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Here's *another* one I haven't seen before. It is a model, of course.

This company also built a Frog/Box Sprite, but I've lost the picture for it. That one appears to have a Frog grill with box-Sprite front fenders.

The Frog/Box model company is "Exem" and the car is listed as a "competition" car.

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The front end looks a lot like that Ashley Sprite. Different hardtop though. I like the toy better, myself.
 
There is a fella with two special sprites under tarps in his front yard. Every time I drive by I look to see signs of life so I might stop and inquire. Some one obivously lives in the scary looking house since the tarps sometimes come partially off but then get put back on. These are in a bad neighborhood and are accompanied by a couple very unfriendly looking dogs. Perhaps next summer I will finally have a chance to ask to have a look and find out what the plans are for these. by the looks of the place, they do not have to money to restore these. I believe them to be Healey Sprites with fiberglass bonnets. (Sebrings?)
 
Going right back to the first post in this thread (ok, I'm new here!) I don't think this is one of the Jacobs Midgets - they had standard square wheel arch rear wings and the front ends were different from the standard car, with a longer, more streamlined nose plus lipped front wheelarches on separate wings, not a flip front. They also had a proper blended in windscreens, plus quite a few other detail differences from this car.
https://www.wsmcars.com/images/1000.jpg shows the two Jacobs cars, 770BJB and 771BJB in action at the 1964 Nurburgring 1000km plus all sorts of other interesting machinery
I have sort of a vested interest in this subject, as my family name is Jacobs - no relation though.

The pic of the model looks like it shows the registration number PMO 200 which would mean it's one of the many incarnations of John Sprinzel's Sebring Sprites.
Emma
 
I thought I'd bring back this "Spridget Specials" thread with 4 pages of various, trick-looking Specials created from Sprites and Midgets.
Here's one I haven't posted before: it's John Leary's Midget, powered by a Mazda 13B, one-piece body and independent rear suspension.
A fellow EMRA racer and nice guy and a great car. And fast, fast, fast!
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Going back up the thread a while

"The Super Sprite. I saw 3 or 4 of these one night near Philly at a used car dealer"

You should have bought all 3 or 4 of the (AFAIK) ONE that was built, they would be worth a fortune now!!!
 
If ya want to see the last two Sprite prototypes. Check out race-cars.com look under historics and see the two I have for sale.
 
Ashley GT hardtop 41 BP, see previous page this thread.
 
Heres one for ya.My son just came back from London on a 3 week business trip and never saw one MG of any kind anywhere.. One reason is the MG is considered a gas hog (@30-35 mpg) Remember gas is $8.00 a gal. in the UK. He said most cars on the road are newer because of their better mileage. Cars over their are getting between 40 and 70 mi per gal. 70 mi. of course being the diesel. He drove a VW Golf diesel and got 70MPG. Depending on the size of your gas tank ie. 20 gal. it would cost $160.00 to fill it.
Of course their $8.00 per gal. is because of all the taxes their gov. puts on a liter of gas. If our country jumps on to this bandwagon....watch out..Our 6 & 8 cylinders will quickly become museum pieces.. And SUVs and RV's won't be worth a plug nickel and those stuck with these guzzlers will just be stuck.Me thinks the great love affair between we yanks and the automobile is coming to a quick end.(unless your rich of course)
DJ
 
I like the blue one, looks like a mini-Viper.
 
ohhhhh, I like that. Looks like a cross between a DB4 and a Ferrari.
 
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