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The Austin-Healey Sprite is a small open sports car produced in the United Kingdom from 1958 until 1971. The Sprite was announced to the press in Monte Carlo by the British Motor Corporation on 20 May 1958, two days after that year's Monaco Grand Prix .
The Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite is a small sports car that was produced by the Donald Healey Motor Company at its Cape Works in Warwick and at the Healey's Speed Equipment Division in Grosvenor Street, London W1. Sebring Sprites were also produced by John Sprinzel Ltd. at their premises in Lancaster Mews, W2.
ADO34 was the name of a project active between 1960 and 1964 that aimed to develop a front-wheel drive Mini-based roadster as a possible new MG Midget or Austin-Healey Sprite. Following the launch of the MG Midget in 1961, it was considered as an MG Midget or Austin Healey Sprite replacement. [10] This Pininfarina project was cancelled in about ...
The Austin-Healey 3000 is a British sports car built from 1959 until 1967. It is the best known of the "big Healey" models. The car's bodywork was made by Jensen Motors and the vehicles were assembled at BMC's MG Works in Abingdon, alongside the corporation's MG models.
The last Big Healey to win an SCCA National Championship was the class E Production Austin-Healey 100-6 driven by Alan Barker at the Daytona ARRC in 1965. In 1953, a special streamlined Austin-Healey set several land speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA.
Austin-Healey Sprite (1958–1971), produced by BMC at Abingdon; Austin-Healey 3000 (1959–1967), produced by BMC and Jensen Motors; Jensen-Healey (1972–1976), a joint venture with Jensen produced by Jensen Motors; Kit-car. Hult Healey, Swedish kit-car; See also. Healey 1000/4 (1971–1977), motorcycle built in Redditch
Austin-Healey Sprite; Sprite Car Club of Australia This page was last edited on 28 March 2013, at 00:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The new car combined the 1275 cc engine block already familiar to drivers of newer Mini Cooper S and Austin-Healey Sprite models with the 1100 transmission, its gear ratios remaining unchanged for the larger engine, but the final-drive being significantly more highly geared. [18]