My Midas is a kit car, (officially designated a 2+2 Coupe) which
features an immensely strong and well designed glass fibre monocoque body shell, utilising the mechanical parts from a Rover 114 GTi. (Yes, I know.... a Metro....)
The car is a very small two door, two seater coupe, with rather distinctive styling (especially at the front....) and I believe that only 17 or 18 examples of the coupe had been built in total up to the year 2000.... Yes, itís that ugly!

My Midas was originally purchased in March 1996, as a £5,000 body kit from the then manufacturer, GTM Cars of Sutton Bonington, Leicester. The Rover 114 GTi donor, registration number J939 OVM used for the kit build, had 35,000 miles on itís odometer, when it apparently met itís early demise, and the subsequent íwrite offí was obtained for £1,300 in March 1996.

The body shell was initially built up over a lengthy period, by itís original purchaser. Sadly due to illness, the car was to remain unfinished, and in January 1999 it was sent for completion to Midas Carís agent, J C Engineering of Sutton Bonington, Leicester. The car was finished off there, and after being SVA tested, it was registered in June 1999 as J142 ATV. The agentís work, and the various new parts required added another £4,000 to the build cost....