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"The magnificent Sebring GT range is designed and produced by Wiliams & Pritchard, one of Britain's leading manufacturers of specialised metal and glass fibre coachwork ... the culmination of years of experience gained the hard way in the design and production of panelling and laminates for competition cars, for series production cars, for the finest marques like Lotus, and for a host of exciting one off designs and prototypes."
Williams & Pritchard brochure 1969
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In 1967, after Lotus moved away from London and W&P ceased to supply them bulk bodywork, to supplement the top end prototype and specials coachwork, W&P launched the Len Pritchard designed Sebring GT range of fibreglass fronts and hardtops for a range of popular British sportscars of the day. The range was seen as being at the premium end of the market and included a stylish fastback hardtop for the E-Type Jaguar convertible, which was adopted and sold as an official accessory through Jaguar dealerships; a fastback and a targa hardtop for the MGB Roadster, fastback hardtops for both the Mk III and Mk IV Triumph Spitfire, and most popularly, the Sebring GT bonnet and fastback hardtop for the Spridget (AH Sprite / MG Midget). Following Charlie Williams' death, in 1971 the moulds were sold to Fibresports in Kent, along with the original Sebring moulds and the former Speedwell Monza spridget mould (the rights in which had been transferred to W&P in the mid sixties). Fibresports continued to make use of the spridget moulds throughout the seventies and eighties, but all moulds are believed to have been destroyed in a factory fire at their storage site in 2008. |
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A complete record of the order book for all Sebring GT items manufactured at First Avenue, Edmonton between 1967 and 1971 survives in the Pritchard family archives, along with copy invoices, and extensive copies of advertising material. A limited number of original new old stock SEBRING stickers for Sebring GT hardtops as added by W&P at the works are available from the Registrar upon request.
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