I think I bought a Triumph Herald off you in the 70's.

You should see the state of some vans over here. We were in Chinon one year and an old van appeared - you could see into the van via the gap between the front and the side panel. I couldn't understand how they'd managed to get there without it exploding LOL.

I'd have liked a rusty Puck to dismantle and see how the chassis could be repaired but the ones I have seen still go for too much money to experiment with. I have done plenty of car and trailer welding over the years including building a chassis and putting through the then SVA.

I think I might have ended up with Steve and Debbie's Triumph Herald attached by fibreglass and old chinese take away cartons to a Spitfire body in the mid 70s...

MikeT

I don't think that would put him off, Colin.

My stepdad had a Triumph Herald. Driving to work one day closely followed by a lorry he pulled up sharply at traffic lights and felt a jolt and jerked forward. Suspecting the lorry had hit him he got out only to find the lorry still a good couple of feet away the body had become completly detached from the chassis..... rust

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I think I might have ended up with Steve and Debbie's Triumph Herald attached by fibreglass and old chinese take away cartons to a Spitfire body in the mid 70s...

MikeT

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Cor, I wonder if that was the Spitfire I almost bought from some Geezer in Lancashire in the late 70s? I thought the bodywork looked familiar to a Herald I owned 7 years earlier

Randa

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we had the triumph through yesterday look good yet refused to move off road, historic rally who not knew of putting 2 wheels verge to safely pass,

rust can be killed with a product brush on it blue and goes black when done its job, there is a laser that evaporates rust.
then paint over with that h paint name escapes me at moment have done mine twice for peace of mind, then copper greased the screws for front plastics so would come off again,

hammerite?
no point in bodgit and scarper they pull caravans at scotch corner and south of wetherby Tadcaster roundabout to inspect, however there is a rolling van that gv9 a truck in an tank layby in middle of nowhere.

if metal turned religious best to weld add in new metal many youtubes showing the process about 150 screws to remove if taking outskin off😣

there is chemical weld product thats stronger than box metal if has good bond, however it would not glue the fresh snapped lug on a starter motor, so failed new starter was purchased.
car filler absorbs water would speed up the rusting. so dont try that wasting your money and time.

My Dad had a Triumph Herald coupe it was a nice looking car but there wasn't much headroom in the back for me and my sister, we both hated travelling in it.

I'm shocked that no-one of an age has mentioned the beautiful but totally insane Triumph Herald Vitesse. I seem to remember it was a Triumph Herald with what was for the time an amazingly powerful engine from something else.

In a straight line the speed was thrilling but trying to take a corner in the wet at any type of speed was not recommended......! In 1969 I nearly came to an early end in the Lakes when the road went one way and the Vitesse chose to go another. My friend, whose dad had a large Ford Dealership, "borrowed" interesting cars from the forecourt and took them for a spin. The Vitesse had been p/xed for a Lotus Cortina and Ian wanted "to see what it could do". Fortunately he had started to learn how to rally and he managed somehow to rescue it but my side scraped down the old stone wall and the bodywork didn't look good...............his dad wasn't very pleased

MikeT