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I was going through some of my boxes of old car magazines and found this, which I thought might be of intrest to BE owners.

It's one of the first ads and reviews for the BE, being from a July 1958 Road & Track magazine.

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Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
 
"Body design in a family is apparently not handed down like old clothes. The Sprite could do with some Austin-Healey 100 influence."

Hmmm... has that statement stood the test of time?

Thanks for scanning & posting these!
 
They wouldn't get away with that statement today "an entirely new sports car" All the running gear is cobbled together from various other Austin bits.
my frog
 
Interesting read. A series of technical specs put into paragraph form. "The transmission is a 4-speed unit with syncromesh on 2nd, 3rd and 4th", this is 1958 so you can't just say "no syncromesh in 1st" and leave it at that. -or- "The hood... ... is hinged at the rear for maximum accessibility of engine, radiator and front end assembly when opened." I am not planing to make mine tilt forward, but this was clearly written by someone in the marketing department who has not spent any time on their knees working under a Bugeye bonnet.

Brian
 
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