Toledo TS

[dollyboy]

does anyone know what one of these is/was?<br>
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pics would be nice if poss...<br>
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[davepoth]

IIRC it was an almost produced hot toledo, 3 door, with a race spitfire engine, for use in rallying.

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[Stan Part]

It was a 2 door 1500 (spitfire) engined car, black grill, Sprint coachlines, think it had more dials, colours were to be the bright sports cars colours, vinyl roof. Never went into production yet one is thought to have existed (see Sprint in Print Volume 4).<br>
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Though never went into production, plenty of boot badges were produced and parts books - often come up at autojumbles and ebay, everyone things they are worth a fortune but never are.<br>
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TS stood for "Touring Sport" (talked to an ex BL man who designed the badges - now works for Jag).<br>
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Production car designed for everyday road use.

<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p206.ezboard.com/bthetriumphdolo ... crome>Alan Crome</A> at: 7/9/06 3:36 pm<br></i>

[Stan Part]

oh, just remembered it had the Marina style gearbox and the boot panel was painted black.<br>
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would be nice to reproduce one from a two door, the only problem would be obtaining the unique nose badge (similar in style to the Dolomite 135 one - never seen one yet, other than in the parts book).<br>
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[dollyboy]

ok, cool, thanks alan.<br>
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I can get a TS badge, and my trolly will be a bit hotter than that, although 4 door unfortunately...<br>
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something for the anoraks to pick up on I guess...<br>
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<p>project orange - gradual progress<br>
project STEALTH - PASS!!! <br>
project white - AAARGGGHHH!!! too many cars!!!</p><i></i>

[Toledo Man]

This would be a good project for my Toledo. It had Jod's 1500 lump in it at one time. I should have kept it in there and done the TS but I didn't know about it back then. I've been looking through the parts catalogue and not only did it have the 1500 twin-carb lump, it kept the square headlights, had the same flat dash (with the extra dials) and a vinyl roof.

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1974 Toledo 2-door (currently a spares car for Snowdrop)<br>
1973 1500fwd (Baby Blue slowly being recommissioned)<br>
1971 1500fwd (spares car for Baby Blue & future donor for the "Stretch 1500" project)<br>
1983 Acclaim HL (Becky, my daily driver)<br>
1977 Dolomite 1300 (Snowdrop my other road going Triumph)</p><i></i>

[dollyboy]

cool, shame the 2 door is a donor. there's been a few reasonable 2 doors on n off the bay, mines a 4 door, but i dont think it matters too much.<br>
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my plan for the trolly would be similar to the TS, except i'm gona remake the dash from ally or carbon look stuff, add all sprint dials, modernise the interior, black grilles with inset spots, sprint wheels, lowered, fat zorst and use my spare standard sprint lump to power it, so the S can stand for sprint.<br>
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I bet the sticker man who did the SE stripes could swap the SE for TS, could do the car in silver with black 'TS' stripes and blue hue in the lacquer. that would look the dogs...<br>
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<p>project orange - gradual progress<br>
project STEALTH - PASS!!! <br>
project white - AAARGGGHHH!!! too many cars!!!</p><i></i>

[Carsreunited]

I hadn't realised it until now Kev, but there is an 18 year old lad trapped inside you trying to get out!<br>
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Go for it, will be different than most and it least it has a semi-history to fall back on.<br>
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[2F45T4U]

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[dollyboy]

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yep... its the dormant boy racer that has been subdued for years of driving company cars, and now theres a bit more £ going in the pot, along with a bit more know-how to do a 'proper' job, i just reckon it'd be rude not to<br>
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<p>project orange - gradual progress<br>
project STEALTH - PASS!!! <br>
project white - AAARGGGHHH!!! too many cars!!!</p><i></i>

[1300mash]

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[dollyboy]

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<p>project orange - gradual progress<br>
project STEALTH - PASS!!! <br>
project white - AAARGGGHHH!!! too many cars!!!</p><i></i>

[davepoth]

Mr. Mash, that's mental. Gives a good idea exactly how close they were to building the thing though. Do you own that book?

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[dollyboy]

if anyone's interested see ebay items...<br>
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project STEALTH - PASS!!! <br>
project white - AAARGGGHHH!!! too many cars!!!</p><i></i>

[1300mash]

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Yes, I've got one of the badges too, as Alan C says, there's quite a few of both kicking around. They must have stopped it at literally the eleventh hour.<br>
I've always thought it a very easy project for someone to try, it would look nice in Mimosa or Pimento.<br>
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<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p206.ezboard.com/bthetriumphdolo ... 300mash</A> at: 8/9/06 11:40 pm<br></i>