MG Midget 1500 Restoration - Tear down

Progressing with the MG Midget 1500 restoration project I try to complete the tear down prior to media blasting.

[@awalk5177]

I have watched all the videos. Recently I had an MG Midget restored from bare body shell by a professional MG specialist as I did not have enough knowledge to do it myself. Now inspired again I would love to do one myself before I fall off my perch. The MG Midget is ideal because it is not too big and heavy for the home restorer and I've learnt so much from your videos. Thank you.

[@JimmyLeed]

I'm looking at buying my first midget in the near future and finding this very useful and generally interesting. Looking forward to seeing the end product.

[@VisionAutoGarage]

James, once you own one you won't look back! Lovely little cars and actually very simple! Definitely worth finding a good one, if you see rust it will be a lot worse than you think :)

[@JimmyLeed]

Yeah I've owned minis in the past and they are no better. Same thing goes for any of the old British tin unfortunately. I will be on the hunt for as good a car as my relatively limited budget can stretch too. Would rather put my time into mechanics than bodywork any day of the week.

[@VisionAutoGarage]

You've owned mini's, no more experience required! :)

[@blendedwhiskeytx7178]

That's a big job

[@VisionAutoGarage]

It's certainly not a small job, but they are simple cars and nice to work on :)

[@CharltonLatchford]

I, too, enjoy the videos. You obviously have more footage than you use here. Do you plan on creating a kind of Haynes Manual on video at some later time? Also selling it commercially as a streaming video encyclopedia, so to speak.

[@VisionAutoGarage]

I'd love to do something like that! The time involved would be significant. I don;t shoot a lot of footage because I'm using a mobile phone to record - quite intentional about what I do and don't shoot.

[@NatsWorkshop]

What rust converter did you use

[@VisionAutoGarage]

POR15 Metal Prep

[@mathewcozens5044]

Loving the videos and just want to understand what is your end goal with the midget. Cheers and keep the videos coming.

[@VisionAutoGarage]

Mathew Cozens thanks for watching, really pleased you are enjoying the journey with me! I’ll talk about the vision for this car in today’s episode for you 👍🏻

[@Tourist1967]

Mandarin Red - had one that colour. Worst car I ever owned!