The Triumph Herald Is A Stylish 60s British Saloon! (1966 12/50 Saloon Road Test)
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Most people after an affordable 60s car look towards the Mini or Ford Anglia 105E, but the Triumph Herald offers gorgeous Italian styling, a fun driving experience and plenty of parts and club support, all at an affordable price - Jack took an early saloon for a test drive!
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Chapters
0:00 The Forgotten Triumph
0:48 Triumph/Standard History
2:03 Herald - Separate Chassis Saloon
4:00 British Small Cars Of 1959
4:20 Italian Styling
4:48 Driving Impressions
6:37 The Perfect 60s Classic? - Авто та транспорт
In about 1965 I drove a Herald 12-50 from Nottingham to Munich 4 up we averaged 40 MPH and 40 MPG
I had a Herald, a 2litre Vitesse and 2 Spitfires.
Loved all of them.
Great video. Reminds us what an interesting and desirable brand Triumph was, the pick of the BL crop in some ways. The small Triumphs always were a step upmarket, a bit special and left of field somehow. You can see this right through to later models like the Toledo and Dolomite. Nothing that is directly comparable on the market now unfortunately.
Classic Triumphs are my dream cars, and I'm in the States lol.. I don't think I've ever even seen a Triumph in my lifetime yet. The Stag and Spitfire are my two favorites
I just think Last of the Summer Wine when i think Triumph Herald
I passed my UK driving test in a Herald in April 1967. However I’ve never owned one. A few are still seen at local shows here in Northumberland.
It’s such a cute little car.❤
Love Heralds. They will always be a "Dad" car for me. My dad had one around '76/'77. It was a B reg. It was a very pale duck egg green. To me they are probably one of the most characterful (is that a word)? cars of all time
Had one, the more base 1200 model, lovely veneer dash, seats comfy, hand just fell onto the controls so they were certainly well laid out. Felt fast though cruising was only a around 50 on the motorway. Its the low down seating. Kept getting pulled over as it was a pre reg letter model with no seatbelts (adding seatbelts was both expensive to do right, and way too easy to get wrong making it more dangerous).
Hark the Herald axels swing. I heard that somewhere. I once had a 1967 Mklll Triumph Spitfire with swing axels. Made it useless in autocross. MGBs had my number.
My mum had one in the 70s nice car
Those were quite popular in Finland in sixties and early seventies. Rust issues were not that big problem with Herald, because of the separete chassis. A friend had solid one back in 1985, when we both got our driving licence in june. First thing to do was removing the top and go for a drive 😅
Thanks for the very interesting history of steel body manufacturing.
I always liked the Italian design of the Herald body. The car was, as you said, pretty and conveyed an impression of quality.
Thanks for watching!
Pity you missed the rare AMI Triumph 12/50 - an Australian only model of which just a couple of hundred were made with Vitesse bonnets. I have the only saloon version left on the road.
The Triumph Herald rear suspension issue was easily solved by a small bag of sand in the boot - hey presto !!!
BMW would call that a "handling pack"!
I love hi-tech solutions!
My first ever car. 1967 1200 convertible in this colour, I think trafalgar blue. Everything you said about its design and qualities is true. I really miss it!
I'd really like to see a video about the Triumph GT6, if one ever comes in Classic World's way.
If you know of one, we'd love to drive it!
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Interesting video 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏⭐️⭐️⭐️
Love ‘em 👌
My first car was a Herald 12/50 I really liked that car and would love ro have one again today. Strange the car in the video has a single SU carb, I am not sure how they managed that on a 1147 engine.
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The Herald was the harbinger of the wonderful but short period for Triumph in the 60s and 70s with the TRs, the 2000/2500, 1300/1500 and the early Dolomites. They were so attractively styled, refined and luxurious and initially well built. As demonstrated by the Herald's body construction and its relatively mundane mechanicals, its engineers and designers were dab hands at making silk purses from sows' ears! What a shame it all came to an ignominious end under the awful BL regime and its successors. As for Standard, I can remember a neighbour had an 8 (I think) and seeing how horribly basic and austere the thing was. It didn't even have a boot lid - you had to access the space by tilting the rear seats forward!
Never understood the appeal of the hideous Anglia. The Herald was a far nicer car.