The Triumph Dolomite Club - EzBoard Archive

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:14 pm**

This is the response I got after answering a question I received about a Dolomite clock I'm selling on fleabay: 
 
"I will bid on it and hope to be successful (it is for my mark 2 Stag - a more distinguishd beast!.)" 
 
Words fail me. 
 
David

<a href="http://www.triumphowners.com/570" target="top">1980 Sprint</a> 
<a href="http://www.triumphowners.com/569" target="top">1980 1850HL with Sprint gearbox, propshaft and axle</a> 
1972 VW Camper Van

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:21 pm**

Was out at the weekend in Dolly and waved as one does to a passing TR6. I had no response other than a bizzare miserable look from the driver. Obviously courtesy does not come as standard with a TR6 driver. On the subject of Stag driver most do seem to be miserable and to date have had little joy with Spitfire drivers either. It's not as if you wouldn't know my car was a Triumph what with the huge TR7 style laurel on the bonnet with TRIUMPH written underneath it!

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:24 pm**

have had similar instantces - fellow dollies always seem to encourage big waves, as do the TR7's. I've also yet to meet a rude Stag driver, most give a little salute. 
 
However, came across a TR6 driver one day, didn't even seem to know what the car was <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/roll.gif ALT=":rollin">

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:45 pm**

Let him buy it. It won't fit a Stag!!!!!!! 
 
The Dolly one is 60mm. whereas the Stag one is the standard 52mm.

Martin 
 
<a href="http://www.dolomitesprint.com/" target="top">www.dolomitesprint.com</a>

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:47 pm**

Great plan Martin except that I've told him I think it's 52mm and I'll check it tonight! Doh! 
 
David

<a href="http://www.triumphowners.com/570" target="top">1980 Sprint</a> 
<a href="http://www.triumphowners.com/569" target="top">1980 1850HL with Sprint gearbox, propshaft and axle</a> 
1972 VW Camper Van

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:02 pm**

Sorry David, I made the same mistake a while ago. If it's the standard Dolly clock it will be 60mm. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... ohwell.gif ALT=":">

Martin 
 
<a href="http://www.dolomitesprint.com/" target="top">www.dolomitesprint.com</a>

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:18 pm**

I waved at a TR5 driver from my dolly once and he was looking at me as if to say "sorry do I know you" 
 
I think the dolly has next to no recognition from other Triumph drivers, pity really. I may have just made all of this up but I feel that TR7 owners appreciate the dolomite, the big saloon owners look at it as a lesser version of there cars, GT6, spitfire and all the other TR drivers don't really know what a dolomite is and seem to come across as a bit arrogant. Well thats what I can gather from CT 
 
They dont like it when I refer to the, as Club Spitfire <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /laugh.gif ALT=":lol">

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:48 pm**

i have had good resonce (sp<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... rassed.gif ALT=":o"> ) from herald owners, alas there are few about where i live.

Posted: **Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:13 am**

Maybe its cos the tr5/6 handles so badly that the driver needs to keep both gloved hands at 10 to 2 to avoid being someones new garden ornament<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"> 
Justyn

Posted: **Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:23 am**

I had high wall van tyres on the back of my TR6; handled like it was on rails! 
 
Anyway, everyone knows that the series 2 stag is for wannabees and hairdressers, its the series 1 that the distinguished folk drive!(with 3.0L not 3.5L)

Posted: **Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:42 am**

I did think of some witty response (too late) about how a Stag owner only needs a small hole to put his c(l)ock in while a Dolomite owner needs a bigger hole... 
 
David

<a href="http://www.triumphowners.com/570" target="top">1980 Sprint</a> 
<a href="http://www.triumphowners.com/569" target="top">1980 1850HL with Sprint gearbox, propshaft and axle</a> 
1972 VW Camper Van

Posted: **Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:09 pm**

I would have said something along the lines of, "You would have thought that with the Stag being one of the most common Triumphs, it would be easier to pick up the parts!" 
 
I must say, that as founder of the Stagomite club, I would refuse any advances he made toward membership. 
 
And my thought on the whole hand waving thing. Unfortunately, there are a number of snobs out there. I'm sure some TR7 owners get blanked by the other TR owners on some occasions. I was suprised to find a Lotus owner waving at me the other day going up to Conningsby and I was in the TVR! What a nice bunch they are!

Posted: **Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:05 am**

My opinion of a great deal of the Triumph fraternity isn't exactly high. It seems that unless you have a "real" TR (not a 7/<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... lasses.gif ALT="8)"> or a Stag, or at least a concourse mk1 2000 (has to be a pi to really be one of us) then you're not worth the time of day. If you run a battered old Spitfire however you're odd but welcome. You also need bottomless cash reserves so if you do lower yourself to doing any real work on the car you can buy all new and shiny, but the preferred method is to pay that eccentric old chap down the road enough money to clear 3rd world debt and then go for jolly jaunts. 
 
Having said that, this and the 2000 club are somewhat better, I'm thinking more of the Triumphs I see on the roads around here, and a couple of other clubs (both alledgedly all encompassing) who seem to do their best to reinforce the view. 
 
I have found that even my tatty mechanically buggered 2000 seems to get more respect on the road than any of the Dolomites I've had, and one person I know is obsessed with telling me to scrap the 1500 as the 2000 is a far better car. Not that he listens to a word I say about mpg, 0-60 (1500 auto is only .5 seconds slower), nimbleness, like many idiots he only sees big and pretty and completely ignores practicality and feel. Then again he drives a fashion wagon 1600 4x4, says it all really... 
 
/rant

Posted: **Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:02 am**

I've found it varies area to area. 
 
For my area in one of the big Triumph clubs my rustomite gets equal welcome as my GT6 (not concourse by a helluva long way but does look good). In the other big club you seem to need to spend a four figure sum each month to be one of the boys. Very nice very shiny cars but not my bag. 
 
Down near Bristol both clubs were very friendly but not overly practical. Good mix of cars. Kent - might as well call it the 2000 club. 
 
A guy in our area is a bit disparaging of dollies. After a recent accident left him needing an auto he wouldn't give a dolly a first look never mind a second. He's quietened down a bit tho since he got his 2000 auto and struggles to get 250 miles out of his 14 gallon tank. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"> 
I'll stick with my faster, better handling (and OK noisier) saloon that regularly turns in 350 from its 11 gallon tank. 
 
Tinweevil

1978 <a href="http://www.triumphowners.com/704">Dolomite Sprint</a> 
1972 <a href="http://www.triumphowners.com/754">Spitfire IV</a> 
1968 <a href="http://www.triumphowners.com/705">GT6 II</a> 
1973 <a href="http://www.triumphowners.com/755">Dolomite Sprint</a> 
39 anorak points on the Nicholas scale

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