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Built in eight months back in 1985, it was put on the road for £750
including tax and insurance. I used it as my everyday tranport clocking up 36 miles each day for three and a half years.
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![](http://mostlymidge.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Red-Nose-Midge-1024x692.jpg)
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Compare this with the second Midge I built which took eight years to build. Mind you, it had to pass SVA .
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I sold the car when I bought the Gentry and this is how it looked a few days after in its new home in France.