Thought and the King Midget

Whats Up Its been a while. I haven't been to busy to write as I have been lazy. Oh well I showed today to talk about a car I just discovered.



The King Midget

Yea that's its real name. Slurs aside when I first saw this creation I though it was a childs toy, a primitive barby jeep of sorts. This is very much not the case.

Not only is the king midget street legal from what I have read and seen it was engineered as a commuter car. I guess a real comparison would be the smart fortwo covertable.




I see the resemblence.

They both are unpractical,small, topless, underpowered,ugly,and white. But this is not necessarily a bad thing.

First the engine. The midget never saw more than 12 horspower. But it was an economical one cylinder engine and this engine was able to propel the King M to frightening top speed of 50 miles an hour.

One reason for the top speed is the weight. The average King M weighed 500lbs and cost 500bux.

I saw one of these in Athens Oh. and I asked the guy about it and he told me that they were made there.

The opperation was a distributor of kits turned car dealership. Midget Motors Manufacturing was one of 3 branches of the company which produced the little bruits.



Cheers


Reference: http://www.kingmidgetcarclub.org/kmhistory.html