old photos

[johnnyfixit]

Just been brousing through the club site of photos of the car I have and spotted this

and noticed the yellow car has done away with the head lights and was wondering why ,what for and is it hideing something special .I can nearly read the reg but thought some one on here might recognize it and be able to put something forward on it Looks like it might have pop up lights or am I looking at it wrong

[Stuart]

Its Mike Perkins K-series mk3 with vertical lift headlights, he changed the headlights to pop-up after this early photo of the conversion

[Hans Efde]

Here's a pic of it from the K-series dir on the old Midas Yahoo forum. This is a pic before he installed the pop up lights (which work very clever with a small spindle/nut system with push/pull cables).
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/7811164/sn ... 8/name/n_a

[Alan D.]

It does look mean and aggressive, unlike the "Myrtle" Midas which I drive. Are there any more pictures or information anywhere? I wonder where the car is now?

Alan

[Hans Efde]

Mike has written extensively about this car in the club mags, even in the b/w era of TGT!. He even made a 1/1 scale model of foam of this engine to see if it could fit! There's a mag that has a pic of it on the backside. If you are not complete with your collection of TGT's I could fill in the gaps.

[Stuart]

You just have to go back to the summer of 1991 Alan and look in TGT (That Golden touch Midas magazine) Summer 1991 page 11-12 (although the issue number is missing from the front of the mag)
then Autumn 1991 page 28-32 then Winter 1991 page 22 for the drawings.

Rather shockingly that was 19 years ago

You beat me this time Hans

[johnnyfixit]

Found another picture on how to ruin a Midas

fourth from right

[mikeeskriett]

4th from the right is actually a pretty special midas it's a rare factory built rally car. There is a whole host of special parts on this car thicker floor, customised arches highly modified adjustable rear beam etc. Admittedly the Manta headlights are a tad on the large side but I'll bet you can see in the dark!!

Cheers,

Mike

[Geoff Butcher]

I reckon that looks better in the dark!