The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

I can add one other category to the list:-

The most peculiar seller you encountered!!

Hi Graham,

Sorry I'm a bit late to respond on this.

The one in your original post is an exact replica of the one on my early 73 car VA369.

Len

RTC9006 MAY 1973

I have one, NOS still boxed, it didn't work at all the one time I tried it in a Sprint.


Oddly enough, I had that with one I got from somewhere. Also, I went out for a bit today and had to keep kicking myself for thinking how well it went.

Personally, I hope the Distributor Doctor's ...

Hi Alun,

I can do the stamping, yes, but I’m not that practiced!

That should be spot on then, my original BL one was all over the place

Bloody Hell, my simple post to alert fellow originality freaks seems to have started World War 3.

RTC9006B September 1975 has the tandem brakes in it. Sprint only

Just because i've got a few years under my belt, doesn't mean I have to slow down, quite the reverse! The older I get, the more I realize I don't have time to waste dawdling around.

In the real world ( Non Triumph ) I'm just the same as you, trying my best to grow old disgracefully. A few months ...

Ian at Crucial Automatics in Titchfield has worked on my Sprint and TR6, not cheap but very good. Worth a phone call.

Hi Steve,

All excellent and valid points, I expect no less from you, but I'm afraid me and MikeyB have an incurable condition called acute originality syndrome which I'm reliably informed is beyond hope.

Also as I'm 71 the odds are I'll be dead and well and truly buried before my new set of ...

This might be old news but I've just come off the phone to Vintage Tyres at Beaulieu.

The OE tyre 175/70 13 is now available again for the Sprint at £124 + VAT, H rated, they are now made in the UK as opposed to New Zealand where mine came from.

They may not be the best tyre these days but for ...

Ordered one of Martin's condensers, £6.95, made to his own specification.

Thanks Steve.

I've ordered some Lucas points on an orange card that says 54423769 / CS8 , hopefully better quality rather than the current green boxed Lucas ones.

If people prefer points and condensor rather than electronics (other than show cars perhaps) then why not try an external condensor? It's just a capacitor - albeit it has to withstand a high voltage - surely there are options out there?


I'm going to try Martin Jay (Distributor Doctor ) He makes ...

Electronic ignition is not an option for Len I'm afraid.

You know me too well Chris !!!!