Gerald and I were exchanges some emails and he mentioned that his brother and he rebuilt a Mitey Mite a few years back. I think he was trying to inspire me with the Champs? Here are a few pics.
Gerald wrote, “My brother did a Mity Mite a few years back. Toughest project we ever worked on. It was a basket case literally.”
Let’s see before pics!!!
I think it was named M422 Mighty Mite. Am I wrong?…
By the way: astonishing restoration work! Many thanks for the upload, Dave!!!
Yes, I was a bit lazy on the name … you are correct … I have the category spelled correctly, but for some reason I used the Mitey instead of Mighty. Thanks for pointing that out.
I will have to scan some of the before shots some time. We took this out in pieces. The motor was the toughest. Because it has a sheet metal air ducting around the motor the mice had lived in it for a decade and the dung had eat thru the alum heads. It’s got NOS heads and custom cast iron sleeves. she ran great, quicker than a CJ but the brakes were another issue. They are mounted up on the housings and lots of slop before you stopped. Short as hell and quick. But one front end hit and she would be done. Over designed over engineered for a jungle beast.