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Hmmmm! Tried it all Nearly had it with a bit of credit card so working along those lines.... Might need a lock smith 🤔

Thanks everyone for the advice. I'll give it all a go and let you know how I get on 🙂

Hi hope some one can help. for some reson my glovebox lock on my 1959 herald coupe has decided to lock shut and not respond to the key. I've tried all my keys. anyone know if there is a way to open it without dismantling the dash?

For me it was a yellow and white Coupe owned by my an Auntie of mine. probably would have been about 1964 or 5 I was very very young. This picture is from one of Uncle Barrys home movies I have, so have no Idea of the year but it started me off wanting one. I had the corgi models as you did back then even made a scalextric version ( don't know what happened to that) Mum and Dad had several Triunphs, heralds, vitesses, gt6, PI, 2000, so when I laernt to drive in 1978 my first car was a Herald. bought from my brother because he had bought a Vitesse, it was a vilencia blue convertable. I rebuilt it and painted it Yellow and White (who'd a thought it) But I still wanted a Coupe, so bought a basket case for £100 and still have it, and am still rebuiling it, it's never been on the road since I bought it in 1980 but I live in hope. It's not going to be Yellow and White ( i've done that) so It's the origanal colour black and white. this is when I got it home. and this is it now 43 years later. I have done everything myself and enjoyed very minute.

The base doesn't fit around the wheel panel like on the saloon. They are just square edged. There have been several old new stock seat base and some rear parts for sale on flaebay recently.

Agree. Local post office ( if you have one) every time. Consistently cheeper then eBay.

Gloucestershire Vintage and Country Extravaganza 4th to 6th August Brilliant show well worth a visit. Wish I could get my coupe there. Maybe next year. (Note to self: must do more in the garage 😁) but we'll still enjoy being on the stall 😁 https://www.glosvintageextravaganza.co.uk/

Russbuster's 1_2_1 two pack is really good and over paintable once cured. And is hard as nails. They do other colours even spacial mixes I believe https://www.rust.co.uk/product/em121-epoxy-rust-proofing-paint-black/

Bit of t-cut no problem 😁

As far as I am aware it is a legal requirement to have your dog (pet) tethered in a moving vehicle. And there doesn't seem to be any exceptions for vehicle age. Having said that a company called Miki used to make dog car harness that had actually been tested... Not sure how. But they were very strong and fitted really well.

There was a simalar car at one of the local shows a while back. mum photograph it to show me. later in a local paper. so we are the Transport six club.

I was told many years ago. When I had G11 that Triumph built 500 Coupés first and then built 500 saloons. Never seen that written anywhere since. Or how true it is? Still any car that was built back then is pretty amazing if it is still road worthy without much work. My 1959 Coupe (Y798) was a basket case when I got her in 1979, only 20 years later and according to the vendor had been just about scrapping through the MOT for several years before that. It was me or the scrap yard, and it had only done about 35,000 mile's. Not bad for £100 I thought. 🤔 Well done to any one that keeps any old vehicle in a road worthy condition. Don't recycle ... keep using....

Thank you for replying. The page doesn't seem to show fully on my phone. Reinstall Firefox now showing in it's full glory. I'll pop in Next time I'm up during the week.

Where on the club site is the normal opening times for the club museum. Each time I am in the area it seems to be closed. 🤔 And I can't find the opening times anywhere. Maybe it's just trying to find it on my phone that's difficult 🤔 Not a problem but it would be nice to know. Like they do on national trust web site

I've been a member on and off since 1978 and always considered the club magazine justifies the subs by it self. Rant over 😤

Most clubs I've been in have open forums but none member are not able to post comments and some have advertising (lots of them some times) if your a none member viewing the forum. When did the Tssc forum go public?

This was as close as I got to getting a Standard Herald a reworked vitesse, on the under side it has "triumph vitesse" and the dinky toys bit has been bashed flat but you can make out the nky toys bit. also the number 134 which was the number for the dinky Vitesse.

Found this letter while going through an old box file I used to keep for our area events back in the early eightys I had an Idea that I could buy one while I was over there with the national federation of fishmongers training initiative they were going to run in that part of the world, but unfortunately nothing came of it due to "unrest" apparently. Interesting to know when production stopped though. also like the STAMPRO bit on the triumph badge.

Interesting brake servo

If it's a real coupe roof. Which it looks like it is. No reason to believe otherwise. They were all metal. The early ones had smooth sides but apparently they had problems with the metal pressing. The sides would split or fold. So by making the sides panel separate that would solve the problem. The other thing is it wouldn't fit a convertible herald or vitesse. My coupe roof would not fit my convertible

Unusual coupe roof for sale on eBay Looks like a later version but without the ribbed side panel . Tempted but really don't need any more herald parts https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195394739038?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20180816085401%26meid%3D894997664510402c9fd7ac15e80e0ac9%26pid%3D100970%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D195394739038%26itm%3D195394739038%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057%26brand%3DTriumph&_trksid=p2380057.c100970.m5481&_trkparms=pageci%3Af16bdd51-4705-11ed-a0f6-da18cc9363d6|parentrq%3Ab7998bb11830aae90d2287effffedbc4|iid%3A1

Four coats. But the trick is sanding. I start with 120 to take off Amy nibs then work up to 240, 320, 400, 600, 800, 1200 than metal polish that usually dose it to a mirror finish, but you can finish off with furniture polish. But the more coats you do the thicker the finish. However because it's a 2pack product you can put it on quite thick Apparently the idea of working up the sanding grade is that it much easier to remove scratches from 120 with 240 than any finer grade. Seems to work I find.

If you want a guitar body like finish use Rustin's plastic coat. Brilliant stuff. Goes a long way and is hard as nails. https://www.rustins.ltd/rustins/our-products/indoor/plastic-coating-hardener-gloss

You probably would have met Roy.

Have a guess down here in the west 😁 He was factory maintenance engineer at westlands (as it was)