My Apologies for the 3 month gap since I last up-dated the website ~ no excuses, just busy with other things.
An interesting new website can be seen at www.138dmo.co.uk which shows some of the history of Roger Enever’s Works MG Midget
Trevor Mcilroy from Belfast, N. Ireland bought a Sprite bodyshell at MG Live at Silverstone in June and has ordered Archer’s 70th Sebring top.
Ian Thomas now owns 9255WD an ex-works rally Mk2 Sprite. He would like to hear from anyone with more info about the car. He has 8261WD for sale.
Spotted by Alan Anstead at Brands Hatch on 8th May this Sebring, reg’d 362UAE is the replica built by Tony Davis who had his fibreglass top copied in aluminium at a cost of £3,000 to get its Historic FIA documents
I gather that Gary Kohs’s Sebring Sprite DAC 952C (above) has again been offered for sale on ebay. Anyone know if he has sold it this time?
Ron Gordon has sent me a couple of pictures of the fibreglass seat from the Sebring Sprite he is restoring (see his page). He is obviously keen to prove that the car is the one Moss drove in 1960 which was painted red, and he has found some red paint, or pigment, under the seat. As you can see, a section of the seat was cut out to clear the floor strengthener beneath it.
Latest photos (above) received from Roger Sieling of the Falcon, or Nassau, Sprite show the new nose being jigged into the chassis. He has remade the entire radiator ducting but has not yet cut the holes for the oil cooler into the bottom panel. The original bonnet panel will need extensive repair and shaping. He has to decide on the position of an air scoop as several were fitted to different engines.
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Mike Youles is looking for information about a Sebring Sprite which his friend’s father, Steve Chitty raced in the distant past. The story goes that while competing at Brands he rolled the car at Druids and appeared at Bottom Bend “riding in the hardtop like a sledge!” Can anyone tell us more?
This photo of 8426UE was recently sent to me by Hans Wurl of Vintage Racing Motors who now own the car, known as “the Roadster”.
Above is one of 2 Ex-Works Healey Sprites now owned by Steve Colman, built for the 1968 season but sold off when DHMC’s contract with BMC ended. See: www.thelasthealeys.com
Ian Burford who bought Barrie Williams ( ex-Gordon Howie) Lenham Le Mans and now races it in the HSCC Series. He is a reserve for the Goodwood Revival.
I gather that quite a number of historic Sprites are expected to be on the grid at the Goodwood Revival on Sunday September 19th for the Fordwater Trophy Race. Chris Clegg should be there in S221, together with Shaun Rainford in his re-creation of John Britten’s SS1800, Paul Woolmer in BXN, at least one Speedwell GT and perhaps a WSM or two. I am planning to drive down in a Sebring convoy with Stephen Bowen in WJB 707, and Michael Meerlo in his newly completed Fastback replica. See you there perhaps?
Very many thanks to all those who have contributed to this up-date.
