1961 Triumph Herald - Mileage: 20

I'd like one of the Dolomites that are up for sale too. One of them at least is a black 1500HL special.
 
It's amazing that this sort of stuff keeps turning up. I remember an article in Popular classics mag back in the mid '90s about a Herald that had only done 13 miles. It's not the same one though.
 
A few examples in New Zealand like this over the years too; this 1958 Studebaker made International news when it surfaced at auction in 1993 with 72 miles on the clock

http://www.classiccar.co.nz/articles/1958-studebaker-champion-loves-lost-studebaker-189

and there was a brass-age Model T surfaced in a garage in Kingsland, Auckland, in the late 1970s/early 80s that had been parked up new and never used

Personally, I bought a 1966 Suzuki 250 from a dealership in Canada in the mid 1990s that had never been sold; it was Candy Red and chrome and I wish now I had never sold it

GW
 
It's interesting. Two thoughts occurred to me on extra low mileage cars.
(1) Would you ever drive it? The whole point is it's now has such a low mileage you'd never want to add to it.
(2) Wjat sort of work would it require to make it road worthy? All hydraulic seals certainly, tyres would be rock hard. Would you want to take off the cylinder head to check the walls for surface rust? Oil seals? The more I think about it the longer the list goes.

Having said that, the car is a real time capsule. It's been kept in perfect cosmetic condition with I imagine no rust damage.
 
Hi, I am sort of with Sdibbers on this. It's curiosity or interest lay in that it has not been driven.
I could never buy a car that I couldn't drive, I have spent fortunes on cars restoring them but I
would never not drive them. To be honest they are museum pieces, so does it matter if the
seals or cylinder bores deteriorate? If they do what do you do? A 23 mile car with a rebuilt
engine doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

Colin
 
I agree. The value of such a car is entirely wrapped up in its mileage and condition. As soon as you use it the value drops like a falling piano.

As there are plenty of mobile Heralds about, better to keep this one as a curio in a museum and let the masses marvel at it.
 
DaveHerns said:
At the end of the day it's only a Herald and they weren't a nice drive even when new
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I agree. But the same principle applies to any car with 20 miles on the clock.

Colin
 
Do cars have feelings? Maybe that poor wee Herald is thinking, "I just want to be driven. Just one trip to the seaside on a warm sunny day before I rust away".
 
If it were to be used, prior to doing so, virtually everything mechanical and hydraulic would need overhauling an/or replacing. New tyres, hoses not to mention all rubber window seals etc as rubber in those days doesn't last like rubber products made from the 1970's onwards.

The car realistically can only ever be a static display now, the very low mileage being the other determining factor.

Ron.
 
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