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Sept 5, 2013 11:49:43 GMT
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Hi all! I'm a very long term lurker and I have thoroughly enjoyed this fantastic forum, inspirational characters and awesome creations over the last two or three years. I'm so excited that I've finally purchased a vehicle that makes me worthy of joining the mayhem. It's a case of 'bought not built' rather than the other way round for me at the moment, but hopefully I can add my touches in time. Plan at the moment is just enjoy. So without further ado here's a crappy phone pic of the lady herself.  Dolomite Sprint Engine, O/D Gearbox, rear axle, arbs and wheels. Sprint dash and clocks. GAZ lowed suspension allround (brand spanking new!). 4 new tyres. New mot. Bad bits. Boot latch fubared. (Note pix) Sill patched and still in primer. Couple of tiny blebs/bubbles. Worse bit of all two small (for now) holes in A pillar on passenger side. I'm over the moon its definitely the best fun I've had on 4 wheels, and the closed I have found to being on 2. I have owned only 14 hours and I already have three great stories. More on that as soon as I get time, including better pictures. Any advice/feedback welcomed. |
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Last Edit: Jun 8, 2018 14:47:43 GMT by wodge
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Sept 5, 2013 12:37:20 GMT
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Brilliant. Congratulations!
Lovley little things, and so glad I bought mine, and hopefully will never have to part with it. Proper sleeper with the Sprint engine.
Look forward to hearing about your experiences.
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Last Edit: Feb 1, 2014 20:13:57 GMT by alolympic
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wodge
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Sept 5, 2013 13:33:48 GMT
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Thank alolympic I love your Rochdale it looks so exotic. Is there a thread for your Toledo I've never found one, although I found various pictures and it looks ace. Must be bouncy that low though!!
I adjusted the boot at lunchtime and it now closes. Lots of pics taken (still crappy iPhone ones) they'll be up as soon as they have finished updating to photobucket.
All the oldtimers at work who normally snort and look the other way where my cars are concerned have been out for a chat and a blast round the lanes this lunchtime. I've heard stories I didn't want to about back seats in the 70s! lol.
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Sept 5, 2013 14:18:31 GMT
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As promised here she is in the sunshine: Inside:  I've got the lower dash bar but its made of some sort of cardboard and seen better days. It will be resurrected in coroplast or something if I ever get round to it.  Drivers seat seen better days, needs new foam is this available? I have no desire to swap the seats or covers I just want the inners. Back seat is mint but I seem to have inadvertently deleted the pic. :rolleyes. Engine:    Parping Italian airhorn ftw! Has its share of oil seepage but all seem to be seeps rather than floods so not too worried in the short term - cheap rustproofing! Exterior money shots (New grill panels being ordered to loose those fugly modern wonky lights - not sure who thought they looked good there.)          New shocks: (Clearly not springs though)  MOT Sill Repair - Not Pretty po's choice of repairer  Grot in A-post this scares me.  So there she is. Really must get some work done now so more later. I'm interested in what you guys would have paid I'm all new to this and bought on a whim I'm really happy but it would be nice to know if I did well or got had. I've gone for agreed valuation insurance and will be using these same pics so I guess that will give me an idea? Cheers all. |
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Sept 5, 2013 17:20:31 GMT
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That is ruddy lovely sir...!!!
I love my Toledo to bits, they're cracking little buzz-bombs that are so criminally underated it's untrue!
I want to do exactly the same to my boot in terms of matt-blackage, I love that sporty 70's vibe!
My 1300 lump is pretty nippy but I can't even imagine what power you get thumping through those rear wheels...!!!
Lovely, lovely and, again, lovely...!!!
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***GARAGE CURRENTLY EMPTY***
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bstardchild
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Sept 5, 2013 17:39:47 GMT
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Got fond memories of a Inca yellow Dolly Sprint and my grandfather's last car was a Toledo 1300 and I loved that...........
Great little sleeper but I'd lose the 1500 TC badge
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luckygti
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Sept 5, 2013 18:53:51 GMT
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Awesome car. Now, this may be a silly question so forgive me (and I know it's got the Dolly sprint stuff) but I thought the Toledo was front wheel drive? Always loved the 2 door look, this must show a few Escorts up!!
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Sept 5, 2013 19:09:06 GMT
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Love this to bits, i had a dolly 1850 sprint lookalike in the 1980's very nice car. If you need a drivers side interior vent I have one.
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Allan and Gromit the Growler. Hustler 6 - work in progress
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dave80
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Sept 5, 2013 19:29:12 GMT
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looks really cool hope the rot aint too bad,bet that can shock muppets in their saxo's etc.
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sierra 1.6 ghia
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Sept 5, 2013 19:54:22 GMT
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Awesome car. Now, this may be a silly question so forgive me (and I know it's got the Dolly sprint stuff) but I thought the Toledo was front wheel drive? Always loved the 2 door look, this must show a few Escorts up!! it is the rwd version of the triumph 1300 i believe, with dolomite type underpinnings |
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Sept 5, 2013 19:55:39 GMT
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Wow, that's up there with one of the best Toledo's I've ever seen!
Great car, will be perfect when you sort out those little niggles - be sure to keep it updated.
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ChasR
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Sept 5, 2013 22:07:57 GMT
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This looks like quite a lovely car with a number of right ingredients  . |
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Sept 5, 2013 23:38:14 GMT
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Awesome car. Now, this may be a silly question so forgive me (and I know it's got the Dolly sprint stuff) but I thought the Toledo was front wheel drive? Always loved the 2 door look, this must show a few Escorts up!! Toledos were rwd. The early 1300 and later dolly shape triumph 1500 was fwd. It makes no odd tho as all the rwd parts bolt on to the fwd - no mods/drilling required. I converted a 1500 fwd to Sprint spec, an easy task tbh. |
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Just back from Chappell Beer Festival so if this makes no sense you know why!
Thanks for all the kind sentiments I can take no credit for the car as if stands all I have done is taken photos I haven't even washed it. :embarrassed face
As mentioned by other posters all Toledos are Rwd the front wheel drive models with very similar styling were badged 1300 or 1500 but the 1500TC was Rwd go figure! I believe all Toledos were 2 door and all Dolomites 4 door that being the fundamental difference - but that's all paraphrased from 5 minutes of googling when i first saw the car for sale because I'd always believed they were fwd too.
1500TC badge will be going no idea why it's there. The front of the car has completely de badged but the rear badged incorrectly - I can only assume it sported that engine at some point. I'm going to try and track the previous owners as I'd love to know the history of the car it has only had 4 owners in 41 years.
It's quick with sprint engine but if I'm honest not as quick as I expected. I know nothing about these engines but it seems torquey for a 16v and because of that I haven't screamed the nuts off it yet so maybe I haven't hit the power band. Do these have a sweet spot where they come on cam? Time to google for the power and torque curves.
Beer and the hour are catching up with me so rambling over for now.
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As mentioned by other posters all Toledos are Rwd the front wheel drive models with very similar styling were badged 1300 or 1500 but the 1500TC was Rwd go figure! I believe all Toledos were 2 door and all Dolomites 4 door that being the fundamental difference - but that's all paraphrased from 5 minutes of googling when I first saw the car for sale because I'd always believed they were fwd too. Toledo's were both 2 and 4 door, the 2 door variant now being a lot rarer. The Toledo basically is a Dolomite with a shorter rear end, and a few other minor differences. 2 door cars, and maybe early 4 doors had the shorter, non wrap-around bumpers that yours has, which I'm quite jealous of as I really fancy a set! I was also shocked when buying mine, to realise it was rwd when I looked underneath  |
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ChasR
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Sept 6, 2013 11:12:51 GMT
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Just back from Chappell Beer Festival so if this makes no sense you know why! It's quick with sprint engine but if I'm honest not as quick as I expected. I know nothing about these engines but it seems torquey for a 16v and because of that I haven't screamed the nuts off it yet so maybe I haven't hit the power band. Do these have a sweet spot where they come on cam? Time to google for the power and torque curves. Beer and the hour are catching up with me so rambling over for now. I have found that with the Sprints truth be told and I have driven a few. They are swift, but not mega fast as some posters make out  . Saying that though, with some good carbs, distributor, valve clearances and throttle linkages set up right (quite a few I have seen have suffered badly with the latter!) they are not too bad and quite enjoyable but are quite 'meh' without those areaas attended to. Mine certainly was better after attending to a few of those aspects. The gearing of a Sprint however does not help; they are quite tall in their gearing IMO. I would be tempted to try ATF in the dashpots instead of engine oil as well. Mine responded quite well to that has have a few on here (possibly Gav's (Sumpcracker) in addition to Lewis (cheers for the handy tip Lewis  . Yup, I had fun with mine. I hope you do with yours: retrorides.proboards.com/thread/133516 |
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Sept 6, 2013 12:11:47 GMT
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Ah interesting on the dashpots and annoying! I didn't even know what a dashpot was for! I'm a complete carb newbie they're black magic to me! I've had carbed cars before but they were sub £100 disposables and while they worked they weren't touched. Both did more than 10k in 6 months without giving me grief.
One of the old guys at work filled me in and told me you had to put oil in them so I checked and they were empty. Queue me with a 5 litre can of Comma Classic 20w50 trying to fill them up - I was expecting them to take more than a capful or I would have used the cap!! Queue half hour of operation clean up - Doh. Now I find out ATF or even WD40 is better and they both come with built in applicators - curses!
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MrSpeedy
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Sept 6, 2013 17:55:01 GMT
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Lovely looking little Toledo you have there mate.
I really rather fancy one myself.
To echo what Chas said about the daspots, I used to use '3 in 1' oil in the pots on my old Sprintfire. Along with some free flowing air filters, richer needles, 'green' spring (IIRC) and exhaust it really pepped it up a bit
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Sept 6, 2013 18:08:05 GMT
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Nothing usefull to say apart from that is lovely!
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Sept 6, 2013 18:12:06 GMT
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The car triumph should have made.
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Toyota mk3 supra. retro goodness.
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. Saying that though, with some good carbs, distributor, valve clearances and throttle linkages set up right (quite a few I have seen have suffered badly with the latter!) they are not too bad and quite enjoyable but are quite 'meh' without those areaas attended to. Mine certainly was better after attending to a few of those aspects. The gearing of a Sprint however does not help; they are quite tall in their gearing IMO. I would be tempted to try ATF in the dashpots instead of engine oil as well. Mine responded quite well to that has have a few on here (possibly Gav's (Sumpcracker) in addition to Lewis (cheers for the handy tip Lewis 
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