068 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk.1) Frogeye Hardtop (1959) MVG 775 by Robert Knight Via Flickr: Austin Healey Sprite (Frogeye) Mk.1 (1958-61) Engine 948cc S4 Production 38999 Registration Number MVG 775 (Norwich) AUSTIN HEALEY SET www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/sets/72157623759812996... 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. It was intended to be a low-cost model that a chap could keep in his bike shed, yet be the successor to the sporting versions of the pre-war Austin Seven. The Sprite was designed by the Donald Healey Motor Company, with production being undertaken at the MG factory at Abingdon. It first went on sale at a price of £669, using a tuned version of the Austin A-Series engine 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 Designed by Donald Healey and originally intended to have retractable head lights but was abandoned in favour of the fixed frogeye look on a cost basis. When the Mk. II Sprite was introduced in 1961 it was joined by a badge-engineered MG version, the Midget, collectively the two versions were referred to as Spridgets Diolch am 98,463,824 o olygiadau gwych, mae pob un ohonynt yn cael eu gwerthfawrogi'n fawr. Thanks for 98,463,824 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated. Shot 09.10.2022, at Bicester Heritage, Autumn Scramble, Bicester Aerodrome, Bicester, Oxon 166-068
