Help yourself to the Luck on the table too! 
The chips are down.
Donāt get one of those, underpowered and front wheels held on by one tiny bolt.
The torsion bar suspension was a good idea though.
I would happily go back to my agricultural Kingswood HJ Holden with its 3.5 litre straight six and three speed box
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āSave the Morris Minor, man!ā
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Actually I would really have one of these. I had two of them and I could sell my smartphone and probably buy two againā¦
Thatās one very attractive vehicleā¦
I had one a 1750ss, I will never forget that all-agro.
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What was the Triumph (was it a herald?) which had the bonnet held closed by suitcase clips, for want of a better description 
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Well of my two Allegroās one was a standard 1100 engine and it served me well in the three or four years that I ran it with very little maintenance other that the usual brakes, oil changes, and plugs and points etcā¦
My Dad bought a brand new all singing all dancing 1300 model with a black vinyl roofā¦
Neither him nor my Mam liked it, so after two years sold it to me.
It looked pristine but the oil rings had gone and it burned so much oil I had to top it up weekly.
So I took out the engine had it rebored with new pistons, rings and big ends while we were at it, and I carefully re assembled it in my loft (no garage in those days) and it was in the winter of my discontent. I ran it for a couple of years and finally flogged it to mate a workā¦I heard it broke down a few months laterā¦
But how many times have I heard that about the all singing and all dancing motors are nowāt but trouble, while the bog standard models keep running happily foreverā¦
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Yep, it was the Triumph Herald Dex, a bit of a rust bucket by all accounts. Probably why not many of those go through the Mathewsons auction on āBangers and Cashā
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Yes, the Herald and the Vitesse had those catches so did my name sake the Spitfire.
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Happy days of stripping the head off, eh? Had to do that a couple of times for my first car (a golf) to replace the top gasket and grind the pistons. Great learning experience. The engine actually probably needed skimming, but I couldnāt afford it. Got me through a few years though.
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My brother had one of those, fellas. Donāt know how he got it home, because it never ran again.
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My 1750ss was chocolate brown with a brown vinyl roof, it had tan velour interior, it was an S plate 1978 if I remember right
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Those were the benefits of being an apprentice Mechanical Engineer Dex.
There was always a machine free for a bit of lunchtime maintenance on your motor.
I made a fair packet sharpening lawn mower blades too.
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This was the one my Dad sold me the 1300 T reg that also had velor upholstery Spitty and a black vinyl roof. This is the best picture of it I could find. Out on a winter walk with a couple of matesā¦1986 Bloody hell! was it that long ago? seems like yesterday.
The bloke on the leftā¦One of your lot Dex, an ex school teacher and brilliant with a map and compass.
He knew where all the crashed airplanes were on the moors. Very interesting fella.
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He must have been foxy. It would explain those trousers
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Basil Faulty giving his car a damned good thrashing.
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I remember what you look like foxy. 
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Love it! 
Basil Fawlty -the best!
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