What a great day out. A once in a lifetime opportunity to meet a real hero of mine and see some fabulous cars. As you can see, Gordon Murray's Midas has been rebuilt and is all but ready to go on the road.
Tony was contacted some months ago by the GMD workshop, as they had started on the rebuild and we have supplied some parts and advice to them. However, we didn't know if the car would be ready for this exhibition until photos started to appear on Facebook earlier this week.
We got the opportunity to speak to Gordon Murray himself and he told us that he plans to add the car to his daily driver fleet, that is the cars that he keeps taxed and insured so he can use them any day he chooses. Apparently, he arrives in a different car most days
He also plans to fit a bigger Alfa 33 engine in place of the 1.5litre Alfasud engine, but first he will get the Midas on the road.
DSC_0512 by
Alistair Courtney, on Flickr
The rest of my photos can be seen at:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 084&type=3The car is now fully trimmed out and the engine is hidden by a cover. It features a Mk3 dashboard moulding which must have been a late addition. I had a good look underneath and the engine and gearbox are in place and appear to have all their services plumbed in. The front end has an aluminium undertray so there is not much to be seen other than the lower front wishbones