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old photos

PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:12 pm
by johnnyfixit
Just been brousing through the club site of photos of the car I have and spotted this
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and noticed the yellow car has done away with the head lights and was wondering why ,what for and is it hideing something special .I can nearly read the reg but thought some one on here might recognize it and be able to put something forward on it :? Looks like it might have pop up lights or am I looking at it wrong :oops:

Re: old photos

PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:52 am
by Stuart
Its Mike Perkins K-series mk3 with vertical lift headlights, he changed the headlights to pop-up after this early photo of the conversion

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Re: old photos

PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:58 am
by Hans Efde
Here's a pic of it from the K-series dir on the old Midas Yahoo forum. This is a pic before he installed the pop up lights (which work very clever with a small spindle/nut system with push/pull cables).
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/7811164/sn ... 8/name/n_a

Re: old photos

PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:21 am
by Alan D.
It does look mean and aggressive, unlike the "Myrtle" Midas which I drive. Are there any more pictures or information anywhere? I wonder where the car is now?

Alan

Re: old photos

PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:41 am
by Hans Efde
Mike has written extensively about this car in the club mags, even in the b/w era of TGT!. He even made a 1/1 scale model of foam of this engine to see if it could fit! There's a mag that has a pic of it on the backside. If you are not complete with your collection of TGT's I could fill in the gaps.

Re: old photos

PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:53 am
by Stuart
You just have to go back to the summer of 1991 Alan and look in TGT (That Golden touch Midas magazine) Summer 1991 page 11-12 (although the issue number is missing from the front of the mag)
then Autumn 1991 page 28-32 then Winter 1991 page 22 for the drawings.

Rather shockingly that was 19 years ago :o

You beat me this time Hans :)

Re: old photos

PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 7:05 pm
by johnnyfixit
Found another picture on how to ruin a Midas
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fourth from right :shock:

Re: old photos

PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:24 pm
by mikeeskriett
4th from the right is actually a pretty special midas it's a rare factory built rally car. There is a whole host of special parts on this car thicker floor, customised arches highly modified adjustable rear beam etc. Admittedly the Manta headlights are a tad on the large side but I'll bet you can see in the dark!!

Cheers,

Mike

Re: old photos

PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:23 pm
by Geoff Butcher
I reckon that looks better in the dark!