Midas Owners Club

The club took the opportunity for a double-header weekend: The AGM at the National Kit Car Show, Malvern, and the 40th anniversary celebration at the National Metro and Mini Show, British Motor Museum, Gaydon.

This proved to be a success, especially for the members who drove down from Tyneside. As one of them said “having two different shows on consecutive days made the long journey worthwhile”.

As well as dozen members’ cars we were also joined by a Mini-Jem and the “Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics” team – watch out for more news about the Bangers and Cash Midas later in the year.

With the club’s are located near the doors to the museum and backing on to the arena, we drew plenty of attention and members were kept busy all day.

As part of the club’s 40th anniversary celebration, our current treasurer, Colin Oberlin-Harris, presented the club’s founder and first club secretary, Colin Spencer, with one of our anniversary caps.

With so much to see around the show, not to mention in the museum and the collections halls, we hope that the club returns again next year.

Running from the 8th to the 10th November this year’s show proved as popular as ever with total attendance figures back to pre-covid levels. The Midas Club Stand was once again in Hall 5 but we had a spot against a side wall rather than in the middle of the arena.

After setting up on the Thursday the stand (as pictured above) was ‘good to go’.

All three days saw an almost constant stream of visitors, some knowledgable but most who needed some explanation of both the individual cars and the Marque itself. Viewed from left to right are car No1 the first production Mk1 : the extensively modified Mk4 Cortez which seems to feature regularly in the motoring press : a newly refurbished Mk3 convertible now owned by a previous Midas Cars employee.

It was good to see more Club Members than usual which must be a good omen for the Club’s upcoming 40th anniversary celebration. Planning for this is already underway.

Once again the Midas Owners Club has been allocated a stand at the November Classic Car Show. In preparation for this we’ve been busy planning and producing some new display screens to replace the ones used in previous years. The digital displays will still feature showing both cars and events.

Midas and Mini Marcos Owners can benefit by using the discount code CCCNOV811.

The code gives a £4.00 discount off single-day adult ticket prices or £2 off family, child & multi-day tickets.  The club discount will be applied to Advance ticket prices before midnight on Thurs 7 Nov and Show Open ticket prices thereafter.  Full ticket information at: www.necclassicmotorshow.com/ticket-information.

WANT TO HELP OUT?

If you can help by ‘manning the stand’ on one of the days please email the club secretary (email in the front of your magazine) with your preferred day.

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