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Ecurie Ecosse Sebring Sprite For Sale

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"Restored by Lynx.." A bit like flying in Christiaan Barnard to remove a wart. It's what's on the upper deck that's the dream car, eh?

When I got my Sprite and was restoring it (for the first time!) in 1979, I got a copy of Geoff Healey's "More Healeys: Frogeyes, Sprites and Midgets" and devoured it, especially the tales of the works race cars for Sebring, Le Mans and the Targa Florio.

I suppose prohibitive cost is one of the defining parts of any dream car, but there's got to be a special category for stuff like that Sprite, finding one of those cars from the Cape works, that takes more than a payment book to get hold of. I remember when that last Le Mans coupe was discovered in Scotland about twenty years ago and I have to wonder whether all of those works Sprites have been found or accounted for. I'm still dreaming of that barn find with a Sebring entry in its log book.

I shudder to think what that Sprite will go for!

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It might not be the car Bill McKay rolled at Maison Blanche in 1961:
https://www.sebringsprite.com/1413wd.html
 
John
You have got your answer. Take a look through Martin's site you will see many cars with a California History. May be there still is one out there. We can dream or you can build a tribute/replica like me.
Paul
 


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Lot 4
1961 Austin-Healey Sprite Two-Seat Grand Touring Coupe
Sold for ÂŁ61,980 (US$ 101,748) inc. premium


More here: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20934/lot/4/
 
Got to be nearly an all-time high for a Sprite sale.
 
Met Tom at a friends auction who past away this past spring. Tom stated that the car was sold toJim Prentice in the UK. From what I gather, Jim change engines but kept the dry sump motor for preservation. The car was for auction this past April but I’m unsure that the car sold, stated it was to valuable to race any more, Humm, you see the boys trading paint at Goodwood in their 2 and 3 million 250 GTO’s Tom is now restoring a Briggs Cunningham that he bought from a friend of mine. Tom showed me photos of it and some of his Cobras.
 
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Although I am not saying that 100K isn't a LOT of money, but considering top of the line, but garden variety production AH3000s have reached that price and more, for a pedigreed early sixties race car almost seems like a (relative) bargain.
 
glemon said:
Although I am not saying that 100K isn't a LOT of money, but considering top of the line, but garden variety production AH3000s have reached that price and more, for a pedigreed early sixties race car almost seems like a (relative) bargain.
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Agree, Greg, I'd love a replica! Remember watching the exploits of that car back "in the day".

Kurt.
 
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