In May of 1996, while attending an imported car show in Pennsylvania, Don Smith spotted for sale a 1959 Austin-Healey Bugeye ...

The British Motor Corp. was formed back in 1952 by merging Austin, Morris, MG, Wolseley and some makers of farm tractors as well as commercial vehicles. It was the largest British car company, ...

This Austin-Healey Bugeye Sprite from 1961 is a small and sporty British roadster with only 67,000 miles on the clock, and it’s got plenty left to go before it’s done! The first Austin-Healey Sprite ...

Under the British Motor Corporation (BMC) conglomerate, this lightweight British roadster debuted in 1958, looking to capture some of the look and feel of earlier British motor tradition. The Mark I ...

T.J. Larrick is on his way home to Washington state, driving his 1958 Austin-Healey Sprite, lovingly known as a Bugeye for the headlights mounted on its hood. It’s his second trip from Branford, where ...

The Austin-Healey “Bugeye” Sprite was a British roadster produced between early 1958 and late 1960. It was known for its fixed-headlight design, which formed a smiley face with the grille, and earned ...

Also in 1959, an odd-looking British import landed on stateside shores. It was over seven feet shorter and two feet narrower than the Series 62 Caddy—and scarcely more than a quarter of its weight.

The first Austin-Healey Sprite was unveiled in Monte Carlo in 1958 and, for generations (Mark I through Mark IV), was a hugely popular British car, finally retired in 1971. In the UK it quickly gained ...