Windblocker fitted

I found that using the Midas with the roof off needed some sort of windblocker to stop the wind swirling around the cockpit.

At the recent Newark show one of the other convertibles there had a home-made windblocker that looked very good so I decided I would have a go at making one myself. I started to get together the bits to make one but then went to a local car event and got chatting to a person there with a Triumph Stag who had bought one from a company in Germany for another car that was the right size that he modified just the brackets to fit. That got me thinking about whether there was a ready-made one that would fit the Midas.

On eBay I found an advert for a second-hand windblocker that was advertised for a ‘Mini R52 R57 Convertible Wind Deflector, 2004-2015’. I found out the size and it was perfect for the Midas, when it arrived I took it apart and removed the horizontal piece as it was too large to suit the Midas. I fabricated a couple of brackets in 3mm aluminium which I mounted behind the upper seat belt mount and bent them to shape. I mounted the wind blocker and have used a rare earth magnet from a failed computer hard disk to keep it attached to the roll bar at the top in the centre.  It works really well.