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Great day for a ride in the Triumph

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I am finally getting a real chance to enjoy the Herald. I took it for a nice ride this morning. Perfect weather, sunny, not to hot. First I drove out to a nature preserve "Sataf" just a few minutes out of the city. Great squiggly mountain roads
 

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And then back to the city with a nice stop in the artists village of Ein Kerem. Lots of tourist. The car must have been photographed at least 20 times in the few minutes I was there. Interesting how many people correctly identified it as a Triumph.
 

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Looks like great weather over there. One of my cousin's kids was there earlier in the year and had a wonderful time.

I would love to see some of the sights of Israel myself. I've lived in four different countries, but these days, I don't travel as much as I would really like too.
All it takes in money and time, I suppose.

We've had decent Fall weather here; cool and nice for driving a sports car top-down. Last Monday I drove my MGB almost 200 miles including through the Princeton University campus, Washington's Crossing and Washington's headquarters. Glorious!

Your Herald looks different in the front than the Heralds I am used to seeing here (but I'm not sure if the newer versions were imported to the USA). It reminds my more of the nose on a Vitesse. Looks great!
 
Thanks for posting the photos...they would be good submissions for the BCF Calendar if Basil continues the tradition. I agree with Nial that the front end is not one that I associate with a Herald, but then in this area, we did not always see all the interesting cars on the roads even when they were new.
 
M'Tov :thumbsup:
Your car looks great!
 
Late model Heralds (mine is a '70) have a front end which was almost straight off of the Vitesse. Only they saved a bit of money by using single head lights instead of the doubles on the Vitesse.
A very small handful of later Heralds made it to the US, and those didn't come by "normal" methods.
 
Gliderman8 said:
M'Tov :thumbsup:
Your car looks great!
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looks better in the pictures than in real life, at least close up. next years project???
For the time being I am thrilled at being able to drive for the first time in a few years.
 
Fabulous pics! I'm curious though, is it safe to drive given the unrest in the region? How does that work?
 
JPSmit said:
Fabulous pics! I'm curious though, is it safe to drive given the unrest in the region? How does that work?
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Yeah, but only five times a day.
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JPSmit said:
Fabulous pics! I'm curious though, is it safe to drive given the unrest in the region? How does that work?
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Despite what you see on CNN it is probably safer here than in most American cities. Of course I wouldn't want to drive through Cairo's Tahir square right about now. Actually what really scares me is some of the lousy drivers. Not much protection in an old car.
 
Basil said:
The hills in the picture look a lot like New Mexico.
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And not surprising the weather is fairly similar since both lots of NM and the area around Jerusalem are both high mountains. Albuquerque is only a few meters higher than Jerusalem so we both get very dry hot air, and cool winters.

What is interesting in the geography here is that in about an hour drive, I can go from the lowest point on the earth (Dead Sea) up to mountains (800m in Jerusalem) and then back down to sea level in Tel Aviv and each area has distinctly different weather.
 
70herald said:
Late model Heralds (mine is a '70) have a front end which was almost straight off of the Vitesse. Only they saved a bit of money by using single head lights instead of the doubles on the Vitesse.
A very small handful of later Heralds made it to the US, and those didn't come by "normal" methods.
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Right! This car is a "13/60" -- so named because of the "1300" engine (1296cc) and (approximately) 60hp, and it features Michelotti's quick redo of the Vitesse front end.

Heralds were not imported to the US after the 1967 model year, but a very few US-spec. 13/60s (complete with emissions-certified, twin-carb 1296 Spitfire engines, dual-circuit brake systems and -- on the 1969 version -- even folding headrests similar to those on the 1969 Federal TR6) were assembled in Belgium for the Puerto Rican market. There are still a few of these US-spec. 13/60 models around!
 
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