[Spridgets] [Vintage-race] Speedwell Sprite for sale

Linda Grunthaner grunthaner at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 07:04:51 MST 2010


Love the name, WM what will you race after you sell it?
Lin

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Wm. Severin Thompson
<wsthompson at thicko.com>wrote:

> http://tinyurl.com/RedArse
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: vintage-race-bounces at autox.team.net
> [mailto:vintage-race-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Wm. Severin
> Thompson
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 9:31 PM
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> Subject: [Vintage-race] Speedwell Sprite for sale
>
> To all,
>
>
>
> I am selling my 1960 Austin Healey Speedwell Sprite. I purchased this car
> from Tom Colby out at Speedwell Engineering about 10 years ago. This is a
> California car, never wrecked and never rusted. It was vintage raced out on
> the West Coast.
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>
>
> The car has a Speedwell Monza bonnet with alloy shrouding to the radiator.
> It has an extremely well crafted roll bar, with side intrusion bars, but
> still can fit a soft or hard top to the car. It is, for the most part,
> street legal, although wipers will need to be fitted to the car. It has a
> Fuel Safe cell built into a stock Sprite tank in the original location. It
> has a central fire extinguisher system installed. The car sits on Panasport
> wheels. It needs new tires, and they are included with the sale. It has a
> Mota Lita steering wheel. A soft top and side curtains are included. A very
> solid, restorable Bugeye bonnet is included with the car. A factory hard
> top
> is also offered for an additional cost.
>
>
>
> Current motor is a fresh 948, with flat top piston, a 295 casting head, and
> a BMC factory "649" cam, with a cast header, with the exhaust tucked up in
> the pan, exiting through a Super Trap muffler.
>
>
>
> The car is priced to sell. See
>
> http://s144.photobucket.com/albums/r165/wmseverin/Red%20Arse%20Austin%20Heal
> ey%20Speedwell%20Sprite/<http://s144.photobucket.com/albums/r165/wmseverin/Red%20Arse%20Austin%20Heal%0Aey%20Speedwell%20Sprite/>
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> If you are (very) interested, please contact me off list for further
> details.
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>
>
> WST
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