July '06 Puzzle #1 - Solved! WSM Sprinzel Sprite

[Otto Puzzell]

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[Ultra]

A Datsun? 

[Terraplaneguy]

The car is an Austin Healy bug eye Sprite with an aftermarket hood that relocated the headlights also appears to have a hardtop installed both popular accessories for the time

[porridgehead]

It is indeed a AH Sprite, but it's more than that. It's a Sprinzel Sebring coupe with bodywork by Williams and Pritchard. Sprinzel made six of them with an integrated hard top for racing and rallying.



As the provenance of all the original cars is well known and this has an unknown license, I would guess that it is a replica.

[Otto Puzzell]

Welcome to AutoPuzzles, porridgehead

Quite right on ID'ing the WSM Sprinzel Sprite. A tip of the editorial hat to you! 

[porridgehead]

Thanks. I love this stuff.

I truly enjoy researching automotive puzzles. In fact, if I know the answers offhand, I won't post them. For me, the joy is in working with the styling cues, design memes and background information towards the discovery.

It's terrific to see puzzles that are indeed tricky and obscure. If this is an 'easy' puzzle, I look forward to the difficult ones.

I hope you don't mind if I point a couple people to this site. I think they will enjoy it.   

[Ultra]

I hope you don't mind if I point a couple people to this site. I think they will enjoy it.   

The more the merrirer.  Helping us grow the membership would be very endearing, indeed.

[Otto Puzzell]

Huzzah!

[D-type]

To quote an answer given by Richard Hiinton on Atlas F1's nostalgia Forum

The Douglas Wilson-Spratt Sebring Sprite later re-registered 598 HTM and EYE 206 when owned by opthalmologist Geoff Courtney Broome and again 940 WAR when owned by Jack Scott.

Rebuilt as a coupe in autumn of 1961 4th in class on 1961 RAC , 7th on 1962 Monte, 6hr relay Silverstone '62 Wilson-spratt took the reg no. on to various other projects

So it is apparently a WSM Sprite and not a Sebring Sprite, a Sprinzel Sebring Sprite or even a Speedwell Sebring Sprite

[porridgehead]

Took a bit of digging, but you are spot on! I was thrown by the nose not being in accord with the rest of the coupe WSM cars. However, straight from the WSM home http://www.nolinks.com, comes the original DWS 97, pre-coupe conversion. As you stated, this is definitely not a Sprinzel, nor anything but a WSM. Good job!



Here she be, after the full coupe installation:

[Ultra]

We would like to welcome Tony from http://nolinks.com/ to the site and thank him for helping us as the source of our very first puzzle.



Be sure to check out all of the other great vintage iron on Tony's site.

[Paul Jaray]

Title should be corrected.