Thanks go to fellow contributor Jeff L. for sending me this find to look over. It’s a 1962 MG Midget, based on the original Austin-Healey “Bugeye” or “Frogeye” Sprite, but with a more conventional body evocative of the just-introduced MGB. It’s located in the same place where it came from, the United Kingdom, specifically in Swansea, and is being auctioned here on eBay UK, where current bidding is 1,480 pounds (roughly $2,158) and there’s no reserve.

I’ve owned both a Midget and a Sprite, and they are charming cars to drive IF you fit into one and are flexible enough to get into it. This early car still has the side curtains left over from the Bugeye, later cars came with roll up windows, but does come with a nice hardtop. The seller tells us that the car has only had two owners; I’m not sure if they are including themselves or not.

The car is described as a “Barn Find,” I’m guessing this is a picture of the car in the barn. While it’s not a factory hardtop, I’m glad it was fitted as it probably kept the wet out of the interior during the period the car was in storage.

The interior actually looks considerably better than the exterior, although the seller didn’t include pictures of what the floors look like once the mats are removed. The seats look salvageable, and the dash doesn’t look too bad apart from where the radio was fitted in the past. I think that’s just faded carpet on the front of the transmission tunnel, not rust, but I can’t be sure.

There are a lot of signs of moisture under the hood. That panel in front is actually part of the radiator if I remember correctly, and is brass, but the rust on the valve cover and the corroded aluminum SU carburetor bodies has me concerned that the visible rust on the body is just the tip of the iceberg. Cars get restored in the UK that would be scrapped here, so I’m hoping one of our British readers jumps on this one and takes it home!