Classic car with one careful lady owner

[Gob]

It is described as a "classic car with one careful lady owner".




But what makes this Triumph Herald so unusual is that it has covered just 20 miles since it rolled off the production line 52 years ago.

Still sporting its original 1961 £15 tax disc, the blue and white car was delivered to the buyer's home by trailer.

The Triumph is to be auctioned on Saturday by East Anglian Motor Auctions in Wymondham.

After the Triumph's original owner died years later, her family sold it back to the car dealer who sold it.

Auctioneer Tristram Belemore-Smith said: "When he (the dealer) went to see it, he discovered it had not been driven from the day it had been delivered brand new - and decided to keep it as part of his private collection."

The Triumph is expected to make between £12,000 and £15,000 at auction.

[Daisy]

It's beautiful isn't it. If I had the cash to hand I'd be bidding for it.

[Lord Jim]

That really isn't a bad price...

Geez you can spend 20 grand nowadays for a brand new box with wheels with no style or character whatsoever; if for a comparable price you can get a classic like that in pristine condition, it's a bargain....

[Crackpot]

I doubt it runs

[Joe Guy]

But it probably can roll... downhill.

[dgs49]

It's a real time capsule. Looks like something that an average guy could possibly afford.

[MajGenl.Meade]

But it probably can roll... downhill.

Ah yes! The old Rolls Canardly

[dales]

Lucus electrics, SU Carbs?

No thanks.

[Lord Jim]

Lucus electrics

Well that would certainly explain why it's only gone 20 miles....

[dgs49]

A lot of the "classics" were mediocre cars in their day. The old MG's, Triumphs, Austin's and such were junk - made of compressed rust.

When the '64 Mustang came out my brother was an auto body mechanic. When he got the fist one in for repair he was shocked at how cheaply made it was. It had the lightest doors (thin steel) he had ever seen.

And of course the VW beetle was an unsafe pile of crap - sold DECADES after it was totally obsolete.

[Crackpot]

and i[t would be nothing compared to the steel used these days.

[MajGenl.Meade]

A lot of the "classics" were mediocre cars in their day. The old MG's, Triumphs, Austin's and such were junk - made of compressed rust.

Be fair. You just can't drive through all those apostrophes without something giving way.

[oldr_n_wsr]

and i[t would be nothing compared to the steel used these days.

There's steel on today's cars?

[Crackpot]

Yeah the just stopped putting it in the I/P.

[dales]

And of course the VW beetle was an unsafe pile of crap - sold DECADES after it was totally obsolete.

Yeah- that's why it was the best selling car of all time.

[Jarlaxle]

Bought by cultists and stoners. It was obsolete before it was ever sold in the US and should have been euthanized 20 years before it was. Worst car ever sold in the United States. The are slow, ill-handling, poor-braking deathtraps and should not be permitted on public roads.

[Daisy]

But they were super cute!

[Econoline]

...*AND* they were simple enough that even an ordinary Compleat Idiot (like me) could do his (or her!) own repairs.

[dales]

That's how I got started.

All one needed were a few simple hand tools.