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MG Midget is fine maintenance-wise. They are so piss-easy to work on that maintenance doesn't take very long at all - change track rod ends in ten minutes, thermostat in fifteen minutes, headgasket in two hours etc. Couple hours drive on Saturday, couple hours fettling/cleaning/improving on Sunday.
Yeah, it needs an oil change every 3,000 miles, but you'll likely do less than that each year anyway. Since I have the old manual handy - service intervals for points, plugs and leads is every 6,000 although you'll probably want to do it every six months or so (or fit electronic ignition, which I personally would)... service intervals for suspension components (like kingpins, steering rack etc) are 12,000 miles, not every few hundred, and it's easy since they all have grease nipples (unlike in the MG-A). Every year is plenty, if you don't drive it on wet/gritty roads.
That said, maintenance is part of the charm. If you really don't enjoy doing it, you shouldn't be buying a classic car - but you knew that anyway.