588 Austin Healey Sebring Sprite (1959) XXC 818

Austin Healey Sebring Sprite (1961) Engine 1098cc S4BMC A Series
Race Number 49 Trevor McIlroy (Belfast)
Registration Number XXC 818 (London)
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The Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite was a modified version of the Austin-Healey Sprite which gained recognition by the governing body of motorsport, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, as a separate model in its own right. The car featured Girling disc brakes as well as engine and chassis improvements, and after its homologation on 17 September 1960, FIA regulations permitted the use of 'special bodies'. Some Sebring Sprites were subsequently fitted with coupé bodywork in aluminium alloy and glassfibre, the most strikingly attractive examples being those devised by well-known race and rally driver John Sprinzel, who had won the 1959 RAC British Rally Championship. Sprinzel commissioned the coachbuilders Williams & Pritchard, renowned for their racing and prototype bodies, to produce it. The name 'Sebring Sprite' would become a generic term for any Sprite with disc brakes, and later for any Sprite with coupé or fastback bodywork

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Shot 17.07.2016 at Shelsey Walsh Classic Nostalgia Meeting, Worcestershire REF 121-588

Taken in: UK / England / Malvern Hills District / Shelsley Walsh (show map)

Taken on: November 5, 2020

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