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... UNTIL MAY 20THB 195« NEW AUSTIN HEALEY SPRITE ANNOUNCED An Inexpensive Sports Car with many Outstanding Features Today the Austin Motor Company makes motoring history with the announcement of a completely new small and inexpensive sports car0 It is the Austin Healey Sprite powered by a special 9U8coCo BoMoCo 0A"=type engine (developing l+2o5 boh0p0 at 5s>000 r0p0m0) and costing £k55 plus £223 17so Purchase Tax in Great Briatino It is some twenty years since Austin made a small sports car but the "Sprite" lives up full; to the fine tradition established in the 1920°s and 30°s and more recently by the Austin Healey 100o It has a maximum speed in the eighties and rapid acceleration but with a fuel consumption ranging from 30 = k5 m0p0go POWER UNIT The power unit is a tuned version of the well proven A35 engine, fitted with twin SoUo carburetters, and special valve springs^ compression ratio is 8o3 to 1 o Mechanical specification includes a four speed gearbox, independent front wheel suspension by wishbones and coil springs, quarter elliptic springing at rear with trailing arms (giving a low unsprung weight)o A hypoid ^-floating rear axle, ratio ij.o22 to 1, provides overall gear ratios ofs First 15o31» second 10o02, third 5°968 and top L|.o22 with 19o68 reverseo Steering is by rack^andpinion, with 2i turns ...
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