Gavlar
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Christ on a bike!
Seen this on the MG owners forum, its a 1972 MG Midget for sale on Ebay with full E36 M3 Evo engine and running gear! Thats like 320bhp in like 750kg!!!
Link to the Ebay ad:
I like the sellers description lol:
Seen this on the MG owners forum, its a 1972 MG Midget for sale on Ebay with full E36 M3 Evo engine and running gear! Thats like 320bhp in like 750kg!!!
Link to the Ebay ad:
I like the sellers description lol:
Warning: This car re-defines your perceptions of savage acceleration. It is not for the faint hearted. You will need a large set of danglies to get the best out of it.
Very noisy, exceptionally fast and great fun to drive. Originally based on a 1972 RWA Midget (tax exempt), the car is an immensly strong steel chassis with fully independant and fully adjustable custom built suspension all round (camber, caster, toe-in, height and bespoke-built shock absorbers all adjustable) together with AP racing front brakes, BMW rear brakes and adapted MG Midget rack. The running gear is all BMW e36 Evo including 320 bhp 3.2 litre straight six, with six speed gearbox, LSD and BMW driveshafts. Even the propshaft is BMW, but shortened by several metres! The v5 document shows the M3 engine number and capacity. It has custom made highly lightweight 18 inch wheels and decent tyres. The car was substantially completed in 2008 by a custom car builder in Glasgow over 5 years. I picked it up and bought it down to my house in Buckinghamshire and since then have spend two years developing the handling of the car and sorting loads and loads and loads of detail stuff out to make it a road legal and driveable car. You can see it has a fabric hood (wickedly expensive), Moto Lita steering wheel, vinyl covered twin tube roll bar and the car is fully road legal with MOT to June 2011 (I am happy to get another 12 months MOT on it if required). Oh and it even has a heater!
The car is substantially complete, the main things left are:-
1. Completing the interior. I have done the hard bespoke bits of the interior, all that is left to do is fit the trim kit and carpets (which I have and will come with the car).
2. You will see from the photos one of the wheelarch extensions has been damaged, the last owner dropped a pole on it.
3. The bonnet fit is not brilliant around the bulkhead and could do with improving and I would want to fit a grille to the bonnet as well, although not essential.
I dont need to sell but I dont enjoy bodywork. However if there is no interest above the reserve I have set, then I will get the car finished and probably take it further, I just fancy a change in project.
Warning: This car re-defines your perceptions of savage acceleration. It is not for the faint hearted. You will need a large set of danglies to get the best out of it