Na the herald was a sweety, only car i owned where i could unbolt the complete body work ,take it off and work on the chassis rails, and how cool was the nose cone, maybe you just didnt set up the rear independant suspenions right ? I had a mate who had a Ford cosworth motor in one from and early lotus cortina with downdraft webers, it also had some vented trick brakes on the front, wish i knew where that ended up. I remember we stuck a lead weight on the front bar to keep the front down as he did the big highway run to see how fast it would go. At that time i had a Daytona RX7 and on the same run it was flat out in 5th and the rev counter buzz siren was going off the whole time , i know we had past the 220 mark as the speedo ran out at that, and that was way before the buzzer when off and we kept going, it was a maztec bridgport so it had legs, needed seals and for some stupid reason i changed the motor over rather than the seals ( worst mistake i ever made
- well one of them) wish i knew where that motor went.
Other regret bike related, was a KTM 125 i had, not sure of the year but i rode it in the 80's think it was a GS ? anyhow i rode that sucker on enduros' MX and even on the road, bloody great little bike it was full size ( i was 6ft) but was as light as a feather and you could throw it around, for some reason it would always leak through the impeller shaft, bogged it up so many times actually no end of times , then it finally got so eaten away in there ( it was like a white rust in the alloy) i had to sell the bike as the cost of a new side cover was so expensive. 3 weeks later i find out that some guy in melb or somehwere was doing reconditioned ones for next to nothing. Spew..... had i only know that earlier.
Going by my sexy fluro pants and helmet im going late 80's, but im sure someone can tell me the year of the bike. actually lookinng closer i still have that Honda tyco race jersey at home ( must get that onto ebay) was cotton and had a big padded front panel
