DO IT!
JOe
John Macartney wrote:
>
> Input from the purists would be appreciated.
> Now that project number one is all but finished, I find myself with
> time on hands and am considering the next move to creating a Herald
> 13/75 Coupe.
> A 13/60 convertible has come up for disposal (free) to a good home
> (been garaged for last 2 years, prior to which it was in regular daily
> use) and I'm contemplating replicating it into a 13/75 conversion as
> undertaken at the Western Avenue Service division in London.
> Broadly, the spec was:
> Full Spitfire engine, overdrive, knock-on wire wheels, Vitesse
> instrumentation, polished wood door cappings and Sid Hurrell hardtop
> (was SAH) if I can locate one still lying around. By making the
> hardtop a permanent fitting, the soft top gets thrown out and the
> empty soft top well is removed to install the narrower rear seat found
> on the original factory Herald Coupe.
> These special order cars - among which were Vitesse Coupes and Vitesse
> Estates -
> sold for almost double their conventional equivalents and (IMHO) were
> some of the prettiest Herald variants ever made.
> Car is currently Signal Red (not my favourite) with a white
> sidestripe - so I may emulate one of Mr Brown's original colour combos
> and change the white sidestripe to one in metallic silver.
> How would VTR view such a beast if it turned up in the US (and others,
> especially UK Sports Six members) who might see the replication as
> sacrilege to an original car? My own thoughts are that this is a
> worthwhile project to the memory of Standard Triumph's former Chief
> Inspector Jock Brown who instigated them - though few, if any original
> examples survive. Admittedly, this conversion was not done at the
> factory itself but the London Service Division - so I may be in a
> minority for turning a Herald into a car that was never officially
> offered as part of the range. Whaddya think or should I replicate the
> song "and do it anyway?"
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