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Best Of The Best 1960 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite For Sale!

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NOW SOLD to Matt in Calgary, Alberta! Congratulations Matt! Excellent choice!!!

We’ll be exhibiting our concours gold Bugeye 501 this week at the Greenwich Concours du Sport, and so this car below, “Betty,” merits another mention. Betty car was shown at the same event a few years ago, and is ready for you to take to any Concours in your neighborhood where it can go bumper to bumper with the best. It’s an exceptional restoration and another already judged gold-level concours Bugeye. If want to take a concours Bugeye to, for example, the Stowe Vermont British Invasion Concours this September, for example, Betty is your girl!

Many people claim that their classic car is restored to “concours” condition… but this is rarely verified. Sure, that new high dollar restoration looks great, but is it accurate? And does it all work?

Betty overlooks the Thimble Islands (our backyard), Branford, CT

“Betty” (AN5L 25014) is just such a verified Bugeye, with certificates to prove it! Betty was scrutinized by a team of four independent judges, who poured over the car for over two full hours and inspected every nut and bolt. Their conclusion? They awarded this car Gold level concours certification, the highest honor available for any Austin Healey.

The highest honor a Bugeye can recieve!
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AN5L 501, The First Production Austin-Healey “Bugeye” Sprite

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It’s car show season! AN5L 501 is fresh off a Best in Class victory at the Greenwich Concours and a 2nd place in class at the British By The Sea Gathering in Waterford. 501’s next scheduled car show appearance will be the Audrain Concours in September! We hope to see you there!

Learn more about the history of AN5L 501 below, and if you would like to see some of the posts and videos we have made about this historic automobile, click on the links at the bottom of the page!

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“Angus” 1960 bad boy Bugeye Sprite for sale!

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Now SOLD to John in California! Bugeye #386 will be receiving a full re-paint in British Racing Green among other improvements! Congratulations, John!

This is a passion project from a great customer of ours in the Boston. Angus put a lot of passion into this car and an impressive parts list. The car could use paint, but it also is highly usable as it is… check out the list of upgrades and if you want a modified super sprite in a plain vanilla wrapper, and give us a call!

ENGINE:

  • 1275 Engine (came with car when purchased)
  • new engine seals (front and back), 
  • new double timing chain, 
  • New Valves and top end rebuild, 
  • new engine paint,
  • new water pump
  • new thermostat
  • Aluminum Radiator (all new plumbing)
  • petronix ignition
  • sport coil
  • new plug wires
  • spin off oil filter
  • K&N Air Filters

DRIVETRAIN:

  • 5 speed gearbox conversion (performed by Bugeyeguys)
  • Shortened gear shift lever with 5 Speed round shift knob

EXHAUST:

  • Maniflow UK headers
  • Maniflow Bugeye Guy dual exhaust

SUSPENSION/BRAKES:

  • Disc brake Conversion (came with car when purchased)
  • front sway bar
  • lowering kit

WHEELS:

  • Knock off Minilite style wheels (Painted Black) including spare
  • newer tires on all 5 wheels (2019)

ELECTRICAL/ GAUGES :

  • Completely new wiring harness
  • Sebring style stem driving lights
  • Lucas PL700 Repro Tri Bar Headlights
  • Rebuilt tachometer 
  • new combo gauge

FUEL SYSTEM:

  • solid state fuel pump
  • new gas tank
  • new fuel sender
  • le mans style flip top gas lid

INTERIOR:

  • new carpet kit
  • New interior panel kit
  • bugeyeguy premium door pockets
  • bugeyguy correct door liners
  • new interior knobs
  • rebuilt seats upholstery and foam
  • moto lita wood steering wheel

EXTERIOR:

  • Bugeyeguy Chopped windshield currently installed
  • Full original windshield assembly with new glass and rubber
  • Front flip bonnet conversion (leather hold down straps)
  • all new rubber all around car
  • 2 Fender Mounted Talbot side view mirrors

WEATHER “PROTECTION”:

  • Short Tonneau
  • older soft top and complete bow (freshly painted)
  • new door weatherstripping
  • rebuilt side curtains
  • Bugeye side curtain Wallet
  • indoor car cover (used)

14 features that make “Seabiscuit” the ultimate survivor ’59 Sprite!

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Originality in classic cars is fascinating, and especially so in Bugeyes. So many of these cars have been modified, re-fitted, re-purposed, re-powered, or simply recycled that a truly original Bugeye is a rare sight. That’s why we are so excited to be able to bring our 1959 survivor “Seabiscuit” to the forefront of the discussion on survivor Sprites. This is one of VERY few of these cars remaining that has almost all of its original features intact. In the video below, I go over 14 of our favorite original features still present on this car. We hope you’ll enjoy them with us!

This car is a rare time capsule. If you’d like to make this one your next Bugeye, check out the original listing here and give us a call!

Best in show 1958 MGA for sale!

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Now SOLD! Congratulations to the new buyer!

If you are looking for a stunning car with which you make a statement this summer, take a good look at this car. This is one of the sharpest and most striking MGAs you’ll find. And the car has been built to be used and enjoyed. You’ll find all kinds of practical features to improve driveabilty (front disk brakes, five speed, supercharger, upgraded cooling, wind deflectors, etc), in a striking and head-turning package. Once this car sells, there will never be another like it, without a massive investment that far exceeds the asking price, so take a good look to see if maybe this can be the sweetheart in your garage this summer!

I love MGAs. I have owned and sold many of them over the years!

This one is the product of a masterful and obsessive owner who improved the car in every way. Call it a restomod if you like, but I would say this is just a pure MGA made into an ultimate driving machine. It has multiple impressive upgrades to make this car both visually spectacular and a delight to drive, courtesy of disk brakes in front, supercharger, Ford five speed conversion, lower rear end ratio and many more modifications.

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Superbly preserved 1959 Survivor Sprite for sale!

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NOW SOLD to Jeffrey in Texas! Congratulations on taking our 389th car home!

“Seabiscuit” (AN5L 18863) is one of my favorite Bugeyes in recent memory because it is completely unique. It’s a superb example of a survivor, a preservation-class Bugeye that has a remarkable number of original features still in place. Of course, the original rubber mats are never this nice and wonderful to see, but each time I look at this car I find other original factory features that I haven’t seen on other Sprites… for example, it’s exciting to me to the original screws that hold the trunk boards in place (I am easily excited). 

In this listing, you’ll find a series of videos so you can tour the rare features present. Once this car leaves our shop, we don’t expect to find another like it, so these videos will hopefully help future generations understand the factory features. You’ll also see a series of driving videos, including a highway drive on Interstate 95, so you can see that the car is both historically significant and also quite useable.

We’ve built two gold metal concours cars one the years, and many of the components mentioned in the guidelines of the concours standards are visible in real time on this car, and that’s what makes Seabiscuit so much fun. When we built the first production Bugeye (#501), we had to make sure that we accurately recreated a number of original features that were not present in 501 when we got it after initial restoration in Australia. On this car, however, you can see the original features still unmolested and in place just as the factory intended. 

A great example of an original feature not often found on restored Bugeyes is the seam sealer along the firewall. Every restored car that we see has been either media blasted or otherwise stripped of its original finish, so these stains and materials are all removed in the name of a sanitary restoration; but in the case of a survivor like this, it’s actually quite beautiful to see the original decayed material still intact. So if you like this sort of automotive time capsule, this is a great car to consider and something that cannot be replaced in this condition.

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