Hi all,
I once read a quote "If one door closes, another opens!" and this is what seems to have happened in my case! No sooner did I reconcile myself to selling my '62 Herald that I was fortunate to finalise the deal on another "StanHer"- this time a '65 mk1!!
'got this baby last week. I'd been seeing it junking away in a corner of a local mechanic garage for the last 2 years, and was always told it wasn't for sale. And so I too eventually ignored it. Until I happened to get the same car through a friend who was close to the owner.
It appears to have been quite a complete car, but suffered some extent of neglect! But thankfully still very much restorable. Plus point is I have more or less all the cosmetic bits missing on it.
The Standard 10 horn button you see on it (which I'd earlier badly wanted) now rightfully adorns my Standard Pennant!
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And I've got an original one for this.
Incidentally, with a little prodding, I discovered the original red rexine rear seat intact under the present cloth one, which I took off! 'not sure if it's still intact on the other seats.
And believe it or not, for a car that looks the way this one does, she appears mechanically quite fit- 'had the engine started and idled briefly a day after I bought it, and it's so silent with no vibrations etc., as though the car's a regular runner! Quite remarkable for a car that's been laid up so long!
However, it's been fitted with a Fiat carb. (albeit with the original air-cleaner in place.)
Only the car couldn't be driven as yet, as the brakes weren't working with the master cylinder itself missing- turns out the mechs. in the garage where it lay had tried to work on it, but maybe because they couldn't find replacement parts, got vexed up and threw away the m.cyl. somewhere, misplacing it!
Luckily my mech. has managed to find one in the local scrap market, and got a new kit installed (although I plan to install it with a better one from abroad, as the local kits are not too reliable!)
The car is parked outside his house for the time-being. 'got a new esteem tarp to cover it with.
It'll be atleast a few months until I'm in a position to begin work on it (I still have my Companion to attend to, which I haven't started yet either!)
So planning to have it just mechanically and a little bodily (the left door is weak on one hinge!) fit, during which I'll have to just have it around with the patina look ('reminded of Karl and his '56 fiat!
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More pics. later (takes too long to upload, plus some of them exceed the size limit, requiring cropping and cropping!)