"In Australia we didn't get the Lenham bonnet - the W/P bonnet was produced in numbers by Sprite Parts at Peakhurst (a different company to Colin Dodds who now runs a company of the same name ) from the late 60's to the mid 80's where 5 Lenham bodied cars were produced, 4 were road registered and one was a race car fitted with an MGB motor and gearbox. Only one of the road cars still exists and I owned the race car at one time, converted it back to A series in the early 80's and raced it as a Production Sports Car. I no longer have it but believe it still exists. While working at Sprite Parts 1986-1988 ... I built a black Lenham GT Coupe for a client of Sprite Parts in about 1987 from a MK 111 Sprite. This car was fitted with a sun roof and is in storage in the Southerland area Sydney ... Peter from Sprite Parts at Peakhurst had a Sebring GT bonnet mould back in the late 60's along with other moulds that have disappeared. Peter sold the bussiness about late 1986 but kept the moulds, no one knows what happened to them - I do not know where his moulds came from."

Black Lenham GT built at Sprite Parts

Denis further comments: "This is a wide bodied Lenham Le Mans GT coupe it was a project started at Sprite Parts about 1987 but never finished. Eric Hancock bought the unfinished project and finished it off. The car is 6in wider than a normal Sprite only in the floor pan and body work. The wheel track is the same as a standed sprite. The white Lenham Le Mans GT coupe was built to order in the mid 70's it was the last road car built by Sprite Parts at Peakhurst. It now lives on a farm up near Armadale and is owned by Mike Mc Gee a well known mini racer. Note the  8in wheels, targa roof, and flared guards - the car was never painted the white is in the gelcoat, this is the way the car was built." Denis has a Sebring GT mould in Australia made from the front of one of his cars, along with assorted Lenham moulds.

John Alexander formerly of Sprite Parts comments: "The wide-bodied sprite was built by my father and brother, Ronald Francis Alexander and Brian Alexander. My father and brother were the proprieters of this building and company. My family purchased this business from the gentleman in Peakhurst and operated it. While the business did not go as we had planned for many reasons, we did build the wide body and the black sprite. We also restored many other sprites from Mk1 to Mk4 and Midgets. Denis was part of our team. The bodywork was modified by my father to give some extra room inside the vehicle. He widened the body two inches either side in the footwell area and continued this throughout the car. We then added two inches down the middle of the fibreglass. It was never finished because my father didn't like the finish of the bonnet as it was sagging. The engine fitted to this was a full race motor and was wild.  The black bodied Lenham was built by all of us at Sprite Parts for a client ... the moulds we had for a long time but I do not know were they are now. My father gave me the wide bodied Sprite when the business folded but I didnt have the time nor the finances to finish it, we then sold it on."