A Virtually New Sebring Coupe replica for sale (Now Sold)
Offered for sale reluctantly due to the owner’s health issues. Body panels are Tifosi from Halls Garage, Bourne the car finished in midnight blue. Purchased in 2017 it was only completed in May this year. Fitted with an all-new floor and boot one piece section all soda blasted then primed and baked in spray oven. Not one for the purists, it features Frontline telescopic shock absorbers front and rear. Engine bored out to 1310cc with a Keith Calver cylinder head and engine spec too big to itemise here but would be happy to send details to any prospective buyer. Finished in a very attractive dark blue paint with grey carpets. Blue seats with grey piping. Two sets of wire wheels. One set in chrome for show use and one set in black enamel for road use, both with brand new tyres fitted. Offers are sought for the car which has an insurance agreed value of £20,000. It is garaged 15miles south-west of Edinburgh.
If interested please contact FRANK LETHBRIDGE on 07907 035568 (mob) or by email. (11 Nov 2023)
NOW SOLD – new owner Graeme Cargill (7/01/25)
Very rare aluminium Speedwell Monza bonnet now sold
Jonas Lindquist has decided to sell this very rare item (I believe only 6 were made).
“The bonnet was damaged in a collision in the late sixties, the front part was roughly straightened, cracks repaired with aluminium strips and pop rivets and filler was applied to make the bonnet-shape look good again. The bonnet was used in this condition for several years until I bought it. I have removed the filler and my plan was to TIG-weld the cracks and then to let a skilled sheet-metal guy do the proper straightening and repair of the bonnet. I have now decided to use my GRP Speedwell bonnet instead and now the aluminium bonnet is up for sale. I’m sure most of us know how very rare these aluminium bonnets are! This item is not cheap but since it needs repair (or filler…) I will happily discuss the price with anyone who is seriously interested. The bonnet is currently in Sigtuna, Sweden.
(Sold 14 Nov 2023)
1961/62 Sebring Sprite Hillclimb/Sprint car built for the Austin- Healey or MG Speed Championship, Fully road legal, only 4 or 5 events from a fresh build. Specification 1380cc Brett Sims engine full race, Omega pistons H beam rods, MED flywheel/clutch with roller bearing thrust, Straight cut gearbox and LSD by Hardy Engineering 4.5 final drive. Suspension modifications by PME and Frontline, uprated front shocks AVO telescopic adjustable rear shocks, body from Archers, Safety Devises rear cage, TRS 3″ belts, Maniflow oversized LCB with custom reverse megaphone exhaust system, prototype Longman inlet manifolds with twin HS6 Su, 2 Gallon Alloy fuel cell Facet pump and Mangoletsi fuel filter and pressure regulator. Powerlite starter and Oddessey gel battery. Six Minilight style wheels with Toyo tyres. KAD 4 pot calipers braided hoses. £24,500 ono.
Location: Christchurch, Dorset. Contact: David Nutland
01202 474890 or email (29 Oct 2023)
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THIS HISTORIC SPEEDWELL GT
originally owned by Danny Margulies and one of only 8 or 9 survivors, is looking for a new home. Current owner Emilio Cruz is hoping that it will go to another enthusiast like himself.
Asking price is US$ 70,000
Please email Emilio Cruz in Mexico if interested.
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(28.9.2023)
Sebring Replica for sale in the USA
Phil Zamlynski has decided it is time to part with his much-loved Sebring Rep.
He is looking for $27,750 US and can be contacted on (00)+1-269-941-3620
or by email
The full specification of the car can be read here. (28.9.2023)
The information below is provided for your interest – I have no financial or other interest in any sales which may take place.
Hill-climb Speedwell GT replica (Sebring fastback with Monza bonnet) for sale
Peter Fletcher’s Speedwell comes with a standard 1340 bottom end with a gas flowed head on HS4s and 3-branch manifold on stainless exhaust system. It has a straight-cut gearbox from Hardy Engineering and 4.55 diff. The suspension is standard but lowered. There are a few negotiable spares. Offers sought in region of £20,000
Contact Peter by email or on 07742 220083 or 01723 360244
Early Ashley hardtop for sale
Gary Lazarus has this hardtop for sale – he says it needs “a little bit of fettling”, looking for £375.
Contact Gary by email.
Alloy wheel wanted
Glenn Clarke is looking for a 13inch Twin Fin Minilite alloy wheel (quite rare) 5 inches wide as in the photos, for a Sprite – 4 inch PCD, [they did make them in magnesium also] On the photos you can make out the fins. On the inside of the wheel they also have small ribs. On Glenn’s 2 have this and 2 don’t. He is not bothered which.
Contact him by email if you can help please.
Engine for sale
1380 A+
Ported and polished 11 stud Longman big valve head
Payan head gasket
73.5mm forged Omega pistons
Stock rods
Stick crank
Duplex timing chain
276 Kent cam
Aldon distributor
Rear Oil seal conversion
45DCOE Webber carb that was rebuilt before I bought it and was used for one event, fitted with:
Choke 40; Emulation tube F9; Main jet 190; Main air 170
and Idle 50F9
Tinavo intake manifold; K&N air filter,used for one event
2x small trumpets; 2x large trumpets
Motor plate for a Morris gearbox or Ford type 9 gearbox
Bell housing for a type 9 box for the motor plate
Flywheel for a Ford or Morris clutch
Ford 7.5inch Sierra clutch
LCB 3 into One manifold
OFFERS TO JACK GROVES
who can be contacted by email
Frogeye/possible Sebring project for sale
Pete Bower is offering his project for sale. Full details are shown on the attached PDF.
Asking price is £5,250 for the part-restored rolling shell with narrow axle, wire wheels and hardtop.
Other parts are available such as adjustable rear shockers 998cc engine/carbs and alloy doors.
Contact Pete by email if you are interested.
Austin Healey Sprite – competition car for sale – £17,500
Originally built in 1966 and registered in 1967, this Mk 3 Sprite has undergone a full nut and bolt rebuild by a marque specialist Alan Haste. It has the sought after Williams & Pritchard Sebring GT front with an Ashley hardtop, polycarbonate side and rear windows and finished in Tartan red throughout.
It has a rare 1293cc engine completely rebuilt by Allan Cameron to race spec with only 250 road miles. All new parts used where possible and a huge list of modifications.
This car would be ideal for Circuit Race, Sprint and Hill Climb or Rally use and eligible for the Healeysport Sprint and hill climb championship, the Equipe GTS series and numerous other race and rally series.
Engine spec: 1293cc A series block with 11 stud Oselli Stage 3 large valve head, Weber DCOE45, Omega cast pistons, Piper 285 billet camshaft with venier, Roller Rockers, ARP bolts, Lightened flywheel, Maniflow 2” race exhaust and manifold, Aldon distributor with Ignitor electronic ignition, alternator, FIA Cut Off and an Electric fan.
Transmission: Rib cased gearbox with HD AP Racing Clutch with remote bleed and a 4.2 diff
Suspension: All new front suspension with ¾” anti-roll bar. Completely restored rear axle and rear suspension with Peter May Panhard Rod.
Brakes: New calipers/drums, Mintex 11/44 pads.
Interior: Sparco race seat, 6 point TRS seat belts, rear Roll cage and Odyssey Gel Battery.
Wheels and tyres: MWS wires wheels with Avon CR6ZZ tyres.
Contact: Paul Baker by email or on 07802 608529 for more details and pictures. NOW SOLD
1963 Sprite MARK 2 project for sale ~ £3,000 o.n.o. [Now sold] [Donor car with chassis jig and engine stand.]
Purchased in 2008 and used as his everyday car Martin Hull replaced the original 1098 engine with a rebuilt early 1275 with EN40 B crank in 2009. He had intended to rebuild it as a Sebring but his plans have now changed. It comes with the jig he constructed in order to build a complete new shell for his now-completed Mk II ‘Twin-Cam Special’; and also with a bare-shell roll-over jig and the stand on which he ran the engine. The shell is rotten but the bulkhead and transmission tunnel would make a good start, and a shell could relatively easily be built up on the jig using new Heritage panels. The car has a V5, is currently SORNed and there is a Heritage Certificate.
The cylinder head was overhauled with hardened valve seats, but not fully ported; the crank was reground and balanced and it had a 60 thou rebore; this work being carried out by SRD Ltd of Launceston. I fitted a Kent 256 cam with new pushrods and 1.3:1 roller rockers. It has a 1 1/2” SU on an Oselli Torquemaster manifold with a LCB exhaust manifold. The intention was a flexible, torquey motor, which it was. Later MartinI decided to convert to Specialist Components injection, and to this end fitted their Ignition Management Kit, which included crankshaft trigger wheel and ECU. He intended to go on to fit the 5 Port Injection System later. The Management Kit is included, as are the bills for the above. At present it is back on distributor ignition. The new engine subsequently did a happy 9000 miles but when the rot became terminal the car was laid up, in 2013. The engine was last run about 18 months ago and it smoked a little on starting so it maybe it could now do with new valve stem oil seals.
The car comes with steel bonnet, front wings, boot lid, doors, original seats and steering wheel, and a Frogeye dash and Mk II instruments. Full details with explanation of the jig/s with photos by email or call
Martin Hull [now sold – 27 Aug 2020]
[N.B.Third and fourth photos above are of Martin’s new shell on the jig.]
Special prototype Spridget for sale
“Unique, one-off aluminium bodied light-weight Midget for sale on rolling chassis. Excellent tub and 5-link rear suspension. Would make excellent competition car. Wheels in the photographs are not included in the sale, but I have other wheels. Offers over £6,000. For more information call Douglas Anderson on 01382 731755 in the evening or email him”
Douglas’s ADO project is moving on well and he is now at the stage of preparing the body for paint. Thus, he now needs to make room in the garage by selling the initial aluminium car. Hence this advertiserment. NOW SOLD
603 MUY ~ SPRINZEL SEBRING SPRITE REPLICA FOR SALE
Full details here or at CarandClassic
Professionally ground-up restored in 2013/14 on an original UK 1960 Mk I bodyshell with Archers Garage Conversion. Asking Price £30,000 NOW SOLD (Jan 2016)
Contact: Steve Norton by email
or by UK Mobile – 07860 520682
Bridgehampton MARK 2 Sprite for sale
Sebring/Bridgehampton #75 is offered as a turnkey car ready for the track. Ths car was awarded a VSCCA Log Book which will go with the car; the head was refreshed this year and it runs strongly with Sebring brakes, a 1098 engine with polished rods, straight cut gears rebuilt last year and much more… price is near $19000, (£13,250). Rust free and is ready to perform. Lois (right) raced it at Lime Rock. For further details see the car’s web page. Contact Tony Giordano in New York.
Historic MG Lenham Le Mans Coupe – the last official conversion by the Lenham Motor Co
FOR SALE AT
£24,500 (GBP)
Contact Ian Burford via email or on +44 (0) 20 7903 7376
or +44 (0) 7980 296 749
A historic race car for most of its time, starting life as a historic rally car, campaigned by Gordon Howie (old FIVA papers included). Latterly bought by Barrie “Whizzo” Williams and subsequently by myself from Barrie. A fully race prepared car looked after by CCK Historic. A class winning car, winning the overall Class E HRS championship. Prepared to HSCC HRS specification (HVIF papers) , but also compatible with many other series including the HRDC. Letter on file confirming that this was the last official conversion to Le Mans Coupe spec by the Lenham Motor Company. Full race specification available on request. [29/10/2015] UK based
Jim Prentice’s ex-works 1966 Sebring (18th) /Le Mans (DNF) car, HNX 455D (left) is back in Scotland but still for sale.
Ready to race. NOW SOLD
585 MY – Speedwell GT
is currently being offered for sale by Brian Classic & Co
UK based
SPECIAL BONNET FOR SALE
Jonathan Peck is offering the restored bonnet from PMO 200, during its time registered 248 DXN, together with a mould to enable further copies to be produced.
He is looking for offers around £2,200 for the lot.
Due to their size the buyer will need to collect them.
You can contact Jon via email [11 Jul 2015]
Stephen Bowen has the following N.O.S items for sale in original BMC or Leyland wrappers:
4 x AEG624 1275 con rods
1 x ATA7093 4.55 diff assy
1 x 8G9112 tonneau cover sprite/midget 61-63 RHD
2 x BTA744 Front stub axle
2 x BTA745 Front stub axle
2 x 2A7087 Rear hub steel
Prices on enquiry
WANTED – PROJECT CAR FOR RALLYING
Harry Scheper from Holland had his eye on Angelo van der Rijt’s Lenham GT but that has now been sold. Does anyone know of anything similar that Harry could build up as a rally car, LHD or RHD? Feedback please.
Nikolaj Mortensen is offering
A set of NOS BMC 948cc/1098cc Con rods – new unused in original boxes with grease paper. Very rare these days, perfect for Lightening/Polishing or fit as they are. ARP bolts could follow if needed ? £250 for the set ! and a 5:375 Diff, complete and ready to fit. £275. Contact Nikolaj by email if interested.
[Stillavailable 3/11/2015]
Mark Knight of Retro Marques Ltd
is offering this Sebring Replica with Peel Fastback and Speedwell Monza bonnet now at £16,500 [Nov 2015]
WANTED
John Baggott is looking for a non-working Speedwell rev counter to recondition with digital workings. Feedback
RARE WILLIAMS & PRITCHARD HARDTOP Contact Bill
Bill Prout is offering his Bugeye hardtop for sale in the USA at 4,000 USD, the buyer to pay the shipping though he will meet the packing costs. Contact Bill if interested.
DHMC tall side-screens
Pete Farmer has now sold all his remaining stock of newly-made ones. Add your name to my list for the next batch: Feedback
Scott Meadows is looking for a worthwhile Frogeye Sprite project. If you can help please contact him via email
(20Jan 2013)
WANTED – MIDGET MK 1 ANGLED NEARSIDE SIDE-SCREEN
Martin Cunningham of Dublin is looking for one of these unusual raked side-screens for the nearside of a Midget
Mk 1. He has 2 offside (RH side) ones so could swap.
Contact him if you can help, please.
Frogeye for restoration with original steel bonnet (not the Ashley one shown). Log book and parts to complete
£2,000 (See right)
Speedwell GT Replica
body kit and donor car
£6,000 For either of these, contact: Gerri Hopwood
01925 711888
WANTED
Nick Conklin is STIILL looking for a Shorrock Boost Gauge
Contact me via Feedback
Andrew Forster would love to own a copy of John Sprinzel’s “Sleepless Knights”. Anyone got a spare copy at a ‘sensible’ price?
