No Reserve - Entered from the Ronald White Collection.

Registration No: Un-Registered Chassis No: AN5/28026 MOT: Exempt

Finished from new in Red with matching Red interior upholstery
Supplied with the original buff logbook
Reputedly purchased into the Ronald White Collection in the 1970s
Believed just two previous owners from new

Thanks to its prominent, bonnet-mounted headlights, the original Austin-Healey Sprite quickly became known as the 'Frogeye’.

The little two-seater, designed by the Donald Healey Motor Company and built by BMC at the MG factory in Abingdon, was launched in Monte Carlo immediately prior to the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix.

The unique, one-piece bonnet covered a mildly tuned, twin carburettor, 43bhp 948cc version of the BMC `A’ series engine already found in the Austin A35 and Morris Minor.

The suspension featured coil springs and wishbones up front, quarter elliptic springs to the rear and lever arm dampers all round.

Today, the Sprite is legendary as one of th...