BIG NEWS AT MIDGET 50
was that Roger Byford has
entered the Winter Challenge
to Monte Carlo in 2012 with
none other than Willy Cave
as his navigator in one of
his two Sebrings (right)
Roger Byford’s 775 JTF
(photo Gordon Higgs)
Wheeler meets Wheeler (Brian & Jack)
A little bird takes a look!
“If God had intended Spridgets to keep their steel bonnets, he wouldn’t have brought John Sprinzel among us”. ~ So says Tom Coulthard on the mgcars bulletin board!
Pete Taylor has produced these lovely little stick-on badges intended for Big Healey hardtops but perhaps also nice to put on your Sebring? They are 75p each. Contact Pete via Feedback
WYT 381, the Barry Shawzin rally car.
[I appear to have had my facts wrong about the sale of this car and its restoration – I am now endeavouring to clarify the present situation. Apologies to those concerned for my error]
A great picture of
EAO en route to Midget 50 (photo by Carl Bintcliffe)
Ian Turner, father of Mark (who has the Coupe Sebring top on his Mark 2 Sprite) is to build a new Sebring to race.
Pete Taylor is building an aluminium replica of a Le Mans streamliner – see his website for the full story and photos
Gordon Elwell sent me this photo of MEG with the Lumbertubs Sprite at Silverstone in 1964. Previous MEG owner Arthur Appleby kindly supplied it.
Cultra Hill-Climb,
N.Ireland
See Trevor McIlroy’s
Sebring taking part
on You Tube:
http://youtu.be/iEmUHp4xsRY
[Thanks to Mike Wylie]
Jonathan Whitehouse-Bird was contacted recently by Mitch Goldstein who is trying to find: 9251 WD (the Steve McQueen ‘works’ MkII that remained in the US). He’s managed to track down Willy Stryker, the guy who bought it from BMC San Francisco in 1962 for $2500!
View Mitch’s site
This is Simon Leeming’s replica of a Sebring Mk 2 with similar Reg No. 9524 WD. He only needs the DHMC Mark 2 hardtop to perfect it.
KEITH HOPWOOD
I was sorry to learn this week that Keith Hopwood, who re-created RAM 35, the Paddy Gaston Sebring, has passed away. We send our sincere condolences to his wife and family.
S221 for Le Mans
Charlie Clegg tells me he and his father Chris will be racing in a support race to the 24 Hours this coming weekend
(11/12 June) .
A cold and rainy, but enjoyable, Midget 50.
MG Mecca‘s fibreglass replica
of RTL 304 available as
a complete car for £27,995
Lumbertubs Sprite
now SOLD
EAO out on the road at last – giving Jonathan a big grin.
