Description
Imperial War Museum | Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Viewing: Tues 8th April from 12pm
Auction: Wed 9th April from 9am
Location: IWM Duxford Airfield, Cambridge CB22 4QR
1969 MG Midget 1275
Estimate £9, 000 - £11, 000
Registration No: RHJ 535G
Chassis No: GAN464981C
MOT: March 2026
Stored in a garage for some forty years in Essex (from c. 1980-2022)
Unearthed by two retired engineers in 2020 and provided a full recommissioning
Nicely presented example
Very low recorded mileage on the odometer!
The MG Midget of 1961 was essentially a MKII Austin Healey Sprite in a slightly different suit of clothes. The newcomer started life powered by a 948cc BMC 'A' Series engine. The doors were without external handles or locks and the side windows comprised sliding perspex screens. Braking was by drums all-round. Matters had greatly improved by the time the MKIII version appeared in 1966, not least in the engine compartment where the motor's capacity had been increased via 1098cc to 1275cc. Semi-elliptic rear springs had replaced the original quarter-elliptic ones inherited from the Frogeye Sprite, and the front drum brakes had been replaced with discs. Wind-up windows had been fitted, together with a superior hood.
Chassis ‘GAN464981C’ was registered new in the United Kingdom on the 1st of February 1969. A Mk3 Midget, it is finished in White paintwork with Red interior upholstery with White piping, Red carpeting, and a Black hood. Understood to have been used sparingly on local trips by the first and second owners, the MG was laid up in a garage in Essex in c. 1980. Known to a pair of retired engineers for several decades, they eventually managed to acquire the car in 2022 from the estate of the second owner. Provided with a full recommissioning by them over the following year attention was specifically provided to the brakes, fuel system, and engine, all being refreshed. Offered now with a very low mileage recorded on the odometer (some 6, 600 unwarranted miles), ‘RHJ 535G’ is supplied with a no advisory MOT certificate until March 2026 and a current V5C document displaying four former keepers. A very attractive MG Midget with a nice story behind it!
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