Rick,
John Carey has a photo of the prototype from one of the Healey books.
http://ourworld.cs.com/_ht_a/JCareyPage/Gallery/History7.jpg
I think you'll agree, the change to fixed position lights was for the
better. It looks more like a salamander than frogeye/bugeye and just doest
have the charm.
Gerard
At 8:42 PM -0700 6/18/01, Rick Snover wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've read that the Sprite's original design called for retractrable
>headlights, but they were dropped to cut costs, resulting in our beloved
>Bug-eyed car. Has anyone ever seen a successful installation of actual
>retractable headlights on a Sprite? What car did the mechanism come from?
>How difficult was the installation? How'd it look?
>
>Inquiring minds...
>Rick
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