Hi all, I am considering selling my Midas....only considering as I have not had the car long but other commitments may be coming to the fore I had wanted to get fully involved in the club but actually never sorted my membership out. This is something I may still do though as you've all been incredibly helpful to me!
I will be as honest as I can be and will even include the original listing from ebay when I purchased the car:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Midas-Gold-Co ... 789wt_1348
As you can see I paid £1500.
I have carried out the following additional work:
New front brakes (disks and pads)
New pot joint rubber seals (massive job) and all of the rubbers around the suspension linkages that needed replacing were replaced
Hydragas pump up on both front struts (not leaking so this is still fine)
Seats out of a smart car (these have some wet patches but will clean up like new and are comfy enough)
New distributor cap and HT leads/rotar arm- alreaddy electronic ignition
New radiator fan with manually wired switch (relayed)
New front tyres
New mechanical fuel pump
New gear selector shaft seal
Essentially all the parts that I changed were to make the car reliable and roadworthy again even though it already had an MOT- it was leaking oil but this is now stopped thanks to all the replaced rubber seals and fuel pump. A tiny drip does still come from the gear selector shaft seal but I couldn't fix that. It is barely noticeable so I was happy to leave it. I have read that this is pretty common with the a-series lumps.
To make this car perfect I agree with the original ad that a respray would be a good idea and also a better stereo (still has cassette player!)
The exhaust is also loud- some people love this but I don't. It doesn't seem to be blowing from anywhere, it is just loud!
The car still runs and drives fine and now handles well since sorting the hydragas out and it is a proper head turner. MOT is until February and I can't see anything to stop it passing again either...I am a motorbiker and wish to get a big bike again so will probably end up keeping the car through the winter unless the right offer comes along before Christmas. Somewhere between 1700 and 2000 seems more than a fair price to me given the additional work and cost of parts.
This is the standard statement for this type of car but here goes:
Previous (1 owner before me) is a mechanical engineer in his 40's-50's and he built the car- I still have massive amounts of documentation which I am happy to let go with the car.
I am a chemical engineer myself with experience in rebuilding classic cars/ bikes with my 2 brothers (a morris minor and a singer chamois were our first cars) so make of that what you will! Car has had very careful hands looking after it.
It is fully registered as a midas and everything is above board with the documentation.
One more thing, I will mail the original owner as well and he will get first refusal as this only seems fair- he was totally fair with me after all.
please PM me if you wish to come and have a look.
We are based in leamington, warwickshire.