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Dolly sprint road test clip.

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Never seen this clip before with Tony Bastable ( of later magpie fame ) and the sprint is a early magenta :D :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C275VY9AQsM
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Great find ,only put on youtube yesterday unfortunately not around anymore, £1800 too at that price i'll have three ;)
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Paint finish on a new review car is a bit iffy! Good video, shame they did not show the lower steering column bush though... :P
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Great video thanks for the link. That sprint looked like it was jacked up was riding very high.
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#5 Post by Ministrone »

Great video, thanks for posting the link.
That led me to other video road tests in the series. The fashions in the Fiat coupe test are a favourite as is the guy thrashing the X19 across rough ground.

I wish the BBC would release some of the very early Top Gear or Wheelbase road tests.
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Galileo wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 9:56 am Paint finish on a new review car is a bit iffy! Good video, shame they did not show the lower steering column bush though... :P
:lol: :lol: :lol: back on the steering bush :lol: :lol: :lol:
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NO! not the lower steering column bush. ](*,)
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Sorry I'm out. Found myself another bush.

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soe8m wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 1:12 pm Sorry I'm out. Found myself another bush.

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mahony wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 4:17 am Never seen this clip before with Tony Bastable ( of later magpie fame ) and the sprint is a early magenta :D :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C275VY9AQsM
Brilliant clip find, thanks for sharing. Even the Thames intro music brought back memories.
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GTS290N wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 8:37 pm
mahony wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 4:17 am Never seen this clip before with Tony Bastable ( of later magpie fame ) and the sprint is a early magenta :D :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C275VY9AQsM
Brilliant clip find, thanks for sharing. Even the Thames intro music brought back memories.
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#13 Post by Slowmo »

I remember this programme with fond memories. I used to work in Thames TV outside broadcasts, and we shot all of the Drive-in programmes, Tony Bastable, Shaw Taylor etc.

This sequence was shot at the MVEE ( military vehicles engineering establishment) track at Longcross, near Chertsey in Surrey, now closed and built upon.

Not long after that in 1975 I bought an early Mimosa Sprint, and the happy memories stayed with me until I bought my present Inca Sprint in 2017.

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Slowmo wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 11:54 pm I remember this programme with fond memories. I used to work in Thames TV outside broadcasts, and we shot all of the Drive-in programmes, Tony Bastable, Shaw Taylor etc.

This sequence was shot at the MVEE ( military vehicles engineering establishment) track at Longcross, near Chertsey in Surrey, now closed and built upon.

Not long after that in 1975 I bought an early Mimosa Sprint, and the happy memories stayed with me until I bought my present Inca Sprint in 2017.

Peter.
Brilliant fill in, thank you!

That's just the sort of anecdote (expanded on a bit obviously) that IMO would be great for the TDC magazine.
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#15 Post by MagentaSprint »

Yes as others have said, brilliant bit of video and thanks for posting.......Big bonus is also that it's in by far the BEST Sprint colour ever 8) 8) 8) :P

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