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...
View ArticleA 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,...
View ArticleGetting 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleAbby’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...
View ArticleFrom 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...
View Article#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...
View ArticleThe 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 –...
View Article1960 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...
View ArticleMen 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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