Triumph Herald - Popular Culture

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A Triumph Herald, as well as a Triumph Vitesse, was used at the 2012 London Olympic Games during the beginning of the Closing Ceremony were cars were paraded around the stadium.

A yellow Triumph Herald was driven in the Heartbeat series by leading characters Nick and Kate Rowan. The car was last seen offered up for sale recently but with serious work needing to be done to it.

In 2011, a red Herald convertible was used in BBC’s 'Antiques Road Trip', when experts Phillip Serrell and Catherine Southon visited Paisley.

A Herald was used by James May on the TV car show Top Gear as a template for an amphibious car. It was used in the third episode of series 8, in which it and May were victorious in the featured challenge of crossing a 2-mile (3.2 km) lake. It was again seen in the second episode of series 10, in which May used exactly the same car from the previous amphibious car challenge and attempted to cross the English Channel. The car is now a part of the scenery within the Top Gear studio.

Various red Herald convertibles were driven by Edie Pegden (played by Thora Hird) in the BBC 1 long-running comedy Last of the Summer Wine.

A black Herald convertible was driven by the character Mary Moran in RTE's Sunday night soap Glenroe in the late 1980s.

In the 1966 Tintin adventure, The Black Island, Tintin hitched a lift in a red Herald towing a caravan, while chasing the villains Dr Müller and Ivan.

A light blue Herald estate can be seen on the cover of the Beatles's 1969 LP Abbey Road. It is the second car parked on the left side of Abbey Road itself, beyond the crosswalk, after the Volkswagen Beetle with the LMW 281F registration plate. The Herald is seen directly over Paul McCartney's head.

A red Herald 1200 Convertible was driven by David Niven in the 1975 film: Paper Tiger.