The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

Never lost it Nick!

SD had a lovely day out today and went disguised as a wedding car.

It was my very good friend's wedding and I had promised her that she could have the use of SD for the day if she wanted. She likes her older cars, having owned a matt black Beetle a few years ago.

SD was bedecked with ribbons and other frippery this morning and she got loads of admiring comments and looks. The number of people walking down the High Street in Hackney who I heard say...... "Oooh, a Triumph, my Mum/Dad/I used to have one of those".

Most folk ignorned the RR that was there and I got a very slight nod from an open topped MG driver. It was very slight though.

Lovely day, lovely occasion and SD behaved faultlessly. Nice!

Sadly I had no camera to use but when I get some pics I will post them on here.

Purplebargeken wrote: when I get some pics I will post them on here.

Yes please.

Purplebargeken wrote:and I got a very slight nod from an open topped MG driver. It was very slight though.

I think that's all you can hope for from an MG so top marks Ken. Much like a TR driver who waved back at me the other day, you really could see his concious brain catch up with the automatic reaction and snatch the hand back down.

Can't wait to see what the reactions will be when the Daf is on the road!

Yes I got a wave from an MGB owner yesterday, I think that is the first time ever in all my years of Dolomite ownership.

...maybe the sun was in his eyes?

I rarely get a wave when in in an MG

Stan Part wrote:Yes I got a wave from an MGB owner yesterday, I think that is the first time ever in all my years of Dolomite ownership.

...maybe the sun was in his eyes?

If it was that weird limey-yellow colour on silver/grey minilites, it could well have been my friend Greg, he's down in your part of the world (ish). Definitely not one of the bobble hat brigade.

Purplebargeken wrote: I got a very slight nod from an open topped MG driver. It was very slight though.

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He was probably trying to hide his shame at the knowlegde that he was driving the inferior car.

We saw two MG's pull into the pub car park on Saturaday, no one took any notice as everyones attention was on the big red bus and the two 1945 Jags

Purplebargeken wrote:Most folk ignorned the RR that was there and I got a very slight nod from an open topped MG driver. It was very slight though.

It could have been a medical condition? Although it is quite unusual for an MG owner to have discovered how to put the roof down.
I drove down to my Dad's on Sunday and came back with a trailer full of logs. There was a car show at Thirlstain Castle and I passed several cars on the way home. I flashed and waved at three Dolomite/Toledo drivers. They must have wondered why the guy in a Honda towing a trailer of logs was flashing!

A little wedding car piccie.

Very nice, makes a very decent change from the traditional stretch limo.

Hate those stretch limo things, so pointless.

SD had a really positive response from all concerned.

Purplebargeken wrote:Hate those stretch limo things, so pointless.

SD had a really positive response from all concerned.

limo's in my option are just extra long cut and shuts

Purplebargeken wrote:Hate those stretch limo things, so pointless.

SD had a really positive response from all concerned.

Quite right too, after all; anyone can have a stretched limo that crabs so badly you'd think it had spent a night in Cheryl Tweedy's bed. Proper cars are for proper people. Did that sound really snobbish? Sorry.

Lord Tolly wrote:....limo's in my option are just extra long cut and shuts

You'd be safer in a proper cut & shut than in a floppy, misaligned limo. As for parking one of those ridiculous things; well, forget it. You think that brides are being "fashionably" late by getting the limo driver to run around the block a few times prior to stopping at the venue?
Think again! What's actually going on there is that the driver can't find anywhere to park and, even if he could, there's no guaranteeing that the brakes would work, what with the pipes that should run to the back brakes having been cut short and plugged off.
Bloody deathtraps.