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engine swaps and other performance upgrades, plus "factory" and Costello V8s

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Ivor Duarte
Gloucestershire UK
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MG Midget like you never saw
Posted by: 88v8
Date: August 03, 2013 03:52PM

Just when you think you've seen everything...
[cgi.ebay.com]

Not mine.

Ivor


pspeaks
Paul Speaks
Dallas, Texas
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1972 MGB-GT 1979 Ford 302

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Re: MG Midget like you never saw
Posted by: pspeaks
Date: August 03, 2013 05:13PM

Everybody loves their baby so I make it a point not to make comments about the creativity of others and I can't see from the pictures what engineering it presents or what part of it is from a midget. It does make me wonder however, just what else is out there we don't know about!


Paul



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HealeyRick
Rick Neville

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Re: MG Midget like you never saw
Posted by: HealeyRick
Date: August 03, 2013 08:27PM

Actually, there were a few "Gatsby era" reproductions that used the Midget cowl, windshield, trunk and doors, including the Clenet, which sold for $85,000 in 1984: [blog.hemmings.com] Another was the Panther Kallista.
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pspeaks
Paul Speaks
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Re: MG Midget like you never saw
Posted by: pspeaks
Date: August 04, 2013 01:35AM

I would have thought the Clenet a little large to use components from a Midget, but I can see the resemblance. Not my taste, but I guess I learned something today. Thanks Rick,


Paul


Preform Resources
Dave Craddock
Redford,Michigan
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12/20/2008 05:46PM

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72 MGB V6 3.4

Re: MG Midget like you never saw
Posted by: Preform Resources
Date: August 04, 2013 05:40PM

I guarantee that the CLENET MKI used Midget tubs from the cowl back, I spent a few weeks working there in 78 and saw a truck
load of midget tubs stripped bare of running gear delivered to the factory, now the later versions were using VW front cowl/A pillars and custom stamped rear sheet metal as were the MKI versions, these were stamped out by Experimetal in Detroit the
same folks who are stamping out the Dearborn deuce , the speed 33 and others.
Dave Craddock


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Dan Blackwood
South Charleston, WV
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Re: MG Midget like you never saw
Posted by: Dan B
Date: August 08, 2013 03:40PM

Didn't people call the T series MGs "Midgets" back in their day? The description refers to a 50's Midget.


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Carl Floyd
Kingsport, TN
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1979 MGB Buick 215

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Re: MG Midget like you never saw
Posted by: MGBV8
Date: August 08, 2013 11:00PM

Dan is correct. The T-Series are the original Midgets. The windshield & doors on the car in that ad are not from a T-Series Midget, though. ;)



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Gary W

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Re: MG Midget like you never saw
Posted by: burner1
Date: August 09, 2013 10:10AM

What is the red boat tail in the background?


denvermgb
Brad Carson
Aurora, Colorado
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03/10/2008 12:45AM

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1975 MGB 350 SBC bored 0.040 over

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Re: MG Midget like you never saw
Posted by: denvermgb
Date: August 12, 2013 10:59PM

Seller claims it's "rear."

Brad


DonB
Don Bonar
Prairie Village, KS
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09/09/2011 10:06AM

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1971 MG-B 95 GM 3.4 V-6

Re: MG Midget like you never saw
Posted by: DonB
Date: August 14, 2013 04:41AM

Oh how sad....


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