JUNKYARD TREASURE: 1966 AUSTIN-HEALEY SPRITE

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I see plenty of MG Midgets as I roam the junkyards of the land, but (at least during the last decade) all of them have been 1970s models. What about the Midget's near-identical twin, the Austin-Healey Sprite? The Sprite name disappeared after 1971, and the older Spridgets mostly got crushed or saved decades ago. Here's a battered '66 that appears to have knocked around as a project for decades before ending up in this Denver self-service wrecking yard.
 The MkIII Sprite came with this 1,098cc four-cylinder pushrod BMC A engine. These cars weren't fast even by the standards of the middle 1960s, but they were a lot more fun to drive than the 59-hp rating suggest.Owned an extremely hooptie Mark IV Sprite with Toyota 20R engine swap about a decade ago, and I would have been very excited to find a parts car like this at a cheap U-Wrench junkyard. This car has many spare parts and ample evidence of attempted rewiring jobs -- hey, I've been there -- so I feel certain it was a project that just ended up not being worth the effort.

  the month or so that this car has been in inventory, very few parts have been purchased from it. Surely someone in the Denver area needs a few Spridget pieces?