1970 Austin Sprite MkIV

1970 Austin Sprite MkIV in The Liver Birds, TV Series, 1969-1996 Ep. 2.09

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jcb ◊ 2025-05-20 10:30	Survivor happily. Registration VOP436J Make AUSTIN Model HEALEY SPRITE Date of Liability 01 05 2013 Date of First Registration 10 09 1970 Cylinder Capacity 1275cc PETROL Vehicle Status SORN Not Due Vehicle Colour GREEN -- Last edit: 2025-05-20 10:36:52
jcb ◊ 2025-05-20 10:35	Also in Carry on at Your Convenience with pvc boots. May have an identity crisis- /vehicle_29787-Austin-Sprite-1970.html
dsl ◊ 2025-05-20 14:30	jcb wrote May have an identity crisis .... Presumably you mean the round boot badge?? Very difficult to find exactly what boot badge these late Sprites had, with some picture/caption overlaps between Austin-Healey and plain Austin, but eventually ... This June 70 Austin Healey has Sprite script This "1971" (plate date) has a round boss which doesn't look like octagonal MG logo ... and this Nov 70 (plate date) definitely looks round Both Sprites and Midgets had red grille badges, so that doesn't help, but I think with fingers crossed the sill lettering across both VOP 436J pages looks more like Sprite than Midget. So I think Sprite is safe.

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jcb

◊ 2025-05-20 10:30

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Survivor happily.
Registration VOP436J

Make AUSTIN

Model HEALEY SPRITE

Date of Liability 01 05 2013

Date of First Registration 10 09 1970

Cylinder Capacity 1275cc PETROL

Vehicle Status SORN Not Due

Vehicle Colour GREEN

-- Last edit: 2025-05-20 10:36:52

jcb

◊ 2025-05-20 10:35

Also in Carry on at Your Convenience with pvc boots.
May have an identity crisis-
/vehicle_29787-Austin-Sprite-1970.html

dsl

◊ 2025-05-20 14:30

jcb wrote May have an identity crisis ....

Presumably you mean the round boot badge?? Very difficult to find exactly what boot badge these late Sprites had, with some picture/caption overlaps between Austin-Healey and plain Austin, but eventually ...

This June 70 Austin Healey has Sprite script

This "1971" (plate date) has a round boss which doesn't look like octagonal MG logo

... and this Nov 70 (plate date) definitely looks round

Both Sprites and Midgets had red grille badges, so that doesn't help, but I think with fingers crossed the sill lettering across both VOP 436J pages looks more like Sprite than Midget. So I think Sprite is safe.

1970 Austin Sprite MkIV

1970 Austin Sprite MkIV in The Liver Birds, TV Series, 1969-1996 Ep. 2.09

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