As it lights up its back tyres and lifts its front wheels in the air away from the line, it’s hard to think that Steve Cowling’s Midget has a humble BMC A-series engine under the bonnet… but that’s what it has and it’s a pretty incredible thing. This car started life as a 1972 round-arch Midget, in Harvest Gold, but it has changed quite a bit in the 25 years that Steve has owned it. He bought it back in 1997 from one of his neighbours in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, who had owned it since the mid-1980s. The car had previously been liberated from a
