The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

Sprint restoration now complete a lot of hard work and money spent to get there but pleased with the result.
Just to finish it off a set of Rover 45 seats fitted, gives that extra modern day drive feeling.

Looks lovely

Are the Rover seats an easy swap or is there a lot of alterations to make?

Cheers

Tony

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Gorgeous colour! Well done.

David

Tony, it has been done before. The rear seats are just wedged in. It is such a tight fit that they just stay in place. Rover 45 seats are on my wish list. With those seats and the walnut veneer it reminds me of the Panther Rio.

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Meetings take place on the first Wednesday of the month at 8.00pm at The Old Brickworks, Wakefield Road, Drighlington, Bradford, BD11 1EA

1972 Dolomite 1850 auto (NYE 751L - Now for sale)
2003 Volvo XC90 D5 SE (PX53 OVZ - The daily driver)
2009 Mercedes-Benz W204 C200 CDI Sport (BJ58 NCV - The 2nd car)
1991 Toyota Celica GT (J481 ONB - another project car)
Former stable of SAY 414M (1974 Toledo), GRH 244D (1966 1300fwd), CDB 324L (1973 1500fwd), GGN 573J (1971 1500fwd), DCP 625S (1977 Dolomite 1300) & LCG 367N (1975 Dolomite Sprint) plus 5 Acclaims and that's just the Triumphs!

Check my blog at http://triumphtoledo.blogspot.com
My YouTube Channel with a bit of Dolomite content.

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That looks absolutely fabulous Keith. To some people Magenta is a marmite colour but in my view one of the best. Simply stunning.

Love it!

Yes Ive searched and found some good info on here. Cheers

Keith you have PM

Tony

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Just to add a few more pointers to the information available to fit the Rover 45 interior:
1) There is a base plate that is part of the rear seat set up on the rover, make sure you get this also as it can be modified to fit over the dolomite drive train tunnel, bolted to the floor with spacers and provides the anchor point to fit the base seat.
2) The upper part of the back seat can be wedged in and I used a couple of anchor bolts through the dolomite X brace to keep it all in place.
3) Remove all the rails and brackets from the rover front seats and connect the dolomite runners trying to be as close to the bottom of the rover seats as possible with new brackets as required. I don't feel the height of the Rover seats fitted is much different from original if completed this way.

I think they look great.

From my experience of fitting them & being 6'2" where they are firmer than the original seats I found that may head was nearly touching the headlining.

I was really disappointed to have to take them out after all the work of converting them.

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Modified Dolomite Sprint MSO 662P VA485 1973 Mimosa Sprint

Oh feck! I'm the same height as you Tony. I'll just have to stick with the normal seats.

By the way, that Sprint looks absolutely gorgeous. A testament to all your hard work and expenditure.

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Toledo Man

West Yorkshire Area Organiser & forum moderator
Meetings take place on the first Wednesday of the month at 8.00pm at The Old Brickworks, Wakefield Road, Drighlington, Bradford, BD11 1EA

1972 Dolomite 1850 auto (NYE 751L - Now for sale)
2003 Volvo XC90 D5 SE (PX53 OVZ - The daily driver)
2009 Mercedes-Benz W204 C200 CDI Sport (BJ58 NCV - The 2nd car)
1991 Toyota Celica GT (J481 ONB - another project car)
Former stable of SAY 414M (1974 Toledo), GRH 244D (1966 1300fwd), CDB 324L (1973 1500fwd), GGN 573J (1971 1500fwd), DCP 625S (1977 Dolomite 1300) & LCG 367N (1975 Dolomite Sprint) plus 5 Acclaims and that's just the Triumphs!

Check my blog at http://triumphtoledo.blogspot.com
My YouTube Channel with a bit of Dolomite content.

"There is only one way to avoid criticsm: Do nothing, say nothing and BE nothing." Aristotle

Beautiful job!

Magenta is one of the rarest colour's isn't it?

Is there another Sprint colour rarer?

The car looks incredible without a doubt.

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Do you still have your seats Tony?

Tony

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Nope sold them to Hobo I guess they were lost in the fire with the rest of his collection.

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Modified Dolomite Sprint MSO 662P VA485 1973 Mimosa Sprint

Stunning !!! I'm biased over the colour though.

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Trevor

75 Sprint in Magenta called GunGaDiN GGD944N
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