The rights to the car were purchased in 1990 by Pastiche Cars of
Rotherham, Yorkshire who relaunched the range and made a handful of convertibles before the receivers were called in again in 1991 and sold the Gold Convertible on to
GTM Cars of
Sutton Bonnington, Nottinghamshire. GTM added a series of changes including
Hydragas suspension and a hardtop. The range continued to develop with, in 1995 a new 2+2 coupé based on the
K-Series engined Metro and
Rover 100 models. The moulds of the Gold coupe were sold to Berlin, Germany by GTM in 1990 where they were used for an unemployment project. In the meantime the old Mini based Midas had reappeared being made by Midtech cars for a short time. In 2001 the Midas changed hands again when GTM sold it to a new Midas Cars Ltd based in
Redditch, West Midlands. The range now consisted of the Coupé, renamed the Cortez, and a K-Series powered coupe and convertible named the Excelsior. Although the cars were well received the company went into liquidation in 2003. A new company, Alternative Cars Ltd was set up in 2003 and in 2004 restarted production of kit form versions of the Gold Convertible, Cortez and Excelsior based in a small workshop unit at
Clanfield, Oxfordshire. In 2007 the Midas Owners Club rediscovered the Gold coupe moulds in Germany and bought them and were imported back to England. File:1985 Midas Bronze 1.3 Front.jpg|Midas Bronze Coupe 1985–1990 File:Midas Gold Convertible.JPG|Midas Gold Convertible 1989–present File:Midas Cortez.JPG|Midas Cortez 1995–present File:Midas Excelsior in yellow, front right.jpg|Midas Excelsior 2002–present ==References==