1969 mg midget dual carbs

Since Whitney had purchased her MG Midget, we felt that it did not seem to be at the level of pep a sports car should be at. We were right. When the Midget crossed the Atlantic in , it had left some twenty-one horsepower back home in Abingdon on Thames. United States Federal Emissions standards had choked the Triumph sourced cc engine in the MG from seventy one horsepower, all the way down to fifty. The MG Midget in the U. An enormous air pump was installed which pulled tremendous load from the engine to turn it about.

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The first version, announced at the end of June , [3] was essentially a slightly more expensive badge-engineered version of the MkII Austin-Healey Sprite deluxe version. The original 'frogeye' Sprite had been introduced specifically to fill the gap in the market left by the end of production of the MG T-type Midget as its replacement, the MGA had been a significantly larger and more expensive car with greater performance. Many existing MG buyers turned to the Sprite to provide a modern low-cost sports car and so a badge-engineered MG version reusing the Midget name made sense. The new Midget differed from the Sprite only in grille design, badging, improved interior trim, better instruments and added external polished trim to justify its higher price.