1975 MG midget, cheapest way to go from A to B topless!
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Today on what’s it’s like 1975 mg 50th Anniversary edition mg midget. That belongs to a viewer and friend of mine, this car is currently for sale at classic auto mall Morgan town pa if you’d like to see more pictures as well as get directions be sure to click the link below after the show
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I’ve owned three midgets, a 63, a 67, and a 76. I eventually moved up to a big car. A 1979 MGB!
Great video! Thanks for doing a video on my car!
Thank you so much for hanging out and and showing me your car =) happy weekend ran into each other at Hershey
Jay, back in the summer of '77, my brother was a Marine, and when on leave, he brought me down to MCAS El Toro, to visit with him for a couple of weeks. At this time, he owned a '73 Triumph GT6, now that car was so COOL. But late Aug. going from the S.F. east Bay Area, down to L.A.,,,,, wow, car being so small with the transmission right between him and I... and that inline 6-cyl... wow, no A/C, windows down doing about 65 mph, (speed limit then:55mph) Sweltering Hot, but so cool, Kansas , on the radio, "Carry on O' Wayward Son".............. it was so real!
GT6 is a stellar car. It’s been years since I’ve seen one. Thank you so much for sharing that story of your brother. Awesome memories.
I personally prefer Triumph have had spitfires tr6 and made a gt spitfire. But it always reminds me of the joke why do British drink warm beer? Because Lucas makes refrigerators 😂
Hahaha great joke
TR6 is a nice car I shot one for the channel but I don’t know what happened to the footage so I’ll probably have to do it again I couldn’t believe how tight they are. They’re very similar to this car. The only differences is if you’re over 6 foot tall and you push the clutch in when you’ve released the clutch, your knee is kind of in the bottom of the dashboard or at least that was the experience I had when I pushed the clutch in
I also prefer a Triumph over an MG, but by the 70's almost all British sports cars were just horribly strangled by emission and bumper standards.
@@What.its.like. I always thought having a triumph spitfire was like having a road legal go cart
Haha yeah those are cool I’ve always kind of sort of wanted one. Not sure if I still do I really want to metropolitan. That’s kind of sort of the next car that I really want to buy. I think they’re so cool.
@What.its.like. how well.do you fit in a metropolitan your a tall dude!
I have owned all of these cars, I have now bought a 1976 MIDGET, at the age of 70, I am enjoying y second child hood very much 😅
WYR 1: All of them.
WYR 2: All of them.
This ain't a channel, it's a community. Anyone who disagrees needs to NOT watch these videos. Why watch it if they don't like it? I'd drive the right-hand-drive version of the Midget so my dominant hand is on the wheel at all times. My favorite beetles are the rag-top version where you still have a roof structure to bear the weight in a rollover.
Great choices
So many people say they have communities and they aren’t really present I’m just a regular guy that digs cars, which I can’t stress enough. Idk just love my base this channel would be nothing without all of you. Try to be as transparent as possible research as much as possible. Just try to make as good of videos as I possibly can. =)
Glad you dig this channel
@@What.its.like. I love cars, but cars newer than the late 70s or early 80s have too many computers under the hood for me. Older cars are a lot easier to repair because there's no reporgramming required for anything. Tuning them for more power may be tricky, but at least you don't have to be a tech geek to write the program necessary to do it.
I was watching car Wizard earlier and he was saying with all the screens and stuff that could be a $20,000 fix I’m good..
my wife doesn’t like the classic stuff tho I think if she drives one she might like it different experience but then again she is the type of person who just gets in and goes doesn’t care about the experience just wants A to B without issue
@@What.its.like. I want to get from A to B alive, but that's the only requirement. I don't care if I'm just about dead when I get there due to 3rd and 4th degree burns, I'll be alive when I get there.
74, just like it over all
75 VW (had friend with Midgets, I don't fit, and a brother had a 124 Spyder, may she rust in peace)
75 MGB GT (it did NOT have a 1.5 L triumph engine!)
Memories. Dude, you’re killing me with these evocative uploads bringing me back. I went to college, 74 - 78, and this MG was one of the primo cars for summer break. I remember too that the Triumph convertible was also greatly envied. I remember hearing about appalling problems with the electrical wiring on all cars British but it’s been a long time and the memory ain’t what it used to be. Another car which was very, very popular was the Peugeot. 504? Ugly car but it really had a following. Hope you’re well. 👍
Yeah, I’m doing well. I hope you’re well as well. I never saw Peugeot 504. I’m not up on foreign cars like I am on the American ones definitely going to try to cover some more foreign stuff this year. There’s a lot of foreign stuff in the pipeline finding information is sometimes challenging with those. I’m happy that this can bring back those memories because that’s what it’s all about. =)
You mean "Prince of Darkness, Lucas electrics?
These were still in production when I got my license. I looked at this and an Alfa but I was too tall to drive it safely. Oh well. I got a Capri and that was fun.
Europeans must be way shorter than us. I have that feeling in a lot of European cars they’re just too small there’s more space in the Crosley hotshot then some of those cars. lol and that’s saying something
Oh, how I lusted after the Midget... even though physically I could have never comfortably fit in one. Horrendously unreliable, the MG Midget had electrical gremlins like many British cars of the era, and mechanically not too reliable either. But, but I still wanted the car when it was out.. and I dreamed, wanting to drive it like in a Get Smart opening credit. My choice between the first 3 cars would have been the beetle convertible, the only vehicle reliable enough and large enough for me.
I was waiting for you to do the crotch test! Were you even able to get completely in the vehicle? That is a very tiny car. Loved that did a review of it!
Yeah, I didn’t do the crotch test on this one. It was pretty tight.
I have a 77 MGB that I pulled that slug of a 4-cylinder and put a Mustang 302 mtr. In. It b one bad ass mg
Yeah Jay, my older brother had really the same thing except the name was an Austin-Healey (SP?) Sprite. Same, just the name was the difference. He really loved that car, but stored it so long, when he finally went to get it up and running, he looked around, and there were just "NO-WHERE" to fix it. All of the guys who knew about them, and had experience, all died, and retired. So, he GAVE it away. I remember riding in it, it was fun but such a dog. You know they say: "it's more fun to drive a slow car fast, than to drive a fast car slow".
I’m totally in that camp that it’s way more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car fast I do a lot of driving and I have a Toyota Prius. I kind of want to do a section in the summertime if I can called and you thought your car was fast and drag race against a Prius, I will beat anybody that has a higher 0 to 60 times than 8 1/2 seconds, which doesn’t sound that fast but it’s pretty fast for that car. It only has 100 hp.
Thank you so much for sharing those memories
I can appreciate these for their distinct style. When I was in high school I had a friend that had one that was a 70's model, I'm not sure of the exact model year, but I did ride in it a couple of times that I can remember and it seems that I do remember that it was a bit uncomfortable, and I was probably just under 6' and really thin. I also remember during that same time period, seeing a lot of ads in magazines for the '8😮0 MGB, and the Triumph autos as well, which I thought were all beautiful , but my favorite of the MG model has always been the MGB GT. Also during that time and a couple of years after, my older sister and brother-in-law had a '79 Fiat convertible, that I drove quite a few times and really loved driving, and as much as I love the Fiat, I really dig that cool looking VW convertible!🤩and wouldn't mind owning! In the second, it would be the MGB GT!😎
Sweet choices
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with the car These were tiny. Adventure to say that there’s more space in the Crosley hotshot not saying something because that car is smaller than this.
I have the 75 and can tell you the differences are the Triumph engine, a raised suspension, a RETURN to the squared rear wheel arches, the third wiper, a notch cut in the rear to facilitate the new bumper and some minor changes to the front fenders to make them fit the new bumpers.
All of these changes were made to make the car compatible with the US market.
The Mark IV or 1500 is the red haired stepson of MG’s. Like Rodney Dangerfield it doesn’t get any respect.
All that said the basic shell is the same as the earlier car. Leyland only made the changes because they had to in order to export the car.
With these cars changes were incremental and only occurred when old stock ran out so build date not model year is the thing if you are trying to research a Leyland vehicle.
Even the 1500 is a blast to drive though. I love mine.
Thank you so much for sharing all of that insight and information on the differences between the mark three in the mark for greatly appreciated
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My pleasure. I wish I bought the car when I was in my teens. The British were very interested in keeping production costs down, so the car remained basically the same. In fact you can backdate a mark IV all the way back to a mark I with wrenches and only a real expert on the car will notice. The early cars had plexiglass sliding screens rather than roll up windows, but the doors are the same size on all marks and are interchangeable.
The drive train was off the shelf and not developed for the car. The idea was to make a sports car that a working class person in austerity Britain could afford and be small enough to fit in a bike shed.
If you understand the thinking behind the design the car doesn’t seem so quirky.
I’m not a small guy, and I will admit the car is not designed to be driven for hours at a time. I have done it, but it really is optimized for joy rides of an hour or less.
The one real failure was not putting an overdrive in the car. At 50mph you are in direct drive and the engine is revving at 3500 rpm. It gets loud. The best upgrade for the car is an overdrive. Kits exist, but being a cheap car most opt for a bigger car like an MX5 rather than upgrading the transmission.
They are a great entry level classic and the prices are very stable. This is both good and bad because it is an easy in but the cars never become valuable like say a Mustang.
It’s crazy that Mustangs became valuable because they made so many of them. That’s the beauty of them really is there so many out there and they make every single part for that car so you could build one from the ground up if you wanted to.
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Well the factory in Abington makes almost every component including complete body shells for the MGB and Midget. There are a few gaps such as only the wider sized transmission hump being available.
T series, Spitfires, TR-6 all are well supported with nearly every component still in low volume production. I believe most of the jugs had been destroyed at the parent plant but found in Ireland where the cars were built at a branch plant.
Beetles were built in the millions (I had one) and they are valuable. A Lada Signet - I bought one for the price of a case of beer in the late 80’s - is now regularly demanding 10k. I bought one for $25.00 and at the time a case of beer was just a bit under $24.00.
It is all about supply demand and maybe nostalgia.
A friend of mine commented how much he loved my Lada because that is the car he learned to drive standard in.
I taught a lot of guys on that car. Well why not? The transmission was tractor tough. If you crunched a gear you couldn’t break anything. It was crude but it had wipers on the headlamps, probably the best heater ever, and driving to Petawawa with all my gear for Battle School I got it up to 155 km/h on a very flat stretch of the 401.
Fiat 124
I would pick a Spitfire…. My first car was a 1968 Spitfire.
Thanks.
Mk3?
Great choices. Awesome wright in =)
I purchased a 1975 MG Midget, brand new, right off the dealer showroom. Mine had the sun visors as they were standard. I imagine, somewhere in the life of your friend's car, the visors were lost. I also previously owned a 1972 chrome bumper a Midget also purchased new. I fell in love with the mustard color car and ordered both of my Midgets in that color. My earlier car had a chrome luggage rack. Both had wired wheels and tonneau covers. In between those two cars 🚗 I had purchased a new British Racing Green 💚 Triumph Spitfire. I liked all three cars 🚗, but preferred my chrome bumper Midget. Ah! Those were the carefree days of my 20s. Then all my roadster days ended when I met my wife and we started our family, eventually having 6 children. Now I can only dream of days gone by.
Awesome thank you so much for sharing your cars with us
Much of that ad was shot at Sepulveda dam in Van Nuys. Those are not "knock off "wheels, no wings on them. Terrible paint, terrible engine compartment. WYR 1:VW AND the 124 Fiat.
WYR 2: MG B. I can see why they are only asking less than 12,000 for this one. These were funto drive though. That said, by the time this one came out, I'd had my 73 911T Targa for 2 years and still have it.
Thank you so much for that correction I always thought knock off wheels were the center lug ones where you actually need a special wrench to take it off.. yeah, that would make more sense. You wouldn’t need a wrench you could just knock them off I guess they were or are illegal because they’re not the safest wheels
This is definitely Survivor I wanted to add in the video it belongs to a 20-year-old who had it for a little while we became friends when we met at Hershey. He is really cool guy. Gotta get more young people in the car hobby just because the price is listed at that number I’m sure there’s room for negotiation.
Great choices I gotta find a 73, 911 to do I like early 911s I think they’re cool I really like 356 but they’re getting expensive
WYR: Volkswagen. (FIAT has style, but reliability is nonexistent; Midget is cramped, slow and kinda stodgy in my opinion. I'd take a Spitfire if that were an option; it looks better and actually feels less crammed together. Still slow though. Maybe a Triumph GT6? For the second group, I'd go with the MGB. In any case, my first move would be to get a chrome bumper conversion kit.
I should have put the Spitfire in as an option. I don’t know what I was thinking. Sometimes I draw blanks on what cars would be comparable especially the foreign cars I’m not as versed in foreign cars.
Great choices
1.) MG Midget 2. MGB with the removable hardtop. Great video. Thank you for sharing automotive history.
Thank you for digging this episode
Hi Jay!: MG's! I can talk about some MG's! (prepare for a long comment!) The MG midget was a cool inexpensive car to go along with the MGB. The same body style was shared with the later Austin Healey Sprites as well. I ALMOST bought a 1966 AH Sprite, which is pretty much the same as the MKII Midget with a little different grille treatment and badging. But I really didn't need THREE British cars at the same time!! The interior of the Midget you show is quite similar to the 1977 MGB that I once owned. We called the MGB's and Midgets of that era the rubber bumper cars. The bumpers are really more like a rubber substance than a plastic. Also these cars have roll-up windows and are not "technically" roadsters. In fact the body tag on my MGB called the body style a Tourer. The MGB also had those same steering wheel related controls for the three windshield wipers and washer (right side) and the Headlight dimming, turn signals and HORN. Yes, you pressed in on the stalk to beep the horn!! A VERY similar rubber pad is in the center of the steering wheel, but is just a pad. I loved the underhood shots showing not only the brake cylinder but the clutch one as well! (had to replace one on my '71 MGB GT) they worked just as well as the mechanical clutches. The MK IV Sprites did use the same engine as the Triumph Spitfire, the earlier marks having different versions of the BMC A engne. The luggage rack on the boot (British for trunk) lid was an option. Had one on My 'MGB Tourer. So that leads us to the WYR's #1 I would go with the Midget. #2 MGB Tourer! My 1977 was identical to the 1975 you show including the color! I REALLY liked the MGB GT too, though!!
Awesome story great information =)
The green car with the rear engine in front of the MG has piqued my curiosity. What is it? I'm guessing a Renault. You should feature that car in an upcoming video.
In 1975, MG and Triumph were both part of British Leyland, so it's no surprise that the MG had a Triumph engine.
WYR: #1 the Midget, and #2 the MGB.
It’s a 1959 fiat I have not yet done that car but if it’s still there when I go back next Wednesday, I will definitely cover it. It’s a very interesting car. It’s got suicide doors.
I think a 1970 MGB might be better (I think power was down by 1975 on most of these cars)
notably Steve Prefontaine was killed when his (don't know what year) turned over on him,I think 1975,he may have been trying to avoid another car coming round a curve on Prefontaine's side of the narrow road
at the time he was blamed for supposedly being intoxicated but I think there might have been some "politics" involved -- (Tex Maule article in "Sports Illustrated" ?)
convertibles and most cars that lack "B" pillars are dangerous
Thank you so much for sharing that information/story. I never knew that.
I'm rather deaf so I turn the CC on, and sometimes that gets me a laugh. Near the beginning of the video when you say "Morris Garages" the CC reads "Morris Grudges" 😅 which I'm sure some MG owners had after replacing the same electrical component for the tenth time. I also noticed in the specs instead of "MPG" it reads "MPH". I know 56HP ain't a lot but they only got 25-30 MPH out of it? LOL 🤣
WYR I'll take the VW simply because there are so few of them around, but the Fiat is a lovely car. And I've always wanted an MGB GT. Sadly the Federal safety bumper requirements ruined the good looks of all the MG's. The MGB has a more shapely look, but TBH I like the simple straighter lines of the Midget almost as much. And these later MG's had lots of build quality problems (as did all of the regular English cars of the time). Still, the Midget was cheap and that sold a lot of them what did sell. Toward the end of the era dealers here were desperate to sell, so much that one practically forced me to test drive one even after I told them I had just started a new job and couldn't get financing for some time yet because of that. Being young I spent my funds on fun so I never got that car, but I did like driving it even as wimpy as the engine was. These cars require constant "fettling" as the Brits call it so you either learned to fix it yourself or you got rid of it. Darn few mechanics here of the time understood SU carbs (Skinners Union is what SU stands for). and the average driver here was even more lost, never checking the damping oil or changing it for the different seasons. And rust- OMG they were almost as bad as Italian cars for that. But still, very fun cars to drive and being relatively cheap on the collectors market I may one day be able to pick up one in rough shape and bring it back to it's visual and driving glory after throwing out the engine, trans, and everything electrical so I can drive it more than fix it 😎
Thank you so much for sharing all the information and insight greatly appreciate it funny thing I don’t have anything to do with the close captions UA-cam does that they do the subtitles I should say I don’t have anything to do with that so that’s really funny and I don’t know how they do it if they just run it through like an AI machine
Is that an old Massey-Ferguson Tractor?
Fiat great car
Volkswagen not super Beatle with struts 🤢
You got me on the song 🤯
British do luxury high end well 👏👏. Mini Cooper 1st generation and Lotus 7 or the new generation rebirth are the only small ones I'd own 🤔
Great Episode
Happy Motoring ✌️🤠
Song is a very popular song from the 70s
Great choices =)
When I was still living in New Jersey, our neighbor across the street drove one of these. It was green. Cute little car, and I wondered what it was like driving or riding in it. But now I realize I would barely fit, if at all.
Because of that, for WYR, I will pick the VW and the MGB GT.
Sweet choices
Awesome story =)
I briefly dated a girl in the late 70's that had a Midget. Only got to drive it once, as it was almost always in the shop, but that one time was fun! WYR: they're all cool but I wouldn't want any of them! 75 was a horrible year for cars in the US!
Haha yeah 75 was a very depressing car year for the United States thank you so much for sharing that story what great memories I have big feet I have no idea how Blaise drives this car
You need a shoe horn to get in and out of it. Ha ha
Haha I have no idea how you drive this car the pedals are small and close together =D
I’ll have to have to drive my popops 26 Chevy cause I went from driving that to the Midget and talk about a difference! That’s why it’s for sale it’s just to small.
I am six feet, two inches tall. At least when standing that is. These days I no longer drive and must use an electric wheelchair to get around. However, back then, when people asked me how I got into my midgets, I alw😢ays responded, "Like a pair of jeans, first one leg and then the other".
I was making a road trip in one of these with my brother-in-law who was a tall Lankey dude. We were on the outskirts of Tucson Az and he woke from a nape, stretched real big, dangled his arm out the window, and drug his knuckles on the highway.
What a crazy story. Thank you so much for sharing those memories. =)
I attempted to take in these for a test drive back in the mid 70s. Very disappointed that the toebox)footwell a so small I could not depress the brake without also pushing on the gas or the clutch. My size 13eee feet just would not allow it.
I wear size 12 shoes so I could totally relate. I put my foot on the clutch and it was like I hit the break as well and I was like there’s no way I could drive this car. There’s a lot of cars like that unfortunately that I really dig and my size, I can’t own them
Volvo p1800 is a car that I really lusted after for a long time but after doing a review on one that one did not have the correct seats in it but was disappointed because the Karman Ghia is about the same size I owned to Karman Ghia and was perfectly fine driving it, but I did not fit in the Volvo
I used to say this thing can fit under my 1940 Buicks fenders, and thanks for the story time segment! Again I appreciate it.
You bet =)
I can’t wait till the summer man it’s gonna be great
The 1975 MG Midgets were also plagued by the single carb. It was a U.S. emissions move. A smart move would be to get a Weber DGV downdraft carb kit from Moss Motors and install it. But, I would probably not suggest doing anything to a rustbucket car like that unless it gets a no-holds-barred ground-up restoration.
I hated working on those MG Midgets. I would take an MGB anyday over a Midget. lol
Everything is just so crammed inside there. It would be hard to work on some stuff. It almost looks like there’s a bunch of filler, extra hoses, and stuff that goes to things for smog.
Duel side drafts really made em move!
Dual, lol
@@What.its.like. Lotsa smog stuff. All that can be removed in many States, including California, on vehicles 1975 and older. Great opportunity to clean things up.
These were great cars, but just too small for me. So I'll take the MGB, which I've driven and know to be a lot of fun.
Sweet choice
I had two, a 1969 and 1978.
The 69 handled better, but the 78 had a better drive train. The most fun you can have in a car with your pants on
Haha that’s awesome =)
My brother-in-law bought a new Austin Healey Sprite in 1965. That car had the same sheet metal as the MG Midget with a different grill. Years later he purchased a new 1980 MGB, which was the last year they were sold on the North American market. My cars of choice here would be the Fiat 124 Spyder and MGB GT.
Thank you so much for sharing that story. I totally forgot to say the sister car was the Austin Healy sprite I think by 1975 that model was gone sweet choices
WYR:
- VW … I like the air cooled VW’s
- MG-B - but I wouldn’t keep it …
Sweet choices =)
Fiat. Sorry, don't mean to be negative, but the rubber bumper just kills it...
I agree the mark three is way more attractive
cool , 1975 also was the first year for catalytic converters , manufacture rebates
Great information thank you so much for sharing that =)
I had a white 1973 Mark III Midget. It was a fun car and I never had any trouble with it. I loved sawing away on the little shifter. You could put the top up or down at a red light since you could easily reach both latches. Mine didn't have a jack so I carried a little bottle jack. I would have to lift the car to get the jack underneath it. I lived in Massachusetts at the time and it was scary to drive it in the ice. I am 6'1" and I could fit in it, but my knee would hit the corner of the radio housing where the hazard light switch is. Sometimes it would get so sore I'd stick a winter hat between my knees and the housing. One day a larger guy asked me for a ride and when he saw the car he didn't think he could fit in but he did. It was cozy but he said it had more room than his friend's Corvette. I also gave a ride to 2 guys once. We were packed in! I would rather have the 1975 Midget in the first scenario and the 1975 MGB GT in the second.
Awesome choices. Thank you so much for sharing the stories what great memories those early Corvettes don’t have a whole Lotta room either I can speak from experience you have to enter those cars headfirst when the top is on. It’s a weird way of getting in the car and then you have to bring the rest of you in
Really funny story there is a Pantera in the pipeline that is the only car that ever got stuck in. I couldn’t get out of that car once I got in it I was in it and I’m not a claustrophobic kind of person but I was getting there don’t get me wrong. I’ve been in some other cars that are really hard to get out of this one. I couldn’t open the door very far because it was parked next to another car and that was my issue , I couldn’t get my legs out of the pedalbox
These cars were guaranteed to break down and leave you walking home.
Lucas electrics prince of darkness
I really love these little MGs but at 6'6" tall and 250 pounds I found them challenging to ride in. It was more than snug for me!😂 Still, I have a fondness for them, the MGBs, and the Triumphs of that era too.
Wow I didn’t know your 6 foot 6 that’s crazy it was tight for me your head would have been above the windshield
@@What.its.like. I know!😂
I tried to sat in one before a mark 2 i guess but with the roof up.. I'm 6' about 230 ibs..i can't even get in..maybe with the roof down i can slide in..
Btw what's the car in front of it .looks rear engined..looks European though.. Renault maybe..
The car in front of it was a Fiat but it’s from the 50s I might do it next time I’m not sure it’s a 1959 Fiat it has suicide doors. It’s a pretty cool looking car.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with one. It was a tight fit. Like I said, I have no idea how Blaise drives it
@@What.its.like. ic .a Fiat..drove a MGB GT....it was a snug fit..I guess people in those days might be much smaller in stature 😅
Awww, what no INFAMOUS CROTCH TEST ? LMAO !
Hahahaha
. . . thanks for a great vid . . . owned a '75 MGB back in the day . . . bought it new in Red Deer. Alberta . . . maroon in colour . . . one of the four most memorable vehicles I have ever owned . . . the epitome of driving fun! . . . btw, to jack up the car to change a tire, there was only one slot midway down the vehicle that enabled you to easily lift the entire side of the car ;) . . .
Great information glad you dig this video. I wonder how much bigger the MGB is I’ve never been in one I’ve been in an MGA from the 50s they’re pretty tight but that’s a really cool car that you could use. All of it not get in trouble and I am definitely in the camp that is more fun to drive a slow car fast and a fast car fast.
. . . I think that the MGA was a little bigger inside, but there were some tricks to driving the B comfortably, even for a big guy . . . I am 6' and travelled everywhere in that sweet ride . . . the fuel pump was electric and sat just behind the driver on the small back shelf under the convertible top . . . when you turned the ignition the pump chimed "clickclickclickclickclick" and you knew you were off on an adventure, even if you were just going shopping for groceries . . . I bought my MGB in April up here, and the first day I drove it top down home to Edmonton through a light snowfall . . . what an exhilarating ninety minutes or so ! . . . great memories thanks to your video :) . . . @@What.its.like.
Jay the Mark lll gets the nod from me it looks much cleaner.
Sweet choice
Even as a teen, this was too small. I preferred the B. But by the time I could actually own cars, the MG was gone, and while the Miata (spiritual and better successor) hadn't hit yet, the Japanese had run away with this market. 240Z of course was first, but turned into a plushbottom with the 280ZX and so the 1st gen RX-7 reinvented the segment all over again. BL just had no money to modernize or improve anything, and made questionable development choices when they did scrape something up, and the labor situation - ugh. Britain was arguably the first nation to destroy its own auto industry - though the US seems to following down that road (driven by different factors, but still). WYR: 1) the 124 every day - timeless design and much more car 2) MGB GT - utility and civilized. Song - Take it on the Run REO Speedwagen?
You were on the right track with name that tune, but it is not that song
Thank you so much for sharing all of that information and insight. I greatly appreciate it. I’m a huge 240 Z fan. I love those cars. They are just getting ridiculously expensive. Totally agree that the Mazda Miata is the spiritual successor to this car.
I really like the Dotson 1600 and 2000 as well but I don’t know if I’d fit in that car never been in one
@@What.its.like. Keep on Loving You then :) Dating myself - that was jt. high school
Somebody just got it. It was time for me to fly REO Speedwagon.
Great cars, very fun to drive. Super simple to work on. I remember you could remove the engine very easily, They were very rust prone, they would start to rust when one or two years old.
Beetle convertible all the way and second MG GT
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The Fiat and the B GT. Amazed that you fit in the Midget!
Sweet choices yeah it was tight
The small one is for the clutch, it is hydraulic
Thank you so much for pointing that out
My next door neighbor had a mark 4 in the early '80's. My dad used to tease him by saying, 'So... where do you wind it up?'
Haha nice
I’m putting this engine episode together now on the Packard six I think you’re going to totally dig it because there’s a lot of very early Packard history with t head design
@@What.its.like. Lookin' forward to it. I'm working on an episode as well right now, but it won't be seen for a few weeks. August Horch.
Sweet looking forward to it =)
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Fiat all the way!
Sweet choice did you see they made a new version? They look just like the old ones.
@@What.its.like. Yes, they used rebadged Mazda Miata bodies with their own power trains!. Awesome Little Ride!
@@What.its.like. nice 👍
Fiat 124 Spyder, MGB GT
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We notice that you didn't say anything about your buddy for sell car has bad rust on it. hahahahahaha
I was going to say something to the effect don’t beat this car down. This kid is 20 years old and I just think it’s awesome that he’s in the classic car hobby. This isn’t his only classic car either. He has other ones that will be featured on the channel eventually.
It has some rust, but it’s not terrible. The underneath doesn’t look terribly bad.
I don’t point out flaws of the car I let that be discovered by the viewer
@@What.its.like. He is 20 and a car guy is cool. Every MG I have ever seen has rust. I think it was factory installed.
Potentially buying one soon
Sweet =)
I had a 78 in tomato soup red.
=) tomato soup red
It's "Cape" Verde, not "Camp" Verde, but hey, who needs to actually be able to read when they read? This is so filled with remarks like this, who could possibly take it seriously. MG did not stand for Morris Garages in 1975. It stood simply for MG.
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Have a December 1975 made 1976 Midget. Got it from friends that got it new. Garaged from new. Factory top is in very good shape. Has 50k miles non abused miles. It has been in dark dry storage for many years now. It is so small do not feel safe driving it now. When put back on road. Going to mount 3ft above luggage rack. Set of tail lights. So the jerks in a new truck/suv mite see me.Then not run over me.
Thank you so much for sharing your vehicle with us
How do you like your MG?
Question 1#1,
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Bettle or Fiat.
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Fiat , MG B
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Jay, that blue car is really beat there is rust present in the front fender area, trunk panel fitment is poor, the interior shows excessive wear in the carper , door panel, and pedal box. Also the paint is shot a real shame for such a car.
I like to feature all cars on this channel in different states I think this one is cool it belongs to a 20 years old who wants to sell it because we are the same size and doesn’t fit in it frankly and it’s a survivor
WYR: Fiat and MGB. I learned a lot in this one. Never knew these later versions carried a Fiat engine. Thank you as always. ~ Chuck.
Great choices used the triumph Spitfire engine
@@What.its.like. My bad, I was thinking Triumph and somehow typed Fiat.......I blame autocorrect 😂
Still no pre notification
I think that was my fault. I did an instant premier on this one like I didn’t give it a buffer or anything as soon as I uploaded it and put everything that I wanted in the description I hit the button to go live.
@@What.its.like. ok,,I check again next time,,thanks
Sorry Jay, the sheet metal was all the same except for the rear wheel wells.
Great information
I'll take the VW in the first choice and one not offered but should have been, MGC GT in the second. It had the Austin Healey in line 6 cyl., you could tell by the bulge in the bonnet. I had a 1979 Triumph Spitfire and it was slightly larger inside than the Midget/B but was a handful keeping it running correctly. It was a fun car to drive, but with the advent of all vehicles resembling trucks, it's hard to be seen. It was bad in the 80s but much worse now.
Sweet choices I’ll have to look up the MGC GT not sure I’ve ever saw one of those
Awesome insight and information
Actually, I misspoke. As it seems, the engine in the "C" was not an Austin engine from what I just read, it was a 3000 and I was always told that it was, but after further research I found out differently. I just wanted to correct my faux pas.