On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Will Zehring wrote:
> I'm curious about a page in the history of spridget racing. Way back when
> they were new cars, didn't someone race a few one-off spridget coupes? At
> Le Mans, or Sebring or something? Who did this? Where can I find out more
> about these cars and the history of the effort? Were the cars fiberglas or
> metal bodied? When did this happen? Were the cars competitive?
The details are lost deep in the recesses of my brain (oops, there goes
another synapse!), but I do remember that one or more factory-sponsored
Sprite coupes ran at Sebring back around 1959 or 1960. I remember an
account in Sports Cars Illustrated (now Car & Driver) of a
Sebring-to-somewhere trip in one of the Sprite coupes and a factory MGA
Twin Cam that also raced at Sebring that year.
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Chip Old 1948 M.G. TC TC6710 NEMGTR #2271
Cub Hill, Maryland 1962 Triumph TR4 CT3154LO (daily driver)
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If cars had evolved as fast as computers have, by now they'd cost a
quarter, run for a year on a half-gallon of gas, and explode once a day.
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