On the Road: 1959 Austin-Healey Bugeye Sprite driving.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from driving.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A self-taught mechanic and welder, Cassley first learned of this Bugeye Sprite in 2000 when he joined a new company. There, he met a colleague who’d originally bought the Sprite with his father in 1981 to restore.
“It was driven for a few months and then parked,” Cassley says. “They were going to completely restore the car. The paint had been stripped, the windshield had been removed and the interior had been gutted. After that, progress halted and from 1982 to 2017 the Sprite just sat to the side. We were both car guys, and I’d always ask questions about the car. I knew they weren’t working on it much and in 2017, they were moving to Ecuador. That’s when I bought the car.”