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MG Midget and Sprite Technical - Oops here comes no 7

Drink and fleabay dont mix, looks like Ive got another project


Alan McKewan

Alan

Good advice!

What's the condition like? Stainless steel sill finishers can set the teeth on edge!

I am glad to see people saving and restoring 1500 cars. I am still surprised how good value they are in the UK compared to chrome bumper A series engined cars but with similar rusty bodywork woes and hence restoration costs.

Is that project no 7, or seven cars on go at once? What are your plans for this one?

Cheers
Mike
M Wood

Bha ha ha ha! Hilarious!

Going to share anymore details or too embarrassed? :-D

Malcolm

M Le Chevalier

midget no 7, currently driving no 6. 1-5 long gone years ago.
Plans are better thought through post hangover.
Going to have a much closer look / collect this afternoon. I was thinking of a K in my current one but maybe will just keep it original and mod this one.
It is supposedly one of the first built 1500s so should be the earliest to get free uk car tax, anyone know what the earliest chassis number sold in the UK would be?
Alan McKewan

IIRC I think very earliest 1500s only had one jacking point each side, has Tim's early 1500 only got one jacking point per side (or is this all in my imagination?)

I know the front road springs were the same as the later 1275s

there are a surprising number of changes over the life of the 1500s, the dials were different on the early to later

for early car chassis numbers just look at a parts catalogue for the start of GAN6

ETA: just looked it up 154101 (Nov '74)
Nigel Atkins

This thread was discussed on 26/04/2014

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