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Now available in our Dallas Ft. Worth showroom, Gateway Classic Cars is proud to offer this beautiful 1961 MG Midget for sale. This first version, was essentially a slightly more expensive badge engineered version of the MkII Austin Healey Sprite. The original frogeye Sprite had been introduced specifically to fill the gap in the market left by the end of production of the MG T-type Midget as its replacement, the MGA had been a significantly larger and more expensive car with greater performance. Many existing MG buyers turned to the Sprite to provide a modern low-cost sports car and so a badge-engineered MG version reusing the Midget name made sense. The new Midget differed from the Sprite only in its grille design, badging, color options and having both leather seats and more external chrome...

1961 marked the beginning of this iconic British sports car. Based off of the Austin Healey Sprite, the Midget was very similar in styling and functionality. The chrome strip down the side of the car is the basic styling cue that set this apart from the Sprite. The car never came with external door handles, and if you wanted to have a top, then you had to be ready to put it together every time you put it back on. This Midget has been bored out from a 1275cc engine to what now is a whopping 1380cc-s. This car was set up to be a road racer with the custom roll bar and...