I reply to every thread Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 72 build RWA Midget for sale (Tax exempt) Rare Black Tulip colour (purple) with black interior. Same owner since 1990. Car was reshelled into Californian shell in 95.photographic record of build & all bills since 1990.Minilite style alloys, K&N Filters & a roll over bar are only deviations from standard. Car is very sound but little used for last 3 years. Lives in a heated garage. Recent service, coil points etc.Paintwork not A1 in a few places but a pretty, sound car with lots of history. Condition is top end of 2 I'd say. Only selling because I have to accept that I can't justify having an Impreza, Caterham, Elise & the Midget. A sad parting after 15 years. ☹️ (Particularly as it was the source of a lively love-life in the early 90's.) Make a great first sportscar & parts are ludicrously cheap - like £35 for a full ignition change, points, rotor, plugs, leads, coil, cap etc Located in Kent & will have a years MOT on sale. £2650 OVNO. My mobile number is in Low Flying as area Org for T/Wells Edited by - AVES on 26 Aug 2005 17:31:46 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Howe Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 Mathew, you have no idea how tempted I am in your Midget. Had one in 19968 and the love affair lasted three years before I made way for a larger car, wonderful car. Good luck selling it. JH Deliveries by Saffron, the yellow 230bhp Sausage delivery machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I reply to every thread Posted August 26, 2005 Author Share Posted August 26, 2005 It's a wrench - I hate selling it but in reality it should be used - & I'm not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Whitley Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 AVES, YHM Fatalism means never having to wonder if it's safe to overtake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Matthews Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 can I have the mirrors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFA Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 I'm pretty sure she must have caved in on the Elise idea then....??????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I reply to every thread Posted August 30, 2005 Author Share Posted August 30, 2005 Yup Now sold ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ To a good 7's home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFA Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Farmer per chance??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I reply to every thread Posted August 30, 2005 Author Share Posted August 30, 2005 Nope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Whitley Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 It's moving from Royal Tunbridge Wells to the newly cleared space in my garage in Royal Ascot 😬 There'll soon be another Whitley loose in a powerful ( ) open top sports car - an earlier test drive featured her booting the throttle coming off a roundabout in the wet "to see how it handles" - I made sure she didn't get in the driver's seat this time. Fatalism means never having to wonder if it's safe to overtake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevefoster Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Interesting Tony. My first ever Sports car drive was in a Midget. The small footwell and dodgy electrics really made an impression on me readying me for 7 ownership... Hants (north) / Berkshire club here Area meeting pics here My Racing here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.Mupferit Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 There'll soon be another Whitley loose in a pwerful open top sports car Ye gods, are the roads not lethal enough already 🤔 Brent 2.3 DURATEC SV Reassuringly Expensive R 417.39 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Rothwell Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 I had three Midgets ( well actually two - the first was an Austin Healey Sprite 1100). Up-ended the Sprite coming home from the G/F, luckily had no roof on as I had forgptten it and left it at home. Also lucky we had no belts in those days. Got flung out at sixty through a bramble hedge and into a ploughed field . Suffered slight rip to leather jacket - Car had impression of a telegraph post from end to end. Rocked like a banana. Woden wheel rim gone and the spokes bent out and up like daggers where my knees had smashed their way out. Second car, a midget was great did over 100,000 miles with one engine re-build - blew head gaskets for fun (1275cc). Third was a dog. I always liked the models with the rounded back wheel arch instead of the normal flattened off arch. Think they only produced these for a very short while around H registration. Must have got the rear arches from another supplier. Is this car one of these ??? My F reg wasnt and neither was my J reg. Who needs a Helmet - Get an Affro ! Clickhere to see Car and AFFRO ! Member 6790 Superlight 0075 - K7 LYT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Whitley Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 It certainly is - Round Wheel Arch RWA. I had a 950cc, twin 1 1/8 SU Frogeye Sprite which I resurrected from the barn it had been in for some years. It had been standing on its crossply tyres all that time and I didn't have the money to change them so I drove it on those. No problem until I drove it in the wet for the first time and discovered what a "tank-slapper" was I (eventually) slid off the road, down a bank towards the edge of the tunnel that took the river under the road. I was sure I would tip over the edge, land upside down in the river and drown but luckily it stopped on the brink and with some assistance I managed to get back on the road, straight to the tyre place for some nice radials Come to think of it, that didn't have a hood either ☹️ Well, not until one particularly cold day in November when I finally gave in and bought one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Rothwell Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 My friend has a large collection of older cars stored away - There is a white midget amongst these - from what I remember it's one of the horrible later cars with the rubber bumpers and the triumph power plant. Glad you survived the dipping ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wag Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 I had a white rubber bumper one. It was not a bad car. The 1500 engine had a little more poke. Remarkable what you can get up to in a midget. I suppose we were all thinner in those days. The girl in question, though, left me for a BBC sound engineer called Allan with Ford Escort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Rothwell Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Mines still with me but instead of G/F now she's SWMBO ! Nothing against the Car - Just the Bumpers - At least it wouldnt keep blowing head gaskets. Other favorite faults were the starter motors kept failing. There was a brass thread for the battery cable that always came loose when the insulation around it failed. The starter then turned like a dog or went up in blue ionisation. Under the seats was always Pi$$ed wet through - usually fixed by putting a plastic carrier bag under the seat. Edited by - Dave Rothwell on 31 Aug 2005 16:56:16 Edited by - Dave Rothwell on 31 Aug 2005 16:59:52 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I reply to every thread Posted August 31, 2005 Author Share Posted August 31, 2005 "The 1500 engine had a little more poke" Cobblers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Howe Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 Mathew, so glad it has been sold within the fold.... before I made you an offer. EFA - you were close! JH Deliveries by Saffron, the yellow 230bhp Sausage delivery machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Piper Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 My first car was a Midget and I had two after that plus a Sprite Mk3. Like Matthew, I kept my last one for many years and bought a Californian shell to reshell it before very reluctantly parting company with the car and shell last year due to storage and practicality reasons. In real terms Midgets aren't fast and don't handle well, but for me it was the car that put me on a path that led to a Caterham and I have many fond memories of my Midgets, all of which did indeed play an active part in my lovelife in the '80s ❗ I never found the 1500 to be swifter than my 1275 RWA and I had the chance to drive many examples of both - a friend sells MGs. The rubber bumper cars handled poorly in my experience and the engine was susceptible to running big end bearings IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobo W Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 Tony, you've got a good car there. It holds lot's of fond memories for me as I borrowed it off Matt for 1 x honeymoon and 2 x Le Mans. Have fun. Edited by - Bobo W on 5 Sep 2005 11:28:20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Whitley Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 I was allowed (by its new owner) to bring it into work today and I have a lot of envious colleagues. I got more people staring than when I'm driving the Seven too (Though that may be due to the est. 115dB exhaust - new one on order today) I can also report that it, er, "kept up" with the traffic on the M3 quite happily 😬 Fatalism means never having to wonder if it's safe to overtake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I reply to every thread Posted September 5, 2005 Author Share Posted September 5, 2005 That exhaust is great - if you like the sound of ripping sail canvas. Tony , bear in mind it has the LCB manifold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Rothwell Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 Ah yes - you've now reminded me, Mine had a LCB and also I put a padded roll bar in - think it was from a firm called Ally Bars. Guess I put that in after I rolled the Austin Healey (see earlier post). I never put an exhaust clip on the bottom of the LCB so all I had to do was take the rear exhaust bolt out and pull the whole lot rearwards - I could then drive around sans silencer at all !! Who needs a Helmet - Get an Affro ! Clickhere to see Car and AFFRO ! Member 6790 Superlight 0075 - K7 LYT Edited by - Dave Rothwell on 5 Sep 2005 15:52:03 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobo W Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 My first Spridget was a Austin Sprite (Healey name dropped and only 1,024 made). Fair to say it wasn't in the best condition and would regularly be seen leaving a plume of smoke behind it, I think I was using more oil than petrol 😳 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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