The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

Turd the third eh?

Interesting use of tape on that wing there mate

Great to see you taking onboard yet another Triumph. Best of British with it.

I am pleased to see you enjoying dolomite ownership.

But a lot of people on the forum and the TDC spend a lot of time uplifting the image of our cars
Its your car for you to name, prehaps you might want to rethink how it might come across to others.

call it Richard

geddit.... Richard the Turd

Mike wrote:I am pleased to see you enjoying dolomite ownership.

But a lot of people on the forum and the TDC spend a lot of time uplifting the image of our cars
Its your car for you to name, prehaps you might want to rethink how it might come across to others.

Mike chill a bit, it may have escaped your notice but the car is turd brown (depending apon what you have eaten) so its a fair name.

Other name given to colours
Sandglow...catsick
One of the greens (cant remeber which one).... Baby vomit
French blue.... Bloody french , I wont repeat the rest of this sentence!
And much worse names have been given to cars themselve.

Lord Tolly wrote:call it Richard

geddit.... Richard the Turd

I got it. He's Dick the Sh*t's cousin isn't he?

Mike wrote:.....Its your car for you to name, perhaps you might want to rethink how it might come across to others.

I don't suppose the car's going to last long enough for anyone to get attached to it, maybe that's why the boy gave it an unpleasant name?

It's a shame that was the wing that got damaged as it was the better of the two.

I hope the car can be brought back into use. It's actually in pretty strong shape overall. I certainly enjoyed it for the 6 months or so I owned it.

That should keep you busy for a while. A friend of mine had a 1500 HL during the early 90s in exactly the same shade and interior trim as yours, even had overdrive, except his was on an R-plate.

Looks to be a worthwhile project, good luck with it.

Steve

Looking good I'll be following the restoration.
Can't wait to see how it comes out.
Good look, sad to see it go

Tom

Its your car for you to name, prehaps you might want to rethink how it might come across to others.

I've called my Russet 1850 the flying turd since I got it. I think anyone who has heard me refer to to it that way knows it's because of the colour.

Good on you Maestego for sorting the car out. I'm glad to see you're ignoring the regular swipes.

Those are very good prices and would make your life a whole lot easier. Keep at it!

I love the way the previous owner stuck tape over the damage and then painted it, as if that would make it look any better!!!

Come on, don't start using this one for spare parts as well, or else I bet that'll be another two Dolomites to die for the want of their parts...

R

Wouldn't it just be easier to fix the engine you have in the thing rather than taking another engine out than is as tired as the one you already have? I'm struggling to see what you're doing frankly. You've got multiple cars on the go and no obvious plan.

Come on and pull it together or else they'll be 2 more dead Dolomites.

The problem (as I see it) is that maestego needs an everyday reliable car to get around in. Therefore he takes the shortest route to get his cars moving again by using what he already owns to get one car back on the road for everyday use.

Let's be honest chaps, haven't we all broken up cars to keep our "car" on the road? Whether it's physically buying another car and stripping it for the parts we need, or buying parts on eBay or from someone breaking a car?

It's all the same (in varying degrees of grey). I am afraid.

Alan makes a very fair point there, IMHO.

But it's one thing breaking a car that already has a certificate of destruction, or one that's otherwise unable to be returned to the road. Finding yourself with three dead cars, all of which worked fine when bought, well that's a bit different surely?

It could be pure bad luck, but to refer to another thread for a moment; dismantling a working engine and replacing it in spite of advice from several forum members that would have effected a cure for that engine's troubles wasn't the best way to proceed now, was it?
The o/p needs to start accepting well intentioned advice rather than condemning healthy parts, he'd find that doing so would make the rest of us far more likely to care and he'd probably have two from three of his cars working at any one time.

That right there was constructive criticism, not intended to offend, OK.