Production chronology1979–1985
Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.
curated ↗7 years
← Shelsley (A. G. Thorpe)
Shelsley (A. G. Thorpe) / Model record
Shelsley (A. G. Thorpe)Custom Spridget
Production1979–1985
Recorded originUnited Kingdom
ClassFiberglass front-end conversion for two-seat roadster
Built40 units
Production
40
confirmed units built
Thorpe's opening product replaced the front bodywork of an existing Sprite or Midget with a new fiberglass nose. It was a conversion kit, not a mechanically standardized complete Shelsley automobile, and is labeled accordingly.
Chronology ledger
Dates with their meaning intact
Record depth — Documented
How this is measured → This record contains useful sourced evidence, but it does not yet meet the reference-ready standard. Still needed: attributed imagery. Fields we cannot source stay empty rather than guessed.
Research notes
Forty conversion kits were sold.