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Originally Posted by yostumpy
greetings fella. Firstly why have you called it a mini 'sprite'. never heard of that one, the Austin 'sprite ' was , as you know, the 'bug eye sprite', 2 seater soft top jobbie. just wondered that was all! So its basically a std 998 mini with big wheels? Do you have a single SU or twin SU's. Do you give it some welly around town, as that is poor mpg for a mini. You could block the grill, as there is no radiator behind it anyway. The underside is prob as smooth as you can get it really. Simple trick, try putting a stronger return spring on the throttle cable, so you have to push harder. You could double check the points gap, and dwell angle, then strobe the timing. Howz your air filter?. have you topped up the oil in the SU's plunger. Check your hand brake its'nt binding,/ sticking on. How are your MOT emmissions?
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The Austin Mini Sprite was a 1983 limited edition - 5000 was the total production, half for Uk and half for export. They were either cinnabar red (mine) or a yellow color.
It featured 10" mini special alloys (same as the earlier 1100 special) - I don't have them on the car (12in revo's) but I do have them. It had a stripe down the side (not the one on mine) and 1275gt instrumentation (one of the only original bits left actually installed). There were other differences but they are not so on topic for this forum.
My car is a sprite but has lots of changes (restored 10 years ago - I acquired it 1 year ago) which has left it only on the original shell. The seats and wheels are in the shed though.
You have lots of questions - and the answer to all the ones about the cars condition indicate good,
As for my driving - it has been driven 'enthusiastically' most of the time. This tank I'm on at the moment is the first one where I have attempted to be conservative and adopt some coasting techniques and attempting dwl and p+g