[Spridgets] anyone ever hear of a factory Mk I Sprite, w/boot/trunk lid?
Kevin Valentine
kevinv1275 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 24 19:55:28 MDT 2013
Bud and Jay,
Take a look here;
Take a look at these links;
http://www.ahexp.com/phorum/read.php?6,1716,page=1
http://www.empowercoach.com/bio3.htm
On the last on - scroll halfway down and you will see an advert for a
bugeye trunk conversion.... (copied below)
Just passing this along ;)
Kev
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Bud Osbourne <abcoz at hky.com> wrote:
> At a local trolley museum anniversary celebration (50 years), yesterday.
> The museum had a classic car display and asked our local Triumph club to
> get
> some cars out. Yeah, mine was the only MG there, but that's fine, too.
>
> Anyway, there was a guy there with a Mk I Sprite, which was fitted with a
> boot/trunk lid. He says he's the second owner and the original owner was a
> good friend of his. He claims the he was told (he really didn't know much
> about Brit cars and didn't claim to, either) that his car is one of six
> Sprites built with boot/trunk lids.
>
>
>
> Anyone ever hear of the factory doing anything like this? I thought it
> could possibly have been some sort of prototype/design study done late in
> the Mk I production run, when BMC was looking for ways to "freshen" the
> design, to compete against the soon to be introduced Spitfire. Thoughts?
>
> And, no, unfortunately, I didn't have my camera along with me.
>
> Thanks, guys.
>
> Bud
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