't have 4v per cylinder. Obviously Triumph weren't short of I6 lumps, but they were for TR5, 6, Vitesse...
Love it! My 2nd car in 88 was my dads hand me down Dolly 1500HL like yr man. ETL460T. Always wanted a Sprint. Classic rust bubbles on those seams ahead of the bonnet. Sprint came out in 73, years before the Golf GTI. Kinda the first hot hatch! 😊 HLs were twin carb IIRC, and rhe 1300 and 1500 single carb. Triumph were also the 1st to do injection on the TR5 IIRC. Looks like Carl hasn't changed the cooling; Sprints were used as police interceptors, and overheated regularly. Apparently they upgraded the radiator and fan. Carl had seat belts in the back; those must have been a retrofit cos we didn't have belts in the back of ours! Anyways, as ever with Triumph, some great design engineering let down by poor production engineering...
The Triumph Dolomite Sprint, I owned one for 40 years, and hand on heart the worse car I have ever owned. I only managed about 7000 miles in that time and had the engine rebuilt twice, and when sold it, the head needed to be replaced, because of the engine design, end how it just starved the head of lubrication, and of course the whole engine just overheated... nice to look at, but hey that's it...
Nonsense I had one for eight years, proper servicing with a garage that knows the car, upgrades will make car reliable, budget £2k a year, I did 21000 miles with only a few minor issues that would be expected from a 1976 car..
Maybe not 100% accurate as the original 948cc would've had marginally smaller type 12 calipers. 1967 ish onwards though type 14 calipers same as sprint were standard fit on the significantly slower herald and spitfire
Loved that car since I was a kid, back when they were new.
Remember this being the fastest saloon of the day after getting the brochure in1975 , my 1974 2cv is my everyday car which I have being driving for 35 years.
@grahamdraper665 yeah! And BMW countered with our 2.0 is six pot cos they didn't have 4v per cylinder. Obviously Triumph weren't short of I6 lumps, but they were for TR5, 6, Vitesse...
Great video this is definitely one of the best I have seen yet !
Thanks Nathan
cheers
for the video remember these great cars
No problem! Blast from the past for some 🙌
Loving this. Hope you do some other period cars on the Channel. Always nice to see them still loved and running well 👍
Thanks! I love to get classics on the channel but they’re pretty hard to come by to get a consistent flow of them on the channel
One car I always wanted
i always liked the dolly sprint. nice looking motor
Absolutely awesome car the Dolomite 👍
It really is!
Without this chap my triumph would be long gone and not as cool
Totally agree 👍
Love it! My 2nd car in 88 was my dads hand me down Dolly 1500HL like yr man. ETL460T. Always wanted a Sprint. Classic rust bubbles on those seams ahead of the bonnet. Sprint came out in 73, years before the Golf GTI. Kinda the first hot hatch! 😊 HLs were twin carb IIRC, and rhe 1300 and 1500 single carb. Triumph were also the 1st to do injection on the TR5 IIRC. Looks like Carl hasn't changed the cooling; Sprints were used as police interceptors, and overheated regularly. Apparently they upgraded the radiator and fan. Carl had seat belts in the back; those must have been a retrofit cos we didn't have belts in the back of ours! Anyways, as ever with Triumph, some great design engineering let down by poor production engineering...
The Sprint is lovely but it isn't a hatchback
Had 2 in the eighties, both white. Great car but the last one ended up on its side after hitting a tree! I do miss it.
Oh no! Glad you got out of it safe!
Just imagine how pretty a 3 door sprint would have been.
You mean a Toledo Sprint?
@carlreading9916 yup
The Triumph Dolomite Sprint, I owned one for 40 years, and hand on heart the worse car I have ever owned. I only managed about 7000 miles in that time and had the engine rebuilt twice, and when sold it, the head needed to be replaced, because of the engine design, end how it just starved the head of lubrication, and of course the whole engine just overheated... nice to look at, but hey that's it...
Nonsense I had one for eight years, proper servicing with a garage that knows the car, upgrades will make car reliable, budget £2k a year, I did 21000 miles with only a few minor issues that would be expected from a 1976 car..
Loved my Sprint. If only I could have another. One rotting in a driveway not far from me...
It should be saved!
Not accurate to say the Dolly Sprint had same brakes as 1959 Herald 948cc.
Maybe not 100% accurate as the original 948cc would've had marginally smaller type 12 calipers. 1967 ish onwards though type 14 calipers same as sprint were standard fit on the significantly slower herald and spitfire
Thanks for the big arrows I would never have known what to look at
No problem Anthony 😂👍