{"id":227429,"date":"2024-06-11T15:49:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T12:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=227429"},"modified":"2024-06-17T18:31:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T15:31:15","slug":"frogeye-sprite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/frogeye-sprite\/","title":{"rendered":"Frogeye Sprite"},"content":{"rendered":"

They called it the \u201cFrogeye Sprite\u201d, and this 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite is suitably finished in green, thus being a little slice of British sports car history.<\/p>\n

This highly distinctive two-seater had a glamorous launch just after Grand Prix weekend in Monte Carlo in 1958. Left-hand drive from the start, this particular 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite was factory-equipped with stage five tuning – twin exhaust pipes, competition clutch, cross-ratio gearbox and heavy-duty crankshaft among others – but despite these rare attractions, plus whitewall tyres and a rev counter, it remained unsold in an Illinois showroom for over a year. First owner Jim Bishop bought the 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite as a race car, adding a roll cage and painting a signature bishop to the doors, which remains to this day.<\/p>\n

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They called it the \u201cFrogeye Sprite\u201d, and this 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite is suitably finished in green, thus being a little slice of British sports car history. This highly distinctive two-seater had a glamorous launch just after Grand Prix weekend in Monte Carlo in 1958. Left-hand drive from the start, this particular 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":227424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18501,18503,18513,18542,18563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-sins-en","category-cars-en","category-about-men-en","category-style-en","category-women-we-love-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227675,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227429\/revisions\/227675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}