anyone owned a herald?
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WildfireS3 said:
I'll have a word with my father, Phill. He helped a mate do up quite a few Triumphs back in the day.
But what you want is one of these:
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>> Edited by WildfireS3 on Friday 24th September 14:42
cheers chris - see my post to ben though. I dont want to "get into" classics, I just thought a herald would be nice to cruise around in and cost about a grand for the priviledge.
MikeyT said:
Alternatively, how about a Sunbeam Tiger
Oh
But 20k probably
£20k? really, I was expecting to be more like £12k.
Lovely cars and sound the balls. However, I am thinking cheap as chips ways to have roof down classic fun. They dont seem to come much cheaper than a herald. £1200 buys a tidy looking 38k miler from new on autotrader.
Some on here, including a Vitesse model. In need of some care & attention.
www.universal-salvage.com/classiccars.asp
www.universal-salvage.com/classiccars.asp
Mate, just get a Herald or Vitesse saloon for £not-many-hundred and unbolt the roof
Certainly no need to spend a bag of sand on one
loads here including this one
>> Edited by Incorrigible on Friday 24th September 15:01
Certainly no need to spend a bag of sand on one
loads here including this one
>> Edited by Incorrigible on Friday 24th September 15:01
Incorrigible said:
Mate, just get a Herald or Vitesse saloon for £not-many-hundred and unbolt the roof
Certainly no need to spend a bag of sand on one
loads here including this one
>> Edited by Incorrigible on Friday 24th September 15:01
dont really want a full on restoration project I must say.
http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www/cars_search.asp?page=1&modelexact=1&lid=search_used_cars_full&make=TRIUMPH&model=ANY&min_pr=75&max_pr=&postcode=so19+9ta&miles=1500&max_records=150&source=0&sort=3
check out the one fourth down - 37k from new and £1200 would probably secure it!
The Wiz said:Exactly as flexible as the convertable worryingly, they did put an extra catch on the doors, to virtualy no effect
Mate, just get a Herald or Vitesse saloon for £not-many-hundred and unbolt the roof
Weld some scafold bars in, it'll be fine
Shnozz,
Sorry mate couldn't be arsed to trawl through and find one with 12 months ticket, but I'm sure they're out there
Well I owned a couple a few years back - my first and second cars were Heralds as it happens. They've only got about 6 moving parts and they are a piece of proverbial to work on. Watch out for rust in the chassis - outriggers obviously plus at the area just behind the diff. You would probably find them very low geared, I would rarely go over 60 mph in mine - my future wife went a lot faster in her 948cc jobbie though! But the floor rotted away in hers. I remember doing a clutch swap in about an hour - really easy because the tunnel comes out and you can squat on the floor to do it.
It would make a good runaround classic IMHO.
It would make a good runaround classic IMHO.
Incorrigible said:
Sorry mate couldn't be arsed to trawl through and find one with 12 months ticket, but I'm sure they're out there
apologies mate, wasnt meaning to sound dismissive, just wondered if the £250 example on ebay was indicative of the general "restoration project" heralds at that sort of price range.
Will get in touch if i do go with the idea.
shnozz said:Hardly concrete I know, but I reckon you could get one with a years ticket for 5-7 hundred
apologies mate, wasnt meaning to sound dismissive, just wondered if the £250 example on ebay was indicative of the general "restoration project" heralds at that sort of price range.
Up to you of course, but given the remit for it's use I would say there is no justification for the maintenance costs of a good one
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