£4,370
1960 AUSTIN-HEALEY FROGEYE SPRITE - RESTORATION PROJECT
Humbert & Ellis • UK • 7 Sept 2026
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Lowest 10% of Past Sales
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£4,370
1960 AUSTIN-HEALEY FROGEYE SPRITE - RESTORATION PROJECT
UK • 7 Sept 2026 • Lot 2
Vehicle Details
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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72,940 miles
3613
1960
Auction
Manual
RHD
United Kingdom
£4,370
1960 AUSTIN-HEALEY FROGEYE SPRITE - RESTORATION PROJECT
Humbert & Ellis • UK • 7 Sept 2026
Market Position:
Lowest 10% of Past Sales
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Description
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 no...
Price Analysis vs Other Sprite Mk Is
£1,260
Lowest Price (Since 2020)
£12,994
Median Price (Since 2020)
£72,478
Highest Price (Since 2020)
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Humbert & Ellis
Spella Barn, Lower Boddington, Daventry, Northamptonshire, NN11 6XX
Based in Daventry, Northamptonshire, Humbert & Ellis is a physical auction house dealing in classic, vintage, and modern classic vehicles. They hold live auctions and provide vehicle consignment and appraisal services.
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