Bolly Dolly - Now boringly reliable - snoooooooooze

[Noel Tidybeard]

In terms of farty gas flows and all that, there isn't a lot wrong with the air intake side of a Sprint, as I (don't) understand it, but the exhaust side is, I gather, a bit limited, I presume by the space available (the engine is canted over, and leaves not much room for fancy-ass exhaust fandangos).  My car has some allegedly swanky customised exhaust, but whether this is anything other than some drainpipes glued together by a shed-bloke I am not sure. 

 

I occasionally try to understand how cars actually work, but after a few minutes of reading, my head goes wibble and explodes, so I still assume that it's all something to do with tiny badgers that live in the cylinders.

 

a friend years ago had a dollopofshite sprint and he said the head was left fairly rough to limit the powah because OMGPUBLIC and if polished and port thay could be quite fruity

[Guest Breadvan72]

That Mr Skizzer came over to do some product placement related Woollardage:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

 

[Skizzer]

That nice Mr Breadman let me do hooning in the newly-fettled Yellowmite. This was partly for fun and partly because he'd parked across three disabled bays at Princes Rizzbra station so we had to do a swift Bodie'n'Doyle getaway from various retired colonel types armed with silver-topped canes and UKIP pamphlets.

 

Yellowmite is utterly ace - the engine is taut and revvy and the car feels really well-balanced and chuckable, perhaps partly because it's so narrow even by 1970s exec standards. Only some slightly tired steering bushes and an occasional exhaust clonk detract a little from the road surface feedback, and they're on the list for attention.

 

Plus it looks gorgeous.

 

More photos - BV recommends Castrol Valvemaster too:

 

 

Check out the underbonnet view - I love the Leyland oil cap and the Triumph logo on the rocker cover:

 

 

Then we had tea and I drove off into the sunset in the Granada.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Skizzer has the DRIVAN SKILLZ YO, but I girled out and had a cry while he was halfway through stomping a corner that I always cock up.  I am glad, however, that he liked my parking.

 

Being victims of marketing hype, we went for the Valvemaster Plus, which is probably just more expensive snake oil.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Mrs BV also had a go in the car, and quite likes it, because SMOLL, although she has taken to doing that Diana Cooper never smile in photos thing - 

 

 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

A customer of my Dad's called Mr Anger (really) had a yellow `Sprint in the mid eighties - think he resided in Berks/Oxon. 

 

Ray Doile drove a Pageantblau ~TR7 in the Proffs, Bodie was the Dolly pilot.

[Guest Breadvan72]

That is indeed true, and I get 70s cozzer TV PHAIL points for misremembering who had what.

[phminiman]

Reading this makes me sad and happy in equal measures. I posted up my favourite Dolly pic on your thread on PH

 

 

Sold a few years ago due to a somewhat enforced period of nil earning capacity. On the plus side, it went to the chap who owned it in 1975 who has subsequently spaffed a metric fuck ton on a full restoration with a rolling road of 150hp. Perhaps he'll give me first dibs on reprocuring. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Chod spottagements achieved!

 

The MG is a daily driver owned by some bloke.

 

The Scimitar is owned by a v pleasant father and son combo who have six Scimitars, three Minis, two Rangey Classics, two Landies, two Discos, a kit car, a Ford truck, an Alvis, and so on.  

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Impressive in-depth knowledge of ladiez haberdashery BV; are you free?

 

The ability to be a lady's straight GBF and personal shopper is a very useful one.  In another life, I should probably have been a shoe designer.  As it is, I am one of the rare men that actually enjoys going shopping for clothes, shoes and handbags with women, and this has proved to be quite a good thing in times when I have been single and wishing to be less single. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Reading this makes me sad and happy in equal measures. I posted up my favourite Dolly pic on your thread on PH

 

 

Sold a few years ago due to a somewhat enforced period of nil earning capacity. On the plus side, it went to the chap who owned it in 1975 who has subsequently spaffed a metric fuck ton on a full restoration with a rolling road of 150hp. Perhaps he'll give me first dibs on reprocuring. 

 

 

Welcome to AS, chap!  Fabby car, buy it back!

[phminiman]

Welcome to AS, chap!  Fabby car, buy it back!

I don't think he'll let me but I have asked for first dibs if he ever sells. 

[Guest Hooli]

I used to use valvemaster in my MG, the 'plus' was better & did reduce pinkage.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Like a sad Barry and hapless mug punter consumer wazzock, I have been buying any old random tat off the internet.   I am reliably* informed that this new cig lighter will make the car at least 10 mph faster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

Like a sad Barry and hapless mug punter consumer wazzock, I have been buying any old random tat off the internet.   I am reliably* informed that this new cig lighter will make the car at least 10 mph faster.

 

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but that is negated by the 5mph that the shite stereo takes off

[Guest Breadvan72]

The stereo is horrid.  It came with the car, and I still haven't been arsed to change it.  It is especially terrible at night, because of the blinding blue light that it shines for miles around.  A friend is sending me a plain looking Blaupunkt to replace the current tacky boom box.

 

The bangin choonze sound OK.  Today I was switching between the Sex Pistols and Fleetwood Mac, so all proper mid to late seventies stuff.

[robinmasters]

Negatory!  Ray Doyle drove a white Dolomite Sprint in the first series of The Professionals  (later he drove Capris and Escorts), but in the New Cheesevengers Mike Gambit drove an XJ-S whenever not trying but failing to get into Purdey's knickaz.  Those were probably La Perla, BTW.  The flouncy frocks were by Chloe and the strappy heels (ace for kicking bad guys in the chin and nadgers) were Cavalli, IIRC.

If you can point me in the direction of Purdey's used knickaz/flonucy frocks/strappy heels, please pm me. Quite happy to donate to a gurkha charity if required, but will not endorse Gareth Hunt in any way.

[Guest Breadvan72]

[somewhatfoolish]

Sprint fag lighters? I want a Herald cup holder and a Vitesse map reading light.

[Guest Breadvan72]

My daughter papped this Jaaaaag from the Dolly on the M40 yesterday.  He was hooning so fast and/or his engine is so knackered that his car threw a thin mist of oil onto my windscreen.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

[JeeExEll]

 

Any brown booze for t'baby?

[4wheeledstool]

You can't give a baby booze!

[Guest Hooli]

Why not? it helps them sleep.

[greengartside]

That is one tasty looking Dolly, BV.

 

I have always had a soft spot for the Sprints - it all started when I saw the one that was (and still is) at the Haynes Museum in Somerset.

 

 

I've always said that if I ever came into some money then I'd be making serious enquiries about the purchase of that one. 22k from new and totally timewarp and unrestored condition.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Yesterday, the Dolly drove over 500 miles in one day.  We went to Devon, and then back again. Why?  That's a secret, that's why, but it may not be a secret for all that long.

 

The car behaved very well, and went like the clappers.  It popped one of its two fuses (there are only two for the whole shebang) five minutes from home, but otherwise performed lustily.   Few classic cars were seen.  The best spots were an orange Renault 4 of great grooviness on the M4, a swankificated Rover at a pezzer, and a couple of non GTi 205s. Lots of stanced and cambered and Barried all to fook rice rockets and Bimmers.  Presumably there was a Dickhead Show on somewhere, although to be fair one of the Barried Hondas did give us a mic drop, which I took to be a sign of approval. 

 

We were mucho papped on the motorway by families in X5s and Disco 4s.  I got some pleasant smiles from some of the Milfs therein, but Mrs BV said "Oi! Watch the road!".

 

Music choices: bangin' 70s grooves CD on the way down.   A bit of the Zoe Showy and then R3 "Eugene Onegin" live from the Met on the way back. 

 

 

 

 

[conkerman]

I love that shabby beige scimitar in Thame. Lovely to hear that the sprint is sprinting properly.

 

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[anonymous user]

That secret Devon trip, hopefully involved viewing/purchasing a Sherpa campervan, if not you have failed us all.

[Guest Breadvan72]

You might think that, but I could not possibly comment.

 

Meanwhile, I do not believe in Drive it Day, as every day should be drive it day, but here are some photos from today, including Mrs BV doing a Joan Didion.   PS - the oil is not from the Dolly.  It's from my Rover SD1!

 

 

 

 

[JeeExEll]

Dolly mixture.