Running Race Car with winning vintage race history, + a roller, + 100's of parts
Vehicle Description
Yellow Car – CLEAR TITLE
1965 Austin Healy Sprite Mk. III Running Race Car
Vintage Race Car, Built to 1967 SCCA Production Car (GP) specifications in 2001-2002. Club racing history with Southwest Motorsports (SWMS), Albuquerque 2002 to 2009. Almost all receipts are included as are some build notes and photographs, new or race-ready spares, and special part installation instructions. Award winner for conformance to 1967 SCCA specs. Ran up front. Multi-race winner.
Contact me for link to photo inventory and Cold Start video!
Fluids drained and car put in storage 2010 to 2023. In 2023 car partially disassembled for freshening and paint. Intent was to prep car to SVRA or VARA spec for East Coast competition with upgraded roll bar, brake and clutch master cylinder, seat, and restraints. Car restarted 2025 (see cold start video) in preparation for sale. The present owner has had this car since 1977, 48 years.
1318 cc 11:1 CR, run on 100 octane low lead aviation fuel with a splash of marvel Mystery Oil. Dyno Tested 73 SAE RWHP with 65.7 ft/lbs of torque (see dyno sheets) in current trim. Negative ground conversion.
Kent 286SP Supersports “Scatter Pattern” camshaft
Stock Rods and 2.000” Crankshaft
5cc dish pistons with valve relief 0.040” overbore
David Vizard A-series mods to head, valves, intake porting
3 to 1 heat-taped port-matched exhaust header
ARP flywheel, clutch, head, manifold, rod, and main bearing cap bolts and studs
Recurved Centrifugal Advance Distributor with PerTronix ignition, fresh bushings, springs and drive cam.
Lucas 40,000V Sport coil
1:5 Mini Spares and Harland-Sharp 1:35 roller rockers, 1.30 Mini Mania cast rockers, 1.28 lightened welded rockers, hard chromed rocker shafts. Harland Sharp currently installed with VP2 double valve springs
Modified Stage 3 HS2 SU Carburetors, Joe Curto parts, David Vizard mods
K&W Air filter with built-in optimum 3/8” velocity stacks (David Vizard spec), cold air pipe from headlight screen.
Mini Spares Competition oil pump, remote located 16 row oil cooler
Fidanza Aluminum Flywheel
Aluminum Engine Backplate
Competition Clutch
Crossflow Radiator
Baffled OIl Pan
Oversized water pump pulley
Glass-pack shorty muffler, or muffler delete
Dummy Generator
Winners Circle Competition Axels
3 Transmissions, one in car, two rebuilt-unused, one with new Moss straight gear set
4:222 Differential (Stock Sprite Mk. III), Spare 3.9 differential
Competition valved lever arm shocks front and rear
400 lb/in Front Springs
High Camber front end adjustments
2” lowered Moss rear springs, 1” lowered included
Polyurethane bushings throughout the suspension
Custom MO-MA Tachometer with digital trigger
Quick release steering, Halon fire extinguisher, Timing transponder
3/4” front sway bar, reinforced a-frames
2 sets “Minilite” Wheels. One with 4 New Toyo 888 DOT tires, the other with half-shredded 200 treadwear street tires
¼” front wheel spacers
Winners Circle Panhard rod
Fuel Safe fuel cell inside stock tank (lower CG than trunk fuel cell)
New Huffaker Smoked Acrylic Windscreen
Full interior panel kit for that “not stripped” look
Green Car – NEW TITLE IN PROCESS WITH STATE
1965 Mk III Roller, ground-up restoration in progress – you finish
The Green car is a 1965 Sprite Mk. III roller that was purchased in 2002 as a street car project. The roller is rust free, and had been painted BRG in 2002 but has since seen minor damage from storage including sparse hail dings, chipped paint, and scratches. Other than the storage dents the roller has good panel gaps and a clean under body.
The Green Car came with a large number of spares and parts to complete the car, including two disassembled engines, one complete and one missing a crankshaft. The parts have been inventoried and photographed. The car has new wheel bearings, rebuilt brakes, shocks, king pins, and suspension bushings.
Inventory
All inventory has been photographed. Contact me for a link to view. The inventory and photographs also include the race spares, and the stock parts removed from the Yellow Car in 2002, and race parts removed in 2023,and new, unused parts. There are spare doors, fenders, a hood and trunk lid. The parts package does not include interior panels, seats, or carpet, or a good condition top for the Green Car. It does include the parts needed (basket case engine) to restore Green Car to running.