500 Austin Healey (Frogeye) Sprite (1961) 6060 BY

Austin Healey Sprite (Frogeye) Mk.1 (1958-61) Engine 948cc S4 BMC A Series

Production 48,987

Registration Number 6060 BY (Croydon)

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Designed by Donald Healey, The Austin-Healey Sprite is a small open sports car , introduced in 1958 and intended as a low cost sportscar, a kind of successor to the sporting or home tuned Austin Sevens. Produced at MGs Abingdon factory, with assembly also in Enfield New South Wales Australia. The Sprite quickly became affectionately known as the frogeye in the UK and the bugeye in the US, because its headlights were prominently mounted on top of the bonnet, inboard of the front wings. The car's designers had intended that the headlights could be retracted, with the lenses facing skyward when not in use; a similar arrangement was used many years later on the Porsche 928. But cost cutting by BMC led to the flip-up mechanism being deleted,

 

Powered by a BMC A series in line four giving 43 bhp similar to the engine from the Morris Minor or Austin A35 but with twin SU Carburettors It first went on sale at £ 669.

 

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Shot 05.01.2020.at Bicester Heritage Centre, Bicester, Oxon 144-500

 

 

 

 

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