Midget + Lexus + BMW 5-speed

Started by 88v8, May 17, 2022, 04:44:25 AM

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88v8

Amazingly packaged into this not-so-stealthy street-legal 1971 Midget is a Lexus V8, driving a narrowed Range Rover rear axle through a BMW 5-speed.
As if the Lexus were not enough, there's a Borg Warner T4 turbo charger.

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A very European build, and really quite impractical over here in the rainy UK with no roof, but an interesting example of what can (nearly) be crammed under the Midget bonnet.

MG Lexus 1.jpg

If you hanker for a pocket rocket of a ride, yours for £18,000 / $23,000 + shipping.
Just needs a weekend's work to swap the steering over.

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154996699390?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

Ivor

MGBV8

Or, mostly under the bonnet.  ;)
Carl

BlownMGB-V8


Jim Stabe

Threading a steering shaft through the left side of the engine compartment doesn't look like a weekend job to me.