Your Projects: Widebody MG Midget

Ed
By Ed Higginbotham
Sep 7, 2017 | MG

Forum member nocones has built a widebody MG Midget to—you guessed it—dodge cones. We caught up to him this week at the 2017 Tire Rack SCCA Solo Nationals and took a good walk-around video.

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Comments
LanEvo
LanEvo GRM+ Memberand Reader
9/7/17 11:51 a.m.

I love this so much

fidelity101
fidelity101 SuperDork
9/7/17 1:14 p.m.

Say hi to John for me!

Driven5
Driven5 Dork
9/8/17 1:04 a.m.

Duly noted on the "warning" sticker...LOL

David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
9/9/17 12:11 a.m.

It was so awesome to (finally) see it in the flesh. Plus No Cones is definitely a good guy.

Look for a full story on the car in the magazine soon. (Shh, spoiler alert.)

Two_Tools_In_a_Tent
Two_Tools_In_a_Tent Reader
9/9/17 11:18 a.m.

God ! ! That little gem is just SO superior to any other E or D Modified that I've ever seen, attitude, performance, fit and finish and such a straight forward bullet proof drive line—PERFECTION ! Build it, drive it, have as much fun as possible ! !

 

Pete Gossett
Pete Gossett GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
9/9/17 12:17 p.m.

In reply to David S. Wallens :

I still remember the first time I met nocones, and I believe it was his first event, also with this car - though still stock. I'm pretty sure he was still in high school. Damn, that makes me feel old...

nocones
nocones GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
9/11/17 11:18 a.m.

Thanks for the video.  Response to the car has been awesome.  I enjoyed meeting all of the Dmod people and enjoyed talking to Dave while he shot pictures of the car.  

Results were mixed.  I had decent runs and managed 11th out of 19. My codriver struggled to keep it clean and ended up carrying several cones.  The car definitely has potential and with some tuning may have a trophy in it someday.  

My runs:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/AkJnGnjHGzk?rel=0

Driven5
Driven5 SuperDork
9/12/17 11:52 a.m.
nocones said:

The car definitely has potential and with some tuning may have a trophy in it someday.  

If you get much quicker, you might need a little more gear so you won't have to run half the course on the rev limiter. 

 

David S. Wallens said:

Look for a full story on the car in the magazine soon. (Shh, spoiler alert.)

And well deserved it will be! 

mtn
mtn MegaDork
9/12/17 11:57 a.m.

I remember when I met nocones. I was codriving his Subaru with a German guy. I don't remember what nocones was driving, but it wasn't his car. And then later I bought his Miata. Funny how things work like that. 

Someone needs to post the video/picture of John getting hit in the head with a cone.

cmcgregor
cmcgregor Dork
9/12/17 12:46 p.m.

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