Having chased out some electrical gremlins, Jesse took his Midget to meet the CCW team in Peterborough. Which went well. Kind of…
1979 MG MIDGET 1500
A few weeks into ownership and I’ve already had the bonnet up on my new purchase.
I’m not a smart man – I have my areas of expertise for sure but electrical engineering isn’t one of them. So there was no time like the present to learn when I was faced with some lights that weren’t lighting. Armed with my dad Ian by my side – he’s a whizz at electrical problem-solving – we set about the Midget’s simplistic wiring with a multi-meter and some wire test sections. Bridging different areas and working backwards from the lamps we chased the fault for the lack of illumination down the driver’s side to the fuse block, which had no current coming out of the concerned spade connector, plus some crossed wires, which didn’t help.
Still, one quick online shopping trip later – as well as several runs to the local car parts store (which is fast proving to be a godsend) and everything seems to be working and lighting up as to be expected – all for the princely sum of barely £20! Ironically, the only Valentine’s Day post I received was a new fuse box and it’s mounting screws! So, now that I could be seen and thus be safe, it was time to introduce the Midget to the CCW team. The Midget proved itself to be a perfectly capable little commuter, jostling among the plethora of ubiquitous SUVs and lorries on the A1. I even managed to nab a cheeky shoot with one of our professional snappers while waiting to drive a Rover SD1. It behaved perfectly throughout. Right up to the moment when I opened the taps to get up to speed to join the A1 back to the office. It hesi
