Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite

The Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite is a small sports car that was produced by the Donald Healey Motor Company at its Cape Works in Warwick and at the Healey's Speed Equipment Division in Grosvenor Street, London W1. Sebring Sprites were also produced by John Sprinzel Ltd. at their premises in Lancaster Mews, W2.

A modified version of the production Austin-Healey Sprite featuring Girling disc brakes as well as specified engine and chassis improvements, the Sebring Sprite was recognized by motorsport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), as a separate model in its own right. It was homologated on 17 September 1960. FIA regulations permitted the use of 'special bodies', so a small number of Sebring Sprites were subsequently fitted with coupé bodywork in aluminium alloy and glassfibre. The most attractive examples were those devised by race and rally driver John Sprinzel, who had won the 1959 RAC British Rally Championship. Sprinzel commissioned coachbuilders Williams & Pritchard to produce the bodies. Originally said to have numbered six, eight are now known to have been made. Later, other Sprites received similar alloy bodywork from Alec Goldie and Fred Faulkner of the firm Robert Peel Sheet Metal Works (commonly known as 'Peel Coachworks'). The name 'Sebring Sprite' became a generic term for any Sprite with disc brakes, and later for any Sprite with coupé or fastback bodywork.