southeastern Michigan's delegate to the Austin-Healey Club of America. Some things never change. And so the Donald Healey Motor Company began work on what would become the Sprite. Like Healey's ...

The result was the first Austin-Healey Sprite. Built with help from BMC's ample parts bins, the Austin-Healey Sprite was launched in 1958 with diminutive bodywork wrapped around a front-mounted ...

It sold briefly, from 1958 to ’61. Today, though, you almost never see two examples of the Mk I Austin-Healey Sprite—aka the “Bugeye”—that are exactly alike. Why? It’s one of those ...

The Austin-Healey Sprite brought fun and fresh air to a whole generation of cash-strapped sports car fiends. During the 1950s, brand-new sports cars were the preserve of the wealthy but ...

With its cartoonish ‘Frogeye’ face, Lilliputian dimensions and 43hp engine, the Austin-Healey Sprite wasn’t the obvious starting point for a giant-killing race car. Yet this plucky roadster punched ...