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View Poll Results: Is the Triumph Dolomite 1850HL (not Sprint) cool?
Yes, it's cool 3 23.08%
No, it's not! 10 76.92%
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Old 17th November 2011, 01:14 PM
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Triumph Dolomite 1850HL


Mine was this classic Triumph blue and had overdrive on 3rd/4th which was great.

And it was almost as fast as the Sprint without being whatever that was......
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Old 17th November 2011, 07:36 PM
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Mine was this classic Triumph blue and had overdrive on 3rd/4th which was great.

And it was almost as fast as the Sprint without being whatever that was......
Sprint = 16 Valves I believe, and the build quality of BLMC, but a star in its day
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Old 17th November 2011, 08:41 PM
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Something abbout 70's & 80's BL stuff - always made badly and never quite looked right, but they, for me anywho, have something
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Old 17th November 2011, 08:52 PM
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Yep, Sprint had 16V all driven off a single camshaft think it's the only 4 valve per cylinder car to be designed like that? Lovely car in its day, aside from tin worm and insanely poor build quality of the period.

Don't see this as cool though - the Triumph 2000 series on the other hand.....2500PI mainly
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Old 17th November 2011, 11:02 PM
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Sprint = 16 Valves I believe, and the build quality of BLMC, but a star in its day
1850 was exactly the same engine, just a tad less cylinder capacity.
As it was slightly "detuned" it was actually a more flexible engine with more power at lower revs so easier to drive.

And yes, I would have loved a 2500PI.
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Old 18th November 2011, 09:48 AM
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Dolly sprint was fun, but i do't think i could class a Dolly as cool
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Old 19th November 2011, 11:59 AM
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my first car was a 1972 Triumph 1500, which looked quite similar, but was front wheel drive.

I'll dig out some pics sooner or later
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Old 19th November 2011, 12:12 PM
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There was also the cheaper RWD Toledo (1300cc mostly) alongside the 1500, I recall driving around Scotland in a hired one for a couple of weeks.
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