Less is less.

The 1957 King Midget Model III, classified as a "micro car" was the mighty steed of a long line of Midgets. The brainchild of Claude Dry and Dale Orcutt, the original was a kit produced around 1946 and aimed at what market, it's hard to tell. The inexpensive very small car market. Yes the kit was only 500 bucks or so but that gave you the frame and running gear and patterns for any local sheet metal shop to fabricate the body for you. Unless of course you wanted to do it yourself. I have seen home made cars and usually backyard tickerers are very good at one aspect of automobile manufacturing. rarely do they pass all facets of the trade. I remember someone driving around my town in the buggy contraption from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It looked a perfect reproduction, but it was usually on the side of the road ringed in smoke with the owner a respectful distance away fearing other/more eruptions from the engine compartment. The point is, even though the Midget was boxy and plain with no compound curves to mystify any craftsmen, there is every chance the body work was inventive. They also sold 2 models the Junior and Trainer that had no plans included for body panels. Owners could make whatever thay wanted!

To add to the adventure of owning a Midget kit you were given absolute freedom to power it with any power plant you wanted, so long as it was small and had one cylinder. Read that to mean lawn mower. Typically Midgets were powered, either home built or factory assesmbled, with power plants ranging from 2 to about 10 horsepower. All those horses were coupled to one rear wheel only (removing the need for a rear differential) through a custom designed 2 speed automatic transmission. From what I can find out there seems to be many variations of the King Midget; from models with no reverse and pull start, to others with more sophisticated features like speedometers. The designers of the car came from the American civil air patrol and knew a thing or two about aircraft construction. As a result, this car was light, about 500 pounds.

I haven't found too much on performance specs on these except that Model 3's could go about 50mph. If you had one of the more austere models you might need to have someone pace you to find out.