MG MIDGET PROJECT PART 11 ELECTRICS AND INTERIOR
We would hate to overstay our welcome, so this is going to be the Readers Digest of builds. However, alongside a condensed version of the work, we will also highlight some difficulties we had and the solutions we came up with. Therefore, please do bear with us if we bounce around a little and if an item that is fitted in one picture is no longer there in a later one!
Last issue we had the engine rebuilt and the front suspension, brakes and steering back on the car. In the meantime, I had also finished off the paint – the all-important outer panels were done professionally, but I still had to do the interior and underneath. These were jobs I was not looking forward to. In truth most of the interior panels will end up being covered by insulation and carpet anyway, but having gone this far I wanted to know that the bodyshell was all fully protected both inside and underneath.
The exterior has been painted in two-pack, and while there was some paint left over for touching up, I don’t have the necessary breathing equipment for spraying this safely. So, rooting around in the garage I found a large tin of Pimento Red cellulose paint left over from a Skoda 1000MB restoration some years ago. I also had some cellulose high build primer from the same job, plus a tin of red oxide primer. To these I added a tin of bright red Hammerite Smooth paint that I picked up from my local hardware store, and a tin of brushable seam sealer.
Starting with the interior of the car, this was a mixture of the original orange paint, primer blown on to protect the most recent repairs, the remains of some original factory bitumin and – on the gearbox
