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- Silverstone Auctions RAF Museum London Season Opener 2022
- 1966 Austin-Healey Sprite Mk. III Sebring-style
1966 Austin-Healey Sprite Mk. III Sebring-style
Lot Number: 305
1966 Austin-Healey Sprite Mk. III Sebring-style
Pretty Sebring Sprite, freshly engined and ready to go.
- Sold for: £18,563
LIVE AUCTION: This lot was auctioned on Saturday 5th March, 2022 at 2.00pm GMT at RAF Museum London
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BODY COLOUR
Yellow -
DRIVE
RHD -
REG NUMBER
N/A
SUMMARY
Pretty Sebring Sprite, freshly engined and ready to go.
DESCRIPTION
- A Mk III from 1966, Sebring-bodied and prepared for the fantastic Equipe Racing Series
- This example has been run and prepared by Droitwich-based, TTPerformance
- Some great results achieved over the years by our vendor with much fun had along the way
- Full house 1293cc built by TTP with only 2 hours running time
- Well developed, carefully maintained and ‘pretty as a picture’
- ‘GOV 23D’ is road registered and we’re informed the car is up to date and ready to go with brand new seat belts
The somewhat convoluted story of the Sebring Sprite has been well documented in the past, from the class-winning trio of cars prepared by Donald Healey for the 1959 Sebring 12 Hours Grand Prix d'Endurance. (prototype Dunlop disc brakes, wire wheels, larger SU carbs, twin-plate racing clutches and straight-cut close-ratio gearboxes) through Stirling Moss’ success in the separate four-hour race for GT cars of under one litre at Sebring in 1960, John Sprinzel’s arrival at Austin-Healey with his Frank Costin-designed Speedwell GT and the legendary success of the 5 ‘Works’ and 2 Sprinzel cars at Sebring in 1961, through to the mid-sixties when over a dozen small firms were building their own streamlined bonnet, fastback versions of the Speedwell GT and Sprinzel Sebring utilising Mk1 and 2 Sprites (latterly the MG Midget) and marketing them as ‘Sebring Sprites’.
This Mk III is a Sebring-bodied car and prepared for the fantastic Equipe Racing Series. It has been run and prepared in recent years by Droitwich-based, TTPerformance with some great results achieved with much fun had along the way. It boasts a full house 1293cc built by TTP with only 2 hours running time on the unit.
‘GOV 23D’ is road registered and we’re informed the car is up to date and ready to go with brand new seat belts .This is a well-developed, carefully maintained car that’s ‘pretty as a picture’ and offering great value for money entry into the fantastic world of historic motorsport.
SPECIFICATION
- Lot Number
- 305
- Make
- AUSTIN
- Model
- SPRITE
- Registration Number
- N/A
- Chassis Number
- N/A
- Transmission
- Manual
- Body Colour
- Yellow
GALLERY
CONSIGNOR
Harry Whale
- Car Specialist
- 07919 887374
- harry@iconicauctioneers.com
For further information regarding this lot please contact Harry.
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