Apologies for the delay in replying.
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Originally Posted by wasif There was a deep green convertible in Marredpally which used to be a daily drive. Any idea what happened to it. |
Nope sorry, I've no idea about such a Herald in Marredpally (I wish!:( )
Do you recall the number?
That area, incidentally, used to be full of Heralds a couple of decades ago, I'm told.
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My car was a Standard Herald. I bought it from Ghanshyam who was one of the only vintage / classic used motorbike parts dealer in the Ganj area.
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Ganj? You mean Afzulganj??
I think I've heard of him...
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The two catches on the windscreen were neat chrome fittings which looked too well made to be a local job. The side latches on the door were also something i had never seen on any car earlier.
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As I'd said, these were fittings that were standard on UK Herald convertibles. So, they wouldn't be local fittings but imported from the UK for sure- maybe the previous owner's husband was aware of Triumph clubs in the UK and had ordered parts (inc. maybe the soft-top kit) from there as well?
BTW, do you recall the chassis no. prefix? If it started with 6G, then it was definitely a saloon-turned-convertible. (6= serial no. for India in list of CKD markets, G = 948cc saloon)
The white conv. APU 4126 in my pics. also has such a prefix, which is how I concluded that it's an owner-done mod., even before I was told that it had been done so.
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DKG's uncle Kewal wanted very much to buy this car but i didn't want to sell it so finally he went and bought another one and had the top removed. I wonder if he still has this car. I m sure he remembers my car.
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Well, he certainly didn't mention his own Herald to me when I'd met him (just once at the DHAA 15th aug. rally in 2005, when I had a ride in his austin)....'never occured to me that he'd liked buying one!
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I really didn't want to sell my Herald but it so happened that the Gentleman who I sold it to knew my grandmother. When he found out about this car he would come over to my house with his kids and bug me to sell the car.He used to live in one of those small government style quarters behind Mahavir Hospital. I would love to know what happened to this car.
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I incidentally do know of just one muslim gent (a retired govt. officer) with 2 grown-up sons who lives in one of those tiny little old, yellow houses you mention (originally given as quarters for hte Army I'm told) who had a white '64 Herald (for sale)...BUT it's very much an owner modded soft-top, I mean nothing like the ones on the cars I've posted (nor presumably your car either), but a shoddy local job (although he claims it to be original itself and quoted a rather steep price for the car!
) AND he got his car from a dealer in Masab tank, not direct from the owner.
So it couldn't be your car. Maybe someone else in that same locality.
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If you look in the white car in your pictures you will see that they have moved the back seat a little forward to accomodate the top but in my car the seat was as standard
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The seat in this car looks normal as per UK convertibles to me (they do have a slight "straight-backed" appearance) and the seat is a little cut out at the top and even slightly less in width- was your car's rear seat like this?
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All ponting to this being a factory convertible. What do you think
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Well, if you have any old pics. of the car it'd help. All the more useful if you recall the prefix of the chassis no. I'm sure though, that standard motors, madras didn't give an option of convertibles for the heralds they produced. Maybe because of fear of lack of mass-appeal or government restrictions of that time.
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There was also a metal X brace under the flooring which i don't remember much about now.
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If you mean the diagonal outriggers off the chassis where the rear bodytub sits (see pic.)
Or was there a X-brace fitted to the rear of the chassis (although this was only in the later Heralds for carrying the spare tyre)