Tundra Green RWA Midget

Tundra Green RWA Midget

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mendipmycroft

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117 months

Saturday 28th June 2014
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wildoliver

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215 months

Monday 30th June 2014
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Virtually zero I would say.

Its beyond rare, wasn't popular in the day and even less so now, finding one that was originally tundra would be hard, finding one that still is even harder.

Of all the MG's I've had through my hands I've had one tundra car which was a bgt and pear rotten, I get the impression it was like sandglow and somehow set them off rotting early as I've never seen a straight original sandglow or tundra car.

That said unlike sandglow I think tundra looks quite nice, so it may be worth painting one up if you fancy it.

mendipmycroft

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117 months

Monday 30th June 2014
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Thanks for post. I missed out on one down in Hampshire six months ago. Will have think about buying one in green for repaint in Tundra. What you think a full respray would cost?

wildoliver

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215 months

Tuesday 1st July 2014
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How longs a piece of string? There are too many variables ranging from who's doing the strip down and prep (and if it is a strip down or a mask off job) and how good the sprayer is and how much he values his time plus how great his overheads are up to how much work is needed as it will be the first midget ever without hidden problems that need to be dealt with. Then you start looking how much paint is already on there to cause reactions unless you take it down to metal first. In short you need to hawk a car round some bodyshops and get quotes and a feel for who you trust.

But prices will range from £500 to £15k with most quotes being in the 2k range unless the shell is very clean indeed. I'd recommend you do the strip down as a midget is quick and easy to strip down for paint (a day) but its a lot of labour saved over paying someone to do it. Also remember unless your bare shelling it you will always see bits of the old colour here there and everywhere.

mgtony

4,014 posts

189 months

Tuesday 1st July 2014
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Would surprise a few people in years to come to find traces of red or BRG paint behind trim on a Tundra car! biggrin
Wasn't Tundra a later 70's colour anyway? So finding a RWA would be that much harder. Looks like there is a late RB in that colour just come up for sale on Ebay in need of restoring.

nta16

7,898 posts

233 months

Tuesday 1st July 2014
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depends on what you mean by a full respray - it's as WO has put, from spray over rust and outside of the car only to bare shell repaired and full prepared

the following information is from Terry Horler's book - Original Sprite & Midget The Restorer’s Guide http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1906133336 -

. Tundra was on RWA cars produced from (23rd?) August 1973 on

. RWA ceased production on 17 October 1974 (GAN5-153920)

. in all of 1973 there were only a total of 3,737 Midgets made in RHD in all colours and in all of 1974 only 1,508

so the chances of finding a surviving car of one of the least popular colours from that short and low production span, 14 months at most, must be very small indeed

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according to Terry's book Tundra finished in February 1976 (on the Midget 1500)

Edited by nta16 on Tuesday 1st July 17:35