" I restored this car in the  mid 1990's. The car has since been sold, and now resides in Jerusalem, Ohio. It was my daily driver in Montreal, at one point. It won the AACA Jr Hershey 1995 and AACA Senior Dearborn 1996 wards.
Purchased through Hemming's, it was a disappointing buy - the seller had seriously misrepresented the car as an older resto that was seldom used. I recd a car with a rotten top, worn out interior, missing trim, and thin paint applied over the metal with no prep work. The good news - there was, under all the paint, only one rust hole the size of a dime.

I drove the car a lot that Summer, then had an accident - nothing too serious, but requiring repairs (I hit a sidewalk head-on at night....I thought it dipped, but it didn't...bent axle, wheels, etc.). So, I chose to do a nut and bolt resto of the car. It took about a year and a half, and 14000$cdn.

When I showed it at Hershey in Oct. 95, it was awarded Jr. 1st, and got a lot more looks than several senior cars - Packards and others - parked alongside it. 
I was then invited to bring it down to Dearborn for the Centenary Anniversary of the American Automobile Industry, where the car garnered a Sr 1st place award.
The following October, I put the car up for sale at Hershey. There were a lot of lookieloos, but no firm offers. In the last hour of the last day, a man shuffled over, kicking the asphalt and lamented, "sure is pretty, I had one of these when I was young, and dated someone very special in it - and have been looking for one ever since". He did not have money with him, but asked if I would sell him the car. Having grown wearing of insincere inquiries during the previous few days, I replied - "come to Montreal next week and it is yours". I never expected to hear from him again.
The following Sunday morning, my phone rang. It was the same man, asking which exit to take - he was 5 minutes away by truck. The car was paid for in cash, loaded up, and off to Jerusalem, Ohio, where it is lovingly kept in a private building and looked at or dusted by a man who recalled a long-ago kiss with a special girl in just the same car.
The car was restored as a 100 point car. The research was painstaking. Parts had to be fabricated. To my knowledge, this is the only 1940 Crosley Convertible Sedan Deluxe that has been restored to this level, and is one of less than 100 pre-war Crosley vehicles of any type known (4 years production of 7 body styles)."
 
 
 
 

Robert's 1950 Hotshot being towed  by a Bombardier B-7

"My first car at age 15 was a 1941 Crosley  Convertible and it opened up my world! Long after it was gone my children heard stories about it and saw the old pictures of it! They grew up with my love for automobiles and therein is the tale.........!
 One of them found a restored 1941 Crosley, purchased it, hid it in his barn in Georgia, got the others in on the plot and the cost, and trailered it from Georgia to Virginia where they presented it to me for my 66th birthday.

Neat kids and a neat car and a very happy old Crosley driver. I drive it frequently through the community and have shown it a few times........what fun!"
 

We kept it until 1948, when he determined that it had a cracked exhaust valve seat. Rather than replacing the cylinder block completely, we put the damaged non repairable engine into the back seat of the car, towed it to the Crosley dealer, and put it in trade for a 1946 green Crosley, which we kept for a few years.  If my memory serves me, we paid about $600.00 for the 1946 car. "

" I entered my Crosley in The Great race, Texas race and Finished...it was the first Crosley to ever enter the race and it was the most photographed car there as I was told be staff. Here are a few more pix...again another first for Crosley and me, been wanting to do the great race for 30 plus years but never had the right car..hope your interested. I also want to say that Haggerty Insurance did a full story in their mag, I was insured by them...thanks..Mike Bruno."

In 1956, Dry and Orcutt changed the name of their company to Midget Motors Corporation. In 1966, a group of investors bought Midget Motors Corporation and Joseph C. Stehlin, Jr. became president. That was the start of the end of the Midget.The company’s financial fortunes declined, and in 1969 its assets were sold to Barthman Corporation, led by Vernon D. Eads. 
Eads tried desperately to revive King Midget. He designed and built the King Midget commuter, a molded fiberglass bodied, dune buggy type automobile, for an American export show and eventual production. 
He attempted to start a licensing operation in both Florida and Canada. A fire at the fiberglass plant destroying 13 bodies and the mold.
None of this stopped the Moidget but  the required new Federal crash test program did.
This along with a diminishing demand for the automobile, caused Eads to stop making King Midget. 

For mose details on this wornderful little car visit the
The International King Midget Car Club, Inc.