{"id":10837,"date":"2022-09-14T00:43:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spriteclub.com.au\/?p=10837"},"modified":"2022-09-15T22:00:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T12:30:55","slug":"50th-anniversary-celebrations-sprite-display-day-11th-september-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/?p=10837","title":{"rendered":"50th Anniversary Celebrations – Sprite Display Day – 11th September 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To complete the Sprite Club of South Australia’s 50th Anniversary Weekend, the Club members washed and polished their Sprites, Midgets, Clubman and Associate Vehicles and headed to Wigley Reserve, Glenelg for the 50th Anniversary Sprite Display Day.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The weather held, and while cloudy and cool there was no rain to spoil the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The only hiccup was the Sprite MkIIIA of Des and Penny Chabrel that decided to have an electrical gremlin that slowed their progress to the display – assistance from the RAA and a bit of a tweak under the bonnet soon had the Sprite back on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With 33 Sprites and Midgets and a similar number of Associate vehicles which included eight “Big” Austin Healey’s from the Austin Healey Owners Club – it was an impressive display of vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n

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There was also three racing versions of Sprites on display – Chris Brine’s Bugeye, Clive Spreadbury’ s and Peter Stanley’s Sprite Mk IIA’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the cars were aligned there were many conversations and looking under bonnets as well as the usual “I had one of them many years ago” conversations with members of the public.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The People Choice Awards were popular with over 100 votes for both the Sprite\/Midget and Associate vehicles. The voting was close, but the deserving winners were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n