Thanks Andy,
You Da Man!!!
I'll check back before I drop in the 454;-)
JOhn
Andrew Mace wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 May 1997, John Matthews wrote:
>
> > A question for you concours type guys. What's the chance that anyone
> > would care to restore a Herald Saloon as nicely as the big TR's are done
> > up? I'm at the point now where everything could be put back to stock
> > very easily, but I may have to roll the fenders to get the big tires to
> > fit. The car wasn't totally original when I got it, but I have to decide
> > now if I'm ever going to want to make it that way. I don't want to
> > become someone's DPO!!! Opinions advice and all comments are solicited.
>
> An interesting question, but not an easy one to answer. I suspect that
> this sort of thing ("Concours" restoration, that is) is done far more in
> the "home country" than here in the good old USofA. For the most part, the
> convertibles are more lusted after than are the saloons; that is
> understandable both because convertibles usually are more lusted after
> anyway and there were far fewer convertible Heralds produced.
>
> In the US, though, there appear to have been far more CONVERTIBLES SOLD
> than saloons, making the latter the scarce model even when new. Thirty
> years later, it's still hard to say how desireable a Herald saloon is in
> the US in comparison to a convertible. Certainly saloons are more
> practical and have a good bit more room in the back for those of us who
> might wish to transport more than one passenger. ;-) And I'm sure that
> there are folks who would restore a saloon to a "high standard." Hopefully
> they'll understand that the finished product probably will never be worth
> the kind of money that a restored TR or even Spitfire/GT6 would bring!
>
> In my own case, "Joseph, the amazing Technicolor 948 saloon" will someday
> return to pretty much an "original" condition (not necessarily show, as
> I'm more than willing to forsake the occasional bit of engraved pot metal
> and particle board to preserve serviceable components -- upholstery and
> the like -- and the patina that goes with them).
>
> It's not like you're "tubbing" the body and dropping it onto a 454-powered
> tubular chassis. :-) What you might have to do to fenders and such
> probably won't be irreversible. Cutting the fenders away would be one
> thing, but just rolling up the fender lip doesn't seem too harsh!
>
> My $.02 worth....
>
> --Andy
>
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