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Autocross In Car from a rotary powered Sprite

February 21, 2010

Long time readers will recall the video we posted years ago of a 3 rotor Bugeye Sprite attacking an autocross course. I still go back and visit that clip often, as I just love to hear the wail of the wankel!
Today we have Jeff Kiesel in his Bugeye that has a turbo rotary that puts [...]

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Vintage racing Healey on maximum attack

October 22, 2009

While attempting to convey the glorious sound of a big Healey that won the heart of our man Allan, we showed a quick video yesterday of a short drive in an Austin Healey road car. Some of us found that video a bit less than inspiring. Gary Faules went hunting and came up with this [...]

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Sounds like Shutter Speed: Austin Healey

October 21, 2009

In his Love at First Sight segment of Shutter Speed, Allan De La Plante tells us how the sound of that old Healey added to his infatuation. With all the cool race car sounds around here these days, Allan thought we should bring a little bit of the Healey magic into the place.
Somehow I don’t [...]

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Shutter Speed: Love at first sight

October 20, 2009

Before my old man got rid of his Biscayne during his mid-life crisis, I got something I had longed for from the time I first drove his Buick…my driver’s license! It wasn’t a simple task for me to get that special piece of paper. When I went for the 90-day learner’s permit, which was what [...]

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2009 Greenwich Concours d’Elegance: The British

June 20, 2009

The Fourteenth Annual Greenwich Concours d’Elegance was held on June 6-7 at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park in Greenwich, CT. Founders and co-chairs Bruce and Genia Wennerstrom hosted an impressive variety of marques, featuring rare, classic, unusual, exotic, and one-off production and race cars.
It is a pleasure to share this delectable mix of devastating machinery with [...]

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Classic racing action through the eyes of Paul Chenard

May 11, 2009

If there are two cars that define the spirit of the sports car racing in the Sixties more than any others, they must be the Austin Healey Sprite and the Triumph Spitfire. It might even be safe to say that more racers got their starts in these fun and affordable cars than all of the [...]

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Wired

July 1, 2008
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The car that started it all

December 22, 2007

Like so many other racing addicts, the fever was started with a Bugeye Sprite. In my case though, it wasn’t my own car but my father’s first race car a full 2 years before I was born. The seed was planted though and that propelled Bud on to race with some success over the next [...]

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Celebrating 50 Years of Spridgets

February 27, 2007

The Austin Healey Sprite and MG Midget twins have long been known as Spridgets. From it’s beginning as the Bugeye (frogeye in the UK) in 1958 all the way until the rubber bumper cars of the Eighties, the Spridget has been a favourite of Brit car fans and road racers all over the world. Here [...]

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Rotary Bugeye Autocross Assault

February 4, 2007

It could be that I’ve been posting a few too many videos here in The Garage these days, but I just keep finding the most incredible things on Youtube.
Here we have a rotary powered Bugeye Sprite taking on a long autocross course. Be sure to crank the speakers loud for this one!

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