1958 Austin-Healey Sprite 'Frogeye' Series I [ADO13]

1958 Austin-Healey Sprite [ADO13] in The Notorious Landlady, Movie, 1962

Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin:

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Author	Message
Sunbar ◊ 2007-12-14 16:19	'Frog-eyed' Sprite (or is it bug-eyed? in the USA) on the far right. Other cars also listed separately.
Big Dave ◊ 2007-12-14 17:55	I believe the US term is bugeyed.
dsl ◊ 2011-06-22 20:51	Already agreed this is Hollywood pretend-London, but it made me chuckle. There's a puddle in the road, so unless the horse was really incontinent, it's meant to symbolise rainy England. This has 2 problems [1] British roads are cambered so puddles drain away quickly so you might get puddles in the gutters but not the centre - we may not have an Empire anymore, but we expect it to rain and take appropriate precautions, which leads to [2] we do not park convertibles with the roofs down.
Ingo ◊ 2011-06-22 21:18	dsl wrote it's meant to symbolise rainy England Why you write only "England"? Sourcing annother anecdote. Your fault Once my wife and me have met a couple from Birmingham. We've told them, that we had in the July a very rainy vacations in Scotland, but the Scottish people have told us "Sorry for that, but it's the worst rain-swept summer since years now" Their answer: "This the Scottish are maintaining EVERY year"
dsl ◊ 2011-06-22 23:06	ingo wrote Why you write only "England"? No kilts, bagpipes, haggis shops, Nessie posters, mountains, porridge adverts, thistles in the flower beds, drunks with whisky bottles ....