As many of you will know I have a white Mk2 I'm doing some radical rebuilding work on and consequently I'm feeling a bit guilty turning up at events without a Midas. Some of you will have seen it, as I did take it to Stoneleigh on the back of my trailer last year and you'll have had a preview of what I'm doing with it. It's been progressing slowly as I keep having more and more radical ideas. I'm glad to say though that I'm not totally mad with what I'm doing as Alistair has seen what I'm up to and has helped steer me in the right direction now and then.
So I had yet another radical idea which I thought I ought to check out with him a few weeks ago when I came across someone in Halfords who had actually heard of a Midas and said a freind of his had a one which he thought was a Gold and was not sure what to do with it. My Favourite Midas !!!! Give him my contact details I said straight away and let him know he can join the Midas Owners Club.
Well nothing happened and I heard nothing. Then out of the blue I got this phone call from a guy who wanted to know where he could get spare parts for a Midas Gold to get it through an MOT as he heard I was the expert...... Eh? what? me an expert? I think you want Alistair Courtney at Midas Cars I said. Then the chappy told me he had recently got the car and didn't know where he could get bits for it and help if he needed it. Oh are you the lucky guy who's bought the car in Crewkeren then? You lucky sod I really wanted to find out if that was for sale as it's my favourite Midas. I told him.
Apparantly no he'd just 'inherited' it from his dad and didn't know what to do with it but you can come and have a look at it if you like....
Well temptation got the better of me and I went to go and see the car the next morning in the rain and made him an offer despite it looking in desperate need of a lot of attention and a fair amount of love and care too. So we both hummed and errred and hummed and said we'd have to think about it a bit more..
Anyways I thought I'd speak to Alistair as he usually talks a reasonable amount of sense when it comes to Midas cars and I began to see a good excuse to justify me buying another Midas
It all makes perfect sense and here goes:-
1. It's my favourite Midas as you've probably found out already
2. It had an MOT and tax (well it had an MOT on the day I saw it)
3. It meant I could turn up at events in a Midas
4. It meant I could get on with my Mk2 in a less desperate mood as I would be driving a Midas while I rebuilt one
5. Once I'd done my Mk2 I could then drive that and restore the Gold Coupe
6. The clincher the car I have been driving which I'm going to use in my grand plan for my great Midas idea needs an MOT next week and it's a bit silly spending a shed load of money replacing parts on a car I'm going to rip apart to put into a Midas
There you go 6 excellent reasons to have bought this........
In all her dull tired and weary splendour but you've got to just love that shape. Don't you...? The photos actually make her look none too bad but I can assure you the gel coat is very very tired and the interior well maybe I'll fess up to that later, though it does have a radio (note I don't say stereo and there's a good reason for that)