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It looks Brit.

Anyone ever heard of this thing?

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https://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Falcon-Ro...1QQcmdZViewItem
 
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Rings a bell, but cannot place it...real pretty though!!
 
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I've never heard of it, but it sure it nice looking.
 
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Actually, it did ring a bell after all. On page 144 of "More Healeys" by Geoff Healey, there is a picture of:

"John Colgate driving the lightweight Sprite with Falcon body at Nassau"

The picture is pretty similar to that car. The Healeys ran 1 of these Sprites at the 1960 Le Mans race with the special Falcon fiberglass body. They came in 1st in the 1000cc class.

There's a picture of car here:

https://www.pbase.com/mdlempert/image/55823495

The one on eBay is obviously not a Sprite, but the body does look similar.

More information here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Shells
https://www.hobbycar.com/1963Falcon.htm
 
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I don't know much about them, but there was a kit car company called Falcon over in England, who also did some very small-scale mass production during the early-1960's, and obviously some for racing as well as I just heard about here...
 
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I'll tell you, you guys are good!! Drew, that is where it rang a bell for me from too, once you mentioned it!! That could have had Sprite running gear and been re-powered - looks like a Ford set-up in it now. Neat reunion info willie!
 
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The Sprite one looks like what they call a "Mark II" body, that was designed to go over a range of bodies. The eBay one looks like a "Competition" model, that had a space frame.

Funny how the little hamsters in your brain can scurry around and retrieve this information. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
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Thanks guys!......I wasn't having any luck locating info.
Now if I could just find a poor neglected car like this.

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I'd be happy to spend the next decade putting it right.
I'm trying to locate a worthy project.
Something very unusual and beyond what most people would consider salvageable.
 
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We'll keep our eyes open for you. There's lots of hopeless cars out there, I'm sure there's one out there for you. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
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