The late 1950s and 60s were the era of the real British sports car. The heavyweights of the day were the likes of the Jaguar XK150, Triumph TR4A, Sunbeam Tiger,
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.”