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today i saw a 74 mg midget with a button on the transmission tunnel, mounted on the top just rear of the shifter. Anyone know what this might be? it might have been something added but my gut says it isnt. The look and feel of it appeared original


mark
 
Nitrous...........How else would you push a Midget to breakneck speed LOL /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/canpatriot.GIF
 
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A friend once bought a P1800 Volvo that had a push-button switch just behind or alongside the shift lever & it took a while to figure out what it did. It turned out that the previous owner had installed it to operate the brake lights - I guess he wanted to discourage people from tailgating.
 
Coldplugs, those brake light kill buttons were used by many hot rodders (certainly not ME) I knew back in the seventies to kill the brake lights when the Police were chasing them.

It's hard to spot a car on a dark night with no rear lights!
 
"brake light kill buttons were used by many hot rodders... back in the seventies"

We used'em back in the 50's too (grin).

Being the "electrical" kid, I have to admit to wiring up the cars of several of my buddies.

Tim
 
Back to the original point of this thread. I don't think it was original anything...and likely is an auxiliary horn button either for an additional horn or to replace the horn wiring which we all know is finicky at best /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

I have a more than a few set up like that

Bruce /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
 
could very well be a horn button. i think i will probaly get a chance to find out. I looked at this car for my new next door neighbors (yes Basil i will give them a card). They are most likely going to buy it. It is a 74 RWA car with wires, decent upholstry. powder blu paint and very rust free. and the ugliest rubber bumperettes i have ever seen.


mark
 
i have blanking plates in those spots. i think



mark
 
Ok Folks Had another look at this car and the switch. It is the horn button. It sure looks like an original item. the button is attached to the carpet, which appears to be original. The buttonalso appears and feels like an original item. the car is a midget built in 6/74. it has big rubber bumperettes on chrome bumpers.
Has any one seen anything like this before?

mark
 
Yepper...In 1974 for the second half of production of the last chrome bumper cars, they put those huge bumperette on them to meet crash test guidelines, temporarily...Ugly, but unique /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

My '74, made in December of 1973, had the regular ones. In January, they went to the big ones, then came out with the 1974 1/2 model with rubber bumpers. SO you can see 3 different bumper set ups on a 1974 MGB...make buying parts interesting /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazyeyes.gif

Bruce /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif
 
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