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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.
Austin-Healey was a British sports car maker established in 1952 through a joint venture between the Austin division of the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and the Donald Healey Motor Company (Healey), a renowned automotive engineering and design firm.
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 .
Sebring Sports Cars hand builds a range of electric sports cars using fibreglass bodywork, the style reminiscent of the classic Austin-Healey 3000 sports cars produced between 1959 and 1967 and the Porsche 356 (coupe and speedster). The name derives from the Sebring International Raceway in the US, at which Austin-Healey cars were very successful.
The surname Healey is used variously in the automotive industry: People. Donald Healey (1898–1988), British rally driver & automotive engineer; Geoffrey Healey (1922–1994), British car designer, son of Donald; Manufacturers. Donald Healey Motor Company (1946–1953), British car manufacturer founded by Donald Healey in Warwick UK
Austin chief Sir Leonard Lord was so impressed when he saw it on the Healey stand at the 1952 Earls Court Motor Show he offered to make it in his own factories under the name Austin-Healey 100. [ 2 ] The result was a 1953 a joint venture which created the Austin-Healey marque with the British Motor Corporation manufacturing the cars and the ...
By 1965, Aurora had many automobile kits in 1:32 "slot car" scale including the Triumph TR3, MG-TD, Jaguar XK120, Austin-Healey 3000, Alfa Romeo GT convertible, Mercedes-Benz 300 SL convertible, 1958 Ford "Squarebird" Thunderbird, the American Cunningham, and a few Indianapolis 500 winners, like the Monroe Special, and the Fuel Injection Special.
Donald Healey, Ltd. Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite: 62 DNF 35 GT2.0 Bob Mazzi Frank Schroeder: Fred Moore: A. C. Car Ltd: AC Ace: 61 Left rear wheel DNF 30 GT2.0 Ike Williamson: James Forno: Morgan Motors Ltd. Morgan Plus 4: 60 Broken front hub DNF 57 GT1.3 Frank Bott: Phil Forno: Lotus Cars USA Lotus Elite: 57 Accident DNF 19 GT3.0 John Colgate ...