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SPORTING EDGE

he Herald is one of those classics that can be usefully upgraded using parts from other models, and this period-tweaked example proves the point. It was originally sold in Bexleyheath in Kent (well, south-east London), and the original sales and order forms from 1969 are still in the history file, recording that it was part-exchanged for a Morris Minor. In the 1980s, when a late Herald was still ‘just an old car’ it was sold to an owner in Manchester for £250, and

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