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1974 MG Midget - Paint

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Subject: 1974 MG Midget - Paint
From: Glenn Stauffer <stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1992 15:04:02 -0500
I'm hoping to find someone who has done a Midget right or has the fortune
to have worked on one that was untouched since the factory.  I'm restoring
a 1974 that had been repainted at some point in life from a green (not BRG
- a restoration book showed it to be another shade that year) to blue.  I
want to put the paint back close to original.

If you can help me with colors for the following areas, that would be much
appreciated:

- engine block
- transmission (any paint here - bell housing, for instance?)
- engine compartment (mine is black, I saw a B at Hershey that had body
color in here)
- underside: wheel arches, frame, etc.
- passenger compartment (body color, right?)
- running gear (rear axle, front axles, etc.)

I'd be overjoyed to find someone who's restored a Midget and could field
questions about good parts suppliers and nasty stuff like rebuilding sills
and front posts - looks like mine need serious work.

Glenn Stauffer
Swarthmore College Computing Center
Swarthmore, PA







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