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I've just received the very sad news that John Sprinzel passed away earlier this week. More associated with Sprites than big Healeys, I first met John in 1998 at Rick Moses's "Sprite Bash" (or whatever the name of the event was of that iteration of the every-five-years meets that Rick put on in Pennsylvania).
I got to know John pretty well over the ensuing years, traveled with him and his wife Caryl, had them as house guests, and to say that he lived an interesting life is an understatement. He had just written a piece for the quarterly Porsche mag I produce a year or two ago, and we maintained a periodic correspondence. I had made him a featured speaker at a classic car rally here in Oregon several years ago - perhaps already 15 years ago - and he was, as always, a hit. He had stories to tell and he told them very well.
In more recent years I tried to bring him back several times to be the guest of honor at various events, but sadly his health prevented his traveling.
I remembered him to Stirling Moss when I met Moss at the Pebble Beach Concours - in 2015, I believe it was - and told Moss a story that Sprinzel had told me about Moss. By the time I was done I think Moss must have been thinking, "Who is this guy?!?" Sprinzel dated Pat Moss for a time and of course knew very well all the players in the golden age of British motorsports.
I was never sure why John and wife Caryl settled on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, but for a time he drove a Bugeye Sprite there as his only car, on all 65 miles of paved roads on the island. Life threw some curves at John, but he lived it his way. Great memories of John. So sad to lose him.
I got to know John pretty well over the ensuing years, traveled with him and his wife Caryl, had them as house guests, and to say that he lived an interesting life is an understatement. He had just written a piece for the quarterly Porsche mag I produce a year or two ago, and we maintained a periodic correspondence. I had made him a featured speaker at a classic car rally here in Oregon several years ago - perhaps already 15 years ago - and he was, as always, a hit. He had stories to tell and he told them very well.
In more recent years I tried to bring him back several times to be the guest of honor at various events, but sadly his health prevented his traveling.
I remembered him to Stirling Moss when I met Moss at the Pebble Beach Concours - in 2015, I believe it was - and told Moss a story that Sprinzel had told me about Moss. By the time I was done I think Moss must have been thinking, "Who is this guy?!?" Sprinzel dated Pat Moss for a time and of course knew very well all the players in the golden age of British motorsports.
I was never sure why John and wife Caryl settled on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, but for a time he drove a Bugeye Sprite there as his only car, on all 65 miles of paved roads on the island. Life threw some curves at John, but he lived it his way. Great memories of John. So sad to lose him.
