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Spritely Beginnings

I had my first glimpse of a Sprite during the winter of 1958. John Thornley, MG factory boss and BMC Competition Department instigator, heard that I was writing “Modified Motoring,” a tuning book on...

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A Sprite in My Life

By Ronald Hunt  After searching for a car to restore, in 2002 I found a 1967 Austin-Healey Sprite in the Classic Auto Trader in Buckeye, Arizona, listed for $500. I thought it was a cute little car,...

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Getting the Goat – The Greatest British Sports Cars of All Time

A brain…an athlete…a basket case…a princess…and a criminal It never fails to surprise me how much real life is like high school. Back then we were typically identified with a group and that appellation...

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A Sprite, True Love and the Cold War

1963 was a bad year to fall in love with a girl from the German Democratic Republic – especially if you lived in the Federal Republic of Germany. The Berlin Wall had been erected two years earlier to...

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Abby’s Tale

It was a dark and dreary night in 1964 as the young student rolled onto the Kearney College campus in his newly purchased used 1959 Austin Healey Sprite. His pride and joy was a sports car that...

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From the Archives…Road Test – Austin-Healey Sprite

Originally printed in the 1959 issue of Road Test Magazine The parallels between General Motors in this country and the British Motors Corporation in England are many. Both are the largest in their...

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#MyBarnFind

I like to think of myself as a car guy, but I did not have a special car of my own. I have three kids instead! I am, however, surrounded by some of the most serious car guys on the planet and that’s...

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The Italian Job – Innocenti Spider & Coupe

Long before the Austin-Healey Sprite “Mk I” entered into legend for its amicable appearance, many considered its styling to be odd – even stylist Gerry Coker was nonplussed with the fixed headlights –...

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1960 Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite

Only four of the original Williams & Pritchard bodied Sebring Sprites remain Widely considered to be the most successful Sprite ever built, WJB 707 was constructed as a Works Rally Car by the BMC...

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Men in Sheds – The Lenham Motor Company

An advertisement for the Le Mans Coupe based on the Mark III Sprite and Mk II Midget The name Lenham Motor Company might not mean much on first blush, but the firm has existed in various forms for over...

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