This is a lime green race car.

Here is what the guy had to say:

This is a 1967 Austin Healey Sprite.

It is a fabulous autocross car that I have taken to six or seven NASA and/or SCCA events this year. I ran it at several Corvette club meets and one national Corvette meet at Kilcare Raceway in Beavercreek, Ohio where it competed in an X class, (all non-Corvette cars). We beat a lot of the Corvettes at those events.

It is extremely well set up, quite fast and very competitive in whatever class you in which you chose to run it. We used to run these types of cars in a local VINTAGE "C" class, but now we just let them put it wherever they want to class it. We have run it in TTE, TTF, D Prepared, A Street Prepared, (where it definitely did not belong, but we beat the pants off of a highly prepared 968 Porsche and that was FUN!). With very little preparation it could go into Spec Sprite or vintage racing. It could easily be upgraded to a FP race car as well.

This car was in dry storage for years before I bought it and I believe it has been a race car in the southern states most of it's life. It is an absolutely rust free tub. The floors, rockers and all body panels are great. It has steel fenders and no flares. I had a local body shop apply the paint and stripes, wire brush the underside of the car and apply undercoating to the underbody to prevent any corrosion. It looks fabulous! This car gets more attention than any show car or racing car we have ever owned. I took it to the British Car Day show in Dayton, Ohio and everyone loved it. The body is very straight and the paint is perfect, except for one small chip on the area where the right hand corner of the trunk lid meets the body, (less than a 1/4" in diameter and not noticable except under close examination), and a couple of very small nicks on the roll bar where I have whacked it with the belts or something. None are large or readily apparent. The car looks every bit as good up close and in person as it appears in the pictures.

The car is in turn-key condition. There is nothing to do to it to get it ready to go but fuel up, put it on the trailer and go. It starts everytime, easily. It is a 1275cc engine. I don't know the specs of the cam. It is obviously a race cam. The car will idle and it is quite lopey at idle. The head is an 11 stud head and has the Flowdyne racing engines plate on the valve cover. This car runs very strong and it pulls hard all through the rev range. It makes a LOT of power from about 4,200 RPMs onwards and I have always shifted it around 7,500 RPMs. It will turn more, but that has been a safe and happy number for us.

Here is a list of things I know about the car, I am sure it is not complete, but it will give you an idea of how well set up it is:

New, (this spring), Toyo Proxes SHAVED, from The Wheel Source, Cosmic style rims that the Wheel Source supplier who mounted the Toyos informs us are magnesium, (they are very light 9lbs...), fiberglass lift off light-weight hood, 13" Grant GT wheel with Growler Jag emblem, one mesh headlight air intake, fully vented crankcase, Petronics ignition, 11 stud head, new clutch master and slave cylinders, new brake master cylinder and new brake and clutch pipes, new coil, high torque starter, side draft 45 DCOE 152 Weber carb, header, leak free exhaust, new Magnaflow muffler, (It had open exhaust, but my neighbors were less than enthused about listening to it. Now it is a lot quieter with no loss of performance.), NEWLY REBUILT TRANSMISSION by Riverside Motors, (Eric Jones), in Columbus, OHIO, power cut-off switch, new battery and battery box mounted in passenger floor, lightened aluminium flywheel and TILTON RACING CLUTCH and PRESSURE PLATE, New 2006 fully adjustable 5 point Pro Series G-Force racing harness, 7 point roll cage, adjustable CORBEAU racing seats, (I am almost 6' tall and they fit me comfortably with several more inches of rearward adjustment left), new Talbot style rearview mirror, NEW 5 gallon WISCO FUEL CELL, tube shock conversion in the rear, limited slip differential, Winners Circle Panhard bar, uprated springs front and rear, Mr. Gasket electric fuel pump and more....

This is obviously a race car and it does not come with a title. I do not have a log book for it and I have no way of obtaining the old log book, if it did have one. I had this car in dry storage for about six or seven years and over the last year and a half or so I did all of the work to make it raceworthy again. It is a very, very nice car that will make a great hobby for someone. I am looking at a Mazdaspeed Miata that I can both autocross and drive on the street. That is the reason I am selling this car. Two race cars would be a bit more than my lovely and understanding wife could tolerate.

1. I don't like the color, but the stripes are nice.		2. Got a nice rollbar, and the wheels are neat.
3. Nice clean rear, with a lot of stuff shaved and smoothed.		4. One headlight is actually a screened air intake.
5. He carried the stripes through nicely, and the cut down windscreen is cool for a racecar.		6. Another angle of the rear.
7. Just another rear shot.		8. Note the neat head rest for the driver.
9. Clean side view.		10. Pretty nice race car.
11. Hood pins.		12. I didn't know that wheels like this were available in the Midget bolt pattern.
13. Shaved race tyres.		14. Jaguar decoration on the steering wheel.
15. Race seats and roll bar.		16. Panhard bar, and large muffler.
17. Still uses the stock rear axle.		18. Fuel cell.
19. Underside of the car.		20. Another.
21. From the other side.		22. 1275 engine with a 45 DCOE carb.
23. Nice aluminum valve cover.

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