| austinhealeysprites.com On these pages you will find some of the differences between the first production and early Sprites and the changes that were made on the later cars. |
| Here's a photo of Pat and Bob's early Bugeye AN5. wheel arches taken from the inside of the cockpit. As you can see the there are two gussets (brackets). The early cars were sent out with only one It was found that this was a weak point of strength and the cars were recalled to add an additional gusset which was bolted to the wheel well. This design is on perhaps only a handful of the very earliest sprite out of production. |
| On this early Bugeye AN5 2737 you see the wheel arch gusset on the interior of the wheel arches. This is the passenger side. Notice the original designed top gusset and the additional modified gusset (the left one) which is now welded. This design was changed sometime in September-October of 1958. |
| Here is the final modified version. This is from a late 1959 Bugeye. Here you see the passenger side wheel arch which has been completely boxed. |
