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Website & Forum on new host

The website and the forum have been moved to a new hosting company this is to save the club some money and also to receive better support and to reinstate the secure server so there should be no more warnings … Continue reading

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The National Kit Car Show, Saturday 31st May at the Three Counties Showground, Malvern

The Midas Owners Club held its 2025 AGM at the ‘Malvern Show’ on the Saturday. Usually the AGM is held on the Sunday, but this year we had bigger plans for 1st June, which was reflected in a smaller than … Continue reading

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The 2025 Practical Classics, Classic Car Restoration Show

Another trip to the NEC marked the start of the 2025 show season. Roy’s prize winning Mk2 Bronze was joined by an unfinished Gold Convertible for the three days – March 21st to 23rd. Our prominent location close to the … Continue reading

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2016 Round-up

2016 was a busy year for the club. So busy that we didn’t get much chance to update the website. So by way of catching up here is a round-up of what we got up to: May 2016 – The … Continue reading

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Midas Cars featured in Kit Car and TKC Magazines

November has brought along two Midas magazine features: Kit Car magazine has an eight page feature on Richard Streets’ kit car history, telling the story of his Mk2 Bronze, a brief flirtation with a Robin Hood and how he has … Continue reading

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The Footman James Classic Vehicle Restoration Show, 7th & 8th November 2015, Royal Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet.

For our first venture for the club into classic car shows we could not have dreamed of a better show. The club members rallied round and we ended up with more cars than we could fit on our stand! Fortunately, the … Continue reading

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Mini Action Day 2015, Castle Combe Circuit, September 26th 2015

Once again we were blessed with good weather and  the sun shone down on Castle Combe for the last outdoor event of 2015. As usual our members took full advantage of the activities. Some ventured out on track for the … Continue reading

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2015 Open Day and MOC barbeque.

This year’s event took place on Sunday 19 July.  Over 50 people  and  15 Midas Cars turned out for the day. With 1 Mk2 Coupe, 4 Mk3 Gold Coupes, 4 Gold Convertibles, 4 Mk4 Cortez Coupes and two Excelsior convertibles … Continue reading

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Midas Cars featured in Complete Kit Car photo shoot

During the National Kit Car Show, at Stoneleigh, Ian Stent of Complete Kit Car magazine gathered together a selection of Midas models for a photo shoot. The results can be seen on the cover and in a seven page feature in … Continue reading

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David Johnson

It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of David Johnson at the beginning of June.   David had been our Membership Secretary for the last couple of years and had done a great job of sorting … Continue reading

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