Lot details
Registration No: XDK555K
Chassis No: GAN5117581
Mot Expiry: June 2020

- Desirable round wheel arch, chrome bumper Midget

- Blaze Orange with Black Vinyl and Black carpets

- Fully restored 8 years ago

- Huge history file accompanying the car

The MG Midget of 1961 was essentially a MKII Austin Healey Sprite in a slightly different suit of clothes. The newcomer started life powered by a 948cc BMC 'A' Series engine. The doors were without external handles or locks and the side windows comprised sliding perspex screens. Braking was by drums all-round. Matters had greatly improved by the time the MKIII version appeared in 1966, not least in the engine compartment where the motor's capacity had been increased via 1098cc to 1275cc. Semi-elliptic rear springs had replaced the original quarter-elliptic ones inherited from the Frogeye Sprite, and the front drum brakes had been replaced with discs. Wind-up windows had been fitted, together with a superior hood.

This attractive Midget is a desirable round wheel arch chrome bumper example dating from 1972, and therefore powered by the 1275cc version of BMC's immortal A Series engine. Fully restored some eight years ago it is said to remain in "very nice condition". Finished in Blaze Orange with Black vinyl interior, the bodywork and interior are described as being "very good" whilst the engine, paintwork and gearbox are "good". MoT exempt, it is accompanied by a Swansea V5 and large history file.