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28 Jan 2003, 08:52 (Ref:488104) | #1 | ||
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Pukekohe Racing Triumph's
Thought you might like to see some rust free Triumph's
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28 Jan 2003, 08:54 (Ref:488109) | #2 | ||
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Driver Kevin Baker
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28 Jan 2003, 08:56 (Ref:488113) | #3 | ||
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Driver Tony Kay
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28 Jan 2003, 10:07 (Ref:488150) | #4 | ||
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As the ex-owner of a Triumph Toledo, I can confirm that they're actually not all that rust-prone. Certainly better than a lot of cars of their era. But I've never seen a racing one before - discounting the one James Hunt entered once for a charity demolition derby. Poor little thing didn't last very long in that environment.
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28 Jan 2003, 10:22 (Ref:488152) | #5 | |||
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Holy Toledo!!
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Looks like the Historic racing scene is alive and well in NZ or are sone of these dated. Anywho, thanks for the great images BTW what is a Toledo? Looks like a Dolomite of which we have several still racing over here...... |
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28 Jan 2003, 11:45 (Ref:488219) | #6 | ||
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Tollys are very similar to Dolomites, but are smaller - shorter-wheelbase, and had smaller boots and a two-door option. They carried 1300cc engines, whereas the Dolomite Sprints which raced so successfully are 1850cc, and the front-end styling was different (2 square headlamps as opposed to the Dolly's 4 round ones). The very last Toledos were actually badged Dolomite 1300s, I believe.
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4 Feb 2003, 22:28 (Ref:496688) | #7 | ||
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Hi,
If memory serves correct the racing Sprints had a 2 litre engine. Dolomites on the road had 1300, 1500, 1850 or the 16valve 2 litre of the Sprint. I had a 1500 many years ago and it was a great car. (Shared it's twin carb engine with the last Spitfires and Midgets.) Screech. |
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5 Feb 2003, 18:36 (Ref:497542) | #8 | ||
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Just for reference...here's mine at Snetterton
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5 Feb 2003, 18:43 (Ref:497556) | #9 | ||
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OK I'll try again!
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5 Feb 2003, 22:22 (Ref:497814) | #10 | ||
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We're forgetting the front wheel drive 1300TC... which shared the RWD Toledo's body shell, if I remember right.
Screech. |
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5 Feb 2003, 22:54 (Ref:497882) | #11 | ||
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I'm trying very hard to forget the 1300TC - I had one, and when the clutch went, it was an economic write-off!
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6 Feb 2003, 06:46 (Ref:498110) | #12 | |||
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Very Nice Machine
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If there are any Marshals reading this, is there anything locking that tyre barrier together behind the car?? How are they normally constructed in the UK? Over here they are usually chained together through holes drilled in the sidewalls of the tyres or protected from seperating by a large barrier of rubber... Last edited by 275 GTB-4; 6 Feb 2003 at 06:47. |
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6 Feb 2003, 18:29 (Ref:498732) | #13 | ||
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Well, I can't post a picture of my old Dolomite as it was never raced, but here is on that did. Photographed by me at a Sprint owners club gathering in 1988.
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6 Feb 2003, 18:32 (Ref:498737) | #14 | ||
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And here's a rally car spotted at the 1987 gathering. The signs to the field all said "S.O.D.I.T." but I can't remember what on earth the "IT" stood for! Sprint Owners Day.... something. I guess it was just funny?
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6 Feb 2003, 18:34 (Ref:498740) | #15 | ||
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At the 1986 gathering (sorry: I'm going backwards in time ) was this Sprint engined Formula 3 car.
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6 Feb 2003, 18:36 (Ref:498742) | #16 | ||
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Here's the engine to prove it!
Well... that's my photo albums exhausted. Screech. |
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Re: Very Nice Machine
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7 Feb 2003, 09:06 (Ref:499176) | #18 | |||
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7 Feb 2003, 09:39 (Ref:499190) | #19 | ||
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Don't forget Kiwi Brett Riley drove with Mansell in the March team too!.Thats a March 783 isnt it so it must have been '78?.
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7 Feb 2003, 11:27 (Ref:499281) | #20 | ||
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There you go, I knew someone would know. I'm not sure about Devaney now, but found Ken Eady (UK) listed as a driver in 78 also.
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7 Feb 2003, 11:30 (Ref:499285) | #21 | ||
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Hard on it on the exit of Riches at Snetterton?
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7 Feb 2003, 11:32 (Ref:499287) | #22 | ||
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...and then hard off it at Oulton!
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7 Feb 2003, 12:32 (Ref:499352) | #23 | |
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Chris - your first image above, the one the right side up, I think is the exit of the chicane an Thruxton. Quick laps always involved the use of the cross road tarmac seen on the right of the F3. I think ...
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7 Feb 2003, 12:46 (Ref:499373) | #24 | ||
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Could well be QFM. It was the distant fields that made me think it was Riches. Fairly similar vista I guess.
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7 Feb 2003, 12:56 (Ref:499391) | #25 | ||
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Come to think of it, You'd have to be either a very brave or very stupid photographer to take a shot from there at Snett!!
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