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£4,370

1960 AUSTIN-HEALEY FROGEYE SPRITE - RESTORATION PROJECT

United Kingdom • 7 Sept 2026 • Lot 2

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AI Listing Summary

This 1960 Austin-Healey Frogeye Sprite is a barn-stored restoration project with over 50 years of dry storage, retaining original and unmolested condition. It's a non-runner and requires significant work, particularly on the floor pan, but presents a rare opportunity for enthusiasts to restore an iconic British sports car with believed-to-be-genuine low mileage.

Condition

3

The car is a non-runner and requires substantial reconditioning, including the reinstatement of floor pan panels. While it is described as original and unmolested with the engine turning freely, its non-operational state and the need for significant work place it in the 'Below Average' category.

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Transmission:

Manual

Chassis No:

3613

Odometer:

72,940 miles

Reg Number:

[Reg Number]

RHD/LHD:

RHD

1960 AUSTIN-HEALEY FROGEYE SPRITE - RESTORATION PROJECT
Long-term barn-stored restoration project — remarkably original and unmolested
An increasingly rare opportunity to acquire a genuine 1960 Austin-Healey Frogeye Sprite, offered as a long-term restoration project with an unusually interesting history.
This particular Frogeye was purchased in the early 1970s as a present, after which the decision was made to begin restoration work.

The original floor pan panels were removed with the intention of replacing them with new panels.

For reasons unknown, the restoration was never completed and the Sprite subsequently entered a remarkable period of more than 50 years of dry barn storage, where it remained untouched.
As a result, the car is now offered in remarkably original and unmolested condition.

It has not been subjected to decades of alterations, modifications or unsuccessful restoration attempts and presents an excellent basis for a sympathetic restoration.
The car is currently a n...