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10 units built
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XSP 1293cc OHV Inline-4 Cylinder Engine
1 x Weber 45 DCOE Carburetor
105 bhp @7,200 rpm, 110 bhp
From chassis #235, fuel injection, crossflow head, dry sump
4-Speed Manual Transmission
rear axle with a 4.2:1 ZF limited slip diff
Sprite chassis monocoque is in Birmabright with a steel roll cage and an all-aluminium 2-seater coupé body
Independent Front
rear suspension, Live Axle with Panhard rod and adjustable shock absorbers
Font Wheel Discs with Drum Rear Brakes
Brakes 8.25 discs at the front and 8 X 1.25" drums at the rear.
special wheels in cast Magnesium were 13" x 5.5" to take 5.00 Dunlop CR65 tires
1322 lbs
Results in WSCC
| Car entry, chassis number | Car number/ result | |||||||||||||||||
| Dayt | Sebring | Imola | Inter Europa | Targa Florio | Nurb | Mugelo | Rossfeld | Le Man | Reims | Bolzano Mendola | Freiburg | Nurb | Ollon | Bridgeh | ||||
| Team | 2000km | 12h | 3h | 3h | 1000km | Hill climb | 24h | 12h | Hill climb | Hill climb | 500km | Hill climb | 500km | |||||
| Donald Healey Motor Co, HAN8-R65-5 | #61, 15th | |||||||||||||||||
| Donald Healey Motor Co, HAN8R65/35 | #48, gear box | #2, 6th | ||||||||||||||||
| Donald Healey Motor Co, HAN8R65/52 | #49, 12th | |||||||||||||||||
| BMC (Spider Streamliner 1.3 lt group P) | #154, 15th | |||||||||||||||||
| Statistics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Starts/finishes 5/4 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/1 | 1/1 | ||||||||||||||
| Drivers | Team entries and car number | |||||||||||||||||
| Donald Healey Motor Co | ||||||||||||||||||
| Clive Baker | 61 | 154 | 48 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Rauno Aaltonen | 61 | 154 | 48 | |||||||||||||||
| Paul Hawkins | 49 | |||||||||||||||||
| John Rhodes | 49 | |||||||||||||||||
| Keith Greene | 2 | |||||||||||||||||