Some of you may have read my description of this car in readers rides.
It's a modified Herald convertible with a Spitfire engine, overdrive gearbox and Bond Equipe twin headlight fibreglass bonnet.
It started life as a 1964 Herald 1200 saloon owned by a friend of mine who built it as it now is as his fun car for a couple of summers. He fitted the new engine and did the overdrive conversion, then modified the rear tub with a convertible deck from a Vitesse and fitted a Bond fibreglass bonnet. Unusually for a Herald, he also fitted a towbar because he also collects those weird little '60s folding caravans. Most of you are probably aware that the Herald series of cars have a separate chassis so the body panels are not structural and such body conversions are relatively common.
As a pre-65 car not only is it tax exempt but also seatbelt exempt.
No Herald is what you'd call fast
But this one is faster than a stock Herald 1200 and happily keeps up with modern traffic.
I ran it for a summer and then had neither the time or the money to put it back on the road. I started to bodge up the bodywork (Yet again, not structural ) but didnt do much more.
OK, the bad news. It's got no MOT.
Aside from the usual brake fettling, wipers etc you'd expect from a project like this it will need a new chassis outrigger or the old one reparing.
One of these:
www.canleyclassics.com/catalogue_findapart.asp?partnumber=208893
As far as I know the rest of the chassis is in one piece.
The rear body is tatty but most of the bad bits I've bodged with mesh and filler. The paintwork was brush painted household gloss
which is flaking at the rear. Looks tatty but easy to fix.
Conclusion: would make a good summer convertible but not worth mortgaging your house to make a concours winner.
Now, to the photos:
How much do I want for it? A couple of hundred quid in cash would make me happy. If I broke it the overdrive gearbox and hood frame would get me that - Herald hood frames are hen's teeth!
Location: North Oxfordshire.
It's a modified Herald convertible with a Spitfire engine, overdrive gearbox and Bond Equipe twin headlight fibreglass bonnet.
It started life as a 1964 Herald 1200 saloon owned by a friend of mine who built it as it now is as his fun car for a couple of summers. He fitted the new engine and did the overdrive conversion, then modified the rear tub with a convertible deck from a Vitesse and fitted a Bond fibreglass bonnet. Unusually for a Herald, he also fitted a towbar because he also collects those weird little '60s folding caravans. Most of you are probably aware that the Herald series of cars have a separate chassis so the body panels are not structural and such body conversions are relatively common.
As a pre-65 car not only is it tax exempt but also seatbelt exempt.
No Herald is what you'd call fast
But this one is faster than a stock Herald 1200 and happily keeps up with modern traffic.I ran it for a summer and then had neither the time or the money to put it back on the road. I started to bodge up the bodywork (Yet again, not structural
) but didnt do much more.OK, the bad news. It's got no MOT.
Aside from the usual brake fettling, wipers etc you'd expect from a project like this it will need a new chassis outrigger or the old one reparing.
One of these:
www.canleyclassics.com/catalogue_findapart.asp?partnumber=208893
As far as I know the rest of the chassis is in one piece.
The rear body is tatty but most of the bad bits I've bodged with mesh and filler. The paintwork was brush painted household gloss
which is flaking at the rear. Looks tatty but easy to fix.Conclusion: would make a good summer convertible but not worth mortgaging your house to make a concours winner.
Now, to the photos:
How much do I want for it? A couple of hundred quid in cash would make me happy. If I broke it the overdrive gearbox and hood frame would get me that - Herald hood frames are hen's teeth!
Location: North Oxfordshire.
it is trying to get proper 948 valence sets, saying that the car hasen't got 948's on it, it's got a 1200 rubber bumper conversion.