The Fun Images...

These are images I made with photo manipulation tools. I guess this is what I would be doing to the Midget if I didn't like driving it so much. I guess we all want to play designer sometimes.




The Body Replacement Family of Images...

This section is a little esoteric, and realistically not very likely to be implemented. There is a bit of a sub-industry in modifying spridgets, especially the removable nose sections. In the glory days, Spridgets would actually have these funky body panels for improved aerodynamics for actual meaningful races. However, lately people just source them because they look cool.

These were some of my plans, but throw two more cars into my garage and time for these jobs just disappears. British cars are fun but there is enough work to be done just keeping my small fleet on the road, let alone making up work!


[ Speedwell Style ]   This is a mock up of the nose design used on a Speedwell sprite, a very rare and pricy racing beast. It seems almost identical in design to the Lenham sprite, a later fiberglass replacement nose sold to the general public that probably saw regular club and road use.
October 1997
[ E-type Style ]   This is derived from the above, but I brought the nose back and made an oval airflow opening. Nicer looking I guess, but molding that lip might be pretty tricky. Maybe I'll just cut up a nice E-Jag?
October 1997


The Paint Scheme Family of Images...

This image stack is to see what the car looks like using different paint schemes. Interestingly, none of these is actually the original paint pattern that the car would have had when new. When I got the car, it already had a non-standard job on it. I didn't care for it at first, but it grew on me.

...a lot of spridgets out there seem to have sills painted differently, so who am I to judge...

 
[ Midget ]   Existing paint scheme, for comparison with the images below.
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September 1997
 
[ Midget ]   This is to see what the sills would look like the same colour as the body, instead of black.
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April 1997
 
[ Midget ]   Both the sills and the black bumpers in red. I guess it depends on how shiny I could get them and how close the colour could match, which might not be easy since I might have to use a different formula of paint than for the steel body.
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September 1997
 
[ Midget ]   I really liked the look of the red bumpers, so here it is superimposed over a "life" background to see what it would look like in the real world. (assuming I can paint them as well as some I have seen)
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September 1997


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