Dolomite Sprint - £32,950.

[B8WLY]

Wow !!

I nearly fell off my chair this afternoon when a Sprint popped into my inbox !

It is in nice condition, but at just under £33,000K I hope it would be.

I think that's the most expensive Sprint I have yet to see advertised. Either the cars are increasing in value or someone may just of pitched this one on the side of bloody expensive.

[tangocharlie1]

Yep pains me to say it but well over priced.

[triumphdolomiteuk]

https://forum.triumphdolomite.co.uk/vie ... 59#p345459
A bit of duplication going on here....

[shaunroche]

Call me picky, but for 33K I'd at least like the coachlines to be applied correctly - I didn't get past the first picture!

[xvivalve]

Call me picky, but for 33K I'd at least like the coachlines to be applied correctly - I didn't get past the first picture!

The coach lines are easily fixed...less so the fit of the bonnet!!!

[tony g]

It has an unleaded head! Thats sold me on it

Tony

[GlenM]

It has ignition coil cooling too! never seen that before.

[Carledo]

Sidelights are the wrong way round too! A sign it was not restored by a Dolomite enthusiast.

More to the point, it's an auto! Yes they are rare as hens teeth with only 63 surviving out of 807 (howmanyleft most recent figures) Sprints altogether. But rarity doesn't make expensive. They are rare because it was an unpopular option when new and is still a VERY niche market today.

I've seen much better cars (VA969 for one) fetch less money than this guy wants, sure we'd all like them to be at Escort Mexico levels (or would we? Only those who already own them, i'm guessing) but this is totally unrealistic.

Practical Classics price guide gives a show standard Sprint as £15,000, that sounds about right (maybe a tad low) to me.

My two pennorth,

Steve

[xvivalve]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, this is one reason why they’ll never fetch Mk1/Mk2 Escort prices, because every time one is advertised with an optimistic price tag, it is talked down on here.

I bet that doesn’t happen on the Ford forum!

A few folk have found out recently that you can’t properly restore a Sprint successfully and cheaply; so if you want one in reasonable fettle, you’ll have to prise it from the current owner and pay accordingly.

Practical Classics price guide has under valued Dolomites for the last 35 years…maybe they look on here for opinion!

[shaunroche]

A few folk have found out recently that you can’t properly restore a Sprint successfully and cheaply; so if you want one in reasonable fettle, you’ll have to prise it from the current owner and pay accordingly.

Agreed Alun - I only intended spending around 10k restoring VA138, but it's easily over 20k now.

Mind, I'd like to think that my sidelights will be the right way round at the end of it!

[B8WLY]

The whole fast Ford scene is rather over rated, and so are the cars.

The RS owners club is not anywhere as good as the Dolomite owners club. No where near as engaging unless you want to attend a thousand shows a year.

I brought a mark2 RS2000 last year. Is it any better than my Sprint, and the answer is simple, NO !!

Dolomite Sprints especially drive as well and perform as well as any mark1 or mark2 escort.

I think it’s just simply the number of people into the Ford scene that keeps prices high.

This is a better forum, and Dolomites are certainly as good as any Ford. They are also priced right for people to enjoy them.

[new to this]

What way should the side lights be ?

Dave

[Carledo]

What way should the side lights be ?

Dave

The sidelight should be outboard and the indicator should be inboard.

The reason being that a Construction and Use regulation forbids the sidelight/obligatory front lamp being more than a prescribed distance from the outermost edge of the car. Reversing the lamps so that the indicator is outboard is more logical but contravenes the sidelight rule.

Fortunately, most members of the constabulary are ignorant of the exact details of the rules and rarely carry a tape measure to check. So largely speaking, you are gonna get away with it indefinitely!

Of course, you can always do what I did and fit the sidelight in the outer headlamp, then you can do what you like with the indicator!

Steve

[new to this]

What way should the side lights be ?

Dave

The sidelight should be outboard and the indicator should be inboard.

The reason being that a Construction and Use regulation forbids the sidelight/obligatory front lamp being more than a prescribed distance from the outermost edge of the car. Reversing the lamps so that the indicator is outboard is more logical but contravenes the sidelight rule.

Fortunately, most members of the constabulary are ignorant of the exact details of the rules and rarely carry a tape measure to check. So largely speaking, you are gonna get away with it indefinitely!

Of course, you can always do what I did and fit the sidelight in the outer headlamp, then you can do what you like with the indicator!

Steve

Thanks Steve

im going to leave the side lights where they are, and put DRL in the headlight

thanks Dave

[10yearsafter]

Just to have a say; Bearing in mind that this car is not original spec. it is being sold through the trade who may have bought it from a restorer that they trust?, so they would have to have a mark up and would have to give a warranty.
Is it worth the asking price? Well that is for the purchaser to decide. Is the spec what they want? Do they have enough knowledge to know what is non original ?
If we think about the cost of any restoration, I for one know what a full rebuild with up grades costs and I would suggest this is not an unreasonable asking price, depending on the work done.

The point about Fords is well made as is the fact that moaning about high prices does not do the marque any good. If you have the skill and the knowledge to do the work good luck but it does not mean that you have to give the end result away for less than cost!

There are people out there who do not have the skills but want one of our cars and they have the means.

There are club members out there who do have all the skills and specialist Knowledge and they deserve a fair return and if they can find a buyer with deep pockets It probably means that they can find another basket case that they can save, which has to be good. I speak as someone who made the dubious decision of having some of the work done by a company who outwardly seemed excellent but did not have the specialist Knowledge which slowed the process down,so much so that they lost interest and that has cost me time and money to check their work and to have it put right.
Bob