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1977 MG Midget, Clive Thompson
Affordable to run, easy to work on and great fun to drive it’s easy to see why the Midget is so popular with classic car enthusiasts, but it turns out that the lovely example you see here has quite the story.
“The car was bought by my then-girlfriend in 1984 but it needed repairs to the engine and clutch, so I found myself a Haynes manual and got started on a rebuild. As is the way with life, we went our separate ways, and the car was sold for something more practical in 1989.”
Fast forward to 2012 and a chance encounter saw Clive and his sweetheart reunited. Both of them had fond memories of the little MG and, having established that it still existed, set about trying to find it again.
A weekly search on the internet brought no results until it suddenly appeared for sale on an auction site in 2019. And it was only twenty miles from where they lived.
It wasn’t going to be straightforward, though, because Clive explains that it was in very poor condition and almost on the verge of being scrapped. But with the purchase secured and the car transported home the hard work could begin, and it would turn out to be the perfect lockdown project.
“The body was completely rotten so the answer was to source a donor car that provided a variety of panels and other parts that I could use. The engine didn’t need any work, and it was still the one I’d rebuilt all those years before.”
The work would take two years, but not only did it look superb, but it was just as it had been in 1984, even down to the aftermarket steering wheel and centre console. It’s a brilliant ‘lost and found’ story, for the MG and the couple!
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