I’ve been lurking for ages on here and not really posted much so thought I’d better get involved a bit more and start a thread on my 1972 RWA MG Midget.
I’d been looking at them for a few years now at shows and thought they were just great, small, fun and easy to work on, loads of spares about and with a following, so at the end of last year I started looking to purchase one. I wanted a project car, something that needed work but was driveable to keep the mojo up between jobs.
In October last year an unexpected phone call from a mate saying his brother had one in his workshop resulted in a mild panic and an evening spent looking over it, it was a ’71 in green but had had a 1500 engine conversion, I wasn’t sure if it was what I wanted, but it was a chance to really look over one in the workshop with my mate, get it up on the ramp and have a good poke about with no pressure, ideas and questions were kicked about and a drive round the yard in the dark followed. It was totally different from anything else I’d driven. I was convinced I wanted one.
A few days of thinking and researching engine conversions made me decide that it wasn’t for me, the price was right but not really what I wanted, if I was honest it had to be a 1275 in blue.
Then, another phone call from my mate again saying in the hunt for spares for the green one, his brother had seen a blue, 1275 Round Wheel Arch model in a restorers yard that was waiting it’s turn to be restored and the guy would let it go as seen.
A week later, I was in the yard looking at the car, it was a non runner and hadn’t been touched since arriving in August, and was told that the fuel pump had packed up a few years ago and it was pushed back into the garage and left there, (we’ve all heard that one haven’t we ?).
Anyway, a look over, under and in it resulted in deciding everything was right for me and cash changing hands. It needed work, but there was a new fuel pump in the boot, lots of history and although some rust nothing massive to put me off.
This is how I saw it
A week later it arrived at home and we pushed/bumped it off the trailer and into the garge.
Oil pressure is good, even when not running
Making friends with the Coupe
I’d been looking at them for a few years now at shows and thought they were just great, small, fun and easy to work on, loads of spares about and with a following, so at the end of last year I started looking to purchase one. I wanted a project car, something that needed work but was driveable to keep the mojo up between jobs.
In October last year an unexpected phone call from a mate saying his brother had one in his workshop resulted in a mild panic and an evening spent looking over it, it was a ’71 in green but had had a 1500 engine conversion, I wasn’t sure if it was what I wanted, but it was a chance to really look over one in the workshop with my mate, get it up on the ramp and have a good poke about with no pressure, ideas and questions were kicked about and a drive round the yard in the dark followed. It was totally different from anything else I’d driven. I was convinced I wanted one.
A few days of thinking and researching engine conversions made me decide that it wasn’t for me, the price was right but not really what I wanted, if I was honest it had to be a 1275 in blue.
Then, another phone call from my mate again saying in the hunt for spares for the green one, his brother had seen a blue, 1275 Round Wheel Arch model in a restorers yard that was waiting it’s turn to be restored and the guy would let it go as seen.
A week later, I was in the yard looking at the car, it was a non runner and hadn’t been touched since arriving in August, and was told that the fuel pump had packed up a few years ago and it was pushed back into the garage and left there, (we’ve all heard that one haven’t we ?).
Anyway, a look over, under and in it resulted in deciding everything was right for me and cash changing hands. It needed work, but there was a new fuel pump in the boot, lots of history and although some rust nothing massive to put me off.
This is how I saw it
A week later it arrived at home and we pushed/bumped it off the trailer and into the garge.
Oil pressure is good, even when not running
Making friends with the Coupe