Vintage Thing No 140 - MG Midge
Stephen Bailey's MG Midge during tea and cake after his successful ascent of Sutcombe Hill A Midge was a kit car you built from plans available back in the eighties. More of a self-build affair, some parts were purchasable to ease the construction process. Most were based on Triumph Herald chassis, which made the process of construction fairly easy especially if you had a vintage style radiator shell to hand. Stephen Bailey built a Midge but then felt he could build another one specifically for trials. Instead of a Herald he managed to find a pre-war MG chassis and used most of that as the basis for his Class 8 trials special. hardly anything else MG went into. The running gear is mostly Ford with a 1620cc Kent engine. This has a single SU on quite a long inlet tract for torque, hence that round thing on the bonnet. I think he used Triumph uprights I asked him how he'd registered it and he said he'd built such a long time ago the DVLA trusted anyone who was bui...