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Kinja'd!!! "Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
10/17/2014 at 17:12 • Filed to: None

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Saw this in a parking lot. From a distance I thought "C1 corvette" but... nope. Triumph?

EDIT: I will personally come to your house and piss in your oil if one of you smartasses say "It's a Ford Ranger"


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Kinja'd!!! Bandit > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
10/17/2014 at 17:13

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Austin Healy!


Kinja'd!!! DailyTurismo > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
10/17/2014 at 17:14

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Austin Healey 3000


Kinja'd!!! Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
10/17/2014 at 17:14

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Austin Healey 3000!

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Kinja'd!!! Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Bandit
10/17/2014 at 17:15

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Ooh, sweet! I'll have to send this to my mom, then. She used to have one of these:

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The only car happier than a Miata NA.


Kinja'd!!! SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O) > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
10/17/2014 at 17:18

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You found a Austin Healey 3000! Good find. I love these cars. I've driven one just like it, and one in the same blue but without the two-tone paint job. Lots of fun.

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Kinja'd!!! DailyTurismo > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
10/17/2014 at 17:19

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That is a bug eyed (or frog eyed) Sprite, technically a rebadged MG Midget - aka The Spridget. The car from your pick above is the 3000, or a kit-car version, there were a few early kit car makers that made Austin-Fakey 3000s before the current Fauxbra nonsense took over.


Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
10/17/2014 at 17:19

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I'm constantly amazed how, on a blog all about cars, nobody knows what a Lambo looks like.


Kinja'd!!! Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O)
10/17/2014 at 17:25

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That blue is so pretty. Wow.


Kinja'd!!! Bandit > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
10/17/2014 at 17:26

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That's a sprite, the car in he pic was a 3000.


Kinja'd!!! Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > DailyTurismo
10/17/2014 at 17:26

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That's actually an interesting bit of trivia with the Midget. I didn't know that.


Kinja'd!!! twochevrons > DailyTurismo
10/17/2014 at 17:37

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The Mark 1 'bug-eye' Sprite was only ever sold as an Austin-Healey. BMC only started badging them as MGs with the Mark 2, which shared only the powertrain with the Mark 1. So, more correctly, the 1961-onward MG Midget is a rebadged Sprite.


Kinja'd!!! MultiplaOrgasms > DailyTurismo
10/17/2014 at 17:38

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No the Spridgets were from the Mk.II onwards. The Mk.I Frogeye didn't have a rebadged counterpart within BMC (rare). This is a Mk.1 Midget, built after 1961:

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Kinja'd!!! MultiplaOrgasms > ttyymmnn
10/17/2014 at 17:40

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Dood Lamberghini never made Honda Accord Coupés.


Kinja'd!!! Svend > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
10/17/2014 at 17:44

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It's a thing of beauty is what it is. The Austin Healey Mk3 Phase 2 is a piece of automotive art.

It even has it's original British licence plate on the front.

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Kinja'd!!! DailyTurismo > MultiplaOrgasms
10/17/2014 at 17:47

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Oh yeah, what was I thinking..


Kinja'd!!! MultiplaOrgasms > DailyTurismo
10/17/2014 at 17:52

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To be fair if I looked at BMCs entire lineup back in the day I had assumed that there was an MG version of the Frogeye too.


Kinja'd!!! Argent > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
10/17/2014 at 18:04

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It's a Ford Ranger.

I live in east NC and shall be waiting for you.


Kinja'd!!! Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Argent
10/17/2014 at 18:13

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Lemme drink some more water first.