Tom,
I have one of the Austin Sprites.
They "lost" the Healey bit when Donald Healey's original contract to use his
name ran out in 1970 and Austin were too tight fisted to be prepared to
continue with the royalty payments. The last 1022 cars were built from
January '71 to July '71. My car was registered in May 1971 and is no 104 of
that which suggests that they were selling pretty slowly by then in the UK
I understand that the last export Sprites were AN9 chassis numbers and stopped
in July 1969. After that only Midgets were exported.
Guy,
Uk
Austin Sprite 1970
Midget 1978
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