1972 MG Midget

New for 2023, Reduced Buyers Premium: 5% + VAT (subject to minimum of £250 + VAT)

Registration No: FWN 577L
Chassis No: GAN5114204G
MOT: Exempt
Estimate: £4,000 - £5,000

Motor Car Location: Cheshire

• Current ownership since 2010
• Haynes manual and a collection of invoices
• Offered with V5C document
• Fitted with S/S exhaust and electronic ignition
• Desirable ‘round wheel arch’ model

When new, the MG Midget was essentially a MkII Austin Healey Sprite in a slightly different suit of clothes. In christening its new small sports car 'Midget', BMC revived a name made famous by a range of pre-war MGs. The new Midget started life powered by a 948cc A-Series engine fed by a pair of SU carburettors. 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 1,098cc to 1,275cc. Semi-elliptic rear springs had replaced the original quarter elliptic ones inherited from the Frog Eye Sprite and front drum brakes had been replaced with discs. A total of 226,001 Midgets are understood to have been built between 1961 and 1979, some 100,246 of which were MkIII models.

In current ownership since 2010, this is a desirable ‘round wheel arch’ model with only 1 former keeper registered on the V5C. Sitting on Rostyle wheels and with the attractive chrome bumpers and bumperettes, this desirable ‘round arch’ Midget is offered with a V5C document, a Haynes manual and a collection of invoices. A tonneau cover is also present. It has been the subject of the following work:

New fuel tank

Stainless steel exhaust

New battery alternator conversion

New front discs, calipers and pads

New rear brake shoes and brake cylinders

New clutch and brake master cylinders

New flexible brake hoses and brake pipes

New tyres all round

Electronic ignition system

Carbs rebuilt with new needles H6

731 Camshaft

Engine rebuilt, run in 80 miles, oil changed

Peter May lightened flywheel and baffled sump

New clutch and modified release bearing

Numerous other small new parts

A new battery in 2021

For more information, please contact:
James McWilliam
james.mcwilliam@handh.co.uk
07943 584760