Healey Marque, Magazine of Austin Healey Club of America, ran an extensive
and in depth series on the Sebring Sprite written by Joanthan
Whitehouse-Bird of England last year. I have Parts 5 and 6, but there isn't
any mention of the 5 speed in those issues that I can find. Maybe someone
else has some of the other issues. I can get my hands on them, but it will
takes me a few days.
Gerard
At 8:25 PM +0100 3/28/00, rob thomas wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jeff Boatright <jboatri@emory.edu>
>To: Dan Dwelley <maine2me@yahoo.com>
>Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Sent: 28 March 2000 18:01
>Subject: More 5 Speed junk
>
>
>> Dan,
>> Here's a wringer: Has anyone experience with the ORIGINAL five speed
>> as installed by the Healey Motorcar Company for their works Sebring
>> Sprites? Did it use off-the-shelf BMC parts? Did everything fit in
>> the current housing?
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>I can recall reading about this set-up some years ago. I believe it was
>based partly on the MGB box with 5th gear on the outside. This may be
>incorrect but the article implied that it wasn't the sort of conversion to
>be either done at home or sold to the public. I'll try to find it for you.
>Rob Thomas
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