Jump to content

fungus

TSSC Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    170

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    6

 Content Type 

Posts posted by fungus

  4. The one that started it.......

    in General

    Posted · Edited by fungus

    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.

    vlcsnap-2018-01-04-22h57m20s149.png.1f7d7ac8b66ce4634a98691301cef932.png

    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)

    img0(4).thumb.jpg.30dfd99690e1e4ede1df6c1cd39138d5.jpg

    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.

    scan001a.jpg.5621e6e9c4a20bd02add24de9acc5641.jpg

    this is when I got it home.

    and this is it now 43 years later. I have done everything myself and enjoyed very minute.

    resized-for-web.thumb.jpg.3acf8bb3f010e115b713dad07229eaa0.jpg

  10. Safely securing pet dog.

    in General

    Posted

    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.

  12. oldest roadworthy Herald in the world??

    in General

    Posted

    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....

  14. Club museum opening times?

    in General

    Posted · Edited by fungus
    Missed a bit

    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 

     

  16. Am I missing something?

    in General

    Posted

    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?

     

     

  18. Standard Motor Products of India Ltd

    in General

    Posted

    Found this letter while going through an old box file I used to keep for our area events back in the early eightys

    2017392561_triumphletterscan.thumb.jpg.4a38c680b4fb38ca3d4182196117765b.jpg

    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.

     

    • Like 2

  20. Coupe roof on flea-bay

    in Bodywork & Fittings

    Posted

    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 

  21. Coupe roof on flea-bay

    in Bodywork & Fittings

  22. Hello from sunny Cornwall, new Herald owner.

    in I thought I'd introduce myself

    Posted

    On 07/10/2022 at 10:47, Paul H said:

    How many coats did you use ? 
    Paul 

    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.

     

     

×
×
  • Create New...