Sold- Herald - ATTN people with dry storage + welding skillz

[tonedepear]

IMAG0589 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

 

As you may recall, the above 1961 Triumph Herald 1200 was entrusted to me by a close friend a while back. My intention being to fettle it a bit and blat about in it and keep it dry in the winter. I got it running, but never got it quite road legal.

 

Now, unfortunately, my planned dry storage space (IE my garage) currently looks like this:

 

IMAG1084 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

 

It was scheduled to be empty and free by the end of August, but obviously that hasn't happened, and rather than see it dissolve on the driveway over the winter, I've decided (upon consultation with it's former keeper) that it would be better to let her go to someone who will be able to get it sorted before it dissolves.

 

It's current condition is thusly:

 

It starts, runs (very well) and moves (it has dead posh lumenition shiz going on). For an MOT it needs 4 patches of welding to the chassis, 1 new tyre (one has a cut in), the brakes freeing off a little, the handbrake sorting (the lever on one side has worn a groove in the back plate behind the drum - I have two replacement hums and backplates with cylinders) and the windscreen washer pump fixing. As the pictures (on flickr) show, the bodywork is pretty ropey, but I was planning to keep it looking externally as rough as possible for shabby-chic lolz. It'd drive onto a trailer (I drove it to Mansfield and back for it's MOT to give it a run) but it's not safe for a drive home really.

 

Here's the rub - ghey though it is - if anyone can give this a decent home and a good chance of not being crushed/recycled, get in touch and we'll sort something out. Only condition would be first refusal if you come to sell/dispose of it. Legally it's mine, but really it "belongs" to the former keeper who is a good friend, and she's had it for years as her daily driver until fairly recently and she doesn't want it scrapped so I'd need a decent degree of reassurance you wouldn't be picking it up and just weighing it in as she'd never forgive me. If you want to give me the scrap value of the car on collection as peace of mind, that would be welcome, although personally I'd prefer that money went to sorting the car. I know it's uber-soft, but there's a lot of sentiment attached to this little canley shit box.

 

So yeah, you get the idea anyway. The car's in Sheffield, get in touch if it might suit you as a winter indoor project.

[tonedepear]

Honestly, no one wants a free herald?

[babydriver]

I have a Herald in bits in my garage otherwise I would, Mines not run since 1992 but had been stored in a wet wooden garage so is very rusty, Have baught a mig to do some welding but as of yet have not had the balls to try yet. Engine is siezed too.

 

Hope yours goes to a good home, I truly wood if I surely could

[M'coli]

I'd love it, but the wife wouldn't! Well, not when I've got other things to do.

[Des]

I wouldn't mind that at all, free to tax, price of 200 fags to insure but nowhere dry to keep it. Hope someone can give it shelter.

[nigel bickle]

I'd have a crack if i was nearer. I've a shed full of Standard Pennant derivatives (its predecessors) so that type of stuff holds no fears for me. I've also got a newly built spacious barn to dry store it in -until I'm ready to go.

 

Sadly ill health (Hopefully short term) & cost effectively precludes me -unless you can think of a way to get it to the south coast .

[theorganist]

I would love and Herald but I think I am about to have my hands full and have no-where dry to keep it!

 

Stupid question but how many hours of welding would you imagine the four patches would need?

[tonedepear]

I'm no welder so I don't rightly know, but the MOT tester seemed to think it'd be dead easy and was pleasantly surprised by the underneath given the way it looks from the outside! (It's had some serious love in the last ten years, it's just the last couple of years it's been let go a bit)

 

I can't think of a way NB, other than leaving it over the winter and then brushing what's left into a jiffy bag and posting it.

[In The Pit]

If I were you id just buy a decent cover for about £70, polish the good bits before putting it on and wait until you finish your car in the garage then pop it in there, having the Herald waiting to go in the garage would be a good incentive to get moving with the one inside. If you pass the car on whos to say the next owner doesn't just leave it standing outside or something worst.

[Guest]

If I were you id just buy a decent cover for about £70, polish the good bits before putting it on and wait until you finish your car in the garage then pop it in there, having the Herald waiting to go in the garage would be a good incentive to get moving with the one inside. If you pass the car on whos to say the next owner doesn't just leave it standing outside or something worst.

 

This is sadly the right answer as this will go to someone who will plate rape it after patching it up and punt it on again cutting you out of the 1st refusal at resale

[Albert Ross]

If I can arrange storage shortly, I might be in touch.

[HillmanImp]

If it can sit outside your house for a bit I am happy popping in one day if I am going past and seeing about doing the welding if you send some pictures? I often bob up and down the M1 when I am out mountain biking so it not difficult for me to pop the stick welder in the boot for the chassis work. Should not take long, although my stick welding skills do need a bit of practice based upon the work I did on my mates truck the other week. However it did pass..... Will be a 'MOT Pass' job as opposed to a caring repair like.

 

Even keeping it outside, the car should not suffer too much as its not going to get covered in salt or owt. As long as its not on the grass? Get a good car cover for £30. It should not rust too badly, or have I underestimated how badly these are built?

 

If i was to take it on in a few weeks when I hopefully will be a couple of cars less, I would just want to MOT it and punt it on at a profit TBH as I am brassic. If it was tarted up a bit, it would be worth an easy £800-£1200 with an MOT I reckon?

 

If its really desperate it has cover, I might be able to wangle a garage for it in Leeds at about £15pm? Depends how many of my cars I get rid of and if i buy anything else to go in it.

[tonedepear]

... wait until you finish your car in the garage then pop it in there, having the Herald waiting to go in the garage would be a good incentive to get moving with the one inside.

 

That would be absolutely the right answer if the car taking up the garage and half the ground floor of my house was mine. But that's a story better suited to the Grumpy thread.

[tonedepear]

Now spoken for, STC.

[autofive]

Now spoken for, STC.

 

good

 

i was very tempted to throw my hat into the ring, but realistically, i have too many projects already

[Cavcraft]

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This.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

It's gone to a good home then?

 

It should not rust too badly, or have I underestimated how badly these are built?

They aren't too bad, it's just when rot sets in on the main chassis rails and around the diff that they go from 'big project' to 'spares car'.

[Albert Ross]

Ah good. I have contacts with the South Yorkshire Triumph mob. One of them in the Sheffield area does like his Winter projects, and might have been able to store, fettle, and return it to you.... but now you're sorted, I shan't ring him to tell him he can't have it! I told a friend who keeps a few GT6's around, has a Herald and a pair of Stags too..... he told me of this chap you see.... and I was going to make the suggestion.

[tonedepear]

It's gone to a good home "in the family". I'll leave it to him should he choose to reveal himself!

 

If it goes pear shaped for any reason, Autoshite denizens will be the first to hear. Thanks all, for help/sugestions/rootling through contacts!