A little toy for summer - 1977 with 22,000 miles on it. Very noisy and 60 mph is like being in a Spitfire breaking the sound barrier !!

Fun to drive, but very cramped inside. Wife had a trip with me and found it warm enough, so first test passed, but very noisy for her, so need to buy a set of earmuffs

 

MG. Looks great Fraser, and just think, you can do all your maintenance with just 3 spanners and a screw driver.

Summer! you got a micro climate in Crewe? LOL

Ah, sun shinning, top down, 60 mph, and sleet through your hair, happy memories.

 

LOL, this is really small car
Have fun with it

 

Looks great, and no computers or electronic gizmos to mess with.

 

Now with a set of period (80s) alloys

Don't tell me - I'm nuts

 

A nice classic to pootle around the dales in.

What is it's history, it must have been stored for a heck of a long time.

Looks to be in showroom condition.

 

The Midget is a '77, now on 22,000 miles, with a full service history, and with the original dealer invoice. It was purchased in 1987 by a friend of mine and I went with him to pick it up, so he could drive it home, with me driving his company car. He used it a bit until about 1991 when he got a job in Charlotte, NC. The car then only did a few hundred miles a year, sometimes much less, until about 1996 when he finally moved to the US permanently. He came home two or three times a year, started the engine, moved it out onto the driveway then put it back to bed.

Anyway...........

As things happen, he married a "Southern Gal" from Charlotte, and she wants them to have a beach house somewhere on Chesapeake Bay, so his UK house, and the Midget had to go ! So I offered to take it. It needed quite a lot of recommissioning, and so far I have spent nearly £1000 on it. Come Spring 2011 we will be out and about with it on nice days. Even with this low mileage, it still has a couple of rust holes in one of the sills; the build standards of 1977 were much lower than today, and also it was made under the British Leyland regime, one of our worst companies ever.

 

Great looking car. I have always liked the MGB's myself. The Midgets are a bit tiny for me but my uncle races a Midget in Vintage Racing in the VRG and SCCA. I have been told its one of the best handling MG's made.

Good luck with it. That will give you a lot of fun in the summer with some top down excitement.