@Pookatube Well I certainly hope not because I just saw it two hours ago safely tucked up in my garage. I am about to sell it though as I have had it since 1996 and fancy a change.
@MrGman2804 Hi Mr Gman I have never had it on a rolling road but judge against other cars on track when blasting down the straights. An educated guess at 165 bhp at the flywheel would seem about right.
One of the reasons an oldie like this can accelerate so well is the light weight and very light wheels when compared with modern stuff with 165 bhp, and of course grumpy old man has got used to running away from the trouble he causes!
"When I was young, you wore a coat in your house if you were cold.. you didnt have the door open.." I wouldnt have a door open either if I were cold :-P
@GCsparling In the style of the great rock band Queen "she was such a naughty nanny she sped through every nook and cranny" Ho ho it was easier to think of far worse words than that but did not want to offend! Hope she slows down a bit or perhaps she will do a track day with us!
@jontrackerjack sorry, should have put inverted commas on my comment. Its what the codger was no doubt saying when he was driving away. You young people don't know a joke when it is right in front of you, yeh.
@Markyboi1992 Listen here young man there is nothing senile about this old car and it gets to 60 in under 7 sec now as its tuned and old I may be but I trackday with the best. When you get older and get a fast car come and see if you can pass it LOL.
I have a PS2 with all the driving games for when its cold and wet in winter.
@jontrackerjack You obvoiusly know little about cars then... to make this under 7 secs this car would have to be SERIOUSLY tuned it would cost much more than the car would be worth and for the record my car would beat this and probably your car and yes i am insured 1.8 astra coupe. When im 21 ill have a faster car than your ever own i bet, you've started an arguement with someone who knows about and likes cars more than most.
You drive a shitty, fat modern car with the styling of a giant haemorrhoid, where you pop the bonnet and see the engine is encased in plastic and buried under a million useless doodads. He drives a well built lightweight one, where you can be in another world of performance for a nights work, even able to sit inside the engine bay while you work.
It'll always be easier to get performance out of his car than yours.
@richardmaudsley77 lmao mine is one of the smartest cars on the road, its a 2.0 litre turbo replica, has big alloys and full leather as standard, it would be easy to get 1-1.5 seconds off my 0-60 time, for fuck all £, cant say the same for this shitbox? his car is a shed its not smart not fast.
@Markyboi1992 Nice to see it took 2 months for you to say that - was the steam coming out of your ears?
But I'm glad you admitted your car was a peice of shit right from the factory, I know it's hard, people never want to admit they've made a mistake with such an expensive purchase.
Note I said "was" as I'd be surprised if anything from those ellesmere port pissheads has lasted as long as the time between your first comment here and this one.
@richardmaudsley77 No your wrong again, i like my car, my car is smart, better than yours, you cant take it, even people that dont like me say my car is nice. I got my car dirt cheap because of huge vauxhall deprition so im going to at worst break even after a year of having it. Better car than anyone has at 18 that ive ever seen and i payed for it all myself-insurance the works, As for when im 21 ill prob have a car capable of 0-60 4-5 secs. Your just a jealous nob jockey, shit car no prospects
@Markyboi1992 He says, not knowing what I drive. (not a fucking aldi quality car pretending it's fast like you)
I'm in the computer biz, I.E the most important industry in the world, so how's your prospects then eh? I'm guessing they're fucking shite, because you can't spell or use punctuation properly.
Plenty of work out there for iliterate people in this economy ain't there? Muppet.
Faster than yours, twatted about with less than yours (lol turbo "replica"), probably will last longer than yours, and doesn't look like it was designed by some knobhead with a product design GCSE and an ikea fetish.
"u sad old git get with the times.... stop messaging me u wasting my time that car is trash if u like it its ur opinion now fuck off get a life get a decnt motor blocked"
Ladies and gentlemen, the Brain of Britain! I'm sure he's having a victory wank over his chavved up astra as we speak.
@Markyboi1992 ahahhhahahahaaa..... 1.8 eco-wreck astra coupe - factory time 0-100kmh (62mph) 9.5 seconds. It couldn't even keep up with a stock dolly sprint. With your modifications, it's probs knocking on for closer to 10s. As for Jon not knowing about cars - you seriously have to be kidding? It's fair to say he's likely forgotten more than you will ever know..
@GingerPhilG 9.5 on paper correct... but ive had 8.4 fact. i was absolutly side by side a audi A3 1.8 T the other day to 70mph.... bit of weight out, good shifts, tires 39 psi. I would get to 0-80 quicker/same time as stock dolly would get 0-60 (did you see that time they had one on top gear?) they are absolute trash and all should have been scraped years ago, , no room for arguements. What car do u have?bet its a 1.2 at best haha. Just time before i get somethin rapid, its insurance.
@Markyboi1992 - Please list all power enhancing modifications as well as the location of the timed 0-60 run with un-edited timing slips. By that I don't mean your pal in the passenger seat with an i-phone on stopwatch mode with you excitedly shouting out "40...50..60" and then wiriting it on the nearest mc ds reciept. My vehicles (1xm/c, 2x cars, 1x works van) are irrelevant here, it's not me that's acting like an idiot and making outlandish and as yet unsubstantiated claims on performance.
@Markyboi1992 one further point- IF and this is a big IF your car had an identical 0-60 as a 1.8t A3 (say 7.9 seconds) and could then get to 80 at the same speeed/ faster than a stock sprint could get to 60 ( numerous sources 8.4 seconds) that means you're picking up 20 mph in approx half a second, which is utter bull plop :)
@jontrackerjack Hi, i ve enjoyed watching your vids,your a good driver with a great Sprint and a good looking daughter too! I ll have to come over and say hello next time I see you at Combe,and take a good look at your Triumph(i ve had a couple of Sprints in the past) im the driver of the MG, it doesn t have a white bootlid anymore but still has it's cart springs (albeit single leaf composites) LOL
@mgb40v8 Glad you have enjoyed some of the vids, I too have had MG,s and way back in 82 did a round of the MGCC MGBCV8 champ at Mallory in my then MGBV8.
Would love to chat next time we are at the same meet (Sprint has suffered an engine breakage and will return next year!) I guess yours is a V8 or supercharged.
Thanksa for the positive comments as there are some who think there is rivalry between our marques (you will notice from vids we do MGOT days too).
@jontrackerjack Hahaha! Classic Jon, very funny! The Sprint is a superb motor, looks quite sensible & staid on first appearance, but it's a bloody rocket ship! My father had one when I was 7-9 years old, it was stolen twice by the same pair of arseholes from his work's carpark in Aintree, Liverpool. The RS2000's that the Police used had a struggle keeping up with it(according to their driver's when the case went to Crown Court, they told my father). Great car-Happy Days. I keep a concours Capri
@LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH Good to see you run a classic rear drive beast. I have owned and driven an RS3100 in the Silverstone Birkett six hour race in 1982.
Its a pity that the young have posted on here as they love to swear and talk nonsense at others. Yes the RS2000 has a huge advantage over a Sprint and that is its lighter so tuning works better. cheers Jon
I have got a very good hint for you to keeping the nice old Engine in good shape with todays ultra dry eco fuels: Use 1:100 API TC two stroke oil / fuel mix as regular driving fuel, that keeps the old fuel-system gaskets, rubber parts, alloy parts etc... and cast iron metal surfaces of those vintage engines in excellent shape...and it also lubricates the valves and upper piston regions. Most Porsche vintage owners in Germany do so :) Also keeps Carb and tank clean and rustfree
Did you know that the Triumph slant-four is the same basic engine that Saab use? I'd be tempted to do a custom-build using an aluminium block (Saabs were iron), 16v heads and a Saab turbo setup on it, stick it in a Dolly Sprint... hey presto, 260bhp in a car weighing less than a ton!
His comments are spot on. you do less environmental damage keeping an old car running rather than buying a new one every two years. the amount of raw material used in manufacture is mindboggling- by the time a car has reached 20 years old its pretty much carbon neutral, its emissions offset by NOT replacing it with a newly built one.
@SuperPerran Hear hear! I'm 18 and my shortlist of cars (looking to get a first one) is basically Dolly Sprint, BMW 1602, Rover P6 (my dad had a 3500S).
we have a 20 year old volvo 240 wagon and that thing can shift , i love to watch peoples expression change when we pass them , proves you should never judge a book by is cover :)
Thanks for your comments and yes if you check out some of my track day video's it does indeed give a good account of itself, but it looks so harmless I have had lads laugh at it..........till it passes them!
Love the " old man" bit! HA! My dads 65 and just bought a supercharger to put on his Leyland P76 V8. He drives about the same as the guy in the dolly!
I've just been driving that Scimitar with the Omega V6 engine this weekend. Wow! That's one hell of a good conversion. Looks factory too!
Think I might have to try and get hold of a back issue of Practical Classics to check your car out. A workmate buys PC and I buy PPC (practical performance car) each month and we swap mags.
I have just read through the old comments that yu were planning to fit a Cosworth V6 lump into this. Have you done it yet? I'm kind of hoping not as it'sd a heavy engine and not as great as it's made out to be (I have one in my Cortina). It's not a bad engine but everything osts a fortune, gearboxes ae a problem and there's little support for it. There are better options. My mate has just fitted a Vauxhall V6 to a Scimitar and that has worked very well.
No I rebuilt the original engine and have done several track days since plus the car featured in August issue of Practical Classics. At one track day at Abingdon I met a guy with a Cosworth Cortina it was a nice car. I sold the V6 to a friend to fit in his Scimitar! Thanks for your thoughts, its about time grumpy old man had some more ranting!
hey you how are you ive always wondered what your up to i reconise the xr4x4 special il buy it from you anytime anyway enough of that its damean here your old chum from paignton mould tools must catch up
Was a Triumph man through and through in my younger days - Vitesse Mk2, three 2000s ( a MK 1 and two Mk2s), two GT6s (Mk1 - best looking, and a rotoflex Mk2) one 2500S and a Dolly Sprint - not all at the same time though.
Dolly was terrific fun. Shunted through a dry stone wall in North Wales by a coach full of prisoners on remand. Killed the poor thing off and nearly did for me as well!!
Fabulous cantankerous old bloke. I want to be like that when I get old. I am practicing now. I had a Dolomite Sprint when I lived in the UK. Cost me £150. Fantastic car. Accelarator cable broke and I pinned the throttle open. I had no choice but to set off like the old bloke. Failed it's MOT (of course) and I had to scrap it. I remember when I arrived places I would sit in it just admiring the dashboard. I have a Mercedes E320 now. It is absolutely crap. More breakdowns than Susan Boyle.
So glad you have enjoyed a Sprint and the video. This actual car is going to feature on the August issue front cover of Practical Classics magazine. With me driving it sideways the article will be about Escort alternatives. I am still grumpy!!
I have a friend in the UK who looks after classic cars for a living. His own car is a Triumph Spitfire. He always wanted a GT6, but for some reason he never got one. I think his love of Triumph came from his father who had Triumph 2000s and then had a 2500. Overdrive! I gave my Trabant to my friend to restore and he will not give it back. When I took it to him to restore he just laughed and said he was too busy, but now he rings me to send parts from Hungary and says it is too good to give back.
I recognise that grumpy old man, and that number plate...Mr Jackson it's dean from paignton how the devil are you? I'm still a rover freak through and through
hi mate, i just read your comment about the cosworth V6, that is going to be really crazy, as soon as its been fitted please post a video, im actually saving for an engine swap for the TR7, hopefully theres gonna be a twincam under the bonnet soon enough, fantastic car and thanks for posting your videos, mikey
hi,I restored your car about 15 years ago including a new cylinder head and new webasto roof which cost a fortune!I bought it from an old guy in Paignton who had polished it so much he had worn the paint away!Well chuffed it's still going and being driven like it should be.
Yes it was me who bought it from you for £1500 in 1997 and I still love the car. It has done many trackdays and is about to have a Cosworth V6 inserted by me. You had a Scirroco as I recall. I have also met the first owner so the car has always been owned by people who appreciate it.
Had a BRG Dolly Sprint in 88-90 and loved it.... and miss it, but luckily now have a Stag to keep my Triumph buzz alive. Sprint was a very underated motor
I have owned hillclimbed & sprinted a Stag in the 80s they to are a wonderful car stiffen the rear and widen slightly and they corner way better than most could guess.
LONG LIVE TRIUMPHS the best affordable classics you can get.
beautiful work, love the accent..."don't talk to me about global warmin' " LOL
awesome car, magnificent work.
triumphdollysprint, get yourself across to the triumph dolomite website and post up some pics. Great bunch of guys over there and lots of excellent advice.
HAHAHAHAHA that was great. i just bought my first car. a 1976 dolomite sprint in yellow. Yours looks and sounds beautiful and goes better. what sort of mods would i be looking at for that sort of performance? just the ones you have already listed? ps. what tyres are you running? i have serious trouble getting traction off the line with anything more than 2000rpm. Cheers. Great Vid.
Thanks for the comments, I like 185x60x13 Yokohama's for track work including rain. The tyres in the vid are Goodyear NCT's which are rubbish in the wet but ok in the dry.
Yep they spin up their tyres easily, unless its Top Gear HA HA.
Hi yes even a standard sprint is quick, mine is 0-60 in 6.5 sec. The vid is real time, Your work coleagues are welcome to take it on....at a track day, check out my other vids. Dont let Top Gear upset you, its still a funny show, I have taken great pride driving the car to work, just to prove how good they are. How many other cars have lasted as well?
I am 22 and I argue the same as this man! :)
psykotanks 2 weeks ago
Comment removed
psykotanks 2 weeks ago
Parents had a sprint when I was a child - reckon it could give most modern hot hatches a run for there money, at least up to 90mph. V nice car
71rgb 3 weeks ago
Didn't Jamie Kitman buy this Dolemite?
Pookatube 2 months ago
@Pookatube Well I certainly hope not because I just saw it two hours ago safely tucked up in my garage. I am about to sell it though as I have had it since 1996 and fancy a change.
jontrackerjack 2 months ago
Comment removed
MisterHughes 3 months ago
I pressed "Like" at 1:12 precisely.
My Dad had a Dolly Sprint, quick as a whippet with his tabasco on its knackers.
MisterHughes 3 months ago
That's a nice triumph old man
DEXISWOLF 7 months ago
hahaha its exactly this kind of old people that makes me lose it xD
Graverobber94 7 months ago
How many BHP is that?
MrGman2804 8 months ago
@MrGman2804 Hi Mr Gman I have never had it on a rolling road but judge against other cars on track when blasting down the straights. An educated guess at 165 bhp at the flywheel would seem about right.
One of the reasons an oldie like this can accelerate so well is the light weight and very light wheels when compared with modern stuff with 165 bhp, and of course grumpy old man has got used to running away from the trouble he causes!
jontrackerjack 8 months ago
that is kick azzz :) enjoyed,thumbs up,subscribed,favorited,shared to facebook:)-krazm enserfud,peace
enserfud 8 months ago
Nice Sprint! :D
Didn't realise they were that quick either!
hornby123me 8 months ago
"When I was young, you wore a coat in your house if you were cold.. you didnt have the door open.." I wouldnt have a door open either if I were cold :-P
JordanEmonds 10 months ago
lol i didnt expect that one
unitedben14 11 months ago
Funny video...most amusing and tattifilarious!!
749rduncx 11 months ago
this personage has a good point about our present
215alessio 1 year ago
Spotted the bucket seats immediately! Knew that was gonna happen! Lol.
djpert1 1 year ago
GLOBAL WARMMING !!! THE KEY WORD BLOODY !
gothicloveful 1 year ago
Love this car. ive been looking at a few recently, but if i saw this 1, id have to own it. what is the value of such an article please,
MrTillyayre 1 year ago
lool thats pretty badass and darn funny
dudekillr 1 year ago
LOL well funny !
MikeHuntagape 1 year ago
My Nan is 82 and she has just bought a manual Dolomite (Sprint) and she goes into the town centre everyday and has had 2 speeding tickets already! :D
Go Nan! x
GCsparling 1 year ago 11
@GCsparling In the style of the great rock band Queen "she was such a naughty nanny she sped through every nook and cranny" Ho ho it was easier to think of far worse words than that but did not want to offend! Hope she slows down a bit or perhaps she will do a track day with us!
ATB Jon
jontrackerjack 1 year ago
yeh, you young people, you are all a bunch of wankers, yeh.
where's my zimmer.....
closertofiftythanyew 1 year ago
@closertofiftythanyew
There is a zimmer at the side of the road where this old codger left it!
jontrackerjack 1 year ago
@jontrackerjack sorry, should have put inverted commas on my comment. Its what the codger was no doubt saying when he was driving away. You young people don't know a joke when it is right in front of you, yeh.
: )
closertofiftythanyew 1 year ago
Excellent!
jonnyhead 1 year ago
He left his zimmer behind.......:L
Finlayenzo 1 year ago
8.5 0-60 new? probably 10.5 now
Markyboi1992 1 year ago
@Markyboi1992 Listen here young man there is nothing senile about this old car and it gets to 60 in under 7 sec now as its tuned and old I may be but I trackday with the best. When you get older and get a fast car come and see if you can pass it LOL.
I have a PS2 with all the driving games for when its cold and wet in winter.
jontrackerjack 1 year ago
@jontrackerjack You obvoiusly know little about cars then... to make this under 7 secs this car would have to be SERIOUSLY tuned it would cost much more than the car would be worth and for the record my car would beat this and probably your car and yes i am insured 1.8 astra coupe. When im 21 ill have a faster car than your ever own i bet, you've started an arguement with someone who knows about and likes cars more than most.
Markyboi1992 1 year ago
@Markyboi1992 for 2-3 grand you could get a huge amount of cars faster than this standard.
Markyboi1992 1 year ago
@Markyboi1992
You drive a shitty, fat modern car with the styling of a giant haemorrhoid, where you pop the bonnet and see the engine is encased in plastic and buried under a million useless doodads. He drives a well built lightweight one, where you can be in another world of performance for a nights work, even able to sit inside the engine bay while you work.
It'll always be easier to get performance out of his car than yours.
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
@richardmaudsley77 lmao mine is one of the smartest cars on the road, its a 2.0 litre turbo replica, has big alloys and full leather as standard, it would be easy to get 1-1.5 seconds off my 0-60 time, for fuck all £, cant say the same for this shitbox? his car is a shed its not smart not fast.
Markyboi1992 1 year ago
@Markyboi1992
"2.0 litre turbo replica"
Which by your own admission is actually 1.8L naturally aspirated. So basically you put a bodykit on it. Yawn.
"Big alloys"
So your car looks gaudy and accelerates slower.
"full leather as standard"
Hmm, performance enhancing magic leather?
"it would be easy to get 1-1.5 seconds off my 0-60 time, for fuck all £, cant say the same for this shitbox?"
Err what? Swap his cam intake carb and exhaust, good times for all.
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
@richardmaudsley77 Came out of the factory like that. hahahah your wrong wrong and always wrong.
Markyboi1992 1 year ago
@Markyboi1992 Nice to see it took 2 months for you to say that - was the steam coming out of your ears?
But I'm glad you admitted your car was a peice of shit right from the factory, I know it's hard, people never want to admit they've made a mistake with such an expensive purchase.
Note I said "was" as I'd be surprised if anything from those ellesmere port pissheads has lasted as long as the time between your first comment here and this one.
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
@richardmaudsley77 No your wrong again, i like my car, my car is smart, better than yours, you cant take it, even people that dont like me say my car is nice. I got my car dirt cheap because of huge vauxhall deprition so im going to at worst break even after a year of having it. Better car than anyone has at 18 that ive ever seen and i payed for it all myself-insurance the works, As for when im 21 ill prob have a car capable of 0-60 4-5 secs. Your just a jealous nob jockey, shit car no prospects
Markyboi1992 1 year ago
@Markyboi1992 He says, not knowing what I drive. (not a fucking aldi quality car pretending it's fast like you)
I'm in the computer biz, I.E the most important industry in the world, so how's your prospects then eh? I'm guessing they're fucking shite, because you can't spell or use punctuation properly.
Plenty of work out there for iliterate people in this economy ain't there? Muppet.
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
@richardmaudsley77 Now your blocked because you talk utter shit cant get anything correct.
Markyboi1992 1 year ago
@Markyboi1992
" his car is a shed its not smart not fast."
Faster than yours, twatted about with less than yours (lol turbo "replica"), probably will last longer than yours, and doesn't look like it was designed by some knobhead with a product design GCSE and an ikea fetish.
Jog on son.
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
@Markyboi1992
Look whay old MarkyBoi sent to me in a PM:
"u sad old git get with the times.... stop messaging me u wasting my time that car is trash if u like it its ur opinion now fuck off get a life get a decnt motor blocked"
Ladies and gentlemen, the Brain of Britain! I'm sure he's having a victory wank over his chavved up astra as we speak.
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
@Markyboi1992 ahahhhahahahaaa..... 1.8 eco-wreck astra coupe - factory time 0-100kmh (62mph) 9.5 seconds. It couldn't even keep up with a stock dolly sprint. With your modifications, it's probs knocking on for closer to 10s. As for Jon not knowing about cars - you seriously have to be kidding? It's fair to say he's likely forgotten more than you will ever know..
GingerPhilG 1 year ago
@GingerPhilG 9.5 on paper correct... but ive had 8.4 fact. i was absolutly side by side a audi A3 1.8 T the other day to 70mph.... bit of weight out, good shifts, tires 39 psi. I would get to 0-80 quicker/same time as stock dolly would get 0-60 (did you see that time they had one on top gear?) they are absolute trash and all should have been scraped years ago, , no room for arguements. What car do u have?bet its a 1.2 at best haha. Just time before i get somethin rapid, its insurance.
Markyboi1992 1 year ago
@Markyboi1992 - Please list all power enhancing modifications as well as the location of the timed 0-60 run with un-edited timing slips. By that I don't mean your pal in the passenger seat with an i-phone on stopwatch mode with you excitedly shouting out "40...50..60" and then wiriting it on the nearest mc ds reciept. My vehicles (1xm/c, 2x cars, 1x works van) are irrelevant here, it's not me that's acting like an idiot and making outlandish and as yet unsubstantiated claims on performance.
GingerPhilG 1 year ago
@Markyboi1992 one further point- IF and this is a big IF your car had an identical 0-60 as a 1.8t A3 (say 7.9 seconds) and could then get to 80 at the same speeed/ faster than a stock sprint could get to 60 ( numerous sources 8.4 seconds) that means you're picking up 20 mph in approx half a second, which is utter bull plop :)
GingerPhilG 1 year ago
@jontrackerjack Hi, i ve enjoyed watching your vids,your a good driver with a great Sprint and a good looking daughter too! I ll have to come over and say hello next time I see you at Combe,and take a good look at your Triumph(i ve had a couple of Sprints in the past) im the driver of the MG, it doesn t have a white bootlid anymore but still has it's cart springs (albeit single leaf composites) LOL
mgb40v8 1 year ago
@mgb40v8 Glad you have enjoyed some of the vids, I too have had MG,s and way back in 82 did a round of the MGCC MGBCV8 champ at Mallory in my then MGBV8.
Would love to chat next time we are at the same meet (Sprint has suffered an engine breakage and will return next year!) I guess yours is a V8 or supercharged.
Thanksa for the positive comments as there are some who think there is rivalry between our marques (you will notice from vids we do MGOT days too).
Wife had an 1800 GT slow but good.
jontrackerjack 1 year ago
@jontrackerjack Hahaha! Classic Jon, very funny! The Sprint is a superb motor, looks quite sensible & staid on first appearance, but it's a bloody rocket ship! My father had one when I was 7-9 years old, it was stolen twice by the same pair of arseholes from his work's carpark in Aintree, Liverpool. The RS2000's that the Police used had a struggle keeping up with it(according to their driver's when the case went to Crown Court, they told my father). Great car-Happy Days. I keep a concours Capri
LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH 1 year ago
@LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH Good to see you run a classic rear drive beast. I have owned and driven an RS3100 in the Silverstone Birkett six hour race in 1982.
Its a pity that the young have posted on here as they love to swear and talk nonsense at others. Yes the RS2000 has a huge advantage over a Sprint and that is its lighter so tuning works better. cheers Jon
jontrackerjack 1 year ago
@Markyboi1992 It's called maintenance, do they have it on your planet?
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
I have got a very good hint for you to keeping the nice old Engine in good shape with todays ultra dry eco fuels: Use 1:100 API TC two stroke oil / fuel mix as regular driving fuel, that keeps the old fuel-system gaskets, rubber parts, alloy parts etc... and cast iron metal surfaces of those vintage engines in excellent shape...and it also lubricates the valves and upper piston regions. Most Porsche vintage owners in Germany do so :) Also keeps Carb and tank clean and rustfree
Pnoerre 1 year ago
When do yo uthink he'll come back for his walker?
johnnykage 1 year ago
@johnnykage He came back for some more moaning and picked it up then LOL.
jontrackerjack 1 year ago
had one in 1976 for 4 yrs thats a fast take off .they were fun to drive.great car
bmwnasher 1 year ago
What a senile old git - he forgot to take his zimmer with 'im, the ancient ol' tool!
Nice Dolly Sprint, by the way.
closertofiftythanyew 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
fake and gay he left his walking thing :L
RKOmovies 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
fake and gay he left his walking thing :L
RKOmovies 1 year ago
That's a lovely Sprint.
volvomantom 1 year ago
I want this car!!! Spot on comments on the environment too
GingerPhilG 2 years ago
Did you know that the Triumph slant-four is the same basic engine that Saab use? I'd be tempted to do a custom-build using an aluminium block (Saabs were iron), 16v heads and a Saab turbo setup on it, stick it in a Dolly Sprint... hey presto, 260bhp in a car weighing less than a ton!
EccentricRichard 2 years ago
His comments are spot on. you do less environmental damage keeping an old car running rather than buying a new one every two years. the amount of raw material used in manufacture is mindboggling- by the time a car has reached 20 years old its pretty much carbon neutral, its emissions offset by NOT replacing it with a newly built one.
mrspivvy 2 years ago 10
ive seen that old geezer before he runs the old ladies to hospital and back ! he's good !
BeedieMobility 2 years ago
Watch him though his hands are everywhere LOL.
jontrackerjack 2 years ago
@jontrackerjack
yeah and he can heel and toe too!
Fuckin class!
DELTLICA 2 years ago
im 18 and id love one of them show the dick headss with their shitty saxos corsa what a real car is
SuperPerran 2 years ago 21
@SuperPerran Hear hear! I'm 18 and my shortlist of cars (looking to get a first one) is basically Dolly Sprint, BMW 1602, Rover P6 (my dad had a 3500S).
EccentricRichard 2 years ago
Funny
Class59Cameron 2 years ago
That Man Speaks the truth..... Maybe he should have been at Copanhagen
peggey707 2 years ago 4
love it
HSTHoward 2 years ago
Brilliant video, I love the Dolomite and hate the nonsense about global warming.
This is a keeper!
Drivingyarns 2 years ago 3
Dolly Sprints 2.0 litre were one of the top motors in my youth and I'm much younger than this oldun' !
MrPomdownunder 2 years ago
...
I want one of these cars.
SvenneTheBlockhead 2 years ago 2
Bloody hell that thing shifts!
SPINNER673 2 years ago 2
i got one of these n im 18 eat's all my mates cars
Bi6Bwc 2 years ago
good ol dollys
EXTREME4YEARSTOCOME 2 years ago
we have a 20 year old volvo 240 wagon and that thing can shift , i love to watch peoples expression change when we pass them , proves you should never judge a book by is cover :)
BREN70S 2 years ago
Wow! That is awesome, old man.
I'd like to have a dolly sprint in someday, well even I've to import from UK.
zetsuboublogger 2 years ago
MEGA!!!
mabjagm3 2 years ago
sure is quick for old motor, put most of them modern jap car's to shame! a few tweak's here n there and that will kill subaru's :)
THCmuzicalmasta 2 years ago
Thanks for your comments and yes if you check out some of my track day video's it does indeed give a good account of itself, but it looks so harmless I have had lads laugh at it..........till it passes them!
jontrackerjack 2 years ago
lol i bet you have m8! brilliant to watch the face's drop as it roar's past there little hot hatche's! LOL....
THCmuzicalmasta 2 years ago
hes only driving the car how it should be driven first 2.0 16v ever,classic,i want 1
1985jimmyb 2 years ago
Love the " old man" bit! HA! My dads 65 and just bought a supercharger to put on his Leyland P76 V8. He drives about the same as the guy in the dolly!
dragonpnut76 2 years ago
Oh I am only 58 but a petrol head forever!
Hope your dad enjoys his toys as much as I do.
Cheers for the comments.
jontrackerjack 2 years ago
The Dolomite sprint was my first car & it was Immaculate !
I raced everything with it cos it was so fast .
I like the wheel spin at the end !
CybermanF1 2 years ago
ive had more dollys than u can shake a stick at!! and all i can say is that i loooooove yours! its one rip snortin mutha fooka!!!
chrisandnicky 2 years ago
I've just been driving that Scimitar with the Omega V6 engine this weekend. Wow! That's one hell of a good conversion. Looks factory too!
Think I might have to try and get hold of a back issue of Practical Classics to check your car out. A workmate buys PC and I buy PPC (practical performance car) each month and we swap mags.
RortyCorty 2 years ago
I have just read through the old comments that yu were planning to fit a Cosworth V6 lump into this. Have you done it yet? I'm kind of hoping not as it'sd a heavy engine and not as great as it's made out to be (I have one in my Cortina). It's not a bad engine but everything osts a fortune, gearboxes ae a problem and there's little support for it. There are better options. My mate has just fitted a Vauxhall V6 to a Scimitar and that has worked very well.
RortyCorty 2 years ago
No I rebuilt the original engine and have done several track days since plus the car featured in August issue of Practical Classics. At one track day at Abingdon I met a guy with a Cosworth Cortina it was a nice car. I sold the V6 to a friend to fit in his Scimitar! Thanks for your thoughts, its about time grumpy old man had some more ranting!
jontrackerjack 2 years ago
Haa Haa , I love it !!!
tony4790 2 years ago
hey you how are you ive always wondered what your up to i reconise the xr4x4 special il buy it from you anytime anyway enough of that its damean here your old chum from paignton mould tools must catch up
damean7 2 years ago
Dolomite Sprints are awesome now you know you can do a burnout with them
MasterBattle2000 2 years ago
Ahahaha that was great!
dawnandmark2003 2 years ago
That's Jeremy Clarkson in 30 yrs.
Lamnont 2 years ago 4
he did forget this walking frame
voterpromoter 2 years ago
Perhaps he is a silly old man too! or is it because it would not fit in the boot.
Auf weidersein
jontrackerjack 2 years ago
LOL brilliant. didn't expect that
rob2859 2 years ago
Awesome video AMAZING CAR!!!!
IMAFIRINMELAZER 2 years ago
That's one good OAP Driver, he's still got it! LOL XD
He should challenge the local Chav boy racers.
JAKE09GY 2 years ago
Look at Potninjas. They is the shiznit.
moonbeast14 2 years ago
Cracking video!
Was a Triumph man through and through in my younger days - Vitesse Mk2, three 2000s ( a MK 1 and two Mk2s), two GT6s (Mk1 - best looking, and a rotoflex Mk2) one 2500S and a Dolly Sprint - not all at the same time though.
Dolly was terrific fun. Shunted through a dry stone wall in North Wales by a coach full of prisoners on remand. Killed the poor thing off and nearly did for me as well!!
Might go for one of these again for track days.
raxorules 2 years ago
I feel sorry 4 u that ur dolomite sprint got shunted thru a stone wall by a coach. :(
Such beautiful cars they are...
JAKE09GY 2 years ago
This is so staged.
RachelMcCullen 2 years ago
Err yes.............its a joke, duh.
Your comment is so written!
jontrackerjack 2 years ago
Fabulous cantankerous old bloke. I want to be like that when I get old. I am practicing now. I had a Dolomite Sprint when I lived in the UK. Cost me £150. Fantastic car. Accelarator cable broke and I pinned the throttle open. I had no choice but to set off like the old bloke. Failed it's MOT (of course) and I had to scrap it. I remember when I arrived places I would sit in it just admiring the dashboard. I have a Mercedes E320 now. It is absolutely crap. More breakdowns than Susan Boyle.
shuffleknuckle5 2 years ago
So glad you have enjoyed a Sprint and the video. This actual car is going to feature on the August issue front cover of Practical Classics magazine. With me driving it sideways the article will be about Escort alternatives. I am still grumpy!!
jontrackerjack 2 years ago
I have a friend in the UK who looks after classic cars for a living. His own car is a Triumph Spitfire. He always wanted a GT6, but for some reason he never got one. I think his love of Triumph came from his father who had Triumph 2000s and then had a 2500. Overdrive! I gave my Trabant to my friend to restore and he will not give it back. When I took it to him to restore he just laughed and said he was too busy, but now he rings me to send parts from Hungary and says it is too good to give back.
shuffleknuckle5 2 years ago
Your friend has good taste in cars.
Trabant mmmmmmmmm does he keep chickens too?
jontrackerjack 2 years ago
I recognise that grumpy old man, and that number plate...Mr Jackson it's dean from paignton how the devil are you? I'm still a rover freak through and through
deanchallis 2 years ago
Hi Dean glad your still a Rover freak and doing well! Often expect to see you at a trackday cos you know how to drive.
Check out Practical Classic mag in August cos my car is on the cover....I think.
jontrackerjack 2 years ago
Whoa slow down there Speed Racer lmao
VIJUMPMANIV 2 years ago
why wuld he leave he's zimmer frame there it makes no sence funny tho lol.
jamesso7 2 years ago
The poor old bastard (me) could not get it in the boot and shut it duh. You may well have also spotted that he left the camera person there too. LOL
jontrackerjack 2 years ago
FANTASTIC!!!
PitifulActivity 2 years ago
I had one too, I loved it.
internettradesecrets 3 years ago
Awesome car in there day. Had two of em!
abbymick 3 years ago
hes right,
bikegirl1983 3 years ago
He left his walker...LOL
qtpie20121 3 years ago
awesome
benccollins 3 years ago
HA HA HA ! I hope that was REAL ! lmfao
savagex466 3 years ago
Go on my son,give it some
welly!
Cocothebastard 3 years ago 5
old people drive old cars. old people look after there cars better
jaggass 3 years ago 9
lol
D4L3W1L50N 3 years ago
hi mate, i just read your comment about the cosworth V6, that is going to be really crazy, as soon as its been fitted please post a video, im actually saving for an engine swap for the TR7, hopefully theres gonna be a twincam under the bonnet soon enough, fantastic car and thanks for posting your videos, mikey
mikeyTR7 3 years ago
hi,I restored your car about 15 years ago including a new cylinder head and new webasto roof which cost a fortune!I bought it from an old guy in Paignton who had polished it so much he had worn the paint away!Well chuffed it's still going and being driven like it should be.
fairfielder39 3 years ago 3
Yes it was me who bought it from you for £1500 in 1997 and I still love the car. It has done many trackdays and is about to have a Cosworth V6 inserted by me. You had a Scirroco as I recall. I have also met the first owner so the car has always been owned by people who appreciate it.
jontrackerjack 3 years ago
Hilarious.
Linesider1 3 years ago 3
Fantastic stuff! Kind of saw it coming but still v.cool!
RortyCorty 3 years ago
Brilliant......
ralph5407 3 years ago
im never going to take the piss out of old drivers again!
alpineb10 3 years ago
Had a BRG Dolly Sprint in 88-90 and loved it.... and miss it, but luckily now have a Stag to keep my Triumph buzz alive. Sprint was a very underated motor
WelshyM 3 years ago
I have owned hillclimbed & sprinted a Stag in the 80s they to are a wonderful car stiffen the rear and widen slightly and they corner way better than most could guess.
LONG LIVE TRIUMPHS the best affordable classics you can get.
jontrackerjack 3 years ago
i have got a triumph dolomite 1300 in brand new condition only 26 000 genuine miles and Maroon colour. Its a 1981 model. Offers welcome. Wirral area.
mods23 3 years ago
i had an early sprint back in the late 80s and a tr7 sprint, spent all day spinning thos wheels and drifting, great fun.
davidjames2009 3 years ago
who cares about Global warming, we cant fight against Nature, people are soooo stupid
leon6266 3 years ago
love the dolomite but i think i will always prefer my mk2 2.5pi
ollie1512 3 years ago
Yeh I used to own a TR5 and it was the best car I have had much better than my V8 MG.
I want a PI one day.
jontrackerjack 3 years ago
Brilliant video, and the old man was spot-on!
I miss my old Dolly, wish I still had it.
gardenspoon 3 years ago
LOLOLOLOLOLOL That old man was Funny Cool job ;-)
RobbieGagg 4 years ago
"Dolomite SPRINT" is the right name. That car just took off! Many Klingon songs will be sung about you - O'warrior who is mighty in battle!
moochin 4 years ago
Magnificent vid!!! Wish my Sprint had that amount of spice.....undergoing a resto at present.
Rubhaantuir 4 years ago
beautiful work, love the accent..."don't talk to me about global warmin' " LOL
awesome car, magnificent work.
triumphdollysprint, get yourself across to the triumph dolomite website and post up some pics. Great bunch of guys over there and lots of excellent advice.
stu
straylightOz 4 years ago
triumphdollysprint 4 years ago
Thanks for the comments, I like 185x60x13 Yokohama's for track work including rain. The tyres in the vid are Goodyear NCT's which are rubbish in the wet but ok in the dry.
Yep they spin up their tyres easily, unless its Top Gear HA HA.
jontrackerjack 4 years ago
I live in Australia so the wetness on the Goodyear's shouldnt be a problem.
How long did the engine build take?
I cant stop watching that launch!
triumphdollysprint 4 years ago
Sorry but I just cannot remember but I am an engineer so patience and care is required.
I suggest you check out Club Triumph as they have many Australian members.
jontrackerjack 4 years ago
Thanks heaps for your help.
Again, great video.
Awesome car.
And credit to both the 'oldman' and the lady behind the camera.
Cheers
triumphdollysprint 4 years ago
is this car standard love i love it
dant1991 4 years ago 2
Pleased you love it,so do I. It has a Piper 270 cam, lightened flywheel and 45 Delorto carbs approx 165 bhp (standard is 127 bhp.
I built the engine myself 8 years ago.
jontrackerjack 4 years ago
I own a Sprint that off the road at the moment, thanks to those knobs on Top Gear
everyone at work thinks this is speeded up..
balddj 4 years ago
Hi yes even a standard sprint is quick, mine is 0-60 in 6.5 sec. The vid is real time, Your work coleagues are welcome to take it on....at a track day, check out my other vids. Dont let Top Gear upset you, its still a funny show, I have taken great pride driving the car to work, just to prove how good they are. How many other cars have lasted as well?
jontrackerjack 4 years ago
FUNNY
FASTFREDDY8 4 years ago
epic!
mrmahoosive 4 years ago
That is brilliant!
kavyman1066 4 years ago
Best, video, ever!
tigran86 4 years ago 2
LMAO! That is genius!
Sindrey 4 years ago
love it.
elmphoenix 4 years ago
LOL Jon :D
Top marks!
So true as well....
LashoutUK 4 years ago