This next car comes as a tip from JB1025 who writes: How dare you hit my Bug eye sprite with the ugly stick! I sorta dig the SP311 style taillight treatment, but the front end just looks sad. Like a bugeye sprite that has lost its friends. Find this 1960 Austin Healey Sprite offered for $7250 in Puyallup, WA via craigslist.
The Austin Healey Sprite was known as the 'Bugeye' in the US and the "Frogeye' in the UK...we can only assume that Frogs look like Bugs in dreary overcast Britain...but this next Bugeye has a spring in his step like none other. In face, this little Frogeye wants to be a Cobra when it grows up. Find this 1959 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite here on eBay offered for $10,500 buy-it-now or make-offer located in Anaheim, CA with a few hours to go.
The Austin Healey Bugeye (or Frogeye if you are British) Sprite is a car that can always put a smile on your face. Its own bug eating grill is permanently frozen with a look of glee and optimism -- you just can't hate the little guy, even if it is a disaster on a trailer. Find this 1960 Triumph Sprite offered for $1500 CAD ($1119 USD) in Vancouver, BC via craigslist. Tip from Erik202.
They say that classic British sports cars are like the Sith -- they always come in two. A master and an apprentice. Wait, they don't say that? Oh...well tipper Scott T sent in the following car with these comments: The good news is that for just $1400 you get two chrome bumper midgets, which the seller describes as a car and a parts car. I can't tell which is the parts car though, and the seller doesn't say. Ones a 62, and ones a 69. I'm sure someone out there know how to tell them apart? They both look pretty rusty to me, certainly beyond my skills and ability, but maybe someone knows how to turn these into something worthwhile? Find this 1969 Austin Healey Sprite with '62 donor offered for $1400 in Norton, MA via craigslist.
A few years ago we found an AWESOME V8 powered Bugeye Sprite at the Coronado Speed Festival and the seller was asking a pretty steep price for his well build treasure. If that was a bit too rich, perhaps you'd prefer the 1/2 finished version for about a fifth of the price? Find this 1961 Austin Healey Sprite Bugeye V8 offered for $4,500 in Milwaukee, WI via craigslist. Tip from Rock On!
DT's cub reporter Hunsbloger stumbled onto this next feature in the flesh at the 2012 Coronado Festival of Speed and you can read the original roadkill feature about the car here. The seller (Glenn) seems like a competent craftsman, a serious car nut, and a good guy -- but don't buy our word for it...buy his car and find out for yourself. Find this 1960 Austin Healey Sprite V8 here on eBay bidding for $5,100 reserve-not-met with 4 days to go, located in Riverside, CA.
by Adam -- Immediately recognizable by discerning car lovers everywhere, the Austin Healey Sprite had an exceptionally long run. Produced in Abingdon, England and later Enfield, NSW, Australia. This Mark I 1959 “frogeye” in the U.K. and “bugeye” in the U.S. will need some work to turn from a frog into a prince, but has the potential. Find this 1959 Austin Healey Sprite offered for $4,500 in Fayetteville, NC via craigslist.
Find this 1959 Austin Healey Sprite with Suzuki G13B Power here on eBay offered for $13,500 with a few minutes to go.
When we had a discussion about sellers in over their heads, the collective bargain hunters/tippers around the world really stepped up their game. This next one comes from Zach Z and looks like Exhibits A, B and C in a divorce proceeding. Find this 1962 Austin-Healey Sprite with Datsun 510 engine offered for $2,500 in Lake Stevens, WA. Tip from Zach Z. 
This next feature comes from Marve Harwell who put together another Deusy of a comparo. The project car, the epitome of wide-eyed optimism. What fond memories linger of unloading the newly acquired free time eater onto a lovingly cleared patch of garage floor that may never be seen again. The plan begins with an unrealistic budget, optimistic time table, and a laughable overestimation of our skills, but ends years later as rolling shelf for old tax paperwork and lawn implements. It takes a big man to take on such a project and a bigger man cave into the wife and finally sell the thing unfinished. But who is that next wild-eyed dreamer? Who has the guts to take on another man's monument to unfulfilled good intentions? I have for your consideration unfinished project cars, one tantalizing close the the finish line, others in boxes and bits, and another one not really begun. Which would you take on? 
The Austin Healey Bugeye (or Frogeye if you are British) Sprite is a car that can always put a smile on your face. Its own bug eating grill is permanently frozen with a look of glee and optimism -- you just can't hate the little guy. Find this 1960 Austin Healey Sprite Mk I here on eBay
bidding for $9,382 reserve-not-met with 1 day to go, located in Bingen, WA.
Of all the reasons to not drive a car, none are very convincing. They usually go like this: fear of damaging the car, fear of the car damaging them, sheer forgetfulness, or a plan to hold it for future value. The thought of a greasy Hooters patron with a ponytail and white gloves pushing a British roadster around a humid stage in Arizona gives me the willies, so someone buy this before a collector does. Find this 1962 Austin Healey Sprite with just 7,613 miles for sale in Sacramento, CA for $7,750 via craigslist.
currently bidding for $15,100 with a few hours to go, located in Hollidaysburg, PA.
Do you like car classifieds that read like a challenge to your testosterone levels? "If you do not own a toolbox, have never changed your own oil, and are scared of tinkering: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU" is one of six overtly masculine qualifiers accompanying profane sarcasm in between technical details in this ad. They're strong words for someone who replaced one of the era's most beloved faces with fiberglass. Although the ovoid headlights, powerdome, and feeder-fish grille opening might be forgiven since all was done in the name of fitting a big, American engine under the hood for the purpose of racing. Find this 1960 Austin-Healey SCCA racer
302-swapped in Elmwood, NE for $9,625 via eBay with 6 days to go.
In the month of October, we are constantly on the lookout for great examples of Horrorods, so when a skull-emblazoned V8 powered Austin-Healey Sprite popped up on ebay, it set off all the DT alarm bells...in a good way. No problem, the auction had 8 days to go and we decided to wait a few days for the price to stabilize...when..out of nowhere the seller put out a very reasonable buy-it-now price and blammo - like a zit on prom night the auction went bust. Whatever, we are going to post it anyway, because it is incredible. Find this 1969 Austin-Healey Sprite recently sold for $7,900 via ebay in Orlando, FL.
As promised, we continue Thrifty Thursday by bringing another truck load of cheap classics...but this time we figure a package deal is in order. Instead of throwing all of your money into one rusty pile, imagine picking up 3 classics for less than $5k. Find this SoCal trio in the form of a 1968 Austin-Healey Sprite for $1200 in Ventura, CA, a 1965 Triumph Spitfire for $1350 in Santa Clarita Valley, CA and a 1970 Oldsmobile Toronado 455 for $1600 in Burbank, CA via craigslist.