So what do you get if you take a 50 year old car in boxes, a half a dozen high school girls in an automotive restoration class, the internet, and a classic car auction?
You get a world’s record price paid for an Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite at auction.
I wonder if I could get them to do a car for me…
That car. It’s … grinning.
<- Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite in British racing green.
Here I was, about to make a silly Austin-Healey comment; and the thread is actually about Austin-Healeys!
Good on them! It’s a beautiful car.
How’s your toy search coming?
I had that car in college!
Loved it on campus, but on the highway it took 20 seconds to reach 60mph, which meant you were often stuck a long time at on-ramps waiting for a good long gap to enter into.
And when it rained the water streamed under the rag top snaps into your face.
But it was so cool driving on campus.
Where were all those girls when I was in auto shop class?
Classic Motorsports has a photo of the car in their current issue. Just a blurb reporting on the auction.
I don’t usually say this about cars, but it’s utterly adorable!
And it’s so tiny! Looks like it could be driven around in the bed of my pickup.
I’m just glad there are still people that value old things and put effort into restoring them, rather than chucking it into the landfill and getting a new whatever.
