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The car has now moved on to a new owner and is due a complete rebuild.

Inim666 wrote:Hi I would be interested in this, is the V5 with the car? And how fast does it need to be moved?

Thanks

The house market around here seems to be very slow at the moment so sometime before Christmas, bur the sooner the better.

I have the V5 document and the drivers door is shown in one of the pictures I posted. I can't remember why I took it off but it must have been a good idea at the time.

I pumped up the tyres today but the back wheels refused to move. Copious WD40 overnight and I'll have another go tomorrow.

Unfortunately no one wants my old Midas so I will have to contact a local scrap dealer to take it away. It's going to take me a few days to remove most of the rubbish getting in the way. I've set this coming Friday as my target day for contacting the scrap dealer.

Final three pictures. I don't know why the colour changed in this picture as under all the dust the car is black.

In September '93 I "rescued" the car with the help of Charlie Dodd as it was parked in a residential parking space in Milton Keynes and threatened with being towed away and scrapped by the council. "It only needs a re-trim and the materials are in the car" was a comment made before I collected it. A ...

We have decided we have to downsize as we are getting too old to do things we used to do. I am currently working my way through my workshop and garage.
My Mkll Midas will be one of the casualties as it will not be practical for me to move it (yet again) after we sell our current house and move into ...

Range of the various drop in packages is not great and can vary between 100 and 150 miles.

Long time no see.

I have an old Mk11 to languishing in my garage on four flat tyres and it's about time I did something with it. For a long time I hoped to replace the A series engine with an electric motor and batteries. Technology has moved on in leaps and bounds and there are now kits available ...

Just to let you know I have sent Alistair a list of Midas cars that I collated for the original club website. Over 350 cars on the list.

Hugh