A Tinkerers' 
Tale

Removing cross member for the Datsun river gate kit I’m fitting Box section fillers and cross member bracket Roll cage strengthening...

Body work collected from Andrew at Archers Garage 27/2/2016

New Monocoque from Brian Wheeler's ,it needs some of the welds cleaning up & a few rough edges sorting but very pleased with it. The main...

A BIG box of goodies arrived from Moss Parts ,so I can start to build up the suspension and axle ready for when the shell's back.

Various axle & suspension parts for blasting & powder coating /painting. Pleased with how the tank & axle turned out .

I've stripped the fan down,the bakerlight body cleaned up nicely with hot soapy water, I plan to bead blast the motor fan and grill &...

Front stub axles look fine, looking at the different paint colours they have been rebuilt some time in the past . they will be powder...

The pedal box is stripped down ready for blasting, then I am going to convert it to a twin cylinder set up as per the original Sebring's...

As you can see i've started to strip everything down so that i can get the parts blasted & powder coated or painted.The rear axle will be...

Once the Monocoque is built a Sebring Fastback body will be fitted along with Sebring bonnet, these will be from Archers Garage in...

Jumping the gun a bit here but as they were easy to restore I've rebuilt the Speedo & Rev counter, the cases were sent away with some...

After much deliberation I have decided to order a new Monocoque for the rebuild from Brian Wheeler of Wheeler & Davis nr Hinckley...

Once I got the sprite in the garage the idea was to strip it right down to just the bare shell, so that I could see how badly corroded...

Hello and welcome to my restoration and rebuild of a 1963 Austin Healey Sprite. I plan to rebuild it into a Sebring Fastback Sprite...