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original midas wrote:Just to put the record straight.
The first Midas to come out of the moulds was purchased by myself, fitted with a modified 1275 S motor, registered to my address in Newtown, Powys.
It cost £1200.00, I paid harold for the car whilst it was still curing,collected it a few weeks later, he consequently attempted to dissuade me from taking delivery in order to raise the sale price.
The company secretary was Brenda Maylan, when the company moved south she went with him.
original midas wrote:I was not aware of any issues with mounting plates !
ACourtney wrote:That clears that up. It looks like the chassis numbers were issued in the order in which they were moulded, which makes good sense.
Mark's car was then the third production car out of the mould, but clearly the first customer car to be collected and also the first production car to be registered.
Evidently Mr Smith of Hendon didn't hang about putting the car together and on to the road.
Just to put that in order:
JLY 862V - Chassis D10002 Registered on 01-09-1979
JEH 448V - Chassis D10000 Registered on 01-10-1979
FNT 349V - Chassis D10001 Registered on 15-11-79
What is great about this story is that the first three production cars still exist and are in the hands of enthusiasts. Perhaps, we can tempt Margo to bring his car over from Tallinn to get all three cars together for a meet up at some point in the future.
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